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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/List of people by occupation

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. —LrdChaos 22:25, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

List of people by occupation
This list is no longer manageable. As with all similiar lists, it is always missing articles that people create directly, either manually or through the templates and inputboxes. Much worse, pranksters add bogus information to it and remove useful material, but no one is watching it closely enough to prevent this. A spate of sophomoric edits on 2 July from users in the 203.166.99.x network (see "Sam clayton" VfD for more of their activity) resulted in the complete replacement of the "Musicians" section with a few prank names (among other things), a problem that remains six weeks later. This may be the time to get rid of this particular list and direct attention instead to Category:Occupations and its children. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (six votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos 22:22, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The list became obsolete as soon as we started using categories; it has served its purpose and should now be removed.  121a0012 01:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 07:55, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Categories handle this well, as opposed to List of people by name. —LrdChaos 14:32, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:19, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with LrdChaos.Categories will handle it.All ya have to fo is create it.-- ~ ♥ * Cute 1 4 u  |talk to me! * ♥ ~  22:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Eric Gingras

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. —LrdChaos 22:25, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Eric Gingras
Search yields name of contributor to forums. Notability not demonstrated. - InvisibleSun 07:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (six votes to delete (one implicit), no dissent). —LrdChaos 22:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've posted a vanity-warn to the creator's template, in case this is a personal quote. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:11, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The one quotation doesn't even seem quotable to me, never mind notable.  121a0012 19:59, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos 14:33, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:19, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I did a search and there is only 6 or 7 results for him. I think it should be delete...possibly. ~  ~ ♥ * Cute 1 4 u  |talk to me!  * ♥ ~  21:05, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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Death Note

Death Note (デスノート; Desu Nōto) is a manga created by writer and artist. The main character is a very intelligent high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook (nōto being Japanese slang for nōtobukku, "notebook") which has the power to kill any human whose name is written upon its pages, subject to certain rules.

After an initial "pilot" story involving unrelated junior high students, Death Note was first serialized in 108 chapters by in the Japanese magazine  from December 2003 to May 2006. That serial (along with an appendix of errata) was then published as a 13—volume series of graphic novels from May 2004 to October 2006. Finally, an anime series retelling the story aired on in Japan from October 2006 to June 2007; its translation aired on  in the United States from 2007 to 2010.

L

 * Greetings to all of you at the ICPO, I am L. (Ep. 2)
 * Coincidence? No, too convenient. This can only mean that Kira has access to police information. It's obvious now, this is a direct challenge to me. (Ep. 3)
 * I just find [phones] distracting. I can't stand when people's cell phones are ringing when I'm trying to talk. (Ep. 6)
 * Kira is childish and he hates losing... I am also childish and I hate to lose. That's how I know. (Ep. 6)
 * He who strikes first wins. (Ep. 10)
 * I don't sit like this because I want to. I have to sit like this. You see, if I were to sit normally, my deductive skills would immediately be reduced by roughly 40%. (Ep. 10)
 * As long as it doesn't kill me, college is a lot of fun. (Ep. 15)
 * I'll give you a strawberry if you keep this a secret. (Ep. 19)
 * However gifted you are you alone can't change the world. (L: Change the World)

Light

 * Look around you, and all you will see are people the world would be better off without. (Ep. 1)
 * This world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die! Someone has to do it, so why not me? Even if it means sacrificing my own mind and soul, it's worth it. Because the world... can't go on like this! I wonder... what if someone else had picked up this notebook? Is there anyone out there other than me who'd be willing to eliminate the vermin from the world? If I don't do it, then who will? That's just it; there's no one! I can do it! In fact... I'm the only one who can! I'll do it. Using the Death Note, I'll change the world... (Ep. 1)
 * I am Justice! I protect the innocent and those who fear evil. I'm the one that will become the god of a new world that every one desires! (Ep. 2)
 * L.. I will hunt you down wherever you're hiding and I will eliminate you. I am justice! (Ep. 2)
 * In this world, there are very few people who actually trust each other. (Ep. 3)
 * I'll solve equations with my right hand and write names with my left. I'll take a potato chip... and eat it! (Ep. 8)
 * I'll take a potato chip; and eat it! (Ep. 8)
 * You can't ever win if you're always on the defensive. To win, you have to attack! (Ep. 10)
 * L, do you know gods of death love apples? (Ep. 10)
 * I've never considered finding that notebook and gaining that power a misfortune. (Ep. 10)
 * This is the first time in my life that I've been provoked to hit a woman. (Ep. 14)
 * The thing I hate the most is to trample on other people's good will. (Ep. 17)
 * I've won. Exactly as planned. (Ep. 24)
 * Humans aren't made perfectly. Everyone lies. Even so... I've been careful not to tell lies that hurt others. (Ep. 25)
 * Just as I thought. Without L, this is too easy. (Ep. 26)
 * I have a mind of a genius and a strong sense of justice.
 * This world is still rotten!.. With too many rotten people.
 * Our battle will be concluded, and I will begin my reign from the summit of victory!
 * In the end, L is indeed the greatest detective on earth...
 * But you know the saying, "play with fire, and you'll get burned". I'll make you regret underestimating L...underestimating me.
 * I must protect my fledging Utopia.
 * No matter what the world is, the god of that world creates the rules. In truth, you have been defeated by the rules I created. And as punishment for defying the God of the new world, you will die...
 * For murderers, there is no good or evil. I know that.
 * He was someone who deserved to die.
 * I came to exterminate the vermin of this world!
 * I will reign over a new world.
 * Catch me...if you can.
 * That's right, I am Kira. And what can you do? Kill me right here? (Ep. 37)
 * I am God of the new world! (Ep. 37)
 * Kill me? Is that really the right thing to do? Since Kira's appearance 6 years ago wars have stopped and global crime rates have been reduced by over 70 percent: but it's not enough, this world is still rotten. With too many rotten people. Somebody has to do this, and when I first got that notebook all those years ago I knew I had to do it. No, I was the only one who could. (Ep. 37)
 * I understood that killing people was a crime. There was no other way! The world had to be fixed! A purpose given to me! Only I could do it. Who else could have done it, and come this far? Would they have kept going? The only one who can create a new world - is me. (Ep. 37)
 * It's a trap! This is all part of Near's plot to frame me! Isn't it a little odd that no one died after having their names written in the Notebook!? This proves it's a trap! (Ep. 37)
 * Matsuda you idiot! Who the hell do you think you're shooting at!? Don't screw with me! (Ep. 37)

Misa Amane

 * Misa-Misa loves to eat. Misa-Misa loves Yagami Light.
 * Careful what you do, cuz God is watching your every move. Hold my hand in the dark street, for if you do I know that I'll... be safe. Even if I'm far away and alone, I can be sure that you'll find me there, this I know. You told me close for a while, so quiet. You tell me everything. If I forget what to say then you'll come to me and tell me again, yes, you'd tell me once again. But what happens when I know it all and what should I do after that? What then? (Ep. 25)

Mello

 * I wanna eliminate my competition. I will be the best. I don't care what it takes. (Ep. 27)

Near

 * If you can't win the game, if you can't solve the puzzle, then you're nothing but a loser. (Ep. 27)
 * Don't worry, Commander Rester, making assumptions is part of any investigation. If we're wrong, all it'll cost is an apology. (Ep. 30)
 * Keep all important information in your mind only. (Ep. 30)
 * No. You're just a murderer, Light Yagami. And this notebook is the deadliest weapon of mass murder in the history of mankind. You yielded to the power of the shinigami and the notebook and you have confused yourself with a god. In the end, you're nothing more than a crazy serial killer. That's all you are. Nothing more, and nothing less. (Ep. 37)
 * Light Yagami, L, Kira, it's over. You've lost the game. (Ep. 37)

Rem

 * Humans are truly... disgusting creatures!
 * Light Yagami might be as pure as Misa... He was not using the Death Note for himself, but rather he was using the notebook in order to better humanity as a whole.
 * Light... he can even kill a shinigami. He has surpassed us.

Ryuk

 * You've taken quite a liking to it. (Ep. 1, first words to Light)
 * Look at how many people you've killed in only five days. Most are reluctant to write this much. (Ep. 1)
 * Let's just say this: you will feel the fear and pain known only to humans who've used the notebook. And when it's your time to die, it will fall on me to write your name in my death note. Be warned any human who's used a death note can neither go to heaven nor hell for eternity... That's all. (Ep. 1)
 * I didn't choose you. Don't you see this is all just an accident? You actually thought you were chosen because you're so smart or something? Don't be so vain. It just happen to fall around here and you just happen to pick it up, and that's all there is to it. (Ep. 1)
 * You're asking me why? I did it 'cause I was bored. (Ep. 1)
 * Humans are... So much fun. (Ep. 2)
 * You have lost, Light. Didn't I say in the beginning... when you die, the one who'll write your name down in a notebook will be me? That is... the deal between the Shinigami... and the first human to get their hands on the note in the human world. Once you enter the prison, I don't know when you'll die. It's annoying to wait... Your life is already over. You'll die here. Well, it was good while it lasted... We killed some boredom, didn’t we? We did some various and interesting things... (Ep. 37)
 * It was good while it lasted. We eased each other's boredom for quite a while. Well, Light, it's been interesting. (Ep. 37, as Light dies, the last words in the anime)

Light and Ryuk

 * Ryuk: Why even bother? What are you trying to achieve by passing judgement on them? I mean, why do you care? Light: Because I've been bored too, Ryuk. (Ep. 1)
 * Light: At first I wrote the names of the worst criminals I could think of, like I was cleaning up the world one name at a time, so that eventually no one will ever do anything evil again. And while the truly guilty ones who deserve to be punished for their crimes die of heart attacks, the people who are less guilty but who still make trouble for others will slowly be erased through disease and accidental death. Then and only then the world will start moving in the right direction. It'll be new world free of injustice and populated by people who I've judged to be honest, kind, and hardworking. Ryuk: But if you did that, it'd make you the only bad person left. Light: Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm a hardworking honor student who's considered to be one of Japan's best and brightest. And I... I will become the God of this new world. Ryuk: It's just as I thought.. Humans are so interesting. (Ep. 1)

Light and L

 * Light: Kira, deaths by accident, by disease, designated times of death, it's all just as we suspected. We were right. L: No, unfortunately, we can only be completely sure after those people they've named are dead. We will continue to monitor these meetings and take note of what they say, how they act, and most importantly whether the people they choose actually die. If we can confirm the connection between their plans and the deaths, then we'll definitely be able to catch Kira. Light (in unison with Chief Yagami): Ryūzaki! L (with his mouth full): What is it? There is no need to yell in unison. Light: I can't carry on knowing these people will die. That's just immoral. (Ep. 20)
 * Light: Ryūzaki. Do you think that I'm actually capable of becoming a murderer, Kira? Even after I help you catch him, do I seem like that kind of person to you? L: Yes, you do. I've always thought so. (Ep. 20)

Death Note rules

 * Episode 1:
 * The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
 * This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
 * Episode 2:
 * If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.
 * After writing the cause of death, details of death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
 * Episode 3:
 * This note shall become the property of the human world, once it touches the ground of (arrives in) the human world.
 * The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, i.e. a god of death.
 * Episode 4:
 * The human who uses this note can neither go to Heaven nor Hell
 * If the time of death is written within 40 seconds after writing the cause of death as a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated, and the time can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name.
 * Episode 5:
 * The human who touches the DEATH NOTE can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, a god of death, even if the human is not the owner of the note
 * The person in possession of the DEATH NOTE is possessed by a god of death, its original owner, until they die.
 * Episode 6:
 * If a human uses the note, a god of death usually appears in front of him/her within 39 days after he/she uses the note.
 * Gods of death, the original owners of the DEATH NOTE, do not do, in principle, anything which will help or prevent the deaths in the note.
 * Episode 7:
 * A god of death has no obligation to completely explain how to use the note or rules which will apply to the human who owns it.
 * A god of death can extend his life by putting human names on the note, but humans cannot.
 * Episode 8:
 * A person can shorten his or her own life by using the note.
 * The human who becomes the owner of the DEATH NOTE can, in exchange of half of his/her remaining life, get the eyeballs of the god of death which will enable him/her to see a human's name and remaining lifetime when looking through them.
 * Episode 9:
 * A god of death cannot be killed even if stabbed in his heart with a knife or shot in the head with a gun. However, there are ways to kill a god of death, which are not generally known to the gods of death.
 * The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically possible for that human or it is reasonable...
 * Episode 10:
 * The specific scope of the condition for death is not known to the gods of death, either. So, you must examine and find out.
 * One page taken from the DEATH NOTE, or even a fragment of the page, contains the full effects of the note.
 * Episode 11:
 * The instrument to write with can be anything, ((e.g. cosmetics, blood, etc)) as long as it can write directly on the note and remains as legible letters.
 * Even the original owners of the DEATH NOTE, gods of death, do not know much about the note.
 * Episode 12:
 * You may also write the cause and/or details of death prior to filling in the name of the individual. Be sure to insert the name in front of the written cause of death. You have about 19 days (according to the human calendar) in order to fill in a name.
 * Even if you do not actually possess the DEATH NOTE, the effect will be the same if you can recognize the person and his/her name to place in the blank.
 * Episode 13:
 * The DEATH NOTE will not affect those under 780 days old.
 * The DEATH NOTE will be rendered useless if the victim's name is misspelled four times.
 * Episode 14:
 * "Suicide" is a valid cause of death. Basically all humans are thought to possess the possibility to commit suicide. It is, therefore, not something "unbelievable to think of".
 * Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident, If the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not influenced.
 * Episode 15:
 * Even after the individual's name, the time of death, and death condition on the DEATH NOTE were filled out, the time and condition of death can be altered as many time as you want, as long as it is changed within 6 minutes and 40 seconds from the time it was filled in. But, of course, this is only possible before the victim dies.
 * Whenever you want to change anything written on the DEATH NOTE within 6 minutes and 40 seconds after you wrote, you must first rule out the characters you want to erase with two straight lines.
 * Episode 16:
 * The time and condition of death can be changed, but once the victim's name has been written, the individual's death can never be avoided.
 * If you lose the DEATH NOTE or have it stolen, you will lose its ownership unless you retrieve it within 490 days.
 * Episode 17:
 * If you have traded the eye power of a god of death, you will lose the eye power as well as the memory of the DEATH NOTE, once you lose its ownership. At the same time, the remaining half of your life will not be restored.
 * You may lend the DEATH NOTE to another person while maintaining its ownership. Subletting it to yet another person is possible, too.
 * Episode 18:
 * The borrower of the DEATH NOTE will not be followed by a god of death. The god of death always remains with the owner of the DEATH NOTE. Also the borrower can not trade the eyesight of the god of death.
 * When the owner of the DEATH NOTE dies while the Note is being lent, its ownership will be transferred to the person who is holding it at that time.
 * Episode 19:
 * If the DEATH NOTE is stolen and the owner is killed by the thief, its ownership will automatically be transferred to the thief.
 * When the same name is written on more than two DEATH NOTES, the Note which was first filled in will take effect, regard less of the time of death.
 * Episode 20:
 * If written the same name on more than two DEATH NOTES is completed within a 0.06—second difference, it is regarded as simultaneous; the DEATH NOTE will not take effect and the individual written will not die.
 * The god of death must at least own one DEATH NOTE. That DEATH NOTE must never be lent to or written by a human.
 * Episode 21:
 * Exchanging and writing on the DEATH NOTE between the gods of death is no problem.
 * If the god of death decides to use the DEATH NOTE to kill the assassin of an individual he favours, the individual's life will be extended, but the god of death will die.
 * Episode 22:
 * The dead god of death will disappear, but the DEATH NOTE will remain. The ownership of this DEATH NOTE is usually carried over to the next god of death that touches it, but it is common sense that it is returned to the Great god of death.
 * Only by touching each other's DEATH NOTE can human individuals who own the DEATH NOTE in the human world recognize the appearance or voice of each other's god of death.
 * Episode 23:
 * An individual with the eye power of a god of death can fell the name and life span of the other humans by looking at that person's face. By possessing the DEATH NOTE, an individual gains the ability to kill and stops being a victim. From this point, a person with the DEATH NOTE cannot see the life span of other DEATH NOTE owners, including him/herself. But, it is not really necessary for the individual to view the life span of him/herself nor other DEATH NOTE owners.
 * The god of death must not tell humans the names or life spans of individuals he sees. This is to avoid confusion in the human world.
 * Episode 24:
 * It is prerequisite for the DEATH NOTE used in the human world that a living god of death makes sure that the humans in the human world use it.
 * It is very difficult to consider that a god of death who has possessed a human could die, but if he should die, the DEATH NOTE that he brought into the human world will not lose its power.
 * Episode 27:
 * If you just write "die of accident" for the cause of death the victim will die from a natural accident after 6 minutes and 40 seconds from the time of writing it.
 * Even though only one name is written in the DEATH NOTE if it influences and causes other humans that are not written in it to die the victim's cause of death will be a heart attack.
 * Episode 28:
 * If you have traded the eye power of a god of death you will see a person's primary life span in the human world.
 * The name you see with the eye power of a god of death are the names needed to kill that person. You will be able to see the names even if than (that) person isn't registered in the family registration.
 * Episode 29:
 * If a person loses possession of a DEATH NOTE, they will not recognize the gods of death by sight or voice any more, If however, the owner lets someone else touch his DEATH NOTE, from that time on, that person will recognize the god of death.
 * In accordance with the above, the human who touched the DEATH NOTE and began to recognize the gods of death's sight and voice, will continue to recognize it until that human actually owns the DEATH NOTE and subsequently looses possession of it.
 * Episode 30:
 * If a DEATH NOTE owner accidentally misspells a name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the DEATH NOTE, However, if they intentionally misspell the name four times, the DEATH NOTE owner will die.
 * The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not be free of death by a DEATH NOTE.
 * Episode 31:
 * When regaining ownership of the DEATH NOTE, the memories associated with the DEATH NOTE will also return. In cases where you were involved with other DEATH NOTEs as well, memories of all the DEATH NOTEs involved will return.
 * Even without obtaining ownership, memories will return just by touching the DEATH NOTE.
 * Episode 32:
 * If a DEATH NOTE is owned in the human world against the god of death's will, that god of death is permitted to stay in the human world in order to retrieve it.
 * In that case, if there are other DEATH NOTEs in the human world, the gods of death are not allowed to reveal to humans that DEATH NOTE's owner or its location.
 * Episode 33:
 * In the event that there are more than 6 DEATH NOTEs in the human world, only the first 6 DEATH NOTEs that have been delivered to humans will have effect.
 * The seventh DEATH NOTES will not become active until one of the other 6 DEATH NOTEs is burned up, or a god of death takes one of them back to the world of gods of death.
 * Episode 34:
 * The DEATH NOTE will not take effect if you write a specific victim's name using several different pages.
 * But the front and back of a page is considered as one page. For example, the DEATH NOTE will still take effect even if you write the victim's surname on the front page and given name on the back.
 * Episode 35:
 * In the world of gods of death there are a few copies of what humans may call user guidebook for using the DEATH NOTE in the human world. However, the guidebook is not allowed to be delivered to humans.
 * It is perfectly okay for gods of death to read the guidebook for him/herself and teach humans about his contents, no matter what the content may be.
 * Episode 36:
 * The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
 * The human who uses this note can neither go to Heaven nor Hell
 * Episode 37:
 * All humans will, without exception, eventually die.
 * After they die, the place they go is MU. (Nothingness)

L

 * So, come on! Kill me if you can! (1)
 * Justice will, without fail, prevail. (2)
 * Let's value our lives. (11)
 * I just can't stand it when someone's cell phone rings when I'm talking. (11)
 * Kira is childish and he hates losing... I'm also childish and hate losing. (11)
 * Let's show him... that the good guys always win. (11)
 * In the end, I'll win.
 * It is insulting. So I went into depression.
 * This isn't divine judgment. It's the work of some childish killer who's playing at divine retribution, that's all. (18)
 * He who moves first always wins. (20)
 * I just can't sit any other way than this. If I sit the way other people do, my reasoning ability drops by 40%. (21)
 * Risking your life and doing something that could easily rob you of your life are exact opposites. (23)
 * I don't like his style... it's not like mine at all. (25)
 * God of death?! You... You expect me to accept that such things exist?! (27)
 * I'm a... pervert?? (34)
 * Amane's obsessive love toward Light Yagami is just about all we've figured out. (36)
 * Light, can you please make Misa—san be quiet? (37)
 * Will you be eating that cake?... Say what you want, but I will be taking the cake. (38)
 * Why are you staring at me? Are you annoyed that I am the only one who has cake? (38)
 * If you use your head, you won't get fat even if you eat sweets. (38)
 * I haven't said anything about letting them commit murder... yet... (39)
 * I'll fall in love with you? (45)
 * My number of friends has increased yet again. (45)
 * I know that line is a bunch of bull... (46)
 * It proves that he is becoming rather desperate. (50)
 * What an idiot. (52)
 * Light Yagami... I wasn't wrong, but... I suppose I've lost... (58)
 * That would be convincing if I didn't already know you were Kira.
 * The bells are very loud today.
 * You look so mad. I thought you might want some cake, too.
 * But... I... (said immediately prior to death)
 * However gifted you are, you alone can't change the world.
 * There are many types of monsters that scare me: Monsters who cause trouble without showing themselves, monsters who abduct children, monsters who devour dreams, monsters who suck blood... and then, monsters who tell nothing but lies. Lying monsters are a real nuisance: They are much more cunning than others. They pose as humans even though they have no understanding of the human heart; they eat even though they've never experienced hunger; they study even though they have no interest in academics; they seek friendship even though they do not know how to love. If I were to encounter such monsters, I would likely be eaten by them... because in truth, I am that monster. (Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors)
 * "I guess it's time to say, farewell..."
 * "I am... JUSTICE!!!"

Light

 * I'm going to change the world. (1)
 * I am God! (2)
 * Those who oppose the god are truly Evil! (2)
 * I will erase him. (4)
 * L, do you know Gods of death love apples? (8)
 * The real battle starts now. (10)
 * She has to be eliminated. (13)
 * I'll make you trust me. And when you've told me everything I need to know, I'll kill you. (19)
 * You can't ever win if you're always on the defensive. To win, you have to attack. (20)
 * I've never considered finding that notebook and gaining that power a misfortune. (22)
 * I can't develop feelings. That's how most idiots screw up. (30)
 * The thing I hate the most is to trample on other people's good will. (37)
 * After I caught the current Kira, after that... I would become a Kira murderer? Do you see me as such a human being? (45)
 * For murderers, there is no good or evil. I know that. (47)
 * I won... just as planned. (53)
 * In every world, the gods always make the rules. You will fall before my fake rules and, for the sin of going against the new world's God, die. (55)
 * I am going to be the God of the new world. (58)
 * There are a lot of stupid people out there. (59)
 * I must protect my fledging utopia. (68)
 * I'll make you regret underestimating L... underestimating me. (68)
 * I'll need to appear full of confidence if I'm to take advantage of him. (68)
 * In your eyes lies all happiness for this new world. (68)
 * In the end, L is indeed the greatest detective on Earth... (68)
 * Our battle will be concluded, and I will begin my reign from the summit of victory! (89)
 * This is my win, Near. (103)
 * Under normal circumstances, humans should have continued to evolve as the greatest creatures upon this earth, but we were actually regressing. A rotten world. politics, law, education... Was there anybody around who could correct this world? But someone had to do it. (105)
 * Only I could do it! I was well aware that killing people is crime in itself! Yet at that point it was the only way to make things right! I thought to myself that someday people will come to realize this as much, and regard it as an act of justice! I had no choice but to act as Kira… it was the destiny given to me. I was chosen to renew this rotten world, to bring about true peace – a utopia. (105)
 * DON'T COME NEAR ME! Kill them! Someone kill them! (106)

Matsuda

 * You guys hit at the same time. Just call this one a draw. (45)
 * Why are you looking at me? It's not me. (61)
 * Light—kun what do you mean? In layman's terms... (62)
 * What was it all for then!? What about your father, what the hell did he die for!? (106)

Mello

 * I'll live my own way. (61)
 * In the end there is no greater motivation than revenge. (64)
 * He's terribly reasonable, this new L. (64)
 * So, how about you tell me right now whom you'd like me to kill and how I'll treat'cha to it. (67)
 * No kidding. So you've got no choice but to listen to us. (67)
 * Near, you say clever things. (77)
 * Which one of us will reach Kira first I wonder. (77)
 * Our goal is the same. I'll wait for you there. (77)

Misa Amane

 * I hate evil & love justice. I do not consider the police as my enemies but as my allies against evil. (23)
 * I'm satisfied with just being used by you. Trust me. (29)
 * There's no way I'll stand for you seeing other girls. If I see that, I'll kill them. (30)
 * You just want to see me pee again, YOU PERVERT! (34)
 * Does Ryuzaki—san really swing that way? (37)
 * Eating sweets makes you fat. (38)
 * I can't go on in a world without Light. (45)
 * If it's for Light, I can die without regrets. (45)
 * What do you mean I "use my sexual charm"!? (46)
 * You can't buy peace or love with money. (80)
 * I don't even use the Internet... (46)

Near

 * If you cannot win at the game, if you cannot solve the puzzle, you are just another loser. (61)
 * L the second! Pleased to meet'cha. (63)
 * I'm the head of the SPK... let's see... N! (63)
 * Things are getting interesting now. (64)
 * Nope. It's over! Looks like you're beaten, L. (64)
 * You, who've taken on his name, have managed — well, nothing. (66)
 * To Mello, it's like playing a video game against me, I think. See who gets to Kira, the last boss, first. (67)
 * I don't know what to say. Now, I think it's just best to observe closely. (71)
 * We will be removed. All because of that chicken we call a President… No, "chicken" is too nice. He's even lower than a maggot. (75)
 * Don't make me repeat the same thing many times. (77)
 * Which of us will get Kira first... It's a race! (77)
 * Making such a sleazebag a spokesman... (77)
 * What an obvious lie he is telling. (79)
 * For me and Mello, L has been the only person we adore and the only person who deserves our respect. (82)
 * You said she's smart but it only means she got high marks, and she's actually a stupid woman. (86)
 * Does she understand what she's doing, this stupid woman? (88)
 * To kill me, a potential avenger. (89)
 * I've wanted to make him taste his own pathetic failure with all my heart. (90)
 * It's over. You've lost the game. (103)
 * No. You're just a murderer. (105)
 * Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong, what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god, and I had His teachings before me, I would think it through, and decide if that was right or wrong myself. (105)

Rem

 * Humans are such ugly creatures. (37)
 * Light Yagami might be as pure as Misa... he was not using the Death Note for himself, but rather he was using the notebook in order to better humanity as a whole. (47)
 * But Light Yagami... to kill even a shinigami... he's surpassed the shinigami. (58)

Ryuk

 * Humans are... so much fun. (1)
 * I feel like I'm in a sitcom.
 * That was worth an Academy Award, Light. (9)
 * Humans are hilarious. (10)
 * Hey, all it did was go around in a full circle. (54)
 * Sorry, but... believe it or not, I'm a male too... (56)
 * Hehe. A disaster—struck family playing a happy—homey family... This show is funny. (60)
 * Heh. Are those the eyes of a man in love? (68)
 * What? I'm going to be possessed by such a poor imbecile? (71)
 * Shinigami trust shinigami before they trust humans. (72)
 * I can understand them, because they can exchange that money for tons of apples. (80)
 * You're using the word 'destiny' for a woman again, Light. You always use a one-patterned approach for women. (87)
 * The name I'm writing in the Death Note is yours, Light. (107)
 * Didn't I tell you in the beginning? I'll be the one to write your name when you die. This is the deal that is made between the shinigami who brought the notebook into the human's world and a human who possesses the notebook. If you are cast into jail, I will never know when you'll die. It would be annoying to wait until your death. You are finished. You'll die here. (107)

Chief Yagami

 * I will not succumb to evil.
 * The real evil is the power to kill people. (22)
 * No...anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness. (22)
 * I have a responsibility as a parent and as the chief of police. (36)
 * Light, my son, from one murderer to another, I'll see you in Hell! (36)
 * Murderers should go to hell!
 * Light... I trust you. (72)

Dialogue
Misa: I can't imagine a world without Light! L: Yes, that would be dark. (37)

Light: L L: Kira Both: I will hunt you down where ever you are hiding and I will eliminate you. Light: I am... L: I am... Both: Justice! (2)

Light: What was it? L: Nothing. Just another of Matsuda's unimportant idiocies. Light: Well, Matsuda does have that natural ignorance... Matsuda: Those two know that we can hear them, right? (38)

Misa: Oh, and by the way, Light darling — do you know how to kill a shinigami? Light: Did you just call me "darling"? Misa: Fine, then do you mind if I call you "knight" instead? 'Cause you're like my knight in shining armor, you know. Light: [sighs] Let's just stick with "Light." (Ep. 14)

Misa: Hey Light, wanna sleep with me tonight? Light: Wh...What are you talking about? Misa: Just kidding! You're saving me for after we catch Kira, right? You don't have to be shy about it! L: Yes, Light. There's no need to be shy. Light: I'm not being shy! L: No need to be so serious, either. (48)

Light: Then I suppose that when I meet with Misa, it will have to be outside of here. L: Huh, you want to meet her? (55)

Light: Misa, I want you to know my feelings. I don't want you to shorten your life by doing the deal, I don't want to manipulate you like that. I'd rather live a lasting life with you in our ideal world. Misa (tearing): Light. Ryuk (thinking): Like hell you do. Misa (hugs): I'm so glad! Ryuk (thinking): All this girl does is hug... (56)

Mello (after Shidou takes the notebook): The...thee uh notebook just flew. ?: It's a notebook that kills people! Hell, nothing surprises me any more. (70)

Light: Near, try to escape from that place now. Near: How dare you say that, when you are Kira. Light: W—what... Why are you still saying such a thing?... (80)

Matsuda: Awwh man...I bet there was like 10 million dollars there... Ryuk: How much is that in apples? (80)

Near: Thank you for your useful information. You two may go back now. Aizawa: You heard that much and just say 'go back' Near (pouting): And so I thanked you for your useful information... (80)

Near: Lester could you come back one more time to command the center in New York? (Lester is currently in Japan) Lester: One more time? Near: I'm also going to Japan. Lester: So during that time you want me to come to New York and stay watch? Near: No. Lester: Then why do you want me in New York? Near: I've never experienced the first class procedures of riding a plane alone, so I want you to come back so we can go together. (89)

Near: What is it, L? Light: Misa Amane and Mogi are missing. Near: Yes. We have abducted them. Light: Near... for what reason? Near: For insurance. (95)

Giovanni: If there are shinigami, I might die, right? Near: Yes. Giovanni: ... Near: If you are scared, I'll ask Lester to go. Lester: ...

Misa: Namikawa's pretty good. Considering his looks, I was expecting that. L: No, that was a screw—up by Yagami—kun. Light: (Sweatdrop) ...

About

 * The course will be focused on the question: What is Justice? We will do so by analyzing the Japanese Anime, Death Note, featuring a young genius, named Light Yagami, who seeks to create justice in the world through a mass murder of criminals. The original twelve volume series has gone on to sell over 26 million copies, and has received nominated for several awards such as "Best Manga at the 2006 American Anime Awards, the 2007, an Official Selection at 2008, and Obata was nominated for Best Penciller/Inker at the 2008 s." The protagonist's voice actor also won the "Best Voice Actor" award at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in 2008. In addition to the successful Anime adaptation, there have since been three live-action movies, three video games, and two spin-off novels from the material. The series has since been banned in several cities, primarily in China, to protect the physical and mental health of young students, as well as to avoid the copycat crimes that had been occurring throughout the world. We will be using Death Note as a lens to look critically at current events such as the drone strikes in the Middle East, and discuss whether or not such actions are just. The course will address aspects of vigiliantism, as well as the morality within murder. Overall, we ask students to keep an open mind and to challenge their preconceived notions of justice based upon what is actually happening in the world.
 * Jay Hoyne, “What is Justice? A Critical Analysis of the Death Note Anime”, Washington.edu, (2015).

Voice actors

 * Light Yagami – (Japanese),  (English)
 * Ryuk – (Japanese),  (English)
 * Misa Amane – (Japanese),  (English)
 * L – (Japanese),  (English)
 * Near – (Japanese),  (English)
 * Mello – (Japanese),  (English)
 * Touta Matsuda – (Japanese),  (English)
 * Shuichi Aizawa – (Japanese),  (English)
 * Soichiro Yagami – (Japanese),  (English)
 * Teru Mikami – (Japanese),  (English)
 * Kiyomi Takada – Masumi Okamura and (Japanese),  (English)

title: Death Note


text:
Atlanta Nights

Atlanta Nights is a collaborative novel created in 2004 by a group of science fiction and fantasy authors, with the express purpose of producing an unpublishably bad piece of work, so as to test whether publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it. It was accepted; after the hoax was revealed, the publisher withdrew its offer.

Quotes

 * “Honey, don’t you like hamburgers?” Bruce wanted to know, crestfallen. “That beef is chalked full of protein!” Bruce grinned contagiously. “And we could both use some protein, after last night! If you know what I mean!”

 * He didn't ever want to be stuck with riffraff like that so he had used the computer skills he had learned from cracking play station games and writing viruses on the internet to build his company to a person was today.

 * Pain. Whispering voices. Pain. Pain. Pain. Pain. Need pee--new pain--what are they sticking in me? . . . Sleep. Pain.

 * Isadore:"Fortunately, fast and efficient Emergency Medical Services, based on a program founded by Lyndon Baines Johnson the 36th President of the United States helped y'all survive an otherwise, deadly crash"

 * The longtime security guard saluted the pair as they passed. What lucky people, he thought, so young and rich, they can afford to live here.  Not like me.  I have to live across town and wear a uniform and salute the young rich kids who make more money in a minute than I can make in my whole life.

 * Both men and women and couples were eating lunch.

 * Yvonne Perrin stood up and walked over to the waiter and took the shot glass full of vodka and poured it out in a planter that held a spindly rubber tree that never got enough light to grow properly even though it was near one of the windows that looked out onto the lake where some ducks were floating like they were waiting for someone to throw them some bread but there was nobody there at this time of day.

 * Those big, jiggle breasts, so close to him.

 * Then he took her home, and they had held hands like little kids and kissed outside her door. He couldn't remember any woman or boy as hot as she was. None of those teen-agers had ever been like this. He defiantly wanted to see her again.

 * As he held those big, jiggle breasts, so close to him, he whispered into her ear "I love those Big Ole Bujuby jublies".

title: Atlanta Nights


text:
Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 black-and-white horror film about a group of people hiding from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.
 * Directed by George A. Romero. Written by John A. Russo and George A. Romero.

They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for HUMAN FLESH!taglines

Ben

 * Now get the hell down in the cellar. You can be the boss down there, I'm boss up here!
 * Don't you know what's goin' on out there? This is no Sunday School picnic!
 * We've heard all we need to know. We have to try to get out of here.
 * I oughta drag you out there and feed you to those things!
 * You know a place back down the road called Beekman's? Beekman's Diner? Anyhow, that's where I found that truck I have out there. There's a radio in the truck. I jumped in to listen, when a big gasoline truck came screaming right across the road! There must've been ten, fifteen of those things chasing after it, grabbing and holding on. Now, I didn't see them at first. I could just see that the truck was moving in a funny way. Those things were catching up to it. Truck went right across the road. I slammed on my brakes to keep from hitting it myself. It went right through the guard rail! I guess - guess the driver must've cut off the road into that gas station by Beekman's Diner. It went right through the billboard, ripped over a gas pump, and never stopped moving! By now it was like a moving bonfire! Didn't know if the truck was going to explode or what. I still hear the man... screaming. These things, just backing away from it! I looked back at the diner to see if - if there was anyone there who could help me. That's when I noticed that the entire place had been encircled. There wasn't a sign of life left, except... by now, there were no more screams. I realized that I was alone, with fifty or sixty of those things just... standing there, staring at me! I started to drive, I - I just plowed right through them! They didn't move! They didn't run, or... they just stood there, staring at me! I just wanted to crush them! And they scattered through the air, like bugs.

Helen Cooper

 * We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn't going to solve anything. Those people aren't our enemies.
 * He said the rescue stations have doctors and medical supplies. If we can get Karen there, we can get help for her.

Radio Newscaster

 * Because of the obvious threat to untold numbers of citizens, and because of the crisis which is even now developing, this radio station will remain on the air, day and night. This station and hundreds of other radio and TV stations throughout this part of the country are pooling their resources through an emergency network hookup to keep you informed of all developments. At this hour, we repeat, these are the facts as we know them. There is an epidemic of mass murder being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins. The murders are taking place in villages, cities, rural homes and suburbs with no apparent pattern or reason for the slayings. It seems to be a sudden, general explosion of mass homicide. We have some descriptions of the assassins. Eyewitnesses say they are ordinary looking people. Some say they appear to be in a kind of trance.
 * So, at this point there is no really authentic way for us to say who or what to look for and guard yourself against.

TV Newscaster

 * In all parts of the country, the wave of murder which is sweeping the eastern third of the nation is being committed by creatures who feast upon the flesh of their victims. First eyewitness accounts of this grisly development came from people who were understandably frightened and almost incoherent. Officials and newsmen at first discounted those eyewitness descriptions as being beyond belief. However, the reports persisted. Medical examinations of some of the victims bore out the fact that they had been partially devoured.
 * I think we have some late word just arriving and we interrupt to bring this to you. This is the latest disclosure in a report from National civil defense headquarters in Washington. It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life and committing acts of murder. A widespread investigation of reports from funeral homes, morgues & hospitals has concluded that the unburied dead are coming back to life and seeking human victims. It's hard for us here to believe what we're reporting to you, but it does seem to be a fact.
 * All law enforcement agencies and the military have been organized to search out and destroy the marauding ghouls. The survival command center at the Pentagon has disclosed that a ghoul can be killed by a shot in the head or a heavy blow to the skull. Officials are quoted as explaining that since the brain of a ghoul has been activated by the radiation, the plan is, kill the brain and you kill the ghoul.

Dialogue

 * Johnny: Do you remember one time when we were small, we were out here? It was from right over there, I jumped out at you from behind the tree, and Grandpa got all excited, shook his fist at me and said "Boy, you'll be damned to hell!" [laughs] Remember that? Right over there. Boy, you used to really be scared here.
 * Barbara: Johnny!
 * Johnny: Hey, you're still afraid, aren't ya?
 * Barbara: Stop it, now! I mean it!
 * Johnny: [in a creepy voice] They're coming to get you, Barbara!
 * Barbara: Stop it! You're ignorant!
 * Johnny: They're coming for you, Barbara!
 * Barbara: Stop it! You're acting like a child!
 * Johnny: They're coming for you!
 * [points to the cemetery zombie]
 * Johnny: Look, there comes one of them now!
 * Barbara: He'll hear you!
 * Johnny: Here he comes now! I'm getting out of here!

 * Ben: How long have guys you been down there? I could have used some help up here!
 * Harry: That's the cellar. It's the safest place.
 * Ben: You mean you didn't hear the racket I was making up here?
 * Harry: How were we supposed to know what was going on? Could have been those things for all we knew!
 * Ben: That girl was screaming. Surely you know what a girl screaming sounds like. Those things don't make any noise. Anybody would know somebody needed help!
 * Tom: Look, it's kind of hard to know what's going on from down there.
 * Harry: We thought we could hear screams, but for all we knew, that have meant those things were in the house after her.
 * Ben: And you wouldn't come up here and help?
 * Tom: Well, if there were more of us...
 * Harry: That racket sounded like the place was being ripped apart. How were we supposed to know what was going on?
 * Ben: Now wait a minute. You just got finished saying you couldn't hear anything down there. Now you say it sounded like the place was being ripped apart. It would be nice if you get your story straight, man.
 * Harry: All right, now you tell me! I'm not gonna take that kind of a chance when we've got a safe place! We lock into a safe place, and you're telling us we gotta risk our lives just because somebody might need help, huh?
 * Ben: [disgusted] Yeah, something like that.
 * Tom: Alright, why don't we settle this--
 * Harry: LOOK, MISTER! We came up, okay?! We're here! Now, I suggest we all go back downstairs before any of those things find out we're in here!
 * Ben: They can't get in here.
 * Tom: You got the whole place boarded up?
 * Ben: Yeah, most of it. I'll put a few spots upstairs. They won't be hard to fix.
 * Harry: You're insane! The cellar's the safest place!
 * Ben: I'm telling you they can't get IN here!
 * Harry: And I'm telling you those things turned over our car! We were damn lucky to get away at all! Now you're telling me those things can't get through this lousy pile of wood?
 * Tom: His wife and kid's downstairs. The kid's hurt.
 * Ben: Well, I still think we're better off up here.
 * Tom: We could strengthen everything up, Mr. Cooper.
 * Ben: With all of us working together, we can fix this place up in no time. We have everything we need up here.
 * Harry: We can take all that stuff downstairs with us. Man, you're really crazy. You know that? You got a million windows up here. All these windows! You're gonna make them strong enough to keep those things out, huh?
 * Ben: I told you, those things don't have any strength. I smashed three of them and pushed another one out the door.
 * Harry: Did you hear me when I told you they turned over our car?
 * Ben: Oh, hell! Any good five men could do that!
 * Harry: That's my point! Only there's not going to be five, or even ten! There's going to be twenty, thirty, maybe a hundred of those things, and as soon as they find out we're here, this place is gonna be crawling with them!
 * Ben: Well, if there's that much, they'll probably get us wherever we are.
 * Harry: Look! The cellar. There's only one door, right? Just one door. That's all we have to protect. Tom and I fixed it so that it locks and boards from the inside. But, all these windows? Like, we'd never know where they're gonna hit us next!
 * Tom: You got a point, Mr. Cooper. But, down in the cellar, there's no place to run to. I mean, if they did get in, there'd be no back exit. We'd be done for.
 * Harry: [disregards Tom's statement] Daah!
 * Tom: We can get out of here if we have to, and we got windows to see what's going on outside. But, down there with no windows? If a rescue team did come, we wouldn't even know it.
 * Harry: But, the cellar is the strongest place!
 * Ben: The cellar is a death trap!
 * Tom: I don't know, Mr. Cooper. I think he's right. [to Ben] You know how many is out there?
 * Ben: I don't know, maybe six or seven.
 * Harry: Look! You two can do whatever you like! I'm going back down to the cellar, and you'd better decide! 'Cause I'm gonna board up that door, and I'm not going to unlock it again no matter what happens!
 * Tom: Now wait a minute, Mr. Cooper.
 * Harry: No, I'm not going to wait! I've made my decision, now you make yours!
 * Tom: Now wait a minute! Let's think about this! We can make it to the cellar if we have to! And if we do decide to stay down there, we'll need some things from up here! So let's at least consider this a while!
 * Ben: You box yourself in the cellar and those things get in the house, you've had it. At least up here, you have a fighting chance.

 * Helen: Does anyone up there know why we're being attacked?
 * Harry: Whatever it is, it isn't just happening here. It's some kind of mass murder. It's going on everywhere. The radio said to stay inside--
 * Helen: Radio?
 * Harry: Radio, upstairs. I heard the news bulletin.
 * Helen: [outraged] There's a radio upstairs and you boarded us in down here?!
 * Harry: I know what I'm doing!
 * Helen: What did it say?!
 * Harry: Nothing! Nothing! They don't know anything yet! There's mass murder everywhere, and people are supposed to look for a safe place to hide!
 * Helen: Take the boards off that door!
 * Harry: We are staying down here, Helen!
 * Helen: Harry, that radio is at least some kind of communication! If the authorities know what's happening, well, they'll send people for us, or they'll tell us what to do! How are we going to know what's going on if we lock ourselves in this dungeon?!
 * [Harry throws his cigarette to the floor in frustration]
 * Helen: We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn't going to solve anything. Those people aren't our enemies.

 * Newscaster: Reports, incredible as they may seem, are not the results of mass hysteria.
 * Harry: "Mass hysteria?" What do they think, we're imagining all this?
 * Ben: Shut up!

 * Ben: Willard. I saw a sign that said Willard.
 * Tom: It's only about 17 miles from here.
 * Ben: You know this area. Are you from around here?
 * Tom: Judy and I are both from around here. We were on our way to the lake to go swimming. Judy had a radio, and we heard the first reports about this. So we knew the old house was here and we came in and found the lady upstairs dead. Then these other people came. We went down into the basement and put a bar across the door, and it is pretty strong.
 * Harry: How could we possibly get away from here? We've got a sick child, two women, one woman out of her head, three men, and the place is surrounded with these things.

 * Ben: Judy, I need you to find some bedspreads or sheets to tear up into small strips, okay? [to Tom] Is there a fruit cellar here?
 * Tom: Yes.
 * Ben: We need some bottles or jars to make Molotov cocktails to hold them off while we try to escape.
 * Tom: Hey, There's a big can of kerosene down there.
 * Judy: I'll see what I can find.
 * Tom: I'll look for the bottles.
 * Harry: There's a big key ring down there. There may be a key to the gas pump on it.
 * Tom: I'll check. [goes down in the cellar]
 * Ben: We can toss the cocktails from a window upstairs. Meantime, some of us can go out and try to get the gas, then we can come back for the rest of the people.
 * Harry: But that'll leave a door open someplace.
 * Ben: Yeah, that's right. It better be this door. It's closer to the truck. Before we go out, we'll put some supplies behind the cellar door. While we're gone, the rest of you can hole up in there.
 * Tom: I found some fruit jars in the cellar. And there's a key on here that's labeled for the gas pump out back.
 * Ben: I'm not really that used to the truck. I found it abandoned.
 * Tom: I can handle the truck, no sweat.
 * Ben: You're it, then. You and I'll go. We'll put whatever lumber we find behind the cellar door. You can go upstairs and toss the cocktails from a window. Tom, you and I will have to unboard this door. [to Harry] After you toss the cocktails, you hustle back down here and lock this door. It's no good to board it up because we'll have to get back in quickly. After we get the gas and get back into the house, then we'll worry about getting everybody into the truck. Now, let's move it.

 * Field reporter: Chief, if I were surrounded by six or eight of these things, would I stand a chance with them?
 * Chief McClellan: Well, there's no problem. If you had a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy.
 * Field reporter: Well, Chief McClellan, how long do you think it'll take until you get the situation under control?
 * Chief McClellan: Well, that's pretty hard to say. We don't know how many of 'em there are. We know when we find 'em, we can kill 'em.
 * Field reporter: Are they slow-moving, chief?
 * Chief McClellan: Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up.
 * This has been described as George Kosana's most memorable line from the film. It was originally an ab lib from Kosana's audition for the role. Source:

 * Sheriff McClelland: Alright Vince, hit him in the head; right between the eyes.
 * [Vince shoots and kills Ben]
 * Sheriff McClelland: Good shot! OK, he's dead; let's go get 'im. That's another one for the fire.

Taglines

 * They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for HUMAN FLESH!...
 * Pits the dead against the living in a struggle for survival!
 * They won't stay dead.
 * They're coming to get you...again!

Cast

 * Duane Jones - Ben
 * Judith O'Dea - Barbara
 * Karl Hardman - Harry Cooper
 * Marilyn Eastman - Helen Cooper/Bug-eating zombie
 * Keith Wayne - Tom
 * Judith Ridley - Judy
 * Kyra Schon - Karen Cooper/Upstairs body
 * Charles Craig - Newscaster/Zombie
 * S. William Hinzman - Cemetery Zombie
 * Russell_Streiner - Johnny
 * George Kosana - Sheriff McClelland

title: Night of the Living Dead


text:
Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)

Dawn of the Dead, the first sequel to George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, is a zombie horror film. A remake was released in 2004.

Old Priest

 * Many have died, last week, on these streets. In the basement of this building, you will find them. I have given them the last rites, now, you do what you will. You are stronger than us... But soon, I think they be stronger than you. When the dead walk, señores, we must stop the killing... or lose the war.

Dr. Foster

 * Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill!
 * You're not running a talk show here, Mr. Berman! You can forget pitching an audience the moral bullshit they want to hear!

Dr. Millard Rausch

 * The normal question, the first question is always, "Are these cannibals?" No, they are not cannibals. Cannibalism in the true sense of the word implies an intraspecies activity. These creatures cannot be considered human. They prey on humans. They do not prey on each other; that's the difference. They attack and they feed only on warm human flesh. Intelligence? Seemingly little or no reasoning ability, but basic skills remain a more... remembered behaviours of ah, normal life. There are reports of these creatures using tools. But even these actions are the most primitive; the use of tools as bludgeons and so forth. I might point out that even animals will adopt the use of tools in this manner. These creatures are nothing but pure, motorized instinct. We must not be lulled by the concept that these are our family members or our friends. They are not. They will not respond to such emotions.
 * They MUST be destroyed ON SIGHT!
 * We are down to the line, people. DOWN TO THE LINE!
 * Dummies. Dummies.

Roger

 * [after shooting a zombie that almost bit him] You bastards, you bastards! [turning to Peter] We got 'em, didn't we? We got this, man! We got this by the ass!
 * Wooley's gone apeshit, man!

Peter

 * I've seen half-a-dozen guys in my unit get bitten by those things. None of them lasted more than... three days.

Wooley

 * How the Hell come we stick these low-life bastards in these big-ass fancy hotels anyway? Shit, man! This is better than I got!

Stephen

 * We're still pretty close to Johnstown. Those rednecks are probably enjoying this whole thing.

Francine

 * [sarcastically] I would have made you all coffee and breakfast but I don't have my pots and pans.
 * [on a TV set, Dr. Millard Rausch argues with a TV reporter about doomsday scenarios] It's really all over...isn't it?

Blades

 * [to Peter] I see you, chocolate man!
 * Say goodbye, creep!

Dialogue

 * [over the truck radios]
 * Peter: You look my size when you're sitting in the truck.
 * Roger: What I wanna know is how we ended up in the same force, what with you being so tall and all.
 * Peter: They told me it was a midget force. They needed somebody to look up to!

 * [looking at the zombies in the mall]
 * Francine: What are they doing? Why do they come here?
 * Stephen: Some kind of instinct. Memory, of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives.

 * [hearing the zombies pounding against the shopping mall's glass doors]
 * Francine: They're still here.
 * Stephen: They're after us. They know we're still in here.
 * Peter: They're after the place. They don't know why, they just remember. Remember that they want to be in here.
 * Francine: What the hell are they?
 * Peter: They're us, that's all, when there's no more room in hell.
 * Stephen: What?
 * Peter: Something my granddaddy used to tell us. You know Macumba? Voodoo. My granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us, "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."

 * [Roger is in bed, slowly dying from a zombie bite]
 * Roger: You'll take care of me when I go, won't you, Peter?
 * Peter: Rest, man. Save your strength.
 * Roger: I don't want to be walkin' around... like THAT!... Peter...
 * [Peter is turning away, not ready to cope with the death of his friend]
 * Roger: PETER?
 * Peter: I'm here, man!
 * Roger: Don't do it until you are sure I am coming back! I'm gonna try... not to... I'm gonna try... not to... come back. I'm gonna try... not to...

 * [Peter handles a scoped Savage Model 99 rifle]
 * Peter: Ain't it a crime.
 * Stephen: What?
 * Peter: The only person who could miss with this gun is the sucker with the bread to buy it.

 * Roger: We've just got to wait a little longer before we move.
 * Peter: No, there's always a chance of some of them stayin' up on the balcony.
 * Roger: We can handle that; we can break through.
 * Peter: If any of them see us, or hear us, they'll just follow us on up. It's no good.
 * Roger: We sure as hell can outrun 'em. We can load up what we can and get the hell out.
 * Peter: I'm thinkin'...Maybe we've got a good thing going here. Maybe we shouldn't be in such a hurry to leave.
 * Roger: Oh, man...
 * Peter: If we could get back up there without them catchin' on, we could hole up for a while, at least long enough to catch a breath, check out the radio, see what's happening.

 * [while flying in the helicopter]
 * Stephen: We've got to find more fuel. Maybe closer to Cleveland.
 * Roger: No. We've got to stay out of the big cities. If they're anything like Philly, We may never get out alive.
 * Peter: We may never get out of anyplace alive. We almost didn't get out of here.
 * Roger: We're gettin' out of here fine. As long as there's not to many of those things around, we can handle them easy.
 * Peter: Yeah, well it wasn't one of those things that nearly blew me away.
 * Roger: We gotta stay in the sticks! There's bound to be more of those little private airports upstate.
 * Stephen: There's the locks along the Allgheny. There's fuel stations there, state and private owned.
 * Roger: No, those are probably still manned. We don't need those hassles either.
 * Stephen: They're just out after scavengers and looters.
 * Peter: Oh, you got papers for this limousine?
 * Stephen: I've got GON I.D., and so does Fran.
 * Peter: Right, and we're up here doin' traffic reports? Wake up, sucker! We're thieves and we're bad guys. That's exactly what we are. We gotta find our own way.

 * Roger: Come on, Martinez.
 * Wooley: Yeah, Martinez! Show your greasy little Puerto Rican ass so I can blow it right off!
 * [Cocks his gun]
 * Wooley: Blow ALL their asses off! Low-life bastards! Blow ALL their low-life Puerto Rican and Nigger asses right off!

 * Roger: Aww God! Oh, Jesus Christ!
 * Peter: What is it?
 * Roger: My bag! I left my goddamn bag in the other truck!
 * Peter: [stops driving the truck] All right trooper, you better screw your head on.
 * Roger: [hyped tone] Yeah, yeah, yeah, c'mon, c'mon c'mon, let's go!
 * Peter: [grabbing him by the collar] I mean it! Now you're not just playin' with your life, you're playin' with mine! Now... are you straight?
 * Roger: [subdued tone] Yeah.

 * Roger: Peter, where are you?
 * Peter: I'm right here, man.
 * Roger: Hey, we did it, didn't we? We whipped 'em, didn't we?
 * Peter: That's right, man.
 * Roger: Didn't we... Didn't we whip 'em?
 * Peter: We sure did, buddy. We whipped 'em. We whipped 'em good!
 * Roger: [shouting triumphantly] We whipped 'em and we got it ALL!

 * [discovering a collection of zombies in the basement of a tenement building]
 * Roger: Why did these people keep them here?
 * Peter: 'Cause they still believe there's respect in dying.

 * [about to run a gauntlet of zombies]
 * Roger: Whad'ya think? Bag it or try for it?
 * Peter: You game?
 * Roger: I need lighter fluid.
 * Peter: You got it.

 * [removing a can from a Civil Defense carton]
 * Francine Parker [dejectedly]: Spam!
 * Roger: You bring a can opener?
 * Francine: No, I guess I didn't.
 * Roger: Then don't knock it, it's got its own key.

 * [running through a department store after evading a horde of zombies]
 * Roger: Well, we're in, but how the hell are we gonna get back?
 * Peter: Who the hell cares! Let's go shopping!
 * Roger [looking in a display case]: Watches! Watches!
 * Peter: Wait a minute man, let's just get the stuff we need! I'll get a television and a radio.
 * Roger: Ooohh, ooohh, lighter fluid! And chocolate! Chocolate!
 * [he runs down a clothing aisle]
 * Roger: Hey, how about a mink coat!
 * Peter: Why not?

 * [bikers are looting the mall. One of them grabs a TV set. Another remembers that even the Emergency Broadcast Service has ceased airing.]
 * Biker: Hey man, what are you going to watch on that thing?
 * Sledge: Aw, rats, man, you're right!
 * [Sledge drops TV set and bashes it with a sledgehammer]

 * [Police Commander is talking to people holding out in a tenement building via a megaphone. Roger is on the adjacent roof with other SWAT troopers, anticipating the Commander's speech]
 * Police Commander: Martinez! The people in this project are your responsibility! We don't want any of them hurt, and neither do you!
 * Roger [under his breath]: I'm giving you three minutes, Martinez.
 * Police Commander: I'm giving you three minutes, Martinez! Turn over your weapons and surrender!
 * Roger: There's no charges against you.
 * Police Commander: There are no charges against you or any of your people!
 * Roger: Yet.

Cast

 * David Emge - Stephen
 * Ken Foree - Peter
 * Scott H. Reiniger - Roger
 * Gaylen Ross - Francine
 * David Crawford - Dr. Foster
 * David Early - Mr. Berman
 * Richard France - Dr. Milliard Rausch

About

 * Dawn of the Dead is one of the most prophetic and disturbing films you’ll see, and I challenge you to find anyone who can find another film from that era which provides the same level of social commentary.
 * Olly Blackburn
 * A film critic at the New York Times walked out of "Dawn of the Dead" (1979) after the first 15 minutes, complaining of a pet peeve" against zombies. A film critic at the Dallas Times Herald described the film as "without any doubt the most horrific, brutal, nightmarish descent into Hell ever put on the screen." A film critic at the Village Voice thinks it's one of the most important films of the year. They all have a point. "Dawn of the Dead," which opens here Friday, is an ultimate horror film, one that takes traditional images of zombies and ghouls, makes them uncomfortably real, and treats them with a certain poignant humor.
 * "Dawn" is a carefully crafted work that shouldn't be confused with run-of-the-mill horror exploitation films. If we can survive the gruesome imagery and see beyond the obligatory scenes of the horror genre, Romero gives us a savagely satiric vision of America that's not easy to forget. This is both a very difficult film and a very good one.
 * Some audience members at Dallas complained that the film never offers any rational explanation for the sudden plague of zombies. But of course not. No explanation would be rational, and any explanation would undercut the creepiness of the danger. What the film does do is raise sneaky questions in our minds. It's impossible, for example, to watch the zombies marching through a shopping mall, accompanied by Muzak, and not find a satiric statement on the mildly trance-like state Muzak is supposed to inspire in shoppers. It's disturbing to see images of horror juxtaposed with the gaudy artifacts of a lawn furniture display. And it's difficult to make up our minds about the endless violence inflicted on the zombies. They are shotgunned, run over, hacked to bits, decapitated by helicopter blades . . . and after a while we notice that our reaction to this mayhem is curiously complex. On the one hand, the violence isn't as disturbing as it would be against "real" human beings: Since the victims are without intelligence or personalities (and, for that matter, are already dead), their fates are less compelling. And yet, at the same time, we feel a sympathy for them: It is not their fault that they're zombies, and their activities aren't deliberately anti-social. It's just in their nature to eat human flesh.
 * "With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look, I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins are more attractive but less real - less sympathetic, even - than the zombies. Put those kinds of images side by side, and you raise all sorts of questions."
 * Roger Ebert, "Interview With George Romero", by Roger Ebert, (April 29, 1979).

 * Hill was carrying a Thompson submachine gun as we walked. A retired Air Force officer, he’s the ﬁlm’s weapons coordinator, but he really likes being a zombie. “This is supposed to be a horror movie,” he said, “but it’s also an action thriller It’s a whiz-bang. We’ve ﬁred thousands of rounds of blanks; every type of weapon available. “Now, let me tell you about being a zombie, When you go into your zomb, you’re in a fantasy. I go into the role feeling I am the living dead, I can’t focus on things, I can’t get it together. I researched it in books – the wide-open eyes, the clutching hands, the slow movements. Then I made my own zombie. I asked George and he said, ‘Be your own zombie.’ I intend to be the best zombie there ever was. I want people to come away from this movie saying, ‘Wow, he was a good zombie.’ Sharon, the nurse zombie, got into her zomb so heavily the other night, she made herself sick. We’ve got some good zombies. When we were shooting the exteriors and it was zero degrees, there was this 300-pound guy showed up every night in a bathing suit. He said, ‘I’m not cold. I love it.'”
 * “Maybe the bad guys win here,” he said, “and I like the switch – but I’m not sure the zombies are the bad guys because we can’t help being zombies. I love zombies.”
 * As I listened to the dialogue in the scene in front of Penney’s, I caught one line that began to offer an explanation. The four heroes are trying to figure out what’s going on, and one of them says, “It’s something my granddaddy, who used to practice macumba in Trinidad, told me: ‘When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.'” “George,” I asked, “where did you get that line?” He laughed: “I just made that up. Truly. On a drunken night when I was really crashing to ﬁnish the script and I thought that was kind of nice. It was from something Dario Argento [the Italian director of Suspiria, who’s doing the sound effects and score for Dawn] told me. My family is Cuban and Dario said, ‘Well you have a Caribbean background and that’s why you’re into the zombie thing; zombies originated in Haiti.’ I said, well, all right, and I just ﬁgured that’s something a voodoo priest might say. Whee! I’m just having fun, man.”
 * I stationed myself in the Pup-A-Go-Go stand and the minute Romero yelled “action” something remarkable happened: my eyes went out of focus, my hands clenched grotesquely, and I developed a lurching gait as I went after that motorcycle. I wanted that food and I almost got it. By the time the scene was shot twice – once with a mannequin that is beheaded – I was our of breath and my pulse was pounding.
 * Sharon Ceccatti, the nurse zombie, came up to congratulate me as I caught my breath. “Is it always like this?” I asked. “You bet,” she said. “Most mornings I go home and I shake. I can’t sleep.”
 * “This is beginning to feel like Dachau,” a man beside me was saying later as we watched a zombie get his hand – very bloodily – cut off in a door. “This is far beyond Sam Peckinpah.” The man speaking was Gary Zellet, who supplied the weapons for the ﬁlm and handled explosives and breakaway special effects. Among many other projects, he worked on both Godfather ﬁlms. He is one of the few crew members not acting in the ﬁlm. “I didn’t want to,” he said, “this is getting depressing. Twenty gallons of blood used, animal intestines for the zombies to eat – this morning I was eating a corned barf sandwich and somebody said, ‘Hey that’s a prop.’ We use corned beef in some of the artiﬁcial arms. Real amputees volunteered, makes it look real. I’ve rigged over 500 bullet squibs. We kill ’em every possible way, burn ’em, shoot ’em blow their heads off. It’s good there’s some comic relief now and then because this movie runs like a machine gun.
 * I mentioned to him that I liked the mall better at night, that the zombies seemed to have more purpose than the shoppers. “That’s how I got the idea!” he said. “I know the people who own it and I went through the mall, empty, one time and I said, ‘Holy shit! That’s the perfect place for the fulcral episode where we can show the false security of the whole consumer America trip. That’s why this is in color – Night was black and white – because of the mall. So I wrote a little sketch about it and then put it in a drawer while I did some other things I’m really surprised no one else picked up on the idea, because now there are these shopping developments where you can live on top and work and shop down below and never have to leave the building. That’s a trip. In this ﬁlm, the mall becomes the cause. The four heroes get in there to get some Civil Defense water and food and then they rack out and this consumerism, it’s too tempting for them to resist. They arm themselves heavily, they become banditos fighting for all that stuff.” Are the bikers then supposed to be an antidote for them or are they actually an exaggeration of that; racing through the mall at l00 miles an hour and scooping up color TVs? “I think they’re the ultimate of what the heroes are becoming, ﬁghting for control of the Mothership. In fact, when they ﬁrst see the raiders, the bikers coming over the hill, Peter takes off his new watch and all his other shit and that’s a ﬂash toward realization. The raiders are consumerism at its extreme and they just storm in there and go bananas and then of course that causes the downfall. But the heroes, even though Roger is dying at that point, he still has his candies and radios and shit … and that’s why they’re so extreme in their garb during the attack scenes, all the crossed gun belts, fighting over microwave ovens, I mean…” He doubled over with laughter. Romero has a weird slant on the world, to say the least. With Night and Dawn he has filmed some of the most explicit violence imaginable and yet he can argue, convincingly, that it’s detached violence because it’s directed at things rather than people; that the zombies become merely so many insects to be swatted aside. At the same time, he’s starting to make the zombies smarter and more sympathetic because he genuinely likes them. On a set, he resembles a giant, bearded shepherd with his poor dead flock shuffling after him. Sometimes he refers to his zombies as “sharks,” which is a startling but dead-on comparison.
 * Despite Romero’s avowal that he’s just making “comic books,” I reminded him, he gets very close to a message when he talks about “human sellouts” and “operatives” versus the “alternate society.”
 * “The sellouts,” he ﬁnally continued, “the scientific community is saying, ‘Let’s feed ’em. They’re wasteful. They eat only five percent of a body and then the body’s intact enough to revive and it comes back as a zombie. The government says we should feed them and control that pattern – which seems probably what those cats would do. So if someone has died in your family, cut them into meal-size bits.” He was roaring with laughter and the businessmen at breakfast around us began throwing odd looks toward our table. George wiped tears of laughter from his eyes and went on: “That’s probably the way it would go. My idea to take it further is to actually have human operatives that are trying to preserve their own kind of operative situation and in fact using the zombies initially, training them to serve their own needs. There are beginnings of that in Dawn. I show a few ﬂashes of intelligence or at least a learning capability in the zombies. If there are human sellouts that first start teaching them to do things so that they become really operative, then it’s over. But that is also what’s happening to us, those kinds of monsters, our corporate monsters that prey on us more as we fear them less. I mean, that’s this whole false security concept of the mall, being funneled into it, the temple to consumerism, the mall. And being perfectly happy, you know, absolutely lulled by it and yet eaten by it like that.”
 * A few weeks later, George ﬁnally decided which ending to use (we’re keeping it a secret) and he had worked up a beginning, which had worried him greatly. He was criticized in Night for having a deux ex machina – in that case a radioactive satellite – activate the zombies. Dawn will begin with a TV newscast – with the ﬁlm’s credits over – just announcing that the zombies are out and about. I called him up to suggest that recombinant DNA would be a good cause, but he wouldn’t hear of it. “I want it to be unexplained because the zombies really just come out of to rather than a third party. It just happens.”
 * Chet Flippo, "When There’s No Room in Hell: The Dead Will Walk the Earth", Rolling Stone, (March 23, 1978).

 * I found that this film actually did something a lot of modern zombie movies fail to do - surprise me; The characters had been so well established that I found myself saying "They won't kill him, he's too important." I felt this emphasized the point Romero himself says he tries to make in most of these films, which is that they are films about people and how they cope in tough situations, not zombies.
 * Tom Latham, "Remakes Vs. Originals: Dawn Of The Dead", Tom Latham, Den of Geek, (Sep 15, 2009).

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Emil Ghoury

Emil Ghuri (Ghoury) (1907–1984) was Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee (AHC), the official leadership of the Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine. He was also the general secretary of the Palestine Arab Party.

Quotes

 * I do not want to impugn anybody but only to help the refugees. The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab States in opposing partition and the Jewish State. The Arab States agreed upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem.
 * Israel did not cause the Arabs to leave, Beirut Telegraph (September 6, 1948).

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser (January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970; Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر, name also transliterated as Jamal Abd al-Naser, "Jamal Abd An-Nasser", and other variants) was the leader of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. He is considered one of the most important political figures in modern Arab history, and in Developing World politics of the 20th century. He was well-known for his nationalist policies and his version of pan-Arabism also referred to as Nasserism, which won a great following in the Arab World during the 1950s and 1960s. Many in the general Arab populace still view Nasser as a symbol of Arab dignity and freedom.

Quotes

 * My countrymen, my blood spills for you and for Egypt. I will live for your sake and die for the sake of your freedom and honor. Let them kill me; it does not concern me so long as I have instilled pride, honor, and freedom in you. If Gamal Abdel Nasser should die, each of you shall be Gamal Abdel Nasser ... Gamal Abdel Nasser is of you and from you and he is willing to sacrifice his life for the nation.
 * Stephens, Robert Henry (1972), Nasser: A Political Biography, New York

 * The holy march on which the Arab nation insists, will carry us forward from one victory to another ... the flag of freedom which flies over Baghdad today will fly over Amman and Riyadh. Yes, the flag of freedom which flies over Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad today will fly over the rest of the Middle East.
 * Aburish, Said K. (2004), Nasser, the Last Arab, New York City

 * You are from Britain. Would you accept to give Manchester to some other people? And if you are American, I ask the same way, do you accept to give California to some other people? Or would you accept the 'status quo' of occupying Manchester by some other people, by the Chinese for instance? And then reach agreement after expelling the people of Manchester from their homes, depriving them of their property, of everything? This is the question of Palestine.

 * We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all… This is the dream of every Arab.
 * As quoted in the Washington Post (27 July 1959)

 * What was taken by force can only be retrieved by force.
 * As quoted in

 * If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.
 * As quoted in A Mandate for Terror : The United Nations and the PLO (1989), by Harris O. Schoenberg, p. 239

 * Let them kill Nasser! What is Nasser but one among many? I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!
 * To his followers during the assassination attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood, as quoted in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright ISBN 978-0375414862

 * The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
 * As quoted in

 * Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood… In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established
 * In a re-election speech (1965), as quoted in Islamic Imperialism : A History (2007) by Efraim Karsh, p. 162

 * If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!

 * No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered [in the Holocaust].

 * If anyone thinks we have become tired, let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation.

 * We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. [If war comes] it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.
 * As quoted in the Washington Post (27 May 1967)

 * We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
 * Gamal Abdel Nasser, speech to Egypt's National Assembly, Cairo (November 6, 1969), as reported by The Washington Post (November 7, 1969), p. 1.

 * We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
 * As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (14 November 1969)

 * I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.
 * In a meeting with King Hussein, as quoted in the in Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History (2007), p. 172

Quotes about Nasser

 * Lyndon's gone and dragged Nasser away from the fireplace and onto the balcony again. Once you get him out there, it's a helluva job to get him back to the fireplace again.
 * An American official as quoted in
 * In June 1967, we again had a choice. The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him. This was a war of self-defence in the noblest sense of the term. The government of national unity then established decided unanimously: We will take the initiative and attack the enemy, drive him back, and thus assure the security of Israel and the future of the nation.
 * Menachem Begin, (21 August 1982)
 * Nasser's a thug. He needs to be taught a lesson.
 * Aneurin Bevin, Remark to Ian Mikardo after Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal (August 1956), quoted in Mervyn Jones, Michael Foot (1994), p. 214
 * Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.
 * Anthony Eden, Broadcast (8 August 1956), quoted in "Oil route 'a matter of life and death'", The Times (9 August 1956), p. 6

 * There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.
 * Anthony Eden, Letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1 October 1956), quoted in Scott Lucas, Britain and Suez (1996), p. 69
 * My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles. He was president of the bar association and was preaching civil liberties and human rights during some of the most repressive years of the Nasser era. He was the focus of a lot of pressure and intimidation, but he stood by his principles. And I think that's a lesson I remember from him — that you stand up for what you believe in.
 * Mohamed ElBaradei, "Breaking the Cycle," Cairo Times (23 October 2003)

 * By 1956, only four years after toppling the corrupt and ineffective King Farouk, Egypt’s second president and virtual dictator, the thirty-six-year-old Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, had become a major figure in international affairs. A champion of pan-Arabism, he aimed to build up Egypt and liberate the Middle East from the last vestiges of European colonialism. He had won Britain’s agreement to withdraw its eighty thousand troops from the Suez Canal Zone, played a starring role at the Bandung Conference, and defied the West with a spectacular arms deal with communist Czechoslovakia in 1955 and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China in 1956. By 1956 Nasser’s feats had aroused his opponents. Israeli leaders, worried over their neighbor’s acquisition of sophisticated Eastern-bloc weapons, the escalating border violence, and the hostile propaganda emanating from Cairo radio, contemplated a preemptive strike. They found a kindred spirit in France, where the Guy Mollet government was obsessed with Nasser’s support of the Algerian revolution. And Britain’s prime minister, Anthony Eden, furious over Nasser’s attempts to undermine British interests in Iraq and Jordan, viewed the Egyptian leader as an “Arab Mussolini” intent on using Soviet aid to dominate the Middle East and to threaten Western Europe’s oil supplies.
 * Carole C. Fink, The Cold War: An International History (2017)
 * When I met Nasser, he said to me, "I see myself when I was young in you. You are the future for the Arab revolution." This meant very, very much to me.
 * Muammar Gaddafi, as quoted in "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI) in The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986)
 * What Nasser showed, then—along with Tito, Nehru, and Zhou Enlai—was that being a Cold War superpower did not always ensure that one got one's way. There were limits to how much either Moscow or Washington could order smaller powers around, because they could always defect to the other side, or at least threaten to do so. The very compulsiveness with which the Soviet Union and the United States sought to bring such states within their orbits wound up giving those states the means of escape. Autonomy, in what might have seemed to be inhospitable circumstances, was becoming attainable. Tails were beginning to wag dogs.
 * John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (2006), p. 128
 * We cannot forget that Colonel Nasser has repeatedly boasted of his intention to create an Arab empire from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. The French Prime Minister, M. Mollet, the other day quoted a speech of Colonel Nasser's and rightly said that it could remind us only of one thing—of the speeches of Hitler before the war.
 * Hugh Gaitskell, Speech in the House of Commons (2 August 1956) after Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal
 * Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.
 * Eric Hoffer, "Israel's Peculiar Position" in The Los Angeles Times (26 May 1968)
 * In the 19th century you had two important events in Europe: the unification of Italy and the unification of Germany, and both of these had a tremendous impact in the Arab world. They saw in this, a model for what they should be able to do, and they tried for a long time to do it. Nasserism is probably the final phase of that movement and, as you know, it failed. Now all the Arab states are independent but no union of Arab states has ever worked. They always fall apart through internal dissension.
 * Bernard Lewis, "Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis." The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life (April 27, 2006), Washington, D.C.: Hay-Adams Hotel.
 * It is true, as I have already stated, that I have been influenced by Marxist thought. But this is also true of many of the leaders of the new independent States. Such widely different persons as Gandhi, Nehru, Nkrumah, and Nasser all acknowledge this fact. We all accept the need for some form of socialism to enable our people to catch up with the advanced countries of this world and to overcome their legacy of extreme poverty. But this does not mean we are Marxists.
 * Nelson Mandela, statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial, Pretoria Supreme Court, (20 April 1964)
 * One of history's ironies is that Kosovo, a Muslim territory, owes its survival to the assistance of the Americans, just as Nasser's pseudo-victory against France, England, and Israel was obtained through the intervention of the Americans and Russians.
 * Albert Memmi, Decolonization and the Decolonized (2006)
 * First it is a question of International Law. The UN was intended to have a means of enforcing the law. It has no such means. Egypt and Israel have been breaking the law for 9 years without correction. Secondly, the Nasser danger is much more serious than a local friction. The real danger is we should be faced by a coalition of Arab, Muslim and anti-Western states, led nominally by Egypt but really by Russia. ... Such a danger, the Prime Minister saw, must be stopped.
 * Gilbert Murray, Letter to the editor of Time and Tide during the Suez Crisis (10 November 1956), quoted in Duncan Wilson, Gilbert Murray OM (1987), p. 393

 * I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.
 * Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as quoted in The Shah and I (1991) by Asadollah Alam
 * It is small surprise that among tyrannical regimes and their defenders, America and Israel are so often identified as the same enemy. This is not merely a consequence of America's standing along behind Israel; the United States has aided various Arab countries very generously, and it has on some critical occasions backed Arab regimes, such as Nasser's Egypt in 1956 and Saudi Arabia in 1981, against Israel. The hostility is aroused largely because America and Israel represent democracy, equal rights for women, a higher quality of life, and a willingness to confront despotism. That is why the two non-Muslim countries that have suffered the heaviest losses from Islamic suicide murderers are Israel and the United States.
 * Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin. Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism, pp. 194-195. 2003.
 * My reading of Camus, and certainly of his later stories, starts with the fact that he, in the late 1950s, was very much opposed to independence for Algeria. He in fact compared the FLN to Abdel Nasser in Egypt, after Suez, after 1956.
 * Edward Said, in The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with David Barsamian (1994), pp.73-74
 * We did not think that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.
 * Yitzhak Rabin, As quoted in Le Monde (28 February 1968), when he was Chief of General Staff for Israel
 * The spirit of Bandung got its first test in the Middle East in the summer of 1956. At the head of a new radical military government, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser was frustrated by fruitless negotiations with the Americans over loans. He resented that Egypt, long under British domination, still was forced to accept substantial foreign influence. Nasser wanted the Suez Canal, bisecting his country, to revert from British and French to Egyptian control, not least so that Egypt could benefit more from the substantial income from the canal. The United States urged negotiations. When London and Paris both declined, Nasser seized control of the canal zone in a sudden military operation on 26 July 1956. The Egyptian code word for the immediate start of the operation, cleverly woven into a lengthy Nasser speech in Alexandria, was Lesseps—the name of the French engineer who had designed the canal in the 1860s. In his Suez speech, Nasser summed up the injustices imperialism had committed not only against Egypt, but against all Arabs. Arabs had been second-class citizens in their own countries; they had been divided, or evicted, like the Palestinians. But no longer. In a speech laden with references to Bandung and anticolonial solidarity, Nasser declared a new Arab unity, of which Egypt and Syria would form the initial parts, but which all Arab states could join.
 * Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A Global History (2017)

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