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Apocalypse

Apocalypse (ἀποκάλυψις) is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling". As a Christian genre, apocalyptic literature details the authors' visions of the end times.

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 * What is most needed today is a fundamental theological thinking, one centered upon the Godhead itself, and centered upon that which is most challenging or most offensive in the Godhead, one which has truly been veiled in the modern world, except by our most revolutionary thinkers and visionaries. If we allow Blake and Nietzsche to be paradigmatic of those revolutionaries, nowhere else does such a centering upon God or the Godhead occur, although a full parallel to this occurs in Spinoza and Hegel; but the language of Hegel and Spinoza is not actually offensive, or not in its immediate impact, whereas the language of Nietzsche and Blake is the most purely offensive language which has ever been inscribed. Above all this is true of the theological language of Blake and Nietzsche, but here a theological language is a truly universal language, one occurring in every domain, and occurring as that absolute No which is the origin of every repression and every darkness, and a darkness which is finally the darkness of God, or the darkness of that Godhead which is beyond “God.” Only Nietzsche and Blake know a wholly fallen Godhead, a Godhead which is an absolutely alien Nihil, but the full reversal of that Nihil is apocalypse itself, an apocalypse which is an absolute joy, and Blake and Nietzsche are those very writers who have most evoked that joy.
 * Thomas J. J. Altizer, in Godhead and the Nothing (2003), Preface

 * I am too young to live through ten thousand years of darkness!
 * the character Bolin in the episode "Light in the Dark" of Season 2 of The Legend of Korra, fearing an imminent catastrophe similar to the Kali Yuga

 * “You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.”
 * Orson Scott Card, in Ender's Shadow (1999)

 * "The Man Comes Around" is a song that I wrote, it's my song of the apocalypse, and I got the idea from a dream that I had — I dreamed I saw Queen Elizabeth. I dreamed I went in to Buckingham Palace, and there she sat on the floor. And she looked up at me and said, "Johnny Cash, you're like a thorn tree in a whirlwind." And I woke up, of course, and I thought, what could a dream like this mean? Thorn tree in a whirlwind? Well, I forgot about it for two or three years, but it kept haunting me, this dream. I kept thinking about it, how vivid it was, and then I thought, Maybe it's biblical. So I found it. Something about whirlwinds and thorn trees in the Bible. So from that, my song started and...  "The Man Comes Around." The song turned out to be "The Man Comes Around."
 * Johnny Cash, on Larry King Live (26 November 2002)

 * There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.
 * G. K. Chesterton, in "A Defence of Baby-Worship" in The Defendant (1901)

 * I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals.
 * Jerry Falwell, on Paula Zahn Now (31 July 2006), as quoted in "CNN still fixated on Apocalypse predictors, still ignoring alleged invitation to White House, Capitol Hill" at Media Matters for America (1 August 2006)

 * The apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared.
 * Northrop Frye The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, Chapter 5, Typology II: Phases of Revelation p. 158

 * "Listen," croaked Skuzz. "Got something important to tell you. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse … they're right bastards, all four of them."
 * Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, in Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)

 * As for apocalypse, I was imprinted at an early age with the idea of The End of the World (this also courtesy of the Catholic Church). I can remember being terrified of thunderstorms — I'd think, Uh oh, THIS IS IT. I was born in 1957, and grew up in the metropolitan New York area with the Cold War as a backdrop. In kindergarten and first and second grade we had constant air raid drills, sirens going off and that whole "Duck 'n Cover" drill when you cower under your desk or else hide in the classroom cloak closet, waiting for the Atomic Bomb to drop. I had nightmares about that well into my twenties.
 * Elizabeth Hand, in "Apocalypse Descending" interview with Nick Gevers (July - September 2001) published in Redsine Seven(January 2002)

 * Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
 * Heinrich Heine, in Lutetia; or, Paris. From the Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII (1842)

 * And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.
 * Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954), P. 23

 * Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.
 * Fredric Jameson, "Future City", New Left Review (May-June 2003)

 * To me, when we talk about the world, we are talking about our ideas of the world. Our ideas of organisation, our different religions, our different economic systems, our ideas about it are the world. We are heading for a radical revision where you could say we are heading towards the end of the world, but more in the R.E.M. sense than the Revelation sense. That is what apocalypse means – revelation. I could square that with the end of the world, a revelation, a new way of looking at things, something that completely radicalises our notions of the where we were, when we were, what we were, something like that would constitute an end to the world in the kind of abstract – yet very real sense – that I am talking about. A change in the language, a change in the thinking, a change in the music. It wouldn’t take much – one big scientific idea, or artistic idea, one good book, one good painting – who knows – we are at a critical point where the ideas are coming thicker and faster and stranger and stranger than they ever were before. They are realised at a greater speed, everything has become very fluid.
 * Alan Moore in "Alan Moore Interview" by Matthew De Abaitua (1998), later published in Alan Moore: Conversations (2011) edited by Eric L. Berlatsky

 * His favorite apocalypse was a tide of McLitter, a thousand channels of television noise, a complete scrambling of politics and entertainment, proud-to-be-a-breadhead buttons, bright packaging around tasteless and nutrition-free product, audiovisual media devoid of anything approaching meaning, bellies swelling and IQs atrophying. In his preferred world, as in the songs, people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made, worked for Matthew and Son, were dedicated follower of fashion, and did what Simon said.
 * Kim Newman, Another Fish Story in Paula Guran (ed.), New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird, p. 423 (originally published in Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, 2005)

 * The year 1999, seventh month, [or simply "sept"] From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
 * Nostradamus (Century 10, Quatrain 72)

 * There are Seven Seals to be opened, that is to say, Seven mysteries to know, and Seven difficulties to overcome, Seven trumpets to sound, and Seven cups to empty. The Apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth degree, the Apotheosis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer. Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls! Doubt it not! for traditions are full of Divine Revelations and Inspirations: and Inspiration is not of one Age nor of one Creed.''' Plato and Philo, also, were inspired.
 * Albert Pike, in Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 321

 * Just what is the meaning of the four beasts — the man, the lion, the bull, and the eagle — whether in the Christian Book of the Apocalypse or as used by early and medieval Christian artists? The question is not hard to answer. In the first place the Christian Book of Revelation was written by a Qabbalist, a student of the early, not the late, Qabbalah. It was edited or touched up at a later date by a later Christian editor. No one knows what he took out, what he kept in. But it was touched up and given a more Christian coloring...
 * G. de Purucker, The Four Beasts of the Christian Apocalypse, The Theosophical Forum (August 1944)

 * Chapter four of this Christian book called Revelation or the Apocalypse... mentions these four beasts "full of eyes within," who proclaimed truths and unsealed seals, and they are stated to have encompassed the throne of the Hierarch. Whether through this Qabbalistic book, or by early tradition now forgotten, or in some other way at present unknown to scholars, possibly through neo-Platonic sources, or neo-Pythagoric, the early Christians ascribed the same meaning to these four 'beasts' of the Apocalypse, and to the writers of the four Gospels, to wit, the man, the lion, the bull, and the eagle, that the Hindus ascribed to what they called their four Loka-palas, or guardians of the worlds, the four Maharajas if you like; albeit in simple justice be it said, the Hindu conception even today is incomparably vaster and more spiritually mystical than is the strongly anthropomorphic picture presented in the Christian book of Revelation.
 * G. de Purucker, The Four Beasts of the Christian Apocalypse, The Theosophical Forum (August 1944)

 * Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?
 * Ernest Renan. Vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus) Ch. 17 (1863)

Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth. '''The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending  –  and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever. Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.''' Otherwise, ours is an old, old story with an interesting new wrinkle. Throughout most of our history, nothing  –  not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons  –  has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed. The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically. Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
 * Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years. According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the Kali Yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening.
 * Tom Robbins, in "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins" (2012) by Tony Vigorito in Reality Sandwich

 * The great decisive Battle between the Forces of Light and darkness. It was predicted in all the ancient scriptures, and the name, "Armageddon" as well as the description of it, can be found in the Apocalypse....It is interesting to note that these calculations are also found in the pyramid of Cheops. Thus, today we find ourselves in the midst of this Battle, which will increase. This Battle is still more fearful in the Subtle World, but eventually its reflections will be intensified on the earthly plane... As it is said, "The hostile elements of the race refuse to submit to destiny. The departing race seeks to destroy the chosen successors, but we must save them. Destiny may be eased and the Battle ended sooner."...Yes, the New Epoch requires spiritual cognition. The New Epoch must manifest due respect to the Mother of the World, to the Feminine Element. “The bird of the spirit of Humanity cannot fly with only one wing” —these are words of Vivekananda, who meant to affirm the great significance of the Feminine Principle. Man does not willingly give full rights to woman. However, this opposition but intensifies the forces; and woman, fighting for her cosmic rights, will acquire the knowledge of her power. (LHR I, p 325) (10 September 1934)
 * Helena Roerich, Letters of Helena Roerich, I: 1929-1935
 * The predicted great Armageddon of our race is in full swing... victory is always with the forces of Light, but dreadful cataclysms are unavoidable... the destiny of the world is in the hands of humanity. The planet can be saved only if there is a resurrection of the spirit, only if the consciousness is liberated from the phantoms of the past and directed toward the construction of the New World on the basis of a new understanding of cooperation and knowledge. (16 July 1935) ...At present the whole world is passing through thrice difficult days, and it was indicated to read in the Apocalypse the first verse, chapter 21—"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth" so it is, and with the old consciousness one cannot enter the New World. (11 February 1938)
 * Helena Roerich, Letters of Helena Roerich, Volume II: 1935-1939

 * I myself once heard intelligent people trying to prove that the Bolsheviks were predicted in the Apocalypse, and that even the number of the days of their power was mentioned, and that the Michael mentioned there was none other than the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich! I certainly do not mention this to discredit Bajenov's book, but simply to warn those who are greatly attracted by research into Biblical prophecies. (22 June 1936)
 * Helena Roerich, Letters of Helena Roerich, Volume II: 1935-1939

 * The Last Judgement is generally thought of as a procedure undertaken by God. Actually it will be undertaken by man, with my help. It is a Final Healing, rather than a meting out of punishment, however much man may think that punishment is deserved. Punishment is a concept in total opposition to right-mindedness. The aim of the Last Judgement is to restore right-mindedness to man. The Last Judgement might be called a process of right evaluation. It simply means that finally all men will come to understand what is worthy and what is not. After this, their ability to choose can be directed reasonably. Until this distinction is made, however, the vacillations between free and imprisoned will cannot but continue. The first step toward freedom must entail a sorting out of the false from the true. This is a process of division only in the constructive sense, and reflects the true meaning of the Apocalypse.   Man will ultimately look upon his own creations and will to preserve only what is good, just as God Himself looked upon what He had created and knew that it was good.   The term “Last Judgement” is frightening not only because it has been falsely projected onto God, but also because of the association of “last” with death. This is an outstanding example of upside-down perception. Actually, if the meaning of the Last Judgement is objectively examined, it is quite apparent that it is really the doorway to life  p. 43
 * Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles, (1976)

 * The inspiration for the title of this book came from a Bible prophecy that seems more applicable now than at any other time in human history. It occurs in both the Old and the New Testament and speaks of the collapse of the existing world order and the arising of a new heaven and a new earth. We need to understand here that heaven is not a location but refers to the inner realm of consciousness. This is the esoteric meaning of the word, and this is also its meaning in the teachings of Jesus. Collective human consciousness and life on our planet are intrinsically connected. “A new heaven” is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and “a new earth” is its reflection in the physical realm.
 * Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, chapter 1, 2005

 * The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree, Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first and last, and midst, and without end.
 * William Wordsworth, "The Simplon Pass" (1804)

 * The Lambes uyves in blysse we bene, A hondred and forty thowsande flot As in the Apocalyppes hit is sene. Sant John hem syy al in a knot On the hyl of Syon, that semly clot; The apostel hem segh in gostly drem, Arayed to the weddyng in that hyl-coppe, The nwe cyté o Jerusalem.
 * Anonymous, Perle, 14 Sarah Stanbury, ed. Pearl. Medieval Institute Publications, 2001

 * Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man!
 * William Shakespeare, King Lear 3:2

 * Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.  But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate  To know that for destruction ice Is also great  And would suffice.
 * Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice", Harper's Magazine (December 1923)

Bible

 * His feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters.
 * 1: 15

 * And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
 * 7: 4, King James Version

 * It has been granted to her to be clothed with bright, clean, fine linen—for the fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the holy ones.
 * Apocalypse 19: 8

 * At your mouth, white and milk-warm sphinx, I taste a strange apocalypse:
 * Aldous Huxley, "Revelation"

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Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a French philosopher, playwright, historian, and writer.

Quotes

 * To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
 * Letter to his elder sister Henriette (1841).

 * As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
 * Orlando, in Caliban, act 2, sc. 1 (1878).

 * He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
 * Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 3. L’Avenir de la Science (1890).

 * A Muslim who knows French will never be a dangerous Muslim.
 * quoted in Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.'(107)

 * The Semites did not understand the variety, the plurality, the genders in God: the word goddess in Hebrew is the most horrible barbarism.
 * quoted in Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.88

 * The true Semitic society is that of the tent and of the tribe.
 * quoted in Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press."(96) **Renan

 * Nature, on the other hand, plays a very small role in the Semitic religions: the desert is monotheistic; sublime in its immense uniformity, it primarily revealed to man the idea of 'infinite.'
 * quoted in Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press."9

 * Thus, the Semitic race is recognizable almost solely through negative characteristics: it has neither mythology, nor epic, nor science, nor philosophy, nor fiction, nor plastic arts, nor civil life; in sum an absence of complexity, of nuance, an exclusive sentiment of unity.
 * quoted in Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.96

 * No place in the world has had a comparable role to that of the nameless mountain or valley where mankind first attained self-consciousness. Let us be proud ... of the old patriarchs who, at the foot of Imaiis, laid the foundations of what we are and of what we shall become.
 * Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe page 208

Vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus) (1863)

 * In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
 * Ch. 5.

 * Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
 * Ch. 5.

 * To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
 * Ch. 5.

 * Jesus, in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government. That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse.
 * Ch. 7.

 * Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?
 * Ch. 17.

The Intellectual and Moral Reform of France (1871)

 * La réforme intellectuelle et morale de la France (1871), in La réforme intellectuelle et morale, 2nd edition (1872)

 * La colonisation en grand est une nécessité politique tout à fait de premier ordre. Une nation qui ne colonise pas est irrévocablement vouée au socialisme, à la guerre du riche et du pauvre. La conquête d'un pays de race inférieure par une race supérieure, qui s'y établit pour le gouverner, n'a rien de choquant.
 * Colonization on a grand scale is a political necessity of absolutely the first order. A nation that does not colonize is irrevocably vowed to socialism, to war between rich and poor. The conquest of a nation of inferior race by a superior race, which establishes itself as the ruler, has nothing shocking about it.
 * 92-93

 * We aspire not to equality but to domination. Countries inhabited by foreign races must become again countries of serfs, farm laborers, and factory workers. The goal is not to suppress inequities, but, rather, to amplify them and to make of them a matter of course.
 * as translated by Asselin Charles, in "Colonial Discourse Since Christopher Columbus," Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (November 1995), p. 147

 * La régénération des races inférieures ou abâtardies par les races supérieures est dans l'ordre providentiel de l'humanité. L'homme du peuple est presque toujours chez nous un noble déclassé ; sa lourde main est bien mieux faite pour manier l'épée que l'outil servile. Plutôt que de travailler, il choisit de se battre, c'est- à-dire qu'il revient à son premier état. .
 * The regeneration of the inferior or bastard races by the superior ones is consistent with God's plans for humanity. The man of the people, in our countries, is always a fallen aristocrat; his hands are made to handle the sword rather than the laborer's tools. He prefers warring to working, that is, he returns to his original calling.
 * 93, as translated by Asselin Charles, in "Colonial Discourse Since Christopher Columbus," Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (November 1995), 147

 * Regere imperio populos, voilà notre vocation.
 * To rule the imperial population, behold our vocation.
 * 94

 * La nature a fait une race d'ouvriers ; c'est la race chinoise, d'une dextérité de main merveilleuse sans presque aucun sentiment d'honneur; gouvernez-la avec justice, en prélevant d'elle pour le bienfait d'un tel gouvernement un ample douaire au profit de la race conquérante, elle sera satisfaite ; une race de travailleurs de la terre, c'est le nègre ; soyez pour lui bon et humain, et tout sera dans l'ordre; -- une race de maîtres et de soldats, c'est la race européenne .
 * Nature has made a race of workers; that is the Chinese race, with a marvelous dexterity of hand and hardly any feeling of honor; govern this race with justice by exacting from them through the competence of such government an ample dowry to the conquering race; the subordinate race will be satisfied; a race of workers of the earth, such is the Negro; let us be for him good and human, and everything will be in order -- a race of masters and soldiers, that is the European race.
 * 94

Ernest Renan: a Critical Biography (1964)
By H. W. Wardman, University of London, Athlone Press, 1964

 * I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
 * The Republic.

 * You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
 * Saint Sulpice and the Hidden God.

Attributed

 * Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation
 * translated by Eric Hobsbawm on p. 12 of Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge University Press, 1992) from French original ("L'oubli et je dirai même l'erreur historique, sont un facteur essentiel de la formation d'une nation et c'est ainsi que le progrès des études historiques est souvent pour la nationalité un danger"), page 7-8 of Qu’est-ce qu’une nation ?

Quotes about Ernest Renan

 * A famous student of history has bequeathed to us a definition of nationality which is worth attention: I refer to Ernest Renan, of whom George Meredith once said to me, while the great French critic was still living, that there was more in his head than in any other head in Europe. Renan tells us that "Man is enslaved neither by his race, nor by his language, nor by his religion, nor by the course of rivers, nor by the direction of mountain ranges. A great aggregation of men, sane of mind and warm of heart, creates a moral consciousness which is called a nation."
 * Lord Haldane, Higher Nationality: A Study in Law and Ethics: An Address Delivered Before the American Bar Association at Montreal on 1st September 1913 (1913), p. 35

 * There has always been an element of the magical in the style of M. Ernest Renan—an art of saying things in a way to make them beautiful.
 * Henry James, Atlantic Monthly (August 1883)

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Ling-Ling's lines spell-checking?
I have seen people doing thier mums on his bed and most of the mistakes are from being to drunk. So far Ling-Ling has screwed his mum only in one episode. I think that those full of mistakes lines (from subtitles) are reference to Engrish and should not be corrected. Tarmo888 17:54, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

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Some of these quotes are lame and shouldnt be here--they are only amusing or relevant in context, when watched. While some of the quotes are funny on their own, as the listings SHOULD be, a lot of 'em just seem to be a desperate attempt on the part of the contributer to include material from that particular episode. As an outsider lookin' in, I'd say a lot of 'em need to be deleted and if no one opposes me, I'm going to do it. Trix 01:35, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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Stanley Williams

Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an early leader of the Crips, a notorious American street gang which had its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1969. In December 2005 he was executed for the 1979 murders of Albert Owens, Yen-Yi Yang, Tsai-Shai Lin, and Yee-Chen Lin.

Democracy Now! interview (2005)

 * Interview with Amy Goodman, in "A Conversation with Death Row Prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams from his San Quentin Cell" in Democracy Now! (30 November 2005)

 * Working together, we can put an end to this cycle that creates deep pain in the hearts of our mothers, our fathers, and our people, who have lost loved ones to this senseless violence.

 * Once I was in solitary confinement, it provided me with the isolated moments to reflect on my past and to dwell upon something greater, something better than involving myself in thuggery and criminality. It had to be more to life than that. It had to be more than the madness that was disseminating throughout this entire prison.

 * Between the years of 1988 to 1994, and it's a continuous — it's an incessant reality for me. My redemptive transition began in solitary confinement, and unlike other people who express their experiences of an epiphany or a satori, I never experienced anything of that ilk. Mine — that wouldn't have been enough. I often tell people that I didn't have a 360-degree turnaround; I had a 720-degree turnaround. It took me twice as much. Just one spin around wouldn't have done it. I was that messed up, that lost, that mentacided, brainwashed. So, I was able to gradually in a piecemeal fashion change my life slowly but surely through education, through edification, through spiritual cultivation, battling my demons. And eventually, that led to me embracing redemption.

 * I’m talking to any youth who are considered to be or deemed to be at-risk or even hinting around being a thug or a criminal of any type of genre. I mostly propagate education and the need for it, because to me, that is the terra firma in which any human being must stand in order to survive in this country or to survive anywhere in the world, in dealing, you know, with every aspect of civilization, every aspect of surviving. Education is very important. It took me all of these years to discern that, and now I do.

 * We started out — at least my intent was to, in a sense — address all of the so-called neighboring gangs in the area and to put, in a sense — I thought I can cleanse the neighborhood of all these, you know, marauding gangs. But I was totally wrong. And eventually, we morphed into the monster we were addressing.

 * And when you maintain this sense of peace and you live by truth, by integrity, these things don't bother me. It doesn't. I have been experiencing moribund type experiences most of my life. I could have died many a times. I could have died when I was shot. I could have died when I was shot at by the police and rival gang members. There were many opportunities for me to die. Of course, I don't want to die. I mean, after my redemption I have what I consider to be a joie de vivre, so, you know, I have an enjoyment, a love for life. So that’s why I can calmly sit here and speak to you or anyone else with peace in my heart and peace in my mind. I don't get rattled. Nothing can rattle me. Nothing will ever rattle me. I have been rattled the majority of my life.

 * Well, the fact that a person such as me, of my ilk, who deemed the opposing gang as an eternal enemy, it wasn't hard for people to believe me, because they knew where I stood. There were no clandestine or latent messages. Everybody knew where I stood. And for me to come out and say that what we were doing was wrong, it was believable. That's why people didn't – or at least the gang members didn't discredit my propensity and my alacrity for peace. That's why I was embraced with sincerity by those who I knew and those I didn't know on both sides of the fence.

 * The death penalty, it's not a system of justice, it is a system of – a so-called system of justice that perpetuates a, shall I say, a vindictive type of response, a vigilante type of aura upon it. We’re talking about something that is barbaric. We’re talking about something that – it doesn't deter anything. I mean, if it did, then it wouldn't be so many – especially in California, we're talking about over 650 individuals on death row. And if it was a deterrent, this place wouldn't be filled like this. And it's an expensive ordeal that – the money, as you know, the monetary means comes out of the taxpayers' pocket.

 * And for anyone to think that murder can be resolved by murdering, it's ridiculous. I mean, we look at all of the wars that we have throughout other countries and other nations, and all it does is – this violence, all it does is engender violence. There seems to be no end, but a continuous cycle, an incessant process of blood and gore that doesn't end. And through violence, you can't possibly obtain peace. You can, in a sense, occupy a belief of peace; in other words, through this mechanism of violence, you – it appears that because there is a standing army or standing police that is used in brutality or violence or a system that uses brutality or violence that that is going to totally eliminate or stop criminous behavior or criminous minds or killings or what have you, but it doesn't.

Quotes about Williams

 * What is certain is that since 1992, “Tookie” has been a voice reaching out to the voiceless. He has encouraged youth to lift themselves up so as not to end up locked up. His voice has reached impoverished and alienated youth in places police dare not tread. Through his personal transformation in prison, he has brought light to dark places because he knows where to look. He speaks truth to power with a sincere knowledge of what lies ahead for these youth and gives them a stark look at what their future could be if they don’t renounce gang life and all that it stands for. And they listen, because he was one of them.
 * Jesse Jackson, as quoted in "Statement of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Following His Visit With Stanley Williams" (22 November 2005)

 * It's 9:15 on 12/13 and another black king will be taken from the scene.
 * Snoop Dogg, as quoted in "Tookie's Funeral Draws Hundreds" by Scott Benjamin, CBS News (20 December 2005)

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The Warriors (film)

The Warriors is a 1979 film set in a period-correct era of New York City, where turf gangs battle the police for rule of the streets. When one gang leader tries to bring all gangs together against the cops, Coney Island's Warriors are framed for his murder and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down.
 * Directed by Walter Hill. Written by David Shaber and Walter Hill, based on the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick.

These are the Armies of The Night. They are 60,000 strong. They outnumber the cops three to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors. taglines

Cleon

 * It's still on and we're goin'. Cyrus sent an emissary this afternoon to make sure. Now, Cyrus don't want anybody packed and he don't want anybody flexing any muscle. So, I gave him my word that the Warriors would uphold the truce. [pause] Now everybody says that Cyrus is the one and only. I think we better go have a look for ourself.

Luther

 * [banging bottles together] Warriors, come out to play-i-ay!

 * [Swan demands a one-on-one fight and he pulls out a gun] One on one? You're crazy. You're dead, all of you, and you know it. You're dead.

Other

 * Masai: [addressing the Gramercy Riffs] Who are the Warriors? [no reply] There must be some word! [no reply] I want them all! I want ALL the Warriors! I want them alive, if possible. If not, wasted! But I want them. Send the word!

 * Mercy: Yeah, that's right, Warriors. Just keep walkin'. Real tough muthas, ain't ya? You guys don't show me much. Why don't you dickheads just walk all the way back home, huh?

 * D.J.: [last lines] Good news, Boppers: The big alert has been called off. It turns out that the early reports were wrong, all wrong. Now for that group out there that had such a hard time getting home, sorry about that. I guess the only thing we can do is play you a song. [the Warriors theme song, "In the City" plays]

Dialogue

 * Cowboy: You never know what you're gonna run into out there. If we're wearing our colors, we can't hide.
 * Vermin: Who wants to hide?

 * Cyrus: [yelling] Can you count, suckers? I say, the future is ours... if you can count!
 * Gang Members: Go on man! We're with you Cyrus!
 * Cyrus: Now, look what we have here before us. We got the Saracens sitting next to the Jones Street Boys. We've got the Moonrunners right by the Van Cortlandt Rangers. Nobody is wasting nobody. That... is a miracle. And miracles is the way things ought to be. You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?
 * Gang Members: Yeah.
 * Cyrus: Can you dig it?
 * Gang Members: Yeah!
 * Cyrus: Can you dig it!?
 * Gang Members: YEAH!
 * Cyrus: Now, here's the sum total: One gang could run this city! One gang. Nothing would move without us allowing it to happen. We could tax the crime syndicates, the police, because WE got the streets, suckers! Can you dig it?
 * Gang Members: YEAH! [cheering]
 * Cyrus: The problem in the past has been the man turning us against one another. We have been unable to see the truth, because we have been fighting for ten square feet of ground, our turf, our little piece of turf. That's crap, brothers! The turf is ours by right, because it's our turn. All we have to do is keep up the general truce. We take over one borough at a time. Secure our territory... secure our turf... because it's all our turf!

 * Luther: There he is! That's him! That's... the Warrior! He shot Cyrus!
 * Cleon: Man, you crazy! I din't do nuthin'!
 * Luther: We saw 'im!
 * Cropsey: Yeah, that's him.
 * Luther: He's the one! He's the one! The Warriors did it! [starts charging Cleon] The Warriors did it! The Warriors did it! The Warriors did it!

 * Cowboy: Okay, what are we gonna do now?
 * Swan: We're going back.
 * Vermin: You mind tellin' us how? Fuckin' Coney Island must be 50 to 100 miles from here!
 * Swan: It's the only choice we got.
 * Cochise: Yeah, real simple. Except that every cop in this city is lookin' to bust our heads.
 * Swan: We got somethin' else to think about.
 * Vermin: Yeah, what?
 * Snow: The truce. Is it still on?
 * Vermin: If it ain't, we're gonna have to bop our way back!
 * Cowboy: Shit, I wish we was packed.
 * Swan: If this truce is off, anything could hit us between here and that train. If you get separated, make it to the platform at Union Square. That's where we change trains.
 * Ajax: I only got one question. Who named you leader? I got as much right to take over as you.
 * Fox: It was Cleon's choice; Swan's war chief.
 * Ajax: Well, right about now, Cleon's most likely got a nightstick shoved halfway up his ass! [laughs] Shit. I bet you can't even find the subway.
 * Swan: Maybe we ought to talk about this later, huh?
 * Ajax: Well, what's wrong with right now? I wanna be Warlord.
 * Swan: Make your move.
 * Cowboy: Hey Ajax, lighten up.
 * Vermin: Hey Big Boy, Swan's war chief.
 * Cochise: We better stick together.

 * Cropsey: [Luther just made a phone call and is excited] Well?
 * Luther: Some two-bit outfit almost got them, but they bopped their way past.
 * Cropsey: We can meet them at the 96th street station.
 * Luther: Yeah, platforms probably crawling with cops!
 * Cropsey: Cops are trying to rack up every gang in this town!
 * Luther: Yeah, you and me included.
 * Cropsey: How come you're so happy about this?
 * Luther: I'm having a good time.

 * Cropsey: We set?
 * Luther: We're set alright. Somebody should pick their ass up. The Riffs sent out the word. They want 'em alive. We don't.
 * Cropsey: Sooner someone grabs 'em, the better.
 * Luther: What's the matter? Ya afraid the Warriors are gonna shoot their mouths off before they get wacked?
 * Cropsey: Yeah, right! I'm worried! I just don't want the Riffs down on my head!
 * Luther: No sweat. They're lookin' for the Warriors, remember? We can do some lookin' too... Oughta make you feel better.
 * Candy Store Girl: Hey, what about the money you owe?
 * Luther: FOR WHAT!?!!
 * [Throws the stolen candy bar on the counter]

 * Cowboy: [winded, running from the Baseball Furies] I can't make it.
 * Ajax: Are you sure?
 * Cowboy: Yes, I'm sure...
 * Ajax: Well, good! I'm sick of runnin' from these wimps!
 * [They stop to fight]
 * Ajax: I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a Popsicle.

 * Cochise: We gotta hold ourselves together. We got to. See man, if we go to pieces, someone out there is gonna get us.
 * Rembrandt: [about The Lizzies] They think we shot Cyrus.
 * Vermin: What are you talking about? I don't get it.
 * Rembrandt: They think we shot Cyrus. Every gang in the city must be looking for us!
 * Cochise: Holy shit!
 * Rembrandt: We're not gonna be able to make it back!
 * Vermin: We're gonna make it back. We came this far and we're gonna go the rest of the way.

 * Mercy: See that dude? Over there! He's after you, and he's got some guys with him.
 * Swan: [looks in their direction] I know they're on my ass, but now they know I know it.

 * Mercy: [she kisses Swan and is disappointed when she doesn't get a reaction] Come on. What's wrong?
 * Swan: [coldly] Let's just get to the next station, O.K.?
 * Mercy: Oh... please, come on... come on.
 * Swan: You know, you're just part of everything that's happening tonight, and it's all bad. [pause] Just go back to wherever it was you came from.

 * Mercy: Friday nights are good. Saturday nights are better.
 * Swan: I bet you can't even remember who you get on Friday and Saturday night... you probably don't remember what they look like...
 * Mercy: Sometimes I can and sometimes I can't... who gives a damn?

 * Swan: When we see the ocean, we figure we're home. We're safe.
 * Luther: This time you got it wrong.
 * Swan: Why'd you do it? Why'd you waste Cyrus?
 * Luther: No reason. I just like doing things like that!

 * Swan: You still looking for us?
 * Masai: [looks at Luther] We found what we're looking for.
 * Luther: [cowering] No. No... It wasn't us. It was them. It was the Warriors.
 * Masai: You Warriors are good. Real good.
 * Swan: The best.
 * Masai: The rest is ours.
 * [Swan nods his head in agreement as the Gramercy Riffs let the Warriors pass]
 * Luther: [as the Gramercy Riffs descend on the Rogues] Nooooooo!

About The Warriors

 * What made it a success with young people... is that for the first time somebody made a film within Hollywood, big distribution, that took the gang situation and did not present it as a social problem. Presented them as a neutral or positive aspect of their lives. As soon as you said in the old days gang movies it was how do we cure the pestilence and how do we fix the social waste. We want to take these kids, make sure they go to college... This was just a movie that conceptually was different. Accepted the idea of the gang, didn't question it, that was their lives, they functioned within that context. And the social problem wasn't were they going to college, but were they going to survive. It's the great Hawksian dictum, where is the drama? Will he live or die? That's the drama.
 * Director Walter Hill,

 * Hollywood forgives a lot when you have a hit. I don't know what to say about it, other than the fact that it was just a gift in terms of getting it. The studio hated it, and didn't even want to release it. There was a lot of friction with management at the time. Some of it might have been my fault.
 * Walter Hill,

Taglines

 * These are the Armies of The Night. They are 60,000 strong. They outnumber the cops three to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors.
 * They outnumber the cops three to one.
 * They are 60,000 strong.
 * They could run New York City.
 * Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors.

Cast

 * Michael Beck - Swan
 * James Remar - Ajax
 * Dorsey Wright - Cleon
 * Brian Tyler - Snow
 * David Harris - Cochise
 * Tom McKitterick - Cowboy
 * Thomas G. Waites - Fox
 * Terry Michos - Vermin
 * Marcelino Sánchez - Rembrandt

 * Deborah Van Valkenburgh - Mercy
 * Roger Hill - Cyrus
 * David Patrick Kelly - Luther
 * Lynne Thigpen - D.J.
 * Ginny Ortiz - Candy Store Girl
 * Mercedes Ruehl - Policewoman
 * John Snyder - Gas Station Man
 * Edward Sewer - Masai
 * Paul Greco - Sully, the Orphans leader

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Talk:Stanley Williams

thanks everyone169.244.143.115 18:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

~ UDScott 14:29, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, could an administrator or something retitle this page? The man's full name was Stanley Tookie Williams. It seems odd to just have his middle and last name there. 207.6.31.119 12:32, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The page has now been moved to "Stanley Williams" ~ Rumour 13:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Stanley Williams. --Antiquary 18:10, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

 * In my dreams. In my dreams I've envisioned my liberation many a times. As a matter of fact, I was telling an individual the other day that in my dreams, whenever I run into some albatross or some type of dilemma, I seem to float away from it. And in my mind, that is a sense of freedom. That is a sense of avoiding, eschewing or shunning any type of madness.

 * I've lived a pathetic life, and I believe it was education that helped me to change. It was through education that I was able to create common sense and use reasoning. And it was through this that I developed a conscience that led to my redemption.
 * First and foremost, it's an impossibility to blame one person for the ills of society. That's just like Black people trying to blame one white person for slavery and what followed. That would be ridiculous. But I believe the center of the problem is self-hate, which is a very destructive mechanism that people pick up, because of the conditions not only of society but the morbid mindset of how they look at things.

 * As a youngster growing up, I had the unenviable experience of digesting the most negative stereotypes about Black folks being illiterate, being criminals, being violent, being promiscuous, being indolent, etc. When you're spoon-fed these things on an incessant basis, you eventually morph into those negative stereotypes, unwittingly. That's what happened to me. I became the stereotypes that I was spoon-fed.

 * I don't want anyone to be there. Who would I possibly want to see me die?

 * I am no longer a man of war. I die a man of peace.

 * You guys doin' that right?
 * His last words. Said to his executioners who appeared to be having trouble operating the machinery.

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The quote you removed from the Aldous Huxley page is widely attributed to Huxley, not to Russell. ~ Kalki 19:30, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

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I replaced the npov tag on the Winter Soldier Investigation page. I placed it there intentionally because I don't think one of the sections is neutral. Please read the Talk page before removing the tag. I know this is a quotes page -- that's why I put it there. ~ UDScott 19:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

 * You wrote: The Lewy quote in Wikiquote is from his book. I put in the page numbers.  Personally, I believe those few paragraphs represent a feeble attempt to smear the WSI event.  The author is a well known war hawk, jingoist and military apologist that was trying to muddy the waters in any way possible.  He cites reports that don't exist; casts vague accusations without naming names (unlike the rest of his book) and claims memory failure when questioned about it later.  Definitely POV...  but quotes are quotes, regardless of their slant.  Hence I removed the tag. 165.247.222.97 20:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm fine with it now, but the way it originally read, that section was not cited as being written by anyone. It appeared that you (or someone else) had written their own opinions into the page. Now it more properly shows that the text came from somewhere. Thanks for cleaning it up. ~ UDScott 20:38, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

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AnnaSophia Robb

AnnaSophia Robb (born 8 December 1993 in Denver, Colorado) is an American actress.

Radio Free Entertainment interview (2007)

 * Interview by Michael J. Lee, Executive Editor for Radio Free Entertainment (5 February 2007)

 * I do love gymnastics, but it's such an intense sport and you have to be so committed. It's such a commitment that it's really hard to do anything else other than gymnastics as people progress.

 * I like to climb. I don't love to work out. Actually, I hate to work out. You know, I tell myself, "AnnaSophia, you have to work out. You haven't gotten any exercise in the longest time." You know, I don't have time, really, to work out or play a sport. But I love to dance. I like to run in the springtime or in the fall. I like to go outside. I don't like running on a treadmill. I get tired... I just get sick of it. But if I'm outside, I could just run for ages. Or walk, if I need a break.

 * I kept all my gum from the movie... It's about as big as a softball.
 * On the gum she chewed while playing the role of Violet Beauregarde in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

 * I've always wanted to go to college — I don't know what college — just to explore the world. I want to learn languages — many, multiple languages. And I love to help people, so I think it would be fun to do some nonprofit work.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2008)

 * How to Deal Arkoff/How I Spent My Summer Vacation by AnnaSophia Robb (12 November 2008)

 * I couldn't believe this could be true in the 21st century.
 * On slavery in India.

 * I said goodbye to a skinny boy I had made friendship bracelets with morning and asked how old he was. I was shocked when he said he was almost fourteen. We were practically the same age, but he was so malnourished that he was barely the size of my eight-year old cousin. Most of the other boys and girls were so poorly fed that they had gray hair on top of their heads. It was a reminder for me of how blessed I am, and how even the biggest of smiles can't fill up someone's stomach.

 * Knowing how they were sleeping on a dirt floor at that very moment, while I had a soft pillow under my head, made me feel incredibly guilty.

 * But there's no reason to wait until I'm grown up when there's so much I can do now. So many Americans take so much for granted, so it's only right to help someone who has so little. That's why I'm sponsoring a four-year-old Dalit student, so Ayisath can have a good education all the way from the start.

 * A little bit goes a long way — it's true. And I sure am glad I went such a long, long way to find that out for myself.

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Eragon

Eragon is a novel written by Christopher Paolini in 2003 and is the first book of the Inheritance cycle.

Murtagh

 * "You aren't the only enemies the Ra'zac have. I was tracking them."

 * "My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts."

 * "Do you think I enjoy this? My life has been threatened from the day I was born! All of my waking hours have been spent avoiding danger in one form or another. And sleep never comes easily because I always worry if I'll live to see the dawn. If there ever was a time I felt secure, it must have been in my mother's womb, though I wasn't safe even there! You don't understand - if you lived with this fear, you would have learned the same lesson I did: Do not take chances."

 * Eragon: "Humor, Murtagh?" Murtagh: "Only on the gallows."

 * "...Nothing you say or do will convince me to open my mind."

 * I haven't done anything to deserve this treatment, though it would have been easier to atone for if I had. No... my only wrongdoing is existing in the first place."

Eragon and Saphira

 * What wisdom can I give people that they haven’t already learned? What feats can I achieve that an army couldn’t do better? It’s insanity!
 * Eragon to Saphira
 * If Murtagh will prove untrustworthy, Saphira can always chase him away. Join us if you wish.
 * Eragon

 * It’s overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion, a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen, I know, but always to someone else, always in some far-off place and time. But I found your egg, was tutored by a Rider, and dueled a Shade — those can't be the actions of the farm boy I am, or was. Something is changing me.
 * Eragon to Saphira

 * It is your wyrd that shapes you. Every age needs an icon — perhaps that lot has fallen to you. Farm boys are not named for the first Rider without cause. Your namesake was the beginning, and now you are the continuation. Or the end.
 * Saphira to Eragon

 * A hatchling, that is what you are. A hatchling struggling into the world. I may be younger than you in years, but I am ancient in my thoughts. Do not worry about these things. Find peace in where and what you are. People often know what must be done. All you need to do is show them the way- that is wisdom. As for feats, no army could have given the blessing you did.
 * Saphira to Eragon

 * Clear your mind of such thoughts. They cannot be answered and will make you no happier.
 * Saphira to Eragon

 * After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end.
 * Saphira to Eragon

 * That's the problem! I've been choosing male names. You are a she!
 * Eragon to Saphira, while trying to choose her name.

 * "Are you Saphira?" She looked at him with intelligent eyes.  Deep in his mind he felt her satisfaction.  Yes.
 * Eragon and Saphira

 * Saphira: If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off.
 * Eragon: I love you too.
 * Saphira:Then I will bind you all the tighter.

 * Saphira: It's funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.
 * After Brom beat Eragon in a practice duel.

 * Saphira: Together we can cast spells that are beyond either of us.
 * to Eragon

 * Saphira: No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground.

 * Eragon: Saphira, where are you? Let's have some fun!

 * Eragon: My heart died a while back.

 * Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

 * Eragon: If I drank that much mead it would kill me!
 * Saphira: That's why you're not a dragon.

 * Eragon: I will fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes...but I won't let anybody use me against my will.

 * Eragon: Should I kill him?

 * Eragon: Define normal.
 * to Saphira

Brom

 * “To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.”

 * "You don’t know what it is to reach my age, look back, and realize that you don’t remember much of it: then to look forward and know that many years still lie ahead of you..."

 * "Well, then... if you do, come tell me. I am most interested in this trader who pretends to know so much about dragons."

 * "Anyway, I'm not going to stay behind while some stripling gets to run around with a dragon."

 * "Defend yourself!"

 * "Once upon a time that was true... but no more. When I was young... younger than you are now, I was chosen... chosen by the Riders to join their ranks.  While they trained me, I became friends with another apprentice... Morzan, before he was a Forsworn.  But then he betrayed us to Galbatorix... and in the fighting at Doru Areaba - Vroengard's city - my young dragon was killed.  Her name... was Saphira."

 * "May the coming years bring you great happiness."

 * There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

As he dies
 * And now for the greatest adventure of all.

 * May your swords stay sharp.

 * One part brave, three parts fool. [said of Eragon]

 * "You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

 * Many people have died for their beliefs...The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

 * People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t.

 * The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

 * I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find I prefer them when they're greedy bastards.

 * [after Eragon states that he does not understand his training] Of course you don't. That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. Now stop talking, or we'll never get anywhere.

 * "The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not… but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories"

Other Quotes

 * Orik: See you now? Humans and elves are the giants. The land's full of them, here, there, and everywhere, stomping about with their big feet and casting us in endless shadowses.
 * Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.

 * Eragon recoiled in shock. Standing in front of him, licking off the membrane that encased it, was a dragon.

 * Durza: After her! She is the one I want!

 * Eragon: Why are you here?
 * The Shade looked at him with contempt in his red eyes and smiled
 * Durza: To gloat, of course. What use is a victory if one cannot enjoy it?

 * Solembum: Listen closely and I will tell you two things. When the time comes and you need a weapon, look under the roots of the Menoa tree. Then, when all seems lost and your power is insufficient, go to the rock of Kuthian and speak your name to open the Vault of Souls.

 * Solembum: Knowing is independent of being. I did not know you existed before you bumbled in here and ruined my nap. Yet that doesn't mean you weren't real before you woke me.

 * Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

 * Nasuada: I met Murtagh earlier....he's anxious to speak with you. He seemed lonely; you should visit him.

 * Arya: Farewell Eragon, rider of dragons...my life is in your hands.

 * Eragon: Thanks, again.
 * Murtagh: Don't mention it.

 * Uncle Garrow: Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered, one may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen. Of the affairs of love, my only advice is to be honest. That’s your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.
 * to Roran and Eragon as Roran is leaving to work at the mill

 * Durza: Congratulations. You've just been promoted.

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Margaret Chase Smith

Margaret Chase Smith (14 December 1897 - 29 May 1995) was an U.S. politician, a Republican Senator from Maine, the first woman to be elected to both the US House and the Senate, and the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the US Presidency at a major party convention (1964 Republican). She was one of the first Republican Members of Congress to criticize Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Second Red Scare.

Quotes

 * One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act too impulsively without thinking. I am not advocating in the slightest that we become mutes with our voices stilled because of fear of criticism of what we might say. That is moral cowardice. And moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. The importance of individual thinking to the preservation of our democracy and our freedom cannot be overemphasized. The broader sense of the concept of your role in the defense of democracy is that of the citizen doing his most for the preservation of democracy and peace by independent thinking, making that thinking articulate by translating it into action at the ballot boxes, in the forums, and in everyday life, and being constructive and positive in that thinking and articulation. The most precious thing that democracy gives to us is freedom. You and I cannot escape the fact that the ultimate responsibility for freedom is personal. Our freedoms today are not so much in danger because people are consciously trying to take them away from us as they are in danger because we forget to use them. Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves — not of the government.
 * As quoted in NEA Journal : The Journal of the National Education Association Vol. 41 (1952) p. 300

 * My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought.
 * Statement (11 November 1953); also in Declaration of Conscience (1972), p. xi

 * I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real challenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
 * As quoted in "Nation: Madam Candidate" in TIME magazine (7 February 1964)

 * We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
 * from an undated speech on Civil Rights; as cited in Hope and Fear in Margaret Chase Smith’s America, Gregory P. Gallant, Lexington Books (2014), p. 309 : ISBN 0739179861

 * Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
 * Declaration of Conscience (1972), p. 293; also misquoted as ending with "the end justifying any means and any measures."

 * My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
 * As quoted in The Teacher's Quotation Book : Little Lessons On Learning (1986) by Murray I. Suid and Wanda Lincoln

Declaration of Conscience (1950)

 * "Declaration of Conscience" (1 June 1950), (Top 100 speeches at AmericanRhetoric), (PDF)

 * I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart. I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. I speak as an American.

 * The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world. But recently that deliberative character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity. It is ironical that we Senators can in debate in the Senate directly or indirectly, by any form of words, impute to any American who is not a Senator any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming an American — and without that non-Senator American having any legal redress against us — yet if we say the same thing in the Senate about our colleagues we can be stopped on the grounds of being out of order. It is strange that we can verbally attack anyone else without restraint and with full protection and yet we hold ourselves above the same type of criticism here on the Senate Floor. Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

 * I think that it is high time for the United States Senate and its members to do some soul-searching — for us to weigh our consciences — on the manner in which we are performing our duty to the people of America — on the manner in which we are using or abusing our individual powers and privileges. I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation. Whether it be a criminal prosecution in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little practical distinction when the life of a person has been ruined.

 * Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism:
 * The right to criticize;
 * The right to hold unpopular beliefs;
 * The right to protest;
 * The right of independent thought.
 * The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood nor should he be in danger of losing his reputation or livelihood merely because he happens to know someone who holds unpopular beliefs. Who of us doesn't? Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own. Otherwise thought control would have set in.

 * The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as "Communists" or "Fascists" by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others. The American people are sick and tired of seeing innocent people smeared and guilty people whitewashed.

 * Today our country is being psychologically divided by the confusion and the suspicions that are bred in the United States Senate to spread like cancerous tentacles of "know nothing, suspect everything" attitudes. Today we have a Democratic Administration that has developed a mania for loose spending and loose programs. History is repeating itself — and the Republican Party again has the opportunity to emerge as the champion of unity and prudence.

 * Surely these are sufficient reasons to make it clear to the American people that it is time for a change and that a Republican victory is necessary to the security of this country. Surely it is clear that this nation will continue to suffer as long as it is governed by the present ineffective Democratic Administration. Yet to displace it with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to this nation. The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny — Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.

 * I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory. I don't want to see the Republican party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people.

 * As a United States Senator, I am not proud of the way in which the Senate has been made a publicity platform for irresponsible sensationalism. I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle. I am not proud of the obviously staged, undignified countercharges that have been attempted in retaliation from the other side of the aisle. I don't like the way the Senate has been made a rendezvous for vilification, for selfish political gain at the sacrifice of individual reputations and national unity.

 * As an American, I condemn a Republican "Fascist" just as much as I condemn a Democrat "Communist." I condemn a Democrat "Fascist" just as much as I condemn a Republican "Communist." They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

 * We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.

Quotes about Smith

 * Senator Margaret Chase Smith, the so-called Quiet Woman from Maine, is neither tongue-tied nor coy; instead she likes to pick her shots, believing that "a statement does not have real meaning and validity unless I am moved to make it, rather than prodded by someone else." This must be one of those moments, for here Mrs. Smith is positively gabby, chirping away about the high points of her political career like any other lawmaker up for reelection this November.
 * Kirkus Reviews review of Declaration of Conscience (1972)

 * Mrs. Smith said her life in politics was her only life. "I have no family, no time-consuming hobbies," she said late in her Senate career. "I have only myself and my job as United States Senator." But she also had a sense of humor. In 1952, when asked by a reporter what she would do if she woke up one morning and found herself in the White House, she replied: "I'd go straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home."
 * Richard Severo, in "Margaret Chase Smith Is Dead at 97; Maine Republican Made History Twice" in The New York Times (30 May 1995)

 * Last week Maggie Smith, 66, confessed before the National Women's Press Club in Washington that she has no money, no time to campaign and no organization to speak of. There upon she announced saucily that she is going to run for the G.O.P. presidential nomination just the same. Stickler. Many people shrug off the lady Senator's declaration as something frivolously feminine. They don't know Maggie. Feminine she is, but not frivolous.
 * Editorial comments on Smith's presidential run, in "Nation: Madam Candidate" in TIME magazine (7 February 1964)

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Nostradamus

Michel de Notredame formerly Michel de Nostredame, born Michel Gassonet (14 December 1503 – 1 July 1566) was a French physician, astrologer, occultist and author of almanacs, most famous for his book Les Propheties; known primarily as Nostradamus, the latinization of his given name.

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 * I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the "common advent", even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes may be to come should scandalise delicate ears, the whole thing is written in nebulous form, rather than as a clear prophecy of any kind.
 * Letter from Salon to his son Cesar (March 1555) as translated by Peter Lemesurier

 * Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here.
 * Last words, as quoted in Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells (2004) by Laura Ward and Robert Allen; reported to have been said to his secretary Jean de Chavigny

Les Propheties (1555)

 * The Prophecies, often referred to as the Centuries there are numerous translations and interpretations of these verses.

Preface

 * If I have eschewed the word prophet, I do not wish to attribute to myself such lofty title at the present time, for whoever is called a prophet now was once called a seer; since a prophet, my son, is properly speaking one who sees distant things through a natural knowledge of all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine, because this cannot be done otherwise, given that the effects of predicting the future extend far off into time.

 * Perfect knowledge of such things cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, given that all prophetic inspiration derives its initial origin from God Almighty, then from chance and nature. Since all these portents are produced impartially, prophecy comes to pass partly as predicted. For understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned. We need god to prosper those without him will not.

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 * ''Estant assis de nuit secret estude, Seul repousé sur la selle d'ærain, Flambe exigue sortant de solitude, Fait prosperer qui n'est à croire vain.
 * Sitting alone at night in secret study; it is placed on the brass tripod. A slight flame comes out of the emptiness and makes successful that which should not be believed in vain.
 * Quatrain 1

 * When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
 * Q 48

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 * Were we to record the failures and ridiculous blunders of astronomers, we are afraid they would outnumber by far those of the astrologers. Present events fully vindicate Nostradamus, who has been so much ridiculed by our skeptics.
 * H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled —Vol. 1,  p. 260 (1877)

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Anne Conway

Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway and Killultagh, born Anne Finch (14 December 1631 – 18 February 1679) was an English philosopher, cited as an influence by Leibniz, and an early convert to Quakerism.

The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690)

 * Composed in English between 1671 and 1675; first published posthumously in 1690 in Latin as Principia philosophiae antiquissimae et recentissimae de Deo, Christo et Creatura id est de materia et spiritu in genere; an English edition was published in 1692, based upon this Latin version, because the original manuscripts were lost.

 * I say, life and figure are distinct attributes of one substance, and as one and the same body may be transmuted into all kinds of figures; and as the perfecter figure comprehends that which is more imperfect; so one and the same body may be transmuted from one degree of life to another more perfect, which always comprehends in it the inferior. We have an example of figure in a triangular prism, which is the first figure of all right lined solid triangular prism, which is the first figure of all right lined solid bodies, where into a body is convertible; and from this into a cube, which is a perfecter figure, and comprehends in it a prism; from a cube it may be turned into a more perfect figure, which comes nearer to a globe, and from this into another, which is yet nearer; and so it ascends from one figure, more imperfect to another more perfect, ad infinitum; for here are no bounds; nor can it be said, this body cannot be changed into a perfecter figure: But the meaning is that that body consists of plane right lines; and this is always chageablee into a perfecter figure, and yet can never reach to the perfection of a globe, although it always approaches nearer unto it; the case is the same in diverse degrees of life, which have indeed a beginning, but no end; so that the creature is always capable of a farther and perfecter degree of life, ad infinitum, and yet can never attain to be equal with God; for he is still infinitely more perfect than a creature, in its highest elevation or perfection, even as a globe is the most perfect of all other figures, unto which none can approach.

Quotes about Conway

 * The framework of Conway's system is a tripartite ontological hierarchy of ‘species’, the highest of which is God, the source of all being. Christ, or ‘middle nature’, links God and the third species, called ‘Creature’. God as the most perfect being is infinitely good, wise and just. A principle of likeness links God and creation. Since God is good and just, his creation too is good and just. Created substance, like God, consists of spirit, but, unlike God, is constituted of particles called monads. All created substance is living, capable of motion and perception Anne Conway denies the existence of material body as such, arguing that inert corporeal substance would contradict the nature of God, who is life itself. Incorporeal created substance is, however, differentiated from the divine, principally on account of its mutability and multiplicity even so, the infinite number and constant mutability of created monads constitute an obverse reflection of the unity, infinity, eternity and unchangeableness of God. The continuum between God and creatures is made possible through ‘middle nature’, an intermediary being, through which God communicates life, action, goodness and justice. ‘Middle nature’, partakes of the nature of both God and creation, and is therefore both a bridge and a buffer between God and created things. Thus, although she conceives of created substance as a continuum, and understands mutability as capacity for increased perfection, she sought to avoid the charge of pantheism.
 * Sarah Hutton, in "Lady Anne Conway" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2003; 2014)

 * She explains evil as a falling away from the perfection of God, and understands suffering as part of a longer term process of spiritual recovery. She denies the eternity of hell, since for God to punish finite wrong-doing with infinite and eternal hell punishment would be manifestly unjust and therefore a contradiction of the divine nature. Instead she explains pain and suffering as purgative, with the ultimate aim of restoring creatures to moral and metaphysical perfection.
 * Sarah Hutton, in "Lady Anne Conway" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2003; 2014)

 * My philosophical views approach somewhat closely those of the late Countess of Conway, and hold a middle position between Plato and Democritus, because I hold that all things take place mechanically as Democritus and Descartes contend against the views of Henry More and his followers, and hold too, nevertheless, that everything takes place according to a living principle and according to final causes—all things are full of life and consciousness, contrary to the views of the Atomists.
 * Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Thomas Burnet (1697), as quoted in Platonism, Aristotelianism and Cabalism in the Philosophy of Leibniz (1938) by Joseph Politella, p. 18

 * I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her last Breath; the greatest Example of Patience and Presence of Mind, in highest Extremities of Pain and Affliction, that we shall easily meet with: Scarce any thing to be found like her since the Primitive times of the Church.
 * Henry More, in the preface to The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690)

 * She distinguishes three distinct kinds of being, God, Christ, and creation, which are differentiable from each other chiefly with respect to changeability — God is utterly unchangeable, Christ is changeable only for the better, and hence forms a necessary mediation between God and creation, and creatures are changeable for better or for worse. With respect to creatures, this feature has the result than any creature could in principle be transformed into any other. Lady Conway goes so far as to claim that there is no difference in kind between body and spirit, that even though in each creature there is a passive principle and an active one, the difference is only in degree not in kind.
 * Anthony Roe, in "The Qabalist Countess" (2002)

 * Anne Conway embraces the fundamental tenet of the occult philosophers that God was not a vindictive Father who wanted to punish his children for their failings. God damned no one; at most, people damned themselves by turning their backs on God, whose infinite love was freely available to everyone. From the end of the seventeenth century, occultists like Lady Conway and Jane Lead, representative of early modern occultism, were extending this belief into universal salvation. God not only wanted to save everyone, eventually he would succeed in doing so.
 * Anthony Roe, in "The Qabalist Countess" (2002)

Perfect freedom would consist in perfect determination — perfect identification of wholes: hence, the idea of “conformity to God’s will” and the Quaker ideal of simplicity. Sequentially, there is a time and place where/ when “simpler” structures exist and more “complex” structures do not — but atemporally (and from the perspective of the whole) all simply exists. Reading back from that perspective (as Plato and Parmenides attempt to do), the“end” may be seen as informing the “beginning” and the “middle.” If Plato worked backward from the “end” and Democritus worked forward from the “beginning,” Conway worked outward from the middle — and this is the place Leibniz mapped in his comment to Burnett. Since the middle is the one place we can be, it is most assuredly a more secure place to start than the“end” or the “beginning,” where we cannot.
 * Some pre-Socratic “Greek” thinking conceived of the world as a composite whole made up of indivisible parts (atoms) and so searched for a basic “stuff” at bottom. Conway suggests that the distinctions composite/indivisible, whole/part be collapsed without abandoning the pre-Socratic process of division. Divide a whole and you are left not with parts, but with wholes. In this sense, nothing is more “basic” than anything else. Plato and Parmenides began with the One not “at bottom,” but “at top.” The problem is not how to get a whole out of a bunch of parts, but how to account for the diversity of “wholes” without sacrificing unity.
 * Steven Schroeder, in "Anne Conway’s Place : A Map of Leibniz" in The Pluralist 2 : 3 (2007)

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Battle Royale (film)

Battle Royale (or Batoru rowaiaru) is a 2000 film about 42 ninth-graders taken to an island, given random weapons, and forced to kill each other until one survivor remains as part of a government program. To ensure their cooperation, they've been fitted with explosive collars that explode when they break a rule.
 * Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Written by Kenta Fukasaku and Koshun Takami, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami.

Could you kill your best friend? taglines

Shuya Nanahara

 * [to Noriko Nakagawa] I'm weak, I'm useless, but I'll stay by your side; I'll protect you.

Mitsuko Souma

 * What's wrong with killing? Everybody's got their reasons.

Shogo Kawada

 * There's a way out of this game. Kill yourselves together, here, now. If you can't do that, then don't trust anyone... just run.

Teacher Kitano

 * So today's lesson is...you kill each other off until there's only one left. Nothing's against the rules!

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 * Each weapon is different. Not just guns or knives either! It is random so maybe you will get lucky, maybe not. It eliminates natural advantages. [picks up axe] Oooh. This one is SUPER lucky.

Dialogue

 * Kyouichi Motobuchi: If I survive, may I go home?
 * Teacher Kitano: Sure, but only if everyone else is dead. Mimura?
 * Shinji Mimura: How were we chosen?
 * Kitano: By impartial lottery.
 * Mimura: One more.
 * Kitano: Sure.
 * Mimura: Why are you doing this?
 * Kitano: It's your own damn fault. You guys mock grown-ups. Go ahead and mock us, but don't you forget: life is a game, so fight for survival and find out if you're worth it.

 * [Shogo has just finished bandaging Noriko's leg]
 * Shuya Nanahara: You know a lot about medicine.
 * Shogo Kawada: Well, my father was a doctor.

 * Shogo Kawada: [Noriko wakes up abruptly] You okay?
 * Noriko Nakagawa: I had a dream...
 * Kawada: What dream?
 * Nakagawa: I was alone with Kitano on an empty riverbank.
 * Kawada: Must've been scary.
 * Nakagawa: But Kitano just seemed lonely.
 * Kawada: Hmmm.
 * Nakagawa: Before this, I always just thought of myself as normal. I'd have a normal marriage, age normally, just like my mom... but when this game started, I realized - it's just that I was sheltered.
 * Kawada: Some things are better not to know.

 * Hiroki Sugimura: I've been in love with you for a long, long time...
 * Kayoko Kotohiki: [cries] What am I supposed to do now?
 * Mitsuko Souma: Die.

 * Shogo Kawada: Meeting you guys, I finally solved the riddle of Keiko's smile.
 * Noriko Nakagawa: What's the answer?
 * Kawada: Her parting words - Thank you - and then...
 * Shuya Nanahara: And then? [Kawada drops his cigarette] Kawada!
 * Nakagawa: Kawada!
 * Kawada: And then - I'm glad I found true friends.

Taglines

 * Could you kill your best friend?
 * One Dead. 41 To Go.
 * 42 Students, Three Days, One Survivor, No Rules.
 * Today, I killed my best friend.
 * Have you ever killed your best friend?

About

 * Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins came from a military family. But Battle Royale director Kinji Fukasaku actually survived World War II. He was just a teenager himself when he was put to work in a munitions factory in Japan. "It was bombed, a lot," Hendrix says. "And one of his jobs, at the age of 15, was to take a wheelbarrow around the factory and pick up body parts after bombing raids." The experience left Fukasaku with a lasting abhorrence of war — and a profound sense of betrayal by grownups that persisted into his own adulthood. And it fueled his decision to film Battle Royale, which was both highly controversial and a massive theatrical hit when it was released in Japan, despite a rating that kept young teenagers from seeing it. That irritated the director, says Hendrix. "He gave a very famous statement to the press where he said, 'Kids, if you have the courage, you can sneak in. And I encourage you to do so.'"
 * Hendrix says one of the most important things Battle Royale and The Hunger Games share is the idea of teenagers trapped in a ruined society, coerced by grownups into doing horrible things. Even so, they both make it clear — there's nothing more utopian than a teenager. Even in a dystopia.
 * Grady Hendrix in "'Battle,' 'Games': Cold Brutality A Common Theme" by Nedia Ulaby, All Things Considered, NPR, March 21, 2012

Cast

 * Tatsuya Fujiwara — Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
 * Aki Maeda — Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
 * Taro Yamamoto — Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
 * Chiaki Kuriyama — Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)
 * Kou Shibasaki — Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
 * Beat Takeshi — Teacher Kitano

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:58, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Sor Eddie~enwikiquote


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User talk:67.85.188.108

~ Kalki 09:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:67.85.188.108


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User talk:Cheungpat

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:41, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:Cheungpat


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User talk:Pieguy259

Thanks for adding quotations to El Goonish Shive. Perhaps you would also like to participate in the discussion regarding formatting of quotations in Talk:El Goonish Shive. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:Pieguy259


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User talk:64.180.40.39

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:38, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi. Please stop' removing quotations without following correct procedure -- at the very least, moving them to the relevant talk page and explaining, in detail your reasons for believing they are not accurate. Removal of quotations without doing that is considered vandalism. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:59, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I have added the quotations, properly, to the talk page and removed them from the article. Except in the cases of clear vandalism or duplicate quotations, the quotations must always be moved to the talk page, for sourcing by others. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I didn't notice that I actually had to move the quotes to the talk page. I'll follow that guideline from now on. Thanks. 64.180.40.39 12:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your co-operation! Sorry to be such a hassle :) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 14:29, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:64.180.40.39


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User talk:212.219.82.37

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:38, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:212.219.82.37


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User talk:Mchavez

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:43, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Mchavez. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Mchavez~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Mchavez