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Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. During the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration.

Quotes

 * If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?
 * "Petrified Man", 1941

On Writing (2002)

 * The story and its analyses are not mirror-opposites of each other. They are not reflections, either one. Criticism indeed is an art, as a story is, but only the story is to some degree a vision; there is no explanation outside fiction for what the writer is learning to do.
 * I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
 * Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?
 * The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
 * The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
 * Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.
 * Every writer, like everybody else, thinks he's living through the crisis of the ages. To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
 * Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.
 * Human life is fiction's only theme.

One Writer's Beginnings(1984)
One Writer's Beginnings, by Eudora Welty
 * Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.
 * All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.
 * It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

The Optimist's Daughter(1972)
The Optimist's Daughter'', by Eudora Welty
 * Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

Quotes about Eudora Welty

 * I was very influenced by American, Southern, short-story writers. Eudora Welty was a great influence on me. Years later, when I met Eudora, visited her in Jackson, there were such parallels between the way she was living, even then, and my life: a black man was mowing the lawn! There was a kind of understanding. Of course, this really had nothing to do with the fact that I thought she was a superb short-story writer.
 * 1979 and 1980 interview in Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990)

 * Nadine Gordimer writes about black people with such astounding sensibilities and sensitivity-not patronizing, not romantic, just real. And Eudora Welty does the same thing. Lillian Hellman has done it. Now, we might categorize these women as geniuses of a certain sort, but if they can write about it, it means that it is possible. They didn't say, "Oh, my God, I can't write about black people"; it didn't stop them. There are white people who do respond that way though, assuming there's some huge barrier. But if you can relate to Beowolf and Jesus Christ when you read about them, it shouldn't be so difficult to relate to black literature.
 * 1980 interview in Conversations with Toni Morrison edited by Danille K. Taylor-Guthrie (1994)

 * There are lots of women writers in the South, like Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, who wrap you up in a story. They come from a tradition of storytellers which is amazingly similar to the Puerto Rican cuento. "Te voy a echar un cuento," eso era eso era lo que Mamá decía.
 * Judith Ortiz Cofer Puerto Rican Voices in English: Interviews with Writers Carmen Dolores Hernandez	 1997

 * Building community is both a legacy and a responsibility. As a storyteller, listener, recorder, and amateur theorist, I am reminded of a passage in Eudora Welty's Becoming a Writer: "Each of us is moving, changing, and with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge."
 * Vicki L. Ruiz From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America (1998)

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John Dee

John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a British mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.

Quotes

 * Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One, Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone, Wherewith then Cutte the poudred Sonne in twayne, By length of tyme, and heale the woonde againe. The self same Sunne twys yet more, ye must wounde, Still with new Knives, of the same kinde, and grounde; Our Monas trewe thus use by natures Law, Both binde and lewse, only with rype and rawe, And ay thanke God who only is our Guyde, All is ynugh, no more then at this Tyde.
 * Testamentum Johannis Dee Philosophi Summi ad Johannem Gwynn (1568)

Monas Hieroglyphica (1564)

 * It is by the straight line and the circle that the first and most simple example and representation of all things may be demonstrated, whether such things be either non-existent or merely hidden under Nature's veils.
 * Theorem I

 * Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point.
 * Theorem II

 * Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth, round which the Sun, the Moon, and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity, and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre.
 * Theorem III

 * Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we know that the Sun is ruler and King. We see that the Moon in her shape and her proximity rivals the Sun with her grandeur, which is apparent to ordinary men, yet the face, or a semi-sphere of the Moon, always reflects the light of the Sun.
 * Theorem IV

 * We finish the brief hieroglyphic consideration of our Monad, which we would sum up in one only hieroglyphic context: The Sun and the Moon of this Monad desire that the Elements in which the tenth proportion will flower, shall be separated, and this is done by the application of Fire.
 * Theorem X

The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570)

 * Dee's Preface to 's English translation Euclid's Elements, source

 * There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences. Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical, unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry.

 * O comfortable allurement, O ravishing persuasion to deal with a science whose subject is so ancient, so pure, so excellent, so surrounding all creatures, so used of the almighty and incomprehensible wisdom of the Creator, in distinct creation of all creatures: in all their distinct parts, properties, natures, and virtues, by order, and most absolute number, brought from nothing to the formality of their being and state.

 * A mervaylous newtrality have these thinges Mathematicall, and also a straunge participatió betwene thynges supernaturall, immortall, intellectual, simple and indivisible: and thynges naturall, mortall, sensible, compounded and divisible.

Quotes about Dee

 * [T]he idea of a maritime empire did not immediately seize the imagination of the English people, nor did it arise spontaneously. It had to be propagated. John Dee, who invented the phrase "British Impire", was the most diligent and influential of the first generation of imperialists. He it was who sketched out the English claim to an empire of the North Atlantic, embracing the Arctic to the east and the west, the northern islands, including mythical Frisland, conquered allegedly by King Arthur and King Malgo, and Atlantis (the continent of North America), first discovered by the Welsh prince Owen Madoc in the twelfth century. All this Dee set down in 1578 in a statement for the queen of "Her Majesty's Title Royal" to the lands in question, depicted in his 1580 map of Atlantis. Thus the necessary underpinning of myth was provided, to be duly repeated by Peckham, Hakluyt and many more.
 * Kenneth Andrews, Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480–1630 (1984), p. 35

 * Such people, the real pioneers of the seaborne empire, were practical men: Captains Ralph Lane, John Smith and other soldiers of early Virginia, the merchant-commanders of the East Indiamen, the Arctic explorers from the Borough brothers to Baffin and the sea-captains of the Atlantic. Yet for success the movement needed also the moving power of ideas propagated by such men as Dee, Hakluyt, Ralegh and Drake. For who can doubt the inspiring force of Dee's Faustian genius, which cast a spell on the minds of mariners and intellectuals alike?
 * Kenneth Andrews, Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480–1630 (1984), p. 39

 * Dee goes so far as to assert that, although he called the work hieroglyphic, it is endowed with a clarity and rigour almost mathematical; yet at the same time he leaves it to the reader even to guess that the subject of the elaborate display, which he is asked to view in such dim light, is the hermetic quest. The semblance of clarity is achieved by discussing the dark subject under the guise of a symbolic sign invented by Dee, which is his monad. This symbol indeed lends itself easily to digressive secondary interpretations of a numerological, cabbalistic, astrological, cosmological, or mathematical nature, all which, however, are without any doubt given so as to establish significant connexions with the all-embracing central theme, alchemy, which is barely mentioned.
 * C. H. Josten, in Ambix : The journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry Vol. XI, (1963) p. 84

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Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE (born 5 October, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actress who has appeared in several films, including Heavenly Creatures, Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Reader and Steve Jobs.

Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008

 * You know why I fear people’s judgment? Because I know they’re judging. I know they are.

 * I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.

 * I’m not classically trained. I didn’t come from the fancy home, no.

 * Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there’s a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.
 * Of working out in a gym

 * This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions — never.

 * I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, I should make more of an effort. I should look like that. But then I think, They can’t be happy in those heels.

 * I need to be looked after. I’m not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff—in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn’t grow up with it and it’s not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, ‘Shall I run you a bath?’ or ‘Let’s go to the pub, just us.’

Marie Claire, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009

 * I don’t particularly remember sitting at home crying and eating endless packets of HobNobs. I don’t remember doing that at all. Honestly, I think it was a stress thing or something. I don’t know.
 * Of her weight problems

 * I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that. In films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours.

 * Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine. The lord God almighty has done me proud with my features which I'm proud of and have no desire to alter them. I say " let nature take its course ".

MoveOn.org, quoted by Alicia, moveOn.org, on 27 May 2011

 * I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.
 * Of a digital edited picture on a magazine

Other

 * It's a funny time to be nominated for things and accepting prizes when people as great as him have left us. But I don't want to leave you on a sad note, so I'm going to tell a funny story about Al if I can. When I worked with him when I was only 19 years old, I was absolutely terrified on day one, and I remember him looking at me, and I remember feeling so small, smaller than I'd ever felt before in my life. And after a few weeks of getting to know him and realizing just how wonderful and warm he really was, I was standing there in my costume on Sense and Sensibility, and my knickers had gone up my bum. And, you know, when you're trying to flit your knickers out of your arse and you're wearing a corset, it's actually quite tricky. And so I was sort of yanking at my pants, and Emma Thompson was standing right there, and I said, 'fuck, my fucking knickers have gone up my arse!' And Al just said, 'ah... feminine mystique strikes again.'
 * In tribute to Alan Rickman, while accepting an award for her performance in Steve Jobs at the UK Critics Circle ceremony in 2016

About Winslet

 * I first auditioned Kate Winslet when she was 17. I thought she was 25. Such was her self-possession, presence and concentration...later, I cast her as Ophelia in a film of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. I did not ask her to audition...She listened with superhuman acuity, and expressed character with effortless depth... (now) those same qualities are radiant, having now evolved into a truly awesome acting technique. Only now, hers is the art that entirely hides the artist...It’s magnificent to watch.
 * Branagh in The 100 Most Influential People of 2021: Kate Winslet on Time.com. 15 September 2021

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Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress.

Quotes

 * Every now and then, when you're onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
 * Theatre Arts magazine, June 1956

 * I've been away from Hollywood so long, I feel like a spider on a wedding cake.
 * On the set of  (1960), as quoted in "Rambling Reporter" by Mike Connolly, Hollywood Reporter (December 10, 1958), p. 2

 * I think the purpose of the actor is to illuminate the human condition. When you go to a film and you see a good actor, it's because you identify with them—you know what they're feeling—and a good actor draws, I believe, from their own experience. And when it's true for him, it's true for you. If a director imposes a performance or you try to mimic somebody, it can be funny or brilliant, but it isn't moving.
 * On acting, interview with Skip E. Lowe (1989)

Attributed

 * A pretty face is a passport.
 * Quoted by Julie Burchill, Sex & sensibility (1992), p. 55

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User:Dionyziz

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Welcome to Wikiquote, the free compendium of quotations! You don't have to log in to read or edit articles on Wikiquote, but creating an account is quick, free and non-intrusive, requires you to provide no personal information, and gives you many benefits, including:
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And thank you for your contribution to "Famous Last words"! --Aphaia 01:05, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Athena

''Athena is NOT the offspring of Z,(the Geeeks liked everyone to be in a family ) She was NOT born from the head of Z, Z is god of the sky, Athena was born from the highest part of the sky. ( the head of Z ) also The True Christ/Christos is not Joshua Ben Joseph ( Saul /Paul used the Greek word for Joshua) Athena knew the world was not ready for the knowledge ,she wanted them to have, so she would keep her eye on the world, and when the world is ready ,Athena would send her Angel to bring the Light of wisdom, into the World , The Cristos/The Christ : Saul/Paul stole the name , and gave it to the False Christ : also S/P stole the title "the Blessed Virgin" from ATHENA and gave it to Mary the mother of J :''

 * Whoa.... Crazy much? I don't know who this person is, but this is not true.

Quotablity?
Milton is definitely a notable poet, Homeros so, but those "quotes" seem to me too much long. English people really refer often to the whole quoted parts? Otherwise those quotes are better to trim in my opinion. Thoughts? --Aphaia 07:57, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:David Bowie

 * This really is over the top. There is just too much here. If you want to list all his lyrics, there are other places to do that. This is just a place for quotes!
 * Yes, when did this become Wikilyrics? I could understand having a few, but they seem to have his entire discography. ((Agent Aquamarine))
 * Well, that's absolutely right, and the content is un-formatted, a complete disaster. Someone should put a template so people could vote for delete this mess or leave it like is right now (¡¿?!). the discussion page must be used!!. i haven't a quote user yet, on wikipedia i'm Neotex555 - something Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to say?

 * Thank God people agree - according to me the sun shines out Bowie's ass, but this is just ridiculous. Anyone want to help fix it?

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 * I've found that every time I've made a radical change, it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist.

 * If I feel comfortable with what I'm doing, something's wrong.

 * I won't be writing a song about this one. (Talking about his artery clogging incident in 2004)

 * Now that I understand myself and others, I'm supposed to die? What a crap game! I'd like to live to be 200 or 300 years old.

 * I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. ''(During a spoof segment on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien".)

 * I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise that it won't be boring.
 * Not quite: "I have no idea where I'm going from here, but I promise I won't bore you" --Topdownjimmy (talk) 14:35, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

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User:Nathan8225

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"If you do not think you have lost, the battle is not lost."

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Marion Bauer

Marion Bauer (August 15, 1882, Walla Walla, Washington – August 9, 1955, South Hadley, Massachusetts) was an American composer.

Quotes

 * The greatest work of the composer is often sublimation, that is, the deflection of energies, thoughts, occurrences, psychological and physical reactions, into socially constructive or creative channels.
 * Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon, p.122. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052164030X.

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Josie and the Pussycats (TV series)

Josie and the Pussycats is a Saturday morning cartoon created by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera, and aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1970. It is based upon the Archie Comic of the same name, which had been adapted into a comedy film.

Josie James

 * That's a gas filling station, not a feeling filling station.
 * There they are, going through that sliding door.
 * (reading) 'Golden Mist Cologne'. Mmm, my favorite.
 * We'll be gold-plated Pussycats, unless someone thinks of something fast.

Valerie Brown

 * Look out for those rocks!
 * Welcome aboard, Alexandra.
 * Wow! We're landing in the Grand Canyon.
 * That's not my favorite program, either.
 * Wow! So that's what it does.

Melody Valentine

 * Hey. May I borrow that sleep gun when it's time for my afternoon nap?
 * Oh, goody!
 * Groovy...I think.
 * I know! Let's hide in the shower.
 * Gee, there sure are a lot of tumbleweeds down here in New York.

Alexander Cabot III

 * That's no way to treat like guests.
 * (repeated line) Help!
 * Be careful with that sleep gun.
 * Yikes! The floor's moving.
 * (whispering) Psst. Gang, I found the conveyor belt to the storeroom.
 * It looks like our plan wasn't at all that it was "quacked" up to be.
 * Val, for a girl you're a mechanical wizard.
 * I protest, this is Be Kind to Your Feathered Friends Week.
 * I'm chicken.

Alexandra Cabot

 * How would you like a suitase sombrero, you good-for-nothing feline?
 * One of these days, I'm gonna put a zipper on your lip.
 * What's this all about? I demand an explanation!
 * I did it so I could bounce Josie away from Alan.
 * Almost is not good enough!
 * Are you beanbags trying to escape, or take inventory?
 * This will make me even more alluring to Alan.

Alan M. Mayberry

 * You mean, the real one?
 * (repeated line) Let's split.
 * We gotta find a way out of this hilltop hacienda.
 * We're lucky there are no guards around.
 * Whew! We got away from those slumber-happy guards.

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Talk:Pierre Trudeau

hi

hey, there's gotta be a lot more Trudeau quotes than this!

 * Oh, there certainly are, it's just they have to be dated/cited....I'm currently searching for the date/venue of "English Canada doesn't have a culture - I'm going to give it one" (speaking of opening up immigration in the late '60s/early '70s and the institution of official multiculturalism). And unfortunately you can't "quote" the famous finger at Salmon Arm; gestures don't count as quotes, sadly enough....;-0

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Pierre Trudeau. --Antiquary 20:35, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Canada is a country built against any common, geographic, historic or cultural sense.

 * Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centers.
 * Quote attributed to Trudeau in reference to certain premiers' anxieties regarding federal intrusions (1981)

 * English Canada doesn't have a culture — I'm going to give it one.
 * Speaking of the new institution of official multiculturalism, combined with increased immigration.

 * In Quebec, people are moved too often by passion and too little by intelligence.
 * Statement while president of the 1956–1958 anti-Duplessis intellectual guild, Le Rassemblement.

 * It's not a perfect job, but it sure beats working.

 * I can't give you too many kisses. The press are watching. Perhaps later.
 * Speaking to a female party worker

 * Mr. Montgomery, there are only two things I do in bed. One of them is sleep and I wouldn't let you photograph the other one.

 * Nuclear weapons exist. They probably always will. And they work, with horrible efficiency. They threaten the very future of our species. We have no choice but to manage that risk. Never again can we put the task out of our minds; nor trivialize it; nor make it routine. Nor dare we lose heart.
 * (9 February 1984)

 * Reporter: Will you give up the Mercedes? Trudeau: Are you talking about the car now, or the girl? Reporter: The car. Trudeau: I won't give up either.

 * A part of my soul has left me
 * After the death of his lifelong friend Gerard Pelletier in 1997

Pictures
To be blunt, the pictures on the side repeating quotes are beyond tacky. I'd reccomend just having a portrait style picture in the corner, without a quote under it.

Trudeau on south africa ``britain will be stupid to let go

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Talk:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge is widely blamed for the following doggerel "Swans sing before they die 'twere no bad thing should certain people die before they sing!". Was he really responsible? Some sites also attribute it to Pope. It seems bathetic for both

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Talk:Karl Rove

This entry needs a lot more quotes as there is a lot of information.

Lesbian quote
I'm removing the quote from the pushpolling which is "attributed to Rove"

Even if someone could cite this alleged attribution, I still dont think it would qualify as a quote.--75.65.105.90 03:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

suppressed vote
he say President Obama suppressed vote [rigging]

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Talk:Robert F. Kennedy

Older comments
Some of the quotes here are a little sketchy. The long one from "On Mindless Menace of Violence" is a hodge podge of bits of that speech, and it doesn't hang together. Someone with a good eye for these things should give it some love. 70.132.3.189 10:22, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

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 * All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.

 * I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.

 * All of us, from the wealthiest to the young children that I have seen in this country, in this year, bloated by starvation — we all share one precious possession, and that is the name American. It is not easy to know what that means. But, in part, to be an American means to have been an outcast and a stranger, to have come from the exiles' country, and to know that he who denies the outcast and the stranger still amongst us, he also denies America.
 * Variation: All of us, from the wealthiest and most powerful of men, to the weakest and hungriest of children, share one precious possession: the name American. (New York, 12-14-67)

 * Another great task is to confront the poverty of satisfaction--a lack of purpose and dignity--that afflicts us all. Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. (Univ of Kansas, 3-18-68)

 * As long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We Democrats can run on our record but we cannot rest on it. We will win if we continue to take the initiative and if we carry the message of hope and action throughout the country. Alexander Smith once said, "A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity." Let us continue to plant, and our children shall reap the harvest. That is our destiny as Democrats.

 * As long as men are hungry, and their children uneducated, and their crops destroyed by pestilence, the American Revolution will have a part to play. As long as men are not free — in their lives and in their opinions, their speech and their knowledge — that long will the American Revolution not be finished. (NYC, 6-15-65)

 * But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

 * Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion;that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.

 * Each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

 * Fear not the path of truth, for the lack of people walking on it.

 * Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation... It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

 * I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

 * I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

 * I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
 * On running for the Presidency

 * I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions - whether it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam - that we can work together. We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for running.

Is this a good source for the above? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXuHcQ1Mrqs&feature=related (The above quote starts at about 8:00)

 * I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

 * I'm tired of chasing people.

 * If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

 * "If men do not build," asks the poet, "how shall they live?" (12-10-1966)

 * In this entire century the Democratic Party has never been invested with power on the basis of a program which promised to keep things as they were. We have won when we pledged to meet the new challenges of each succeeding year. We have triumphed not in spite of controversy, but because of it; not because we avoided problems, but because we faced them. We have won, not because we bent and diluted our principles, but because we stood fast to the ideals which represent the most noble and generous portion of the American spirit.

 * It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

 * It is more important to be of service than successful.

 * It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

 * It is one thing to assure a man the legal right to eat in a restaurant; it is another thing to assure that he can earn the money to eat there.

 * Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

 * Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed. (Berkeley, 10-22-1966)

 * My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

 * Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

 * Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward a increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all of its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

 * On this generation of Americans falls the burden of proving to the world that we really mean it when we say all men are created free and are equal before the law. All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

 * One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

 * Our attitude toward immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as their talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.

 * Our brave young men are dying in the swamps of Southeast Asia. Which of them might have written a poem? Which of them might have cured cancer? Which of them might have played in a World Series or given us the gift of laughter from the stage or helped build a bridge or a university? Which of them would have taught a child to read? It is our responsibility to let these men live....It is indecent if they die because of the empty vanity of their country. (Vietnam War speech, Calif, 3-24-68)

 * Our gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worth while. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans. (University of Kansas, 3-18-67)
 * See above under Sourced quotes for speech 3-16-68.

 * Parties are instruments of government....The business of parties is not just win elections. It is to govern. And a party cannot govern if it is disunited. (Kings County Democratic dinner Brooklyn, NY, 1965)

 * People are selfish, but they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That's why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don't make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They're hungry for leadership.

 * People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
 * While on a campaign "whistle stop tour" which reporters had dubbed "The Ruthless Cannonball."

 * Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

 * Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

 * Since the days of Greece and Rome when the word "citizen" was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities. And today, as never before in the free world, responsibility is the greatest right of citizenship and service is the greatest of freedom's privileges.

 * That which unites us is, must be, stronger than that which divides us. We can concentrate on what unites us, and secure the future for all our children; or we can concentrate on what divides us, and fail our duty through argument and resentment and waste.

 * The advice "bomb them back to the Stone Age" may show that the speaker is already there himself, but it could, if followed, force all of us to join him.

 * The Democratic Party...presents its case on a strong platform and strong candidates, on a proven record of past accomplishment, on the evidence that it alone has the vision and boldness to meet the challenge of leadership of the free world. (Boston 8-2-1960)

 * The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.

 * The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.

 * The plight of the cities--their physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met. (Buffalo NY, 1-20-67)

 * The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use -- of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

 * The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Here is a source for the above quote, see the bottom of page four: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/ag/legacy/2011/01/20/06-08-1964.pdf
 * To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident. I observe regretfully that in politics, however, it can be heresy. It can be denounced as radicalism, or branded as subversion. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. (6-8-64)

 * Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

 * Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

 * We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

 * We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels—local, State and Federal—in ending the pollution of our waters.

 * We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered. (5-6-1961)

 * We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this not because it is economically advantageous - although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it - although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.

 * What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason. Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

 * What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

 * What we need in the United States is not division, what we need in the United States is not hatred, what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but it's love, peace, and compassion towards one another, and a feeling of justice towards those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white, or whether they be black.

 * Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

 * You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept. (12-10-1966)

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Talk:Pope Benedict XVI

Table of Contents out of place
Can't seem to figure out how to fix the table of contents box. It's way down in the middle of the article right now. Sveden 17:10, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Harry Potter
The Pope's quote about Harry Potter was actually written by a subordinate and Benedict has said he sees nothing wrong with the books. It should probably be deleted.

 * Actually it should probably be moved to the attributed section and we should explain that he didnt see it. Wikiquote is also for common misattributions. Savidan 10:06, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

 * The whole article is weird at its best. The first section is also the smallest, and the first after that one is the head of the Catholic Church talking about other religious systems. Aside from "World Youth Day", the biggest section is the one about homosexuality. What's more, those quotes that are on top are not just debatable (see above), but presented in such a way (as short as possible) as if their authors try their best to eliminate the context. Being someone who has seen his writings and how beautiful they can be, I am suspicious of intentions of the contributors, and hereby criticize the article's structure and quality of the content (the way quotes are presented). I do so urging people to objectivity and prioritizing when editing this article. --Paxcoder 18:51, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Quote slightly revised?!?!
What does that mean? Let's try to get the real version. Savidan 10:05, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

 * "Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourintered along my theological path. I rejoiced to be able to say something of my own, something new and yet completely within the faith of the Church. The feeling of aquiring a theological vision that was ever more clearly my own was the most wonderful experience of those years."
 * Milestones, p. 150 (On his theological formation in seminary - quote slightly revised)

somebody got a quote wrong
"I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?" Ratzinger

"The Public Square" by Richard John Neuhaus, First Things 1996

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9604/public.html#obeying

"Truth is not determined by majority vote." Doug Gwyn, comp.org.usenix, Jul 3, 1991

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.org.usenix/msg/3ebe79de0723ff24?hl=en

Links to the originals are listed.

Cleanup tag
This page needs the following cleanup: remove the quote marks and eliminate the sorting by topic. ~ UDScott 17:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Honestly, this page leaves me with a very bad taste...it could use a complete recall. I find it very disrespectful and slanted...very disappointing.
 * Respectfully or disrespectfully slanted criticism and additions are usually accepted, if not always welcomed, but disrespectful censorship usually is not. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:58, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Respectfully or disrespectfully slanted criticism and additions are usually accepted, if not always welcomed, but disrespectful censorship usually is not. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:58, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
 * Explaining to the cardinals his choice of name after Pope Benedict XV who worked against World War I.

 * We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.
 * unidentified source

Rollback and protection
This page needs to be rollbacked and protected due to vandalism. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 14:23, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Why? Ottawahitech (talk) 14:51, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * , Ilovemydoodle already said: due to vandalism. In this case, it's from a WMF-banned editor., I think he will have stopped now, but I'll be watching if he continues or not. --Ferien (talk) 15:44, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Ferien, Which is the wmf-banned vandal? I see several comments have been removed, including one that looks like it is from User:UDScott which has not been restored? I'm talking about this page is that the one others here are talking about? (see edit summary: rv banned user) Ottawahitech (talk) 14:26, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * , on this page, all the IPs that have edited (at least for the last 50 revisions) are this WMF-banned vandal. They IP-hop to evade blocks. Ferien (talk) 15:18, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Ferien, there have only been 21 revisions to this page? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:30, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I think he means the main page for the Pope - not the talk page. In any case, I have again protected the page. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:31, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * On the page, Pope Benedict XVI, there are around 410 revisions. If we are talking about this page here, we're probably going to be talking about the article, not the talk page. --Ferien (talk) 15:41, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Ferien, With all due respect, You have banned 154.179.196.208 saying only "(WMF ban evasion)". You did not tell the community how you arrived at your conclusion that this user is wmf-banned. Yes you have recently been given the crown of a WQ admin, but please do not forget that this does not give you dictator rights. Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 15:47, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * , there is no rule saying that I must say how exactly I realised that editor was evading their WMF ban in the block resaon - please link to a block where this has happened, because I for one have never seen this happen on any Wikimedia wiki. If you had asked about it, I could have told you how I got to that conclusion, although I would prefer to explain off-wiki due to w:WP:DENY and a possible change of behaviour if I explain to you what tells me it's them. I wouldn't say this makes me a dictator (and also disagree with your description of admin as a crown) --Ferien (talk) 16:12, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Usually it's pretty obvious, most of his edit summaries are something like this (archive) . – Ilovemydoodle (Not a sockpuppet) (talk / e-mail) 07:22, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Vandalism
Why is this page vandalized so often, especially by GRP? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 17:34, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Stefano Bisi about Mozart
95.237.125.94 20:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The Beauty of Mozart is so immense and universal that even - I want to remember him as an example - Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, today Pope Emeritus - certainly one who has never granted openings to Freemasonry since the days in which he was Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – he has loved playing the notes of the extraordinary composer since he was a boy. We are talking about a theologian and a man of extraordinary culture.
 * La Bellezza di Mozart è talmente immensa e universale che persino – voglio ricordarlo come esempio – Joseph Ratzinger, Benedetto XVI, oggi Papa Emerito – di certo uno che ha mai concesso aperture alla Massoneria dai tempi in cui era Prefetto della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede – ama suonare sin da quando era ragazzo le note dello straordinario compositore. Stiamo parlando di un teologo e di un uomo di straordinaria cultura.
 * As quoted in Stefano Bisi, Vietare Mozart a Santa Croce a Firenze perché massone? Follia pura. Il Gran Maestro Bisi sulla decisione del priore della Basilica (December 2, 2019)

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