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Press

Quotes about the press.

Quotes

 * Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
 * Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (6 January 1816) ME 14:384.

 * They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived.
 * C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (1945)

 * An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.
 * Jon Meacham, quoted in Doro Bush, My Father, My President, p. 218.

 * My friend Reg Murphy, now publisher of the Baltimore Sun, has a sign behind his desk advising those who would take on the press that it is never wise to do battle with anyone who buys ink by the barrel.
 * Griffin B. Bell, Ronald J. Ostrow, Taking Care of The Law (1982), p. 205.

 * We must compel the governments of the to take action in the direction favoured by our widely-conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly prompted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power"—the Press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in our hands.
 * The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion (1934) published by Sergei Nilus

 * If any paper should print in gigantic type, "The cholera has come," I believe half its readers would be in collapse before tea time, when if the announcement was in brevier no effect could be found.
 * Abraham Oakey Hall, Welcoming speech to the New England Society, quoted in M. R. Werner, Tammany Hall, 1928, p. 213

 * Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation aimed at normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong.
 * Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, July 6, 2020

 * The press did not make us, the press cannot break us.
 * Attributed to Robert Sobukwe by Kwame Ture in Afterword

 * The Press today is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and readers as soldiers. But here, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and war-aims and operation-plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows, nor is allowed to know, the purposes for which he is used, nor even the role that he is to play. A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined. Formerly a man did not dare to think freely. Now he dares, but cannot; his will to think is only a willingness to think to order, and this is what he feels as his liberty.

 * The capitalist press simply records history, it never makes it; only the masses make history!
 * Kwame Ture, Afterword

 * The capitalist press supports reform movements which forestall Revolution; these reform movements come to depend on the press and even tailor their activities to fit headlines. The capitalist press wants to intoxicate the masses with this reform movement. Intoxicated reform “leaders” believe that political power grows out of the lens of press cameras, and the more lenses, the more power. Just political power comes only from the organized masses.
 * Kwame Ture, Afterword

Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)

 * Well, I am reading more and enjoying it less—[laughter]—and so on, but I have not complained nor do I plan to make any general complaints. I read and talk to myself about it, but I don't plan to issue any general statement on the press. I think that they are doing their task, as a critical branch, the fourth estate. And I am attempting to do mine. And we are going to live together for a period, and then go our separate ways. [Laughter].
 * John F. Kennedy, when asked to comment on the press in general, news conference, May 9, 1962. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962, p. 376 (1963).

 * To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
 * James Madison, "Report on the Resolutions", in Gaillard Hunt, ed., The Writings of James Madison vol. 6 (1906), p. 389. This report of the resolutions of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1799 was submitted by a committee headed by Madison and is widely known as the Virginia Report of 1799.

 * Government has an obligation not to inhibit the collection and dissemination of news…. I'm convinced that if reporters should ever lose the right to protect the confidentiality of their sources then serious investigative reporting will simply dry up. The kind of resourceful, probing journalism that first exposed most of the serious scandals, corruption and injustice in our nation's history would simply disappear…. And let me tell you, reading about one's failings in the daily papers is one of the privileges of high office in this free country of ours.
 * Nelson A. Rockefeller, governor of New York, speech to the Anti-Defamation League, Syracuse, New York, November 29, 1972, as reported by The New York Times, November 30, 1972, p. 1, 86.

 * Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I'm in the wrong pew. I don't mind it because when they throw bricks at me—I'm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw 'em back at 'em.
 * Harry S. Truman, speech at a dinner in his honor, Washington, D.C., February 22, 1958.—Text as recorded by The New York Times, February 23, 1958, p. 46.

 * In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
 * Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism", The Works of Oscar Wilde, ed. G. F. Maine, p. 1033 (1954).

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Pretension

Pretension is a claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.

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 * True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.
 * Cicero, as quoted in Great Catches; or, Grand Matches (1861) by Eleanor Frances Blakiston, p. 82

 * I cannot consent with the Radical party to obliterate a glorious past, nor can I consent with the Conservatives to prolong abuses into the present. I wish with all my heart to aid in securing all that is good for the masses, yet to give them all they wish and are striving for is to endanger much that is good beyond their comprehension. I cannot pretend to underestimate the good that the English monarchy and aristocracy, with all the liberal policy actuating it, does for the human race, and yet I cannot but fear the pretensions of democracy against it are strong, and in some respects properly strong. This antithesis and struggle, perhaps, after all, is no more than has always more or less existed, but is now becoming more marked. Compromise, perhaps, is the only resource. Those who rightly possess the power in virtue of their superior knowledge must yield up some, that they may carry with them the honest but uncertain wills of those less educated but more numerous and physically powerful.
 * William Stanley Jevons, Journal (November 1866) following criticism from "the Radicals" of his Oct. 12 lecture "On the Diffusion of a Knowledge of Political Economy." Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons (1886) pp. 230-231.

 * Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.
 * William James, in The Sentiment of Rationality (1882)

 * The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 199, as quoted in Great Truths by Great Authors (1856), p. 422

 * Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
 * Johann Kaspar Lavater, as quoted in Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims (1831), p. 234

 * The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
 * Johann Kaspar Lavater, as quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290

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Punctuality

Punctuality is the characteristic of being able to complete a required task or fulfill an obligation before or at a previously designated time.

Quotes

 * I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."
 * Nathaniel Emmons, quoted in: Tryon Edwards (1853) The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors. p. 230

 * I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or successful in life.
 * , cited in: The Massachusetts Teacher, Vol. 3-4, 1850. p. 181

 * It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
 * Jean de La Fontaine, quoted in: Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature, Christian Herald, 1915. p. 928

 * Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
 * Horace Mann, quoted in: Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Vol. 12, nr. 2, Feb. 1958. p. 48

 * I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
 * Lord Nelson, quoted in: The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 30, 1848. p. 577

 * The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
 * Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time, 1977, p. 181

 * Punctuality is the thief of time.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Rebuke

Quotes about rebuke:

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 * In all reprehensions, observe to express rather thy love than thy anger; and strive rather to convince than exasperate: but if the matter do require any special indignation, let it appear to be the zeal of a displeased friend, rather than the passion of a provoked enemy.
 * Thomas Fuller, English author and divine (1608 - 1661)

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Bing Xin

Bing Xin (Chinese: 冰心) (October 5, 1900 – February 28, 1999) was one of the most prolific writers of 20th-century Chinese literature. She is known for her philosophy of love and optimism.

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 * 假如生命是无趣的,我怕有来生,假如生命是有趣的,今生已是满足的了
 * If life is boring, I fear that there is a next life. If life is fun, the current life is already satisfactory.
 * Bygone 往事 (1922)

 * Forget whatever should be forgotten, so that you can remember what should be remembered.
 * China Daily (English Edition), obituary (1999)

 * I am weak and therefore I am strong.
 * As quoted in Haiping Yan's Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905–1948 (New York: Routledge, 2006), p. 8

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The quotes are currently unsourced, but I do know that these are indeed Bingxin's quotes. If anyone can provide the sources, it would be really helpful. Thanks. --Cantaire87 19:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

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 * 有了爱就有了一切
 * Literal English: There is love, there is everything.
 * Meaning: Love makes everything possible.
 * Life motto and the title of one of her books

 * 生命从八十岁开始
 * English: Life begins at eighty.

 * 世界上若没有女人,这世界至少要失去十分之五的真、十分之六的善、十分之七的美
 * English: If there are no women in the world, this world will lose at least five-tenth of Truth, six-tenth of Benevolence, and seven-tenth of Beauty.

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This category is for a government official that appoints a Cabinet. Monarchs and other lifetime rulers with an advisory committee such a privy council, Expediency Council and the like should be excluded from this category.

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Mark Wahlberg

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and television producer, formerly known as rapper Marky Mark. He has also been a fashion model.

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 * A lot of celebrities...shouldn't [talk politics]... They're pretty out of touch with the common person, the everyday guy out there providing for their family.
 * "Mark Wahlberg: 'Hollywood is living in a bubble' and stars shouldn't talk politics", FoxNews.com (1 December 2016)

Chris Heath, The making of Mark, The Observer, Sunday 27 February 2000

 * I just fell into the acting thing as kind of an accident.

 * I've been on my own for a number of years now, but I've also found myself very alone. My family looks at me differently now, and that's the hardest thing to deal with, because you want to go home and be the person that you used to be. Obviously, I'm 28 years old and I can't go home and just be my mum's little baby.

 * It's all going to go sometime. You can't take it with you. I'm not saying you should wake up every day with sunshine streaming out of your head. If I could get one day a month, I would be very grateful. But I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. I'm just figuring certain things out. It's taken me a while, and some things I could probably do without knowing.

 * It's weird; I've been to prison, I've seen the worst sort of violence and negative shit in the streets, but when it comes to putting my heart on the line and letting somebody get to know me in a relationship, it's very difficult.

Quotes about Mark Wahlberg

 * It's easy to work with Mark. He doesn't complain, he shows up, does his job and he's easygoing. But the main reason I keep wanting him to get hired is he has some pictures of me with a farm animal! [Clooney's pet potbellied pig Max] I've had him for almost 14 years — my longest relationship to date.
 * George Clooney, Interview with E!Online; as quoted in Weekly World News (September 26, 2000), p. 12

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Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (1 August 1924 – 23 January 2015) was the king of Saudi Arabia, having succeeded his brother Fahd bin Abdul Aziz on 1 August 2005.

Quotes

 * The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not a slave of colonial forces like you and others. … Do not indulge yourself in things you have no business with! The lie is before you and the grave is in front of you!
 * In reply to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at the Arab League Summit in Egypt, 2 March 2003 when Abdullah was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

 * Allah says [in the Koran ] : "If they repent before you overcome them, you should know that Allah is forgiving and merciful." ... we are opening the door of forgiveness[...] and acceptance of Islamic law, to all who have strayed and committed a crime in the name of religion...Everyone who belongs to this group that has wronged itself who has not yet been apprehended in terrorist operations – we offer them a chance to return to Allah...Anyone who accepts this and surrenders of his own free will...will be treated according to the law of Allah.
 * Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah Bin Abd Al-Aziz Gives Saudi Terrorists One Last Chance June 2004.

 * Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.
 * Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit 5 December 2005.

 * In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.
 * Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal 29 March 2007.

 * We should not let the enemies interfere in the Islamic countries relations including Iran and Saudi Arabia.

 * We state with a unified voice that religions through which Almighty God sought to bring happiness to mankind should not be turned into instruments to cause misery,
 * Saudi king promotes tolerance at U.N. forum November 2008.

 * Cut off the head of the snake
 * Remarks on Iran 10 December 2010.

 * When the Head is Rotten, It Affects the Whole Body
 * Remarks about Asif Ali Zardari 29 November 2010.

About Abdullah

 * The crown prince is a modest, gentle, almost shy man. He speaks softly, doesn't drink alcohol, and prays five times a day. In eight years, I never saw him without his traditional robes.
 * George W. Bush, Decision Points (2010), p. 402

 * I talked about my belief in Christianity and the role religion played in my life. I hoped he would reciprocate by talking about his faith. He wasn't in a sharing mood. In a last-gasp effort, I said, "Before you leave, may I show you my ranch?" He nodded. A few minutes later, the crown prince, flowing robes and all, was climbing into a Ford F-250 pickup. Then he, Gamal, and I took off for a tour of the property. I pointed out the different kinds of hardwood trees, the native prairie grasses that Laura had planted, and the grazing cattle. The crown prince sat silently. I wasn't making much headway. Then we reached a remote part of the property. A lone hen turkey was standing in the road. I stopped the truck. The bird stayed put. "What is that?" the crown prince asked. I told him it was a turkey. "Benjamin Franklin loved the turkey so much he wanted it to be America's national bird," I said. Suddenly I felt the crown prince's hand grab my arm. "My brother," he said, "it is a sign from Allah. This is a good omen." I've never understood the significance of the bird, but I felt the tension between us begin to melt. When we got back to the house, our aides were surprised to say we were ready for lunch. The next day, I got a call from Mother and Dad. The crown prince had stopped in Houston to visit them. Mother said he had tears in his eyes as he recounted his time in Crawford and talked about what we could achieve together. For the rest of my presidency, my relationship with the crown prince- soon to be king- was extremely close. I had never seen a hen turkey on that part of the property before, and I haven't seen one since.
 * George W. Bush, Decision Points (2010), p. 402-403

 * For six years you have been running away, fearing confrontation. Let me assure you that you shouldn’t be afraid. After six years, it has become clear that the lie is behind you and the grave stands before you. You were created by Britain, and you are protected by America.
 * Muammar Gaddafi at the Doha Summit (30 March 2009), referring to the Sykes-Picot agreement.
 * With the killing of Hariri, Iran had unofficially declared war on Saudi Arabia, just as the kingdom itself was feeling fragile, grappling with the wave of al-Qaeda bombings. In August 2005, King Fahd died and Crown Prince Abdallah, de facto ruler for a decade, became king. Despite the proxy war unfolding in Iraq and the killing of his protégé in Lebanon, King Abdallah tried to uphold the détente with Iran. He even hosted Ahmadinejad in Saudi Arabia a few times. But Iran was getting increasingly bolder in Iraq: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was funding and arming militias, evading US sanctions by siphoning off Iraqi oil, and planting their friends in key positions in ministries. King Abdallah then felt deeply betrayed when it was revealed that Iran had a secret nuclear program, one it had developed during the period of détente with Saudi Arabia. In 2008, after a political tussle in Lebanon about Hezbollah’s growing power, there was a showdown in the heart of Beirut between Hezbollah and Sunni militiamen. Everyone still had guns in Lebanon, but no one had a trained fighting force like Hezbollah. Within hours, hundreds of its fighters took over large parts of the city and routed their opponents. The political balance of the country had been tilted in favor of Iran and Syria. King Abdallah would soon begin to rail against Iran and call on the United States “to cut off the head of the snake.”
 * Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (2020)

 * [Religious leader Abdullah] Hashem and his followers referred to an old prophecy that they applied to the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. This prophecy, which circulated widely amongst the Shiites, indicated that the Imam al-Mahdi should appear after the death of a King of Hejaz (i.e., Saudi Arabia) called Abdullah, identified by certain signs. According to Shia sources, Prophet Muhammad prophesied that “Hejaz will be ruled by a man whose name is the name of an animal, if you see him from far, you will think he is cross-eyed, and if you come close to him, you do not see anything (wrong) in his eyes. He will be succeeded by a brother of his, named Abdullah… Whoever guarantees for me the death of Abdullah, I guarantee for him the Riser/Qaim.” The AROPL notes that King Fahd of Saudi Arabia had the name of an animal (Fahd meaning “leopard”) and had the eye problem described in the prophecy. He died in 2005 and was succeeded by his brother Abdullah, who died in turn on January 23, 2015. Abdullah Hashem advanced his claims immediately after this event.
 * Massimo Introvigne and Karolina Maria Kotkowska, "The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. 2. From Ahmed al-Hassan to Abdullah Hashem", Bitter Winter (April 5, 2024)

 * The case of Saudi Arabia highlights the difficulties that democracies face in trying to support freedom, human rights, and democracy. King Abdullah heads a royal family that completely controls Saudi society. Thanks to the fact that they own the world's largest reserves of oil, they are virtually immune from international criticism and they do not bother to hold even fake national elections. By law, all Saudi citizens must be Muslims. It is illegal for Saudis to follow a different religion. A Saudi woman cannot appear in public with a man who is not a relative. Women are required to completely cover their bodies in public and they must wear veils. Some Saudi women have expressed satisfaction with the restrictions in the country. However, the strict suppression of women is not voluntary, and Saudi women who would like to live a freer life are not allowed to do so. King Abdullah and his relatives follow an intolerant version of Islam known in the West as Wahhabism. Since 1975, the Saudi royal family has spent more than $70 billion financing mosques and Islamic centers worldwide, including more than $300 million in the United States, where most Muslims studying in Arabic use Saudi textbooks, some of which are virulently anti-Christian and anti-Jewish. If Saudi Arabia did not control so much oil, King Abdullah and the Saudi royal family would be treated just as much as pariahs as are Than Shwe and the Burmese generals.
 * David Wallechinsky, Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators (2006), p. 4

Video clips

 * Abdallah Bin Abd Al-Aziz Gives Saudi Terrorists One Last Chance (June 2004)
 * Cheney meets Saudi king

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Theatre

Theatre (Greek "theatron"), enjoys the distinction of two spellings: in British English, "theatre" and in American English, "theater". There is no technical distinction between the meanings of the two spellings, however most theatre artists prefer the English spelling because it creates a historical nod to the ancient Greek term theatron. Some also use the American spelling to designate a theatre building and the English term to reference the art itself, as in the "art of theatre." Theatre is that branch of the performing arts concerned with the creation of stories or narratives for (or with) an audience using combinations of acting, speech, gesture, music, dance, object manipulation, sound and spectacle — indeed, any one or more elements of the other performing arts. In addition to standard narrative dialogue style, theatre takes such forms as opera, musicals, ballet, mime, kabuki, classical Indian dance, Chinese opera, mummers' plays, and pantomime.

Quotes

 * A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
 * Edward Albee, reported in James Beasley Simpson (1998). Simpson's contemporary quotations: The Most Notable Quotes Since 1950. Houghton Mifflin, p. 398. ISBN 0395430852.

 * If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.
 * Tallulah Bankhead, reported in Evan Esar (April 1995). 20,000 quips & quotes. Barnes & Noble Publishing, p. 806. ISBN 1566195292.

 * [F]rom the late 1580s the Elizabethan theater was full of Turks, Moors, Persians, and Saracens. Between 1579 and 1624, at least 62 plays emerged with Islamic characters, themes or settings. Many of these appear in some of the most influential plays of the period: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, which includes burning the Koran onstage; Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, with its evil, scheming Moor, Aaron; the noble, melancholic Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice; and of course, Othello. The enduring ambivalence audiences still feel toward the tortured Moor of Venice is a sign of the deliberate ambiguity that Shakespeare and other dramatists exploited in the portrayal of such characters.
 * Jerry Brotton, “The First Brexit Was Theological”, The Atlantic, (Sep 13, 2017).

 * Any beings who are not devoid of passion to begin with, who are bound by the bond of passion, focus with even more passion on things inspiring passion presented by an actor on stage in the midst of a festival. Any beings who are not devoid of aversion to begin with, who are bound by the bond of aversion, focus with even more aversion on things inspiring aversion presented by an actor on stage in the midst of a festival. Any beings who are not devoid of delusion to begin with, who are bound by the bond of delusion, focus with even more delusion on things inspiring delusion presented by an actor on stage in the midst of a festival. Thus the actor — himself intoxicated & heedless, having made others intoxicated & heedless — with the breakup of the body, after death, is reborn in what is called the hell of laughter.
 * Gautama Buddha, Samyutta Nikaya 42.2

 * If you have a message, call western union.
 * The earliest known print attribution is to Moss Hart in Van Wert (Ohio) Times Bulletin (26 August 1954) as cited in Fred Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006). Widely attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, but denied by his biographer, A. Scott Berg, in Goldwyn: A Biography (1998).

 * Hence turn your looks to the abominations, not less to be deplored, of another kind of spectacle. In the theatres also you will behold what may well cause you grief and shame. It is the tragic buskin which relates in verse the crimes of ancient days. The old horrors of parricide and incest are unfolded in action calculated to express the image of the truth, so that, as the ages pass by, any crime that was formerly committed may not be forgotten. Each generation is reminded by what it hears, that whatever has once been done may be done again. Crimes never die out by the lapse of ages; wickedness is never abolished by process of time; impiety is never buried in oblivion. Things which have now ceased to be actual deeds of vice become examples.
 * Saint Cyprian of Carthage, Epistle 1 to Donatus, Section 8, translated by Robert Ernest Wallis, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5.

 * I feel that peace has hardly been imagined. It is rarely dramatized in the theater, in the movies, even in books.
 * 1993 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston edited by Paul Skenazy and Tera Martin (1998)

 * we have to invent new images and ways of power. So far the world thinks of power as violence, that power comes from a gun. We must create a new kind of drama in which there is drama, but it's nonviolent. And this has barely been thought of.
 * 1990 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston edited by Paul Skenazy and Tera Martin (1998)

 * I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.
 * Madeline Kahn, interview with Charlie Rose, (December 16, 1996) "Charlie Rose - An interview with Madeline Kahn", Charlie Rose, PBS

 * We’re all misfits, I guess, in the theater. Otherwise we wouldn’t be here. We’d be out building things, selling things, making money, writing letters to the editor, and paying our taxes with the long form. And on that long form all the numbers in all the columns would add up right.
 * Michael Kandel, Ogre, in Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (eds.) Black Thorn, White Rose (1994), ISBN 0-380-77129-2, p. 110

 * Say what you like, there is something wonderful about live theater—about any kind of live theater. Professional or amateur, city or boondocks, it makes no difference. The theater turns us into better people, at least for a moment, each time the curtain rises and the houselights dim.
 * Michael Kandel, Ogre, in Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (eds.) Black Thorn, White Rose (1994), ISBN 0-380-77129-2, pp. 116-117

 * I love the power of theater. I think it’s an experience you never forget. It’s more powerful than film or television. I know the plays I saw with Al Pacino, American Buffalo, and True West with John Malkovich, I feel like I lived those moments. It becomes a part of your memory and your life in a way that film and TV has a little bit of distance. Also, theater allows you to be much more political; it allows you to be much more who you are. Where did Hamilton happen? It didn’t happen in movies and television, because it couldn’t. “So we’re going to do a historic piece on Hamilton and everyone is going to be black and Latin playing our forefathers.” They would say: “But wait, they didn’t speak hip-hop in the 1700s?” It would’ve never happened! But where did it happen? On Broadway, in the theater.
 * John Leguizamo, "John Leguizamo Is Here to Explain Latino History for You", by Patricia Garcia, Vogue, (April 6, 2017)

 * Hostility to the theatre is as old as the theatre itself. Plato banished the theatre from his ideal republic. Church fathers from Tertullian to Augustine denounced it. Our colonial ancestors did their best to keep it out of America, and when it arrived, they greeted it with the kind of demonstration they usually reserved for British tax collectors. The Stamp Act riots of 1765 in New York were followed in 1766 by a riot against the attempt of a company of traveling players to open a theatre. In 1783 a rock-flinging crowd stormed into the pit of a newly opened theatre in Philadelphia. During the century that followed, as the theatre gradually won a grudging acceptance in the United States, pulpit and press continued to resound with denunciation, not simply of the kind of plays produced or of the acting, but of the very existence of theatres. Although these diatribes have been the constant accompaniment of theatrical performances-at least until the present century-most of us associate them with Puritanism. And not without reason. The longest most bitter, and most effective attacks on the theatre came from English Puritans, or at least from Englishmen living in the age of Puritanism. Beginning with a burst of books and pamphlets about 1579, the literature of denunciation reached its culmination in William Prynne's Histrio-mastrix in 1633. Prynne's work, a learned encyclopedia of invective, totaling more than a thousand pages, was culled from two thousand years of writings against the theatre, seasoned by Prynne's own tedious, repetitious, but often forceful arguments. Prynne lost his ears for his labors, because the king thought the book reflected on the royal taste for theatrical amusements; but Prynne has his way in 1642, when the Long Parliament closed the English theatres. As long as Puritans ran the government, the theatres stayed closed and arguments over them subsided. Playwrights preferred writing plays to defending them, and throughout history, the champions of the theatre have been notably less articulate than its enemies. When the king was restored in 1660, so was the theatre, and the attacks on it resumed, but somehow with less zest. The fin-de-siecle Histrio-mastix was written by Jeremy Collier, a pallid, polite, almost effete opponent, who strove unsuccessfully to match the wit and style of the plays he attacked. The assault never again gathered the force it had developed under the Puritans. The theatre thus met with the most intense hostility in England during the immediately after the age of the great English dramatists: the age of Marlowe, Johnson, and Shakespeare. Is this a coincidence?
 * Edmund S. Morgan, “Puritan Hostility to the Theatre “,Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 110, No. 5 (Oct. 27, 1966), pp. 340-347

 * Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
 * Ralph Richardson, reported in Ashton Applewhite; Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham (2003). And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker. Macmillan, p. 283. ISBN 0312307446.

 * The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
 * Will Rogers, reported in Evan Esar (April 1995). 20,000 quips & quotes. Barnes & Noble Publishing, p. 807. ISBN 1566195292.

 * All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players / They have their exits and their entrances / And one man in his time plays many parts ...
 * William Shakespeare, "All the world's a stage", As You Like It, Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)

 * A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
 * August Strindberg, reported in Colin Jarman (1993). The Book of Poisonous Quotes. McGraw-Hill Professional, p. 103. ISBN 0809236818.

 * We [Christians] renounce all your spectacles, as strongly as we renounce the matters originating them, which we know were conceived of superstition, when we give up the very things which are the basis of their representations. Among us nothing is ever said, or seen, or heard, which has anything in common with the madness of the circus, the immodesty of the theatre, the atrocities of the arena, the useless exercises of the wrestling-ground.
 * Tertullian, Apologeticus pro Christianis, Chapter 38

 * Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
 * Spencer Tracy, reported in Ashton Applewhite; Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham (2003). And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker. Macmillan, p. 283. ISBN 0312307446.

 * By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
 * Peter Ustinov, Christian Science Monitor, (1962) - reported in Colin Jarman (1993). The Book of Poisonous Quotes. McGraw-Hill Professional, p. 104. ISBN 0809236818.

 * MARIA: Long live theater...What’s theater? BERISH: When you do something without doing it, when you say something without saying it, while thinking that you did say, and you did do something—anything—that’s theater.
 * Elie Wiesel, The Trial of God (1979), Act I

 * The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
 * Quoted in "Tennessee Williams" in Profiles (1990) by Kenneth Tynan (first published as a magazine article in February 1956)

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What a shock old Fred will have when he reaches his beloved Pearly Gates and God says to him, "No, no, NO - you've got it all wrong. Join your friends Saddam and Adolf in the Place Below - for ever. Goodbye".

=no heart at all i wish i could slaphim have you seen his slogans? it is as if he hates everyone but himself. has he no compassion? people died because of hurricane Katrina, but all Phelps wanted to do was laugh and mock those who were victims of it. perhaps someday, he will know the sorrow of those who lost their lives due to war and national disasters.

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I am including Youtube links as references (just to prove that Fred Phelps did say what we claim he said). However, since Youtube is not the best reference (since anyone can create spoofs and Youtube poops), if we can find links to the official videos, then that will be great. Micasta 01:54, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * interview with Rick Sanchez of CNN (official: Federal Jury Awards Nearly $11 Million Over Funeral Protests; Oklahoma Set to Crack Down on Illegal Immigration; Noose Outrage. Presenter: Rick Sanchez. CNN Live Event/Special. October 31, 2007 - 20:00 ET.)
 * sermon on the Virginia Tech massacre (official: "Virginia Tech Massacre: God's Wrath." WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church. April 23, 2007.)
 * The Chaser's War on Everything feature on Fred Phelps
 * on September 11 attacks: "Sermon_20010914.mp3". WBC Download Center. Westboro Baptist Church. September 14, 2001.
 * sermon about the Australian bushfires (official: "God Hates Australia." WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church. February 12, 2009.)
 * sermon about Canada (official: "God Hates Canada." WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church. July 31, 2008.)
 * sermon on George Carlin (official: "George Carlin in Hell." WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church. June 24, 2008.)
 * Most Hated Family in America (excerpt) (official: O'Connor, Geoffrey (Director) and Theroux, Louis (Writer). (April 1, 2007). The Most Hated Family in America.)
 * sermon on Bill O'Reilly (official: "Bill O'Reilly: Satan's SpinDoctor." WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church. July 27, 2006.)
 * sermon on Barack Obama's proclamation of June 2009 as LGBT pride month (official: "Fag Lover Obama." WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church. June 4, 2009.)
 * sermon on the 5th anniversary of 9/11 (official: "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed." WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church. September 8, 2006.)

Help needed: Positive quotes regarding Fred Phelps
I can only find negative quotes regarding Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. If anyone can find positive quotes about him, then please add. (Would be a challenge, since everyone hates the old cracker.) Micasta 02:54, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Archive of Signs
I am archiving the section "Signs Carried by the Westboro Baptist Church" here. These signs reflect the sentiments of the WBC as a whole, and are not necessarily quotes by Fred Phelps. Unless Fred Phelps himself said these, then we cannot place these in the Fred Phelps quote page. Furthermore, not all of these signs have been verified with official references (e.g. news articles). Micasta 01:07, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Signs Carried by the Westboro Baptist Church
Other slogans are
 * God Hates Ireland
 * God Hates You
 * God Hates Your Idols
 * God Hates Your Tears
 * God Hates Fag Enablers
 * God Hates America
 * God is America's Terror
 * God Hates Divorce
 * God Is Your Enemy
 * God : USA's Terrorist
 * God Sent the Shooter
 * Thank God for 9/11
 * 9/11 Gift from God
 * Thank God for $10.9M
 * Thank God for the Tsunami
 * Thank God for Katrina
 * Thank God for Dead Soldiers
 * Thank God for IEDs (improvised explosive devices)
 * Thank God for AIDS
 * Fag Santa (carried at Christmas time)
 * Fag Flag (with an inverted American flag)
 * Fag Soldier in Hell
 * Fags Doom Nations (Image)
 * Fags Are Worthy of Death (Image)
 * Dyke sin
 * Fags Eat Feces = Scat
 * Fag Troops
 * Menninger Therapy (complete with two stick figures mounting)
 * Repent or Perish
 * Dyke nuns and Fag Priests (carried outside Catholic churches)
 * Dyke Sows Wed Here (complete with pictures of pigs in wedding dresses covered with feces; carried at lesbian weddings)
 * Brides of Satan (referring to lesbian weddings)
 * Don't Worship the Dead
 * Disney Fags (used during Disney on Ice at the Expo Center.)
 * No tears for queers
 * fag = anal sex = death
 * AIDS is God's Gift
 * Fags die, God laughs
 * Matt Shepard rots in hell
 * Fag Pimp
 * Dyke Liberty
 * You Will Eat Your children
 * Fags eat poop
 * Fags rot in hell
 * Fag Gospel (complete with a picture of Billy Graham with a pink triangle on his forehead and two stick figures mounting)
 * Your Pastor Is A Whore
 * Pope in Hell
 * Fear God
 * Prepare to meet thy God
 * Heath in Hell
 * Semper Fi Semper Fags
 * No Special Laws for Fags
 * Pray For More Dead Soldiers
 * Pray For More Dead Kids
 * Don't Pray for the U.S.A.
 * Priests Rape Boys
 * Catholic Priests Are Liars
 * The Godfather of Pedophiles
 * The World is Doomed
 * Molester Mafia Boss
 * Pedophile Rape Pimp
 * Pervert Pope
 * God Hates Obama
 * The Beast Obama
 * God Hates Islam
 * God Hates Muslims
 * Muhammad = Lying False Prophet
 * Muhammad is a Pedophile
 * Imams Rape Children
 * Muslims Die, God Laughs
 * USA = Fag Nation
 * USA's Doom
 * U H8 Jesus
 * You Hate God
 * God H8S False Prophets
 * God Hates the U.S.A.
 * The Jews Killed Jesus
 * Some Jews Will Repent
 * God Hates Jews
 * Jews Stole the Land
 * God Hates Israel
 * Israel is Doomed
 * Your Rabbi is a Whore
 * Rabbis Rape Kids
 * Your Doom is Coming
 * ADL Jew Bullies
 * Destruction is Imminent
 * 'Christians' Caused Fag Marriage
 * God Killed your Kids
 * God's View
 * God Damned
 * Ye are of their father the Devil

Concerning Snyder v. Westboro Baptist Church

 * “The United States of America put the Westboro Baptist Church on trial for our deeply held religious beliefs – a thing that has never before, in the history of this nation, been done. [They] put us on trial for what we truly, deeply believe. They don’t like it. They said in effect that if our preaching offended anybody, they could sue us – and get $10 million: ‘I don’t like that preaching. Sue!’
 * “Mind you, in the New York Times v. Sullivan case, [the courts] said that in political debate, speech can be robust, wide open, and uninhibited – for political debate! How much more so for...old time gospel hellfire and damnation preaching? – Sermon, November 4, 2007

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Clean-up
I'll help to clean this up, yet I don't have alot of experience. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. YazzaMatazza 12:59, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Has anyone considered arranging the quotes by world instead of character?

General Discussion
Just normal disscusion of the game. Please try to refrain from swearing thanks, lixard

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A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.

Quotes

 * In international affairs there was nothing wrong with Hitler except that he was a German.

 * A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
 * The Origins of the Second World War ([1961] 1962), Ch. 7, p. 134

 * The First World War had begun — imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
 * The First World War ([1963] 1970) p. 20

 * In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
 * The First World War ([1963] 1970) p. 165

 * Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
 * Referring to Napoleon III, in "Mistaken Lessons from the Past", The Listener (6 June 1963)

 * In the second World war the British people came of age. This was a people's war. Not only were their needs considered. They themselves wanted to win. Future historians may see the war as a last struggle for the European balance of power or for the maintenance of Empire. This was not how it appeared to those who lived through it. The British people had set out to destroy Hitler and National Socialism—"Victory at all costs". They succeeded. No English soldier who rode with the tanks into liberated Belgium or saw the German murder camps at Dachau or Buchenwald could doubt that the war had been a noble crusade. The British were the only people who went through both world wars from beginning to end. Yet they remained a peaceful and civilized people, tolerant, patient, and generous. Traditional values lost much of their force. Other values took their place. Imperial greatness was on the way out; the welfare state was on the way in. The British empire declined; the condition of the people improved. Few now sang "Land of Hope and Glory". Few even sang "England Arise". England had risen all the same.
 * English History 1914–1945 (1965), p. 600

 * History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
 * English History 1914 – 1945 ([1965] 1975), "Revised Bibliography", p. 729

 * Taylor's Law states: "The Foreign Office knows no secrets."
 * English History 1914 – 1945 ([1965] 1975), "Revised Bibliography", p. 730

 * The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
 * An Old Man's Diary ([1981] 1984) p. 39

 * I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?"
 * A Personal History ([1983] 1984) p. 301

 * Why should knowledge of where I came from tell me where I am going to?
 * 'Moving with the Times', The Observer, 22 October 1961

The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939 (1957)
Comprises the text of the Ford Lectures on English History (1956); quotations are cited from the 1985 edition, ISBN 0140225757

 * Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
 * "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14

 * Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
 * "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14

 * In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
 * "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 23.

 * The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
 * "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 24.

 * The worker is by nature less imaginative, more level-headed than the capitalist. This is what prevents his becoming one. He is content with small gains. Trade Union officials think about the petty cash; the employer speculates in millions. You can see the difference in their representative institutions. There is no scheme too wild, no rumour too absurd, to be without repercussions on the Stock Exchange. The public house is the home of common sense.
 * "Dissenting Rivals: Urquhart and Cobden", p. 55

 * American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
 * "The Great War: The Triumph of E. D. Morel", p. 157

Quotes about A. J. P. Taylor

 * The fine line, it seems to me, goes thus: there has to be a plausibility in your story. A history book—assuming its facts are correct—stands or falls by the conviction with which it tells its story. If it rings true, to an intelligent, informed reader, then it is a good history book. If it rings false, then it’s not good history, even if it’s well written by a great historian on the basis of sound scholarship. The best-known example of the latter was A. J. P. Taylor’s Origins of the Second World War. It is a beautifully written tract, the work of a consummate diplomatic historian: an expert in the relevant documents, a competent linguist and highly intelligent. At first sight, all of the constituent parts of a good history book were present. So what was missing? The answer is hard to pin down. Perhaps the issue is one of taste. To claim—as Taylor did—that Hitler was not responsible for World War II is absurdly counterintuitive. However subtly expressed, the argument is so implausible as to be poor history.
 * Tony Judt, in Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century (2012), Chap. 7 : Unities and Fragments: European Historian

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Legend of Zelda: Master Quest

 * 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. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:14, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Legend of Zelda: Master Quest
A computer game page, set up in June 2006 in the form of an introduction without any accompanying quotes. Since then no quotes have been added, so it remains an essentially empty page. Antiquary 18:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed: Result: Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:14, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 22:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. The Legend of Zelda pages have some history here that suggest few people are interested in making them into good articles. Jaxl (aka "Robert") tried to do something with them back in August 2006, but apparently was ignored by the regular editors of these articles. I briefly discussed this with him as well, but I'm afraid I wasn't any help. We tagged one of the VfD'd articles, Legend of Zelda: Other: Games (Unidentified), for merger with The Legend of Zelda series, but it has yet to be executed. Frankly, given our inability thus far to come up with a useful means of citing "sourced" quotes from electronic games, I think they're all ripe for deletion. Maybe we could get some action on mergers and weeding out inanity and unoriginality this way. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:58, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom and Jeffq. ~ UDScott 12:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above.--Jusjih 16:47, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even without broaching the larger issue of Zelda pages in general, the fact that this one contains no quotes means it can stand on its own as worthy of deletion. —LrdChaos (talk) 18:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete We don't need empty pages!--Poetlister 14:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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