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Revolutionary Girl Utena

Manga by Chiho Saito, and anime series and movie by Kunihiko Ikuhara.

Utena Tenjou

 * I don't want the power to revolutionize the world, but Himemiya needs me!

 * [to Anthy] Open your heart and talk to people, and anybody would accept you, I'm sure.

 * [during her seventh duel (Self)] Maybe I don't know anything about Himemiya! But what I'm doing now is taking back who I used to be!

 * I came to save you. I came here to meet you. So don't be afraid of this world where we'll meet...Himemiya!

 * I guess, in the end, I couldn't be a prince. Forgive me, Anthy, for pretending to be a prince.

Anthy Himemiya

 * I am the Rose Bride. I must do whatever the winner of the duels tells me to do.

 * [during Utena's seventh duel (Self)] Miss Tenjou, don't you think this is strange? She could die. Why does she fight on? It's over, Miss Tenjou. But...I've seen this before. I know what this is. This is...this is...I know this! It's like what happened that time...!

 * If it’s for someone you love…how you feel about others doesn’t matter. You keep lying to yourself for as long as it takes.

 * I feel it’s hard for me to deal with a place where there are so many people. Somehow, they all start to look the same, and that frightens me.

 * People find it hard to doubt those they've fallen in love with. They can't even imagine they're being deceived and used.

 * Girls are…in the end girls are all like Rose Brides

 * Because I am the Rose Bride...because I am a doll with no heart...I thought that no matter what befell my body, my heart wouldn't feel the pain

 * [on the phone to Akio] Hello? Yes. I was looking at the stars. I don't want to look at the real stars.

 * [to Utena] You remind me so much of Dios when I loved him. But you can never be my prince, because you're a girl.

 * [to Akio] You really don't know what's happened, do you? By all means, stay in this cozy little coffin and continue to play the prince. But I have to go now.

 * [leaving Ohtori] Now it's my turn to go. No matter where you are, I'll find you for sure. Wait for me, Utena.

Akio Ohtori

 * [to Utena] Dresses don't go with swords.

 * Women who cannot become princesses have no choice but to become witches.

 * I used to think that sincerity was valuable...and that it was the one and only way to change the world. But sincerity by itself changes nothing. Without power, one finds themself merely depending on others to live. I've taken enough risks to buy the power to change the world. That's how the world works.

 * The Morning Star...also known as Lucifer. The star that was originally an angel, but chose to become the Devil.

 * [to Nanami] My real dream is turning the Chairman's Wing into a harem.

Touga Kiryuu

 * If you won't defend your precious things, people will take them from you.

 * Wasn't your prince a guy like me?

 * [to Utena] Even if I'm not worthy of you, please, be with me for at least this instant.

 * Listen, Nanami. God made both men and women, because that is the most ideal combination.

 * [talking about Akio] I want to become like him. I want power like his.

Nanami Kiryuu

 * What I want is to surpass everything. You after I win the duel, my brother, myself up until now, everything.

 * [talking about her Rose Seal ring] I already took mine off. We should all just hurry up and forget all this.

 * My brother is my brother. I can't just ignore everything that's happened. Because I love him...because I love my brother!

 * [broadcasting to the whole school] I don't care!

Wakaba Shinohara

 * [during her duel with Utena] You, that girl, the Student Council members, all of you look down on me. Without a care in the world, flaunting the power you all were born with!

 * When I was a little girl, my mama said to me, "You're the princess of the Onion Kingdom!" and I actually believed her.

 * [to Utena] It's like something was stolen from you and made you a coward! I don't know what it was, but if something was taken from you, then take it back!

Kozue Kaoru

 * When everything around you is impure, you have no choice but to become impure yourself.

 * I want everything to disappear! Miki and I are the only things worthy of existence!

Shiori Takatsuki

 * Believe in miracles, and they will know your feelings.

 * [to Juri] You must hate me for what I've done. Yet I have no problem taking him from you.

 * [to Juri] So pretty. I loved the look in your eyes when I hurt you. I always thought you were stronger than anyone…and yet now you seem so weak.

 * [talking about Juri] I'm the one who's always been there in her heart! I've beaten her in the end!

Mikage Souji

 * I understand. I suppose you have no choice but to revolutionize the world. The way before you has been prepared.

 * Ancient creatures died and left naught but fossil fuels, like coal and petroleum. Without that sacrifice, our present energy civilization would not exist. That sort of sacrifice is what is always demanded.

 * [To Utena] I see: It's that memory that's been supporting you up until now. No need to be ashamed, because the memory you possess is a worthy one. Only those with beautiful memories are allowed to wish, "If only those days could last forever, if only I could still be what I was back then." I know that you're the same as myself. Your eyes are like those people who can't help wanting to make memories last forever.

 * You stand here before me because of the illusion you've created! That's what allows you to enter the dueling arena! Am I wrong? In the end, you and I are the same.

Mamiya Chida

 * At that time, at that place, who was actually there and who was not?

 * Eternity means lasting forever, right? For years, decades, centuries, millennia, eons, and on and on. My life may be just a moment, but.... Eternity means that this moment lasts billions of billions of years, without end. I.... I.... I want eternity.

 * I think you mean "Rose Groom." I'm a boy.

 * I wonder if the flowers themselves are happy, being forced to last so long. Eternity doesn't exist in this world, does it? It's just that one could think that a heart that longs for eternity is beautiful

Others
"Little one," he said, "who bears up alone in such deep sorrow, never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up. I give you this to remember this day. We will meet again. This ring will lead you to me one day." Perhaps the ring the prince gave her was an engagement ring. This was all well and good, but so impressed was she by him that the princess vowed to become a prince herself one day. But was that really such a good idea?
 * Narration: Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a little princess, and she was very sad, for her mother and father had died. Before the princess appeared a traveling prince, riding upon a white horse. He had a regal bearing and a kind smile. The prince wrapped the princess in a rose-scented embrace and gently wiped the tears from her eyes.

 * Ruka: She's a fool because she doesn't realize that her miracle is standing atop someone else's sacrifice. But that's the sort of person who receives miracles.

 * Tokiko: Perhaps geniuses are incapable of human emotion.

 * Miki: Do you suppose happiness is something close to us, after all?

 * C-Ko: [repeated throughout the series] Extra! Extra! Extra!

Dialogue
Utena: -the power to revolutionize the world!
 * Anthy: O Roses of the noble castle, Power of Dios that slumbers within me, harken unto thy master and reveal to us-

 * Utena: Is that your brother? Anthy: No. That is a planetarium projector.

 * Utena: [to Anthy] Will you stop with the "Bride" and "engaged" stuff!? Despite my looks, I'm a normal girl, and all I want is a totally normal boy! Touga: [Stepping out of the shadows] Glad to hear that. I'm Touga Kiryuu, student council president, and totally normal boy.

 * Touga: If it cannot break out of its shell, the chick will die without ever being born. Miki: We are the chick- Juri: The world is our egg. Nanami: If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without ever truly being born. Saionji: Smash the world's shell. All: FOR THE REVOLUTION OF THE WORLD!

 * Utena: Let's have tea and laugh together ten years from now, okay? Promise? Anthy:  Yes. Definitely.

 * Touga: He who believes friendship exists is a fool. Utena:  Didn't you know? I am a fool.

 * Juri: Nanami. Be more careful. You almost scratched my ball. Nanami:  Ball? Juri:  Yes. My ball. Nanami:...Ball? Juri:  Yes. My ball. Nanami:  Ball? Juri:  Ball.

 * Touga: Nanami. Do you know why we're able to live together happily like this? Nanami:  What? Touga:  It's because you're not the kind of girl who lays eggs.

 * Nanami: [about Anthy] She scares me to death... Anthy: Oh, do I? Thank you, thank you!

 * Anthy: Utena, have you heard of Cantarella? Utena:  Cantarella? Anthy:  It's the name of a deadly poison that the Italian Borgia family used in the past. Utena:  Really... Anthy: How do you like those cookies? I baked them. Utena:  What a coincidence. That tea is poisoned too. Anthy: Really? It's quite delicious. Utena: So are these cookies.

 * Anthy: [to Utena] I exploited your innocence. I encroached upon your kindness. I'm sorry, Utena. I've been unfair to you. I'm a dirty woman. I've betrayed you all along. Utena: The truth is, my protecting you was just for my own ego. And the night I learned about you and Akio, I thought that you had betrayed me. Even though you were suffering so much. After I had said we should help each other, come what may…I was the one who cheated you! I was the one who used you! I was the one who betrayed you!

 * Utena: Listen, if you ever have a problem, come to me first. I want us to be friends like that. And someday, together... Anthy: Someday together...? Ending text:  Someday, Together, We'll Shine.

Utena Tenjou

 * You're the one who doesn't understand! Is there any girl happy to be treated like a possession!?

 * I never said that I was a boy!
 * [to Touga] Thank you. You always were my prince.

 * He said we'd gaze at stars together forever... There is no prince......

 * I'll never lose to anyone who hits a girl!

 * [to Anthy] I understand now too. Why you sought me, and why I didn’t reject you. We were together in killing in the prince.

Anthy Himemiya

 * One isn't permitted to duel without a sword.

 * [after Utena wins the duel against Juri] For a moment...you looked it.

 * [While driving the Utena car, about to go through the exit] I'm not running anymore; the exit must be right there. Let's go to the outside world.

 * [to Akio] My condolences; you can be only a prince in that world. That may be, but we, we are leaving on our own free will. Goodbye, my prince.

Touga Kiryuu

 * [to Utena] Remember the promise we made? The planetarium? We have yet to go.

 * [offering a rose to Utena] For your high goals, my girl.

Shiori Takatsuki

 * It's a big mistake thinking you're the only one who can turn into a car! I'm a car now, too!

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Ochlocracy

Ochlocracy (Greek: οχλοκρατία; Latin: ochlocratia) is government by mob or a disorganized mass of people. Ochlocracy is also used as a pejorative term for democracy and more specifically, majoritarianism.

Quotes

 * Members of the oligarchy curry popularity with the mob (ὄχλος), as the Civic Guards at Larisa courted popularity with the mob because it elected them.
 * Aristotle, Politics trans. by H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library, BkV v 5; 1305b25-30; Vol 264 pp. 404-405.

 * In putting no trust in the multitude (which is why they resort to the measure of stripping the people of arms, and why ill-treatment of the mob and its expulsion from the city and settlement in scattered places is common to both forms of government, both oligarchy and tyranny.
 * Aristotle, Politics, trans. by H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library, BkV viii 7; 1311a 10; Vol 264, pp. 442-443.

 * Ochlocratia, such a state, as in which the rude and rusticall people moderate all thinges after their own luste.
 * OED, 1584.

 * We will not carry on any further our picture of the ochlocracy, in which all social union was entirely dissolved, and the state surrendered to the arbitrary will of a turbelent populace.
 * Karl Otfried Müller, The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race 2nd ed. rev., John Murray, Albemarle Str. London, 1839. Vol II, pg 10.

 * The commonest of the old charges against democracy was that it passed into ochlocracy.
 * Amer. Commw., Bryce, III. v. xcv. 337. year: 1888. OED.

 * Our motto must be: liberty, fraternity and inequality. Democracy must never degenerate into ochlocracy.
 * Sir Charles Waldstein, Aristodemocracy, From the Great War back to Moses, Christ and Plato, An essay, Longmans, Green and Co., NY, 1917. p. 327.

 * Ochlocracy, the dictatorship of the mob, is the goal toward which the development of the mass-democracy of Caesarism is leading.
 * Hermann Rauschning, The Revolution of Nihilism, Alliance Book Corp., NY, 1939. pg 86.

 * Ochlocracy never had brilliant advocates like monarchy, aristocracy, or socialism. There is nobody in the "democratic" camp who can be compared for brilliancy — I do not say orthodoxy in each case — to de Tocqueville, Marx, Maurras, de Reynold, Trotzky, Spengler, Proudhon, Plato, Bainville, Aristotle, Ortega, and St. Thomas. Democracy never had, and probably never will have, an appeal for the man of original genius.
 * Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 105

 * Ochlocracy (even more so than aristocracy) is based upon change and instability; ochlocracy is revolution in permanence.
 * Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 109

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Hal O'Brien describes himself as an "independent scholar", an all-too-rare breed these days.

He graduated from Midland School in Los Olivos, Calif., in 1981. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., in 1986. His major was in Government ("My college was too wise to label politics a science.").

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Cool Runnings

Cool Runnings is a 1993 comedy film about the exploits of the Jamaican Bobsled Team at Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
 * Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Written by Lynn Siefert, Tommy Swerdlow, and Michael Goldberg.

One Dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty Below Zero.

Dialogue

 * Derice: [knocks the wheels off a pushcart] That's a Bobsled.
 * Sanka: Oh, so a bobsled is a pushcart with no wheels.
 * Derice: [opens a book] It's what it looks like here.
 * Sanka: Let me see that, [Derice hands Sanka the book] Alright... "The key elements for a successful sled team are a steady driver and three strong runners to push off down the ice..." ICE? [to Derice] Ice!
 * Derice: Well... it's kind of a winter sport, ya know?
 * Sanka: You mean winter, as in ICE?
 * Derice: Maybe.
 * Sanka: You mean winter, as in igloos and Eskimos and penguins and ICE?
 * Derice: Possibly.
 * Sanka: [hands the book back] See ya.
 * Derice: Where you going?
 * Sanka: I'm going to take a hot bath, I'm getting cold just thinking about all this ice.
 * Derice: No man, you're going to be part of my bobsled team.
 * Sanka: What do you need me for?
 * Derice: Who is the best pushcart driver in all of Jamaica?
 * Sanka: You're looking at him!
 * Derice: Then you gotta do it?
 * Sanka: NO!
 * Derice: Hey man, you could be famous, you could have your picture on a Wheaties box. But you said no and that's alright because I don't need ya, everybody is gonna want to be on my bobsled team.
 * Sanka: Look Star, let tell you a little somethin', alright? When you need somethin' from me, you don't have to hand me a bunch of lines. All you have to do is look at me in the eye and say, "Sanka, you are my best friend, we been through a whole heap together and I really, really need you."
 * Derice: Sanka, you right, and you are my best friend, and we been through a whole lot together...
 * Sanka: Heap, heap.
 * Derice: Sorry man, whole heap together.
 * Sanka: "And I really, really need you."
 * Derice: And I really really need you.
 * Sanka: ...Forget it!
 * Derice: But you just said if I said that, mon...
 * Sanka: Alright, alright, alright, alright, mon.
 * [They hug.]

 * [Sanka is arguing with Irv over who should be the team driver.]
 * Sanka: You don't understand. I am Sanka Coffie. I am the best pushcart driver in all of Jamaica! I must drive! Do you dig where I'm coming from?
 * Irv: Yeah, I dig where you're coming from.
 * Sanka: Good.
 * Irv: Now dig where I'm coming from. I'm coming from two gold medals. I'm coming from nine world records in both the two- and four-man events. I'm coming from ten years of intense competition with the best athletes in the world.
 * [pause]
 * Sanka: That's a hell of a place to be coming from!

 * [Belittled by the East German team, Junior gets shoved into a bathroom by Yul and stood in front of its mirror]
 * Yul: Now look in the mirror and tell me what you see.
 * Junior: I see Junior.
 * Yul: You see Junior. Well, you want to know what I see? I see pride. I see power! I see a bad-ass mother who don't take no crap off nobody!
 * Junior: You really see all that?
 * Yul: Yeah, man. But it's not about what I see. It's about what you see. Now look in this mirror and tell me again what you see.
 * Junior: [clears throat, hesitantly] I see...
 * Yul: Pride!
 * Junior: Pride. Right.
 * Yul: Power!
 * Junior: [more confidently] Power. And I see...
 * Yul: ...a bad-ass mother...
 * Junior, Yul: ...who won't/don't take no...
 * Junior: ...crap off of nobody!
 * Yul: Again!
 * Junior: I see pride!
 * Yul: Can't hear you!
 * Junior: I see power! I see a bad-ass mother who won't take no crap off of nobody!
 * Yul: Once again!
 * Junior: I see pride!
 * Yul: Junior!
 * Junior: I see power! I see a bad-ass mother who won't take no crap off of nobody!
 * Yul: That's right!
 * Junior: [storming out of bathroom] That's right! Junior Bevil!
 * Yul: Wait. W-W-Where you going?

 * Sanka: So what are we going to name the sled?
 * Junior: How about...Talulah.
 * Rest of team: [Laughing] Talulah!
 * Sanka: Sounds like a two-dollar hooker. How'd you come up with that?
 * Junior: It's real. That's my mother's name. [Embarrassed silence, then Team converses in agreement that Talulah is a good name]
 * Sanka: [to Derice] What's it gonna be, star? What are the people gonna be screaming when Jamaica takes the hill?
 * Derice: I say we call it, 'Cool Runnings.'
 * Junior: Beautiful, I like it.
 * Yul: Very strong.
 * Coach Irv: Nice, very nice, but... what exactly does it mean?
 * Derice: Cool runnings means, "peace be the journey."
 * Team: [Toasting] Cool Runnings.
 * Messenger: Excuse me... [gives Coach Irv a letter and leaves]
 * Sanka: [Toasting] To the man in the orange suit. [Toasting after man leaves] To the messenger.
 * Coach Irv: [Ashen-faced, after reading the letter] We are officially...disqualified.

 * [At the IAWS meeting, Irv confronts the council about why the Jamaicans were disqualified]
 * British Alliance Member: We must also be concerned about the potential for embarrassment.
 * Irv Blitzer: Oh, forgive me. I didn't realize that four black guys in a bobsled could make you blush. [British panelist goes quiet]
 * IAWS Officer: I think we've heard enough.
 * Irv: [pleads] Come on, Kurt, what you're doing is wrong and you know it! Now if this is about you and me, let's get it straight right now.
 * [Kurt stops for a moment as well as the IAWS. He expects a confession from Irv and isn't disappointed when Irv speaks]
 * Irv: All right, 16 years ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life - I cheated. I was stupid. I embarrassed myself, my family, my teammates, my country... [points to Kurt] and my coach. If it's revenge you want, take it. Go ahead, disqualify me, banish me! Do whatever you want, but do it to me! It was me who let you down, Kurt! It wasn't my guys! They've done everything you've asked of them! And they did it with all of you laughing in their face. Hell, it doesn't matter if they come in first or 50th. Those guys have earned the right to represent their country. They've earned the right to march into that stadium and wave their nation's flag. That's the single greatest honor an athlete can ever have. That's what the Olympics are about. Sixteen years ago, I forgot that. Don't you go and do the same. Sorry if I interrupted your meeting. [walks out]

 * [Junior Bevil is conflicted about his father coming to Calgary to fetch him]
 * Whitby Bevil Sr: Now you listen to me, boy. You might not have done what you were asked, but you will do what you're told. You're coming home.
 * Junior Bevil: Yeah, but father, you know, I just–
 * Whitby: But nothing!! I didn't send you to the finest school for you to... go around sliding on your back side! You must be mad.
 * Junior: Yeah, but the team needs me-
 * Whitby: I don't want to hear any more about it. [Elevator door opens] Go and get your things. [Junior Bevil stands aside to usher his father into the elevator] I'll wait in the lobby.
 * Junior: [Murmurs] Pride, Power... [Stops elevator] Father, when you look at me, what do you see?
 * Whitby: I don't have time for games, Junior.
 * Junior: Tell me what you see, please!
 * Whitby: All right, I'll tell you what I see. I see a lost little boy, who's lucky to have a father who knows what's best for him.
 * Junior: [Stops elevator again] No, no, no, no, you don't know what's best for me, Father. I am not a lost little boy, Father. I am a man, and I'm an Olympian. I'm staying right here. [Elevator door closes with a sad Whitby Sr inside]
 * Yul: [having seen the exchange] Hey, Junior Bevil. You're a bad-ass mother.

 * [Coach Irv has reprimanded the team over their run earlier in the day]
 * Derice: You know, when the Swiss want to ge....[Team groans]
 * Sanka: Ah, will you shut up about the damn Swiss! I mean, it was all that "eins, zwei, drei" nonsense that got us all nervous in the first place.
 * Derice: Hey, man, look here, I'm just trying to get us off on the right foot.
 * Sanka: Well, the right foot for us is not the Swiss foot. I mean, come on, Derice, we can't be copying nobody else's style. We have our own style.
 * Derice: Kissing an egg is no kind of style. It's the Olympics here, it's no stupid pushcart derby. [Long pause]
 * Sanka: Let me tell you something, rasta, I didn't come up here to forget who I am and where I come from.
 * Derice: Neither did I. I'm just trying to be the best I can be.
 * Sanka: So am I, and the best I can be is Jamaican. Look, Derice, I've known you since Julie Jeffreys asked to see your ding-a-ling. [Derice smiles] And I'm telling you as a friend...if we look Jamaican, walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican and IS Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled Jamaican.

 * [at a club somewhere in Jamaica, as the team's second run goes surprisingly well]
 * Olympic Announcer: Where did these guys come from?
 * Crowd At Bar: [shouts at TV] JAMAICA!!!!

 * Irv: Derice, a gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.
 * Derice: Hey, coach, how will I know if I'm enough?
 * Irv: When you cross that finish line, you'll know.

 * [the team has just crashed in the medal run]
 * Sanka: Derice! You dead?
 * Derice: No, man, I'm not dead. [removes his helmet] We have to finish the race.
 * Irv: [pushing through spectators to reach the crash] Excuse me, please. Excuse me.
 * [sees the team carrying the sled over the finish line, to applause and cheers from the crowd]
 * Grool: [shakes Derice's hand] Sehr gut, Jamaica. We'll see you in four years, ja?
 * Derice: Yeah, man.
 * Yul: [grabs Junior] Junior Bevil! [kisses him on the forehead] That doesn't mean that I like you.
 * Junior: We split. [they laugh and hug each other]

Taglines

 * One Dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty Below Zero.
 * Jamaican Bobsledders?
 * Inspired by the true story of Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team.

Cast

 * Leon Robinson - Derice Bannock
 * Doug E. Doug - Sanka Coffie
 * Rawle D. Lewis - Junior Bevil
 * Malik Yoba - Yul Brenner
 * John Candy - Irving 'Irv' Blitzer
 * Raymond J. Barry - Kurt Hemphill
 * Peter Outerbridge - Josef Grool
 * Paul Coeur - Roger
 * Larry Gilman - Larry
 * Charles Hyatt - Whitby Bevil Sr.
 * Winston Stona - Coolidge
 * Bertina Macauley - Joy Bannock
 * Pauline Stone Myrie - Momma Coffie

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Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Chicago from 1955 and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953 until his death. He has been called "the last of the big city bosses" who controlled and mobilized American cities. Daley played a major role in the history of the Democratic Party, especially with his support of John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 and of Hubert Humphrey in the presidential election of 1968.

On the other hand, Daley's legacy is complicated by criticisms of his response to the Chicago riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and his handling of the notorious 1968 Democratic National Convention that happened in his city. He also had enemies within the Democratic Party. In addition, many members of Daley's administration were charged and convicted for corruption, although Daley himself was never charged with any crime.

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 * The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
 * Said during the civil disorders associated with the Democratic National Convention in 1968.
 * I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.
 * I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

 * Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party. One betrayed him, one denied him and one doubted him.
 * Said when asked if he thought Robert F. Kennedy could win the Democratic nomination for President in 1968, comparing Kennedy to Judas Iscariot.
 * Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch, you lousy mother-fucker, go home.
 * Said to Senator Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut when the Senator challenged Daley's use of force during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
 * Good government is good politics and politics is good government.
 * An ofttimes repeated maxim of Daley's to describe his view on the inseparability of politics and government.
 * I have conferred with the superintendent of police this morning and I gave him instructions that an order be issued by him immediately and under his signature to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand.
 * Stated one week following the April 1968 Chicago riots to the people of Chicago because of his dissatisfaction with the minimum use of force employed by Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk in dealing with rioters.
 * They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.
 * A statement he once made in response to criticisms, alluding that he treated criticism on par with vilification and crucifixion.
 * If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?
 * Response to criticism for steering millions of dollars in city insurance to an agency where his son worked.
 * They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.
 * A statement he once made in response to criticisms, alluding that he treated criticism on par with vilification and crucifixion.
 * If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?
 * Response to criticism for steering millions of dollars in city insurance to an agency where his son worked.
 * Response to criticism for steering millions of dollars in city insurance to an agency where his son worked.
 * Response to criticism for steering millions of dollars in city insurance to an agency where his son worked.

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True Grit (1969 film)

True Grit is a 1969 film in which a young girl enlists the aid of a crusty U.S. Marshal to hunt down the man who murdered her father.
 * Directed by Henry Hathaway. Written by Margueritte Roberts, based on the novel by Charles Portis.

The strangest trio ever to track a killer.taglines

Mattie Ross

 * I won't rest until Tom Chaney is barking in Hell.
 * If I smelled as bad as you I wouldn't live near people.
 * If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney, with a mark on his face like banished Cain, I would not advise others how to do so.
 * I also notice that the men of Texas gouge their mounts with great brutal spurs and cultivate their hair like lettuce!
 * I want Tom Chaney hanged for killing my father! It's little to me how many dogs and senators he's killed in Texas.
 * Those horses can't outrun Little Blackie! They're loaded down with fat men and iron!
 * I'm going! And it's not because you say I can't, and it's not because you say I can. I paid good cash money to be here, and I'm on my own business! Now, we'll have no more talk about it.
 * My name is Mattie Ross, of Near Dardanelle in Yell County. My family owns property, and I don't know why I'm being treated like this!
 * Rooster Cogburn is no good friend of mine! He led us straight into your hands, and now he has left me with a gang of cut-throats! Is that what they call "grit" in Fort Smith? We call it something else in Yell County.
 * Papa's marker is not what was ordered. I will make that wool-hatted fool of a stone man change it.

"Rooster" Cogburn

 * Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same! [to Mattie] See? He doesn't pay any attention to me. [shoots the rat] You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You either kill him or let him be.
 * Baby sister, I was born game, and I mean to go out that way.
 * General Price don't belong to me. He just rooms with me. Cats don't belong to nobody. 'Course, I depend on him.
 * A fella that carries a big-bore Sharps carbine might come in handy… if we get jumped by elephants, or buffalo, or something.
 * By God! She reminds me o' me!
 * LaBoeuf, if you get crosswise of me you'll think a ton of brick had fell on you! You'll wisht you was back at the Alamo with Travis!
 * It's a shame, a kid like Moon losing his leg. He's too young to be hoppin' around on a raw peg. Loves to dance too much, and sport!
 * DAMN a man that whistles!
 * Young fella, if you're looking for trouble, I'll accommodate you. Otherwise, leave it alone.
 * Ned doesn't go around killing people for no reason. Had he a reason, he'd kill them.
 * I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
 * Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!
 * Damn that Texican! When you need him, he's dead.
 * We've got to get you to a doctor or you'll be deader than he is!
 * Well, a gun that's unloaded and cocked ain't good for nothin'.

Ranger La Boeuf

 * The French is 'La Bourf'. I say 'La Beef'.
 * I only take one step at a time. That's why I was given two feet.
 * You can't take men by watching them run away!
 * I served under General Kirby Smith. And I don't have to hang my head when I say it.
 * I ain't dead yet, you bushwhacker!
 * She draws him like a gun! [referring to Mattie's constant invocation of her lawyer's name]

Ned Pepper

 * I never busted a cap on a woman or anybody much under sixteen. But it's enough that you know that I'll do what I have to do.
 * Most girls like little play-pretties. But you like guns, don't you?
 * All the Parmalees is touched, but Harold's the worst… no, their Ma's the worst, then comes Harold's brother Farrell… but they're all good shots.
 * If that girl don't stay healthy, you don't neither, understand? And you don't get paid!
 * I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!

Others

 * Tom Chaney: A gun will say a whole lot quick!
 * Tom Chaney: Everything happens to me, and now I'm shot by a child!
 * Colonel Stonehill: Most people around here know of Rooster Cogburn and some people live to regret it. I would not be surprised to learn that he is a relative of yours.
 * Colonel Stonehill: I just received word that a young girl fell head first down a fifty foot well on the Towson Road. I thought perhaps it was you.
 * Moon: He never played me false until he killed me.
 * Mexican Bob: My wounds healed by themselves - from the inside!

Dialogue

 * [Marshal Cogburn is cross-examined by a defense attorney]
 * Attorney: How many men have you shot since you became a marshal, Mr. Cogburn?
 * Rooster: I never shot nobody I didn't have to.
 * Attorney: That was not the question. How many?
 * Rooster: Uh, shot, or killed?
 * Attorney: Oh, let us restrict it to killed, so that we may have a manageable figure!
 * Rooster: Well, twelve to fifteen, stopping men in flight and defending myself.
 * Attorney: Twelve to fifteen? So many that you cannot keep an accurate count! I have examined the record, Mr. Cogburn. A much more accurate figure is available. Come now — how many?
 * Rooster: Counting them two Whartons… twenty-three.
 * Attorney: Twenty-three men in four years. That makes about six men a year!
 * Rooster: It's a dangerous business.

 * [Moon & Emmett Quincy were arrested in previous scene; Moon was shot in the leg during their capture]
 * Moon: Oh, my leg hurts!
 * Rooster: I'll bet it do, sonny-boy. Now you just sit right still so it don't bleed so much.
 * Quincy: I don't know any Ned Pepper. What's he look like?
 * Rooster: Short, feisty fella. He's got a messed-up lower lip. I shot him in it.
 * Quincy: In the lip? What was you aiming at?
 * Rooster: His upper lip.
 * Rooster: His upper lip.

 * Rooster: What we want to do is get them inside that dugout. I'll shoot the last man through the door, and then we'll have 'em over a barrel!
 * La Boeuf: You'll shoot them without a call?
 * Rooster: Well, it'll give 'em to know our intentions is serious! [La Boeuf & Mattie give him disapproving glares] Aw, well, I'll holler down after I shoot and see if any of 'em want to be taken alive — but when they won't, we'll shoot 'em as they come out the door.

 * Mattie: [drinking water from river near camp] That tastes like iron!
 * La Boeuf: You're lucky to be where water's so handy. I've seen the time I've drank out of a filthy hoofprint and I was glad to get it.
 * Rooster: If ever I meet one of you Texas waddies who ain't drunk from a hoofprint, I think I'll… I'll shake their hand, or buy them a Daniel Webster cigar! [he looks over La Boeuf's horse] How long you boys down there been mounted on sheep?
 * La Boeuf: Go ahead and have your little joke. But I'll tell you one thing: that little fella there will still be running when that big American stud of yours is winded and collapsed.
 * Rooster: Ha — sheep! Heh, heh…

 * [Rooster brings four dead outlaws to Indian Police outpost.]
 * Rooster: Boots, I got Hayes and some youngster outside, along with Moon and Quincy. I want you to bury 'em.
 * Boots: They're dead?
 * Rooster: Well, I wouldn't want you to bury 'em if they wasn't!

 * Mattie: I'm here to take you back to Fort Smith and hang you!
 * Chaney: And I think I will not go. Now how do you like that?
 * Mattie: Well, there's a posse of officers up the hill who'll force you to go!
 * Chaney: How many officers?
 * Mattie: I'd say right around fifty — and they mean business! So you just walk up that hill right in front of me.
 * Chaney: I believe I'll oblige those officers to come after me.
 * Mattie: If you refuse to go with me, I'll have to shoot you.
 * Chaney: Is that so? Well, you better cock your piece. [Mattie pulls back the lever on the revolver to load it. She doesn't pull it all the way.] All the way back, until it locks!
 * Mattie: [cocks revolver properly] I know how to do it. Now you mean to say that you won't go with me on your own free will?
 * Chaney: You just got it the other way around, now you will follow me!

''[Mattie pulls the trigger as a response and shoots Chaney in the ribcage. The recoil knocks her back and she falls down, while Chaney falls down onto the sand on the river as well.]''
 * Chaney: I didn't think you'd do it!
 * Rooster: [From the top of the hill] Sis! Where are you!
 * Mattie: I'm down here! I got Chaney!
 * Chaney: I just didn't think you'd do it! One of my short ribs is broke!
 * Mattie: You killed my father when he was trying to help you! You're just a piece of trash! You also killed a senator in Texas when he was sitting on a porch swing!
 * Chaney: Everything happens to me and now I'm shot by a child!
 * Mattie: I'll shoot you again if you don't get up!

 * [Ned Pepper, Mexican Bob, and the Parmalee brothers meet Rooster Cogburn blocking the road.]
 * Rooster: Where's the girl, Ned?
 * Ned: She was in wonderful health when last I saw her. I can't answer for her now.
 * Rooster: You'll answer for her now! Where is she?
 * La Boeuf: [from far off, in outlaw camp] Rooster, make a run for it! I've got Mattie! Chaney too!
 * Ned: Well, Rooster, will you give us the road? I have business elsewhere.
 * Rooster: Farrell, you and your brother stand clear. I've got no interest in you today. Stand clear and you won't get hurt.
 * Harold: Cock-a-doodle-doo! [other outlaws laugh]
 * Ned: What's your intention, Rooster? You think one on four is a dog-fall?
 * Rooster: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned, or see you hanged at Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
 * Ned: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!
 * Rooster: Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!

 * [In a scuffle with Chaney, Mattie falls into a rattlesnake pit.]
 * Mattie: Help me! Please help me! I'm in the pit! There's a snake down here, and skeletons!
 * Chaney: [leaning head over edge of pit] I warrant there'll be another one before long — a little, spindly one! How do you like it?
 * Mattie: [sobbing hysterically] Oh, help me, help me… please, HELP ME!
 * Chaney: You say you don't like it?

Taglines

 * The strangest trio ever to track a killer.
 * The strangest trio ever to track a killer. A fearless, one-eyed U.S. marshal who never knew a dry day in his life... a Texas ranger thirsty for bounty money... and a girl still wet behind the ears who didn't care what they were or who they were as long as they had true grit.
 * A Brand New Brand Of American Frontier Story

Cast

 * John Wayne - Marshal Reuben J. ("Rooster") Cogburn
 * Kim Darby - Mattie Ross
 * Glen Campbell - La Boeuf
 * Jeff Corey - Tom Chaney
 * Strother Martin - Colonel Stonehill
 * Robert Duvall - "Lucky" Ned Pepper
 * Dennis Hopper - Moon
 * Ron Soble - "Boots" Finch
 * John Fiedler - Lawyer J. Noble Daggett

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Anthony Kennedy

Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born 23 July 1936) is an American lawyer and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on November 11, 1987, and took the oath of office on February 18, 1988. Kennedy became the most senior Associate Justice on the court following the death of Antonin Scalia in February 2016. Kennedy retired in July 2018.

1980s

 * Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
 * Beller v. Middendorf, 632 F.2d 788, 809-10 (9th Cir. 1980) upholding a Navy discharge for homosexual conduct.

 * One can conclude that certain essential, or fundamental, rights should exist in any just society. It does not follow that each of those essential rights is one that we as judges can enforce under the written Constitution. The Due Process Clause is not a guarantee of every right that should inhere in an ideal system. Many argue that a just society grants a right to engage in homosexual conduct. If that view is accepted, the Bowers decision in effect says the State of Georgia has the right to make a wrong decision — wrong in the sense that it violates some people's views of rights in a just society. We can extend that slightly to say that Georgia's right to be wrong in matters not specifically controlled by the Constitution is a necessary component of its own political processes. Its citizens have the political liberty to direct the governmental process to make decisions that might be wrong in the ideal sense, subject to correction in the ordinary political process.
 * (Also quoted at p. 443 of Kennedy's 1987 confirmation transcript).

 * Indeed I do and I admire it. I am a practicing Catholic.
 * Alleged response to conservative senator's statement that "I think you know where I stand on abortion" (exchange occurred at White House prior to Justice Kennedy’s nomination). Quoted in Later, Kennedy cast doubt upon that exchange (see p. 91 of 1987 confirmation transcript).

1990s

 * The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
 * International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee, 505 U.S. 672 (concurring opinion) (26 June 1992).

 * Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
 * Why did I resign you ask?
 * Quoted in
 * Reported by Terry Carter in California Lawyer magazine (August 1992)

 * At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State. … people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail…. We conclude the line should be drawn at viability, so that, before that time, the woman has a right to choose to terminate her pregnancy…. there is no line other than viability which is more workable. To be sure, as we have said, there may be some medical developments that affect the precise point of viability, but this is an imprecision within tolerable limits. … A husband has no enforceable right to require a wife to advise him before she exercises her personal choices.
 * Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (29 June 1992) (joint opinion coauthored with Justices Souter and O’Connor).

 * We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
 * Quoted in

 * Even laws enacted for broad and ambitious purposes often can be explained by reference to legitimate public policies which justify the incidental disadvantages they impose on certain persons. Amendment 2, however, in making a general announcement that gays and lesbians shall not have any particular protections from the law, inflicts on them immediate, continuing, and real injuries that outrun and belie any legitimate justifications that may be claimed for it. We conclude that, in addition to the far-reaching deficiencies of Amendment 2 that we have noted, the principles it offends, in another sense, are conventional and venerable; a law must bear a rational relationship to a legitimate governmental purpose, Kadrmas v. Dickinson Public Schools, 487 U. S. 450, 462 (1988), and Amendment 2 does not.
 * Majority opinion in Romer v. Evans (decided 20 May, 1996), 517 U.S. 620, 635, joined by Associate Justices Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer

 * The primary rationale the State offers for Amendment 2 is respect for other citizens' freedom of association, and in particular the liberties of landlords or employers who have personal or religious objections to homosexuality. Colorado also cites its interest in conserving resources to fight discrimination against other groups. The breadth of the amendment is so far removed from these particular justifications that we find it impossible to credit them. We cannot say that Amendment 2 is directed to any identifiable legitimate purpose or discrete objective. It is a status-based enactment divorced from any factual context from which we could discern a relationship to legitimate state interests; it is a classification of persons undertaken for its own sake, something the Equal Protection Clause does not permit. "[C]lass legislation ... [is] obnoxious to the prohibitions of the Fourteenth Amendment .... " Civil Rights Cases, 109 U. S., at 24. We must conclude that Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else. This Colorado cannot do. A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws. Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause, and the judgment of the Supreme Court of Colorado is affirmed. It is so ordered.
 * Majority opinion in Romer v. Evans (decided 20 May, 1996), 517 U.S. 620, 635-636, joined by Associate Justices Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer

 * In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, "Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?" And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, "Oh, I won't legislate." Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?
 * Roth Lecture, USC Law School (20 November 1998).

 * Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.
 * (Interviewed by Bill Moyers for the Frontline documentary "Justice for Sale").

2000s

 * The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.
 * Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U. S. 914 (28 June 2000) (detailing what he deemed a constitutionally protected alternative to partial-birth abortion).

 * The Supreme Court of Florida has said that the legislature intended the State's electors to "participat[e] fully in the federal electoral process," as provided in 3 U. S. C. §5. That statute, in turn, requires that any controversy or contest that is designed to lead to a conclusive selection of electors be completed by December 12. That date is upon us, and there is no recount procedure in place under the State Supreme Court's order that comports with minimal constitutional standards. Because it is evident that any recount seeking to meet the December 12 date will be unconstitutional for the reasons we have discussed, we reverse the judgment of the Supreme Court of Florida ordering a recount to proceed. Seven Justices of the Court agree that there are constitutional problems with the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court that demand a remedy.
 *  Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (12 December 2000).

 * First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
 * Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002) (Opinion of the Court).

 * The argument, in essence, is that protected speech may be banned as a means to ban unprotected speech. This analysis turns the First Amendment upside down. The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech. Protected speech does not become unprotected merely because it resembles the latter. The Constitution requires the reverse.
 * Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002) (Opinion of the Court).

 * Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places. In our tradition the State is not omnipresent in the home. And there are other spheres of our lives and existence, outside the home, where the State should not be a dominant presence. Freedom extends beyond spatial bounds. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression, and certain intimate conduct. The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions
 * Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (26 June 2003).

 * The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.... Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today.... As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
 * Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (26 June 2003).

 * Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment known the components of liberty in its manifold possibilities, they might have been more specific. They did not presume to have this insight. They knew times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
 * Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (26 June 2003).

 * It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.
 * Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (1 March 2005).

 * When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.
 * Roper v. Simmons

 * The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
 * Interview for Academy of Achievement (3 June 2005).

 * I knew Earl Warren very well, on a somewhat professional basis. Professional, as in I was a nine-year-old page boy and he was the Governor. We knew his children and played in the Governor's Mansion and so forth. I have a letter I've given to the Supreme Court Historical Society, in which he wrote and said, "You're going to go very far in government." I'm very proud of the fact that I knew well someone who later became the Chief Justice of the United States.
 * Interview for Academy of Achievement (3 June 2005).

2010s

 * [T]his Court now concludes that independent [political] expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.
 * Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 50 (21 January 2010).

 * Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.
 * Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) (Opinion of the Court).

 * When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.
 * Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) (Opinion of the Court).

 * The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
 * United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709 (2012), Part IV.

 * Only a weak society needs government protection or intervention before it pursues its resolve to preserve the truth. Truth needs neither handcuffs nor a badge for its vindication.
 * United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709 (2012), Part IV.

 * The essence of democracy is that the right to make law rests in the people and flows to the government, not the other way around. Freedom resides first in the people without need of a grant from government.
 * Hollingsworth v. Perry, 570 U.S. 693 (2013), Dissent

 * Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
 * Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. ____, (2015), majority opinion.

 * The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning. When new insight reveals discord between the Constitution’s central protections and a received legal stricture, a claim to liberty must be addressed.
 * Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. ____, (2015), majority opinion.

 * No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.
 * Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. ____, (2015), majority opinion.

 * The freedom secured by the Constitution consists, in one of its essential dimensions, of the right of the individual not to be injured by the unlawful exercise of governmental power. The mandate for segregated schools, Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U. S. 483 (1954); a wrongful invasion of the home, Silverman v. United States, 365 U. S. 505 (1961); or punishing a protester whose views offend others, Texas v. Johnson, 491 U. S. 397 (1989); and scores of other examples teach that individual liberty has constitutional protection, and that liberty’s full extent and meaning may remain yet to be discovered and affirmed. Yet freedom does not stop with individual rights. Our constitutional system embraces, too, the right of citizens to debate so they can learn and decide and then, through the political process, act in concert to try to shape the course of their own times and the course of a nation that must strive always to make freedom ever greater and more secure. Here Michigan voters acted in concert and statewide to seek consensus and adopt a policy on a difficult subject against a historical background of race in America that has been a source of tragedy and persisting injustice. That history demands that we continue to learn, to listen, and to remain open to new approaches if we are to aspire always to a constitutional order in which all persons are treated with fairness and equal dignity. Were the Court to rule that the question addressed by Michigan voters is too sensitive or complex to be within the grasp of the electorate; or that the policies at issue remain too delicate to be resolved save by university officials or faculties, acting at some remove from immediate public scrutiny and control; or that these matters are so arcane that the electorate’s power must be limited because the people cannot prudently exercise that power even after a full debate, that holding would be an unprecedented restriction on the exercise of a fundamental right held not just by one person but by all in common. It is the right to speak and debate and learn and then, as a matter of political will, to act through a lawful electoral process.
 * Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, 572 U. S. ____, (2016), plurality opinion.

 * The respondents in this case insist that a difficult question of public policy must be taken from the reach of the voters, and thus removed from the realm of public discussion, dialogue, and debate in an election campaign. Quite in addition to the serious First Amendment implications of that position with respect to any particular election, it is inconsistent with the underlying premises of a responsible, functioning democracy. One of those premises is that a democracy has the capacity—and the duty—to learn from its past mistakes; to discover and confront persisting biases; and by respectful, rationale deliberation to rise above those flaws and injustices. That process is impeded, not advanced, by court decrees based on the proposition that the public cannot have the requisite repose to discuss certain issues. It is demeaning to the democratic process to presume that the voters are not capable of deciding an issue of this sensitivity on decent and rational grounds. The process of public discourse and political debate should not be foreclosed even if there is a risk that during a public campaign there will be those, on both sides, who seek to use racial division and discord to their own political advantage. An informed public can, and must, rise above this. The idea of democracy is that it can, and must, mature. Freedom embraces the right, indeed the duty, to engage in a rational, civic discourse in order to determine how best to form a consensus to shape the destiny of the Nation and its people.
 * Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, 572 U. S. ____, (2016), plurality opinion.

 * A fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then, after reflection, speak and listen once more. The Court has sought to protect the right to speak in this spatial context. A basic rule, for example, is that a street or a park is a quintessential forum for the exercise of First Amendment rights. See Ward v. Rock Against Racism, 491 U. S. 781, 796 (1989). Even in the modern era, these places are still essential venues for public gatherings to celebrate some views, to protest others, or simply to learn and inquire.
 * Packingham v. North Carolina', 582 U.S. ___ (2017), majority opinion.

 * Our society has come to the recognition that gay persons and gay couples cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth. For that reason the laws and the Constitution can, and in some instances must, protect them in the exercise of their civil rights. The exercise of their freedom on terms equal to others must be given great weight and respect by the courts. At the same time, the religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are protected views and in some instances protected forms of expression. As this Court observed in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. ___ (2015), “[t]he First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths.” Id., at ___ (slip op., at 27). Nevertheless, while those religious and philosophical objections are protected, it is a general rule that such objections do not allow business owners and other actors in the economy and in society to deny protected persons equal access to goods and services under a neutral and generally applicable public accommodations law. See Newman v. Piggy Park Enterprises, Inc., 390 U. S. 400, 402, n. 5 (1968) (per curiam); see also Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., 515 U. S. 557, 572 (1995) (“Provisions like these are well within the State’s usual power to enact when a legislature has reason to believe that a given group is the target of discrimination, and they do not, as a general matter, violate the First or Fourteenth Amendments”).
 * Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission', 584 U.S. ___ (2017), majority opinion, part II, section A.

 * The First Amendment prohibits the establishment of religion and promises the free exercise of religion. From these safeguards, and from the guarantee of freedom of speech, it follows there is freedom of belief and expression. It is an urgent necessity that officials adhere to these constitutional guarantees and mandates in all their actions, even in the sphere of foreign affairs. An anxious world must know that our Government remains committed always to the liberties the Constitution seeks to preserve and protect, so that freedom extends outward, and lasts.
 * Trump v. Hawaii', 585 U.S. ___ (2017), concurrence and last opinion at the Supreme Court before retirement.

Quotes about Kennedy

 * In June 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court's majority opinion in Lawrence overruled Bowers. Kennedy wrote the opinion for the majority, which was long on philosophy and short on precedent. Kennedy's opinion in Lawrence is a result in search of a rationale. He began with "Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places." This statement means absolutely nothing from a constitutional perspective. Every criminal or immoral act can be justified on the grounds of exercising liberty. But Kennedy has a purpose in such an approach. By using the catchall word "liberty" rather than applying the Constitution to the issue, he seeks to expand the plain meaning of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (which prohibits states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law") to grant rights not mentioned elsewhere in the Constitution.
 * Mark Levin, Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America (2004), p. 79-80

 * Kennedy and the majority explicitly overruled Bowers and wrote that Stevens's original reasoning, in dissent, that morality alone is not a legitimate basis to support a law was right. Scalia countered, "This effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation. If, as the Court asserts, the promotion of majoritarian sexual morality is not even a legitimate state interest, [no law against fornication, bigamy, adultery, adult incest, bestiality, and obscenity] can survive rational-basis review. Kennedy, traveling further and further away from his judicial responsibility to interpret the Constitution, wrote of an "emerging awareness that liberty gives substantial protection" to sexual decisions and reviewed how sodomy laws had been repealed in most states and even in Europe, where the European Court of Human Rights found sodomy laws invalid under the European Convention on Human Rights. Kennedy concluded with a lecture about liberty: "The petitioners are entitled to respect their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime. Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them full right to engage in their conduct without intervention of the government... The Texas statute furthers no legitimate state interest which can justify its intrusion into the personal and private life of the individual." (Emphasis added.)
 * Mark Levin, Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America (2004), p. 80

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Doom (series)

Doom is a first-person shooter video game, originally released in 1993 for MS-DOS and is credited with popularizing the genre, numerous sequels and spin-offs have been made since then. The series focuses on a human space marine stationed on mars that fights his way through hoards of demons from hell that are released following a teleporation accident.

Doom and Ultimate Doom

 * Once you beat the big badasses and clean out the moon base you're supposed to win, aren't you? Aren't you? Where's your fat reward and ticket home? What the hell is this? It's not supposed to end this way! It stinks like rotten meat, but looks like the lost Deimos base. Looks like you’re stuck on the shores of Hell. The only way out is through. To continue the Doom experience, play the shores of Hell and its amazing sequel, Inferno!
 * Knee-Deep in the Dead ending

 * You've done it! The hideous Cyberdemon lord that ruled the lost Deimos moon base has been slain and you are triumphant! But... where are you? You clamber to the edge of the moon and look down to see the awful truth. Deimos floats above Hell itself! You've never heard of anyone escaping from Hell, but you'll make the bastards sorry they ever heard of you! Quickly, you rappel down to the surface of Hell. Now, it's on to the final chapter of Doom! -- Inferno!
 * The Shores of Hell ending

 * The loathsome Spiderdemon that masterminded the invasion of the moon bases and caused so much death has had its ass kicked for all time. A hidden doorway opens and you enter. You've proven too tough for Hell to contain, and now Hell at last plays fair -- for you emerge from the door to see the green fields of Earth! Home at last. You wonder what's been happening on Earth while you were battling evil unleashed. It's good that no hellspawn could have come through that door with you...
 * Inferno ending

 * The Spider Mastermind must have sent forth its legions of hellspawn before your final confrontation with that terrible beast from Hell. But you stepped forward and brought forth eternal damnation and suffering upon the horde as a true hero would in the face of something so evil. Besides, someone was gonna pay for what happened to Daisy, your pet rabbit. But now, you see spread before you more potential pain and gibbitude as a nation of demons run amok in our cities. Next stop, Hell on Earth!
 * Thy Flesh Consumed ending

Doom II

 * You have entered deeply into the infested starport. But something is wrong. The monsters have brought their own reality with them, and the starport's technology is being subverted by their presence. Ahead, you see an outpost of Hell. A fortified zone. If you can get past it, you can penetrate into the haunted heart of the starbase and find the controlling switch which holds Earth's population hostage.
 * After completing Level 6

 * You have won! Your victory has enabled humankind to evacuate Earth and escape the nightmare. Now you are the only human left on the face of the planet. Cannibal mutations, carnivorous aliens, and evil spirits are your only neighbors. You sit back and wait for death, content that you have saved your species. But then, Earth control beams down a message from space: sensors have located the source of the alien invasion. If you go there, you may be able to block their entry. The alien base is in the heart of your own home city, not far from the starport. Slowly and painfully you get up and return to the fray.
 * After completing Level 11

 * Congratulations, you've found the secret level! Looks like it's been built by humans, rather than demons. You wonder who the inmates of this corner of Hell will be.
 * After finding the secret level

 * Congratulations, you've found the super secret level! You'd better blaze through this one!
 * After finding the super secret level

 * You are at the corrupt heart of the city, surrounded by the corpses of your enemies. You see no way to destroy the creatures entryway on this side, so you clench your teeth and plunge through it. There must be a way to close it on the other side. What do you care if you've got to go through Hell to get to it?
 * After completing Level 20

 * The horrendous visage of the biggest demon you've ever seen crumbles before you, after you pump your rockets into his exposed brain. The monster shrivels up and dies, its thrashing limbs devastating untold miles of Hell's surface. You've done it. The invasion is over. Earth is saved. Hell is a wreck. You wonder where bad folks will go when they die, now. Wiping the sweat from your forehead you begin the long trek back home. Rebuilding Earth ought to be a lot more fun than ruining it was.
 * Doom II ending

TNT: Evilution

 * You've fought your way out of the infested exterimental labs. It seems that UAC has once again gulped it down. With their high turnover, it must be hard for poor old UAC to by corporate health insurance nowadays.. Ahead lies the military complex, now swarming with diseased horrors hot to get to their teeth into you. With luck, the complex still has some warlike ordnance laying around.
 * After completing Level 6

 * You hear the grinding of heavy machinery ahead. You sure hope they're not stamping out new hellspawn, but you're ready to ream out a whole herd if you had to. They might be planning a bloodfeast, but you feel about as mean as two thousand maniacs packed into one mad killer. You don't plan to go down easy.
 * After completing Level 11

 * What now? Looks totally different. Kind of like King Tut's Condo. Well, whatever's here can't be any worse than usual. Can it? Or maybe its best to let sleeping god's lie..
 * After finding the secret level

 * Time for a vacation. You've burst the bowels of Hell and by golly you're ready for a break. You mutter to yourself, maybe someone else can kick Hell's ass next time around. Ahead lies a quiet town, with peaceful flowing water, quaint buildings, and presumably no hellspawn. As you step off the transport, you hear the stomp of a Cyberdemon's iron shoe.
 * After finding the super secret level

 * The vista opening ahead looks damn familiar, smells familiar, too -- like a fried excrement. You didn't like this place before, you sure as Hell ain't planning to like it now. The more you brood on it, the madder you get, hefting your gun, an evil grin trickles onto your face. Time to take some names.
 * After completing Level 20

 * Suddenly, all is silent, from one horizon to the other. The agonizing echo of Hell fades away, the nightmare sky turns to blue, the heaps of monsters corpses start to evaporate along with the evil stench that filled the air. Jeeze, maybe you've done it. Have you really won? Something rumbles in the distance. A blue light begins to glow inside the ruined skull of the Demon-Spitter.
 * TNT ending

The Plutonia Experiment

 * You gloat over the steaming carcass of the guardian. With its death, you've wrested the accelerator from the stinking claws of Hell. You relax and glance around the room. Damn! There was supposed to be at least one working prototype, but you can't set. The demons must have taken it. You must find the prototype, or all your struggles will have been wasted. Keep moving, keep fighting, keep killing. Oh yes, keep living, too.
 * After completing Level 6

 * Even the deadly Arch-vile labyrinth could not stop you, and you've gotten to the prototype accelerator which is soon efficiently and permanently deactivated. You're good at that kind of thing.
 * After completing Level 11

 * You've found the second hardest level we got. Hope you have a saved game a level or two previous. If not, be prepared to die aplenty. For master marines only.
 * After finding the secret level

 * Betcha wondered just what the hardest level we had ready for ya? Now you know. No one gets out alive.
 * After finding the super secret level

 * You've bashed and battered your into the heart of the devil-hive. Time for a search-and-destroy mission, aimed at the Gatekeeper. Whose foul offspring is cascading to earth. Yeah. He's bad, but you know who's worse! Grinning Evilly. You check your gear, and get ready to give the bastard a little hell of your own making!
 * After completing Level 20

 * The Gatekeeper's evil face is splattered all over the place. As its tattered corpse collapses, An inverted gate firms and sucks down the shards of the last prototype accelerator, not to mention the few remaining demons. You're done. Hell has gone back to pounding bad dead folks instead of good live ones. Remember to tell your grandkids to put a rocket launcher in your coffin. If you go to Hell when you die, you’ll need it for some final cleaning-up...
 * Plutonia ending

Doom 3

 * Swann: I'm here, because there seems to be some very serious problems.
 * Betruger: Oh, really? Do I need to remind you of the groundbreaking work that we're doing here?
 * Swann: No, but I've been authorized by the Board to look at everything.
 * Betruger: The Board authorized you? Hmm. The Board doesn't know the first thing about science. All they want is something that will make them more money: some product. Don't worry. They'll get their product.
 * Swann: After how many accidents? Tell me, Dr. Betruger. Why are so many workers spooked, complaining, requesting transfers off Mars?
 * Betruger: They simply can't handle life here. They're exhausted and overworked. If I had a larger, more competent staff and a bigger budget, even these few accidents... could have been avoided.
 * Swann: I'm afraid you'll get nothing more until my request is filed with the Board. I will need full access, Dr. Betruger, Delta included. I won't have any difficulties doing that, will I?
 * Betruger: Only if you get lost, Swann. Just stay out of my way. Amazing things will happen here soon. You just wait.
 * Swann: Let's go.

 * Derek Wayland: [in an email to Walter Connors] I wanted to personally thank you for your latest modification proposal for the dilation matrix. The boys here at CPU have crunched your numbers and after some deliberation we've agreed that this is the most fantastically bogus theory that we've ever seen. If you are remotely interested in not getting your gnome-loving dragon-slaying power-leveling ass fired, I'd suggest you lay off the role-playing and learn some basic math. Good luck on your next review.

 * Sarge: [talks to DoomGuy after the cutscene of the members of Bravo Team being killed] Marine! Bravo Team is down, their operational status is unknown. They were carrying a military transmission card, it's vital that you retrieve that card as it contains encoded data needed to send a distress signal to the fleet. You're the last hope to get reinforcements! Find that card, and find it fast!
 * Sarge: [as the boss Sabaoth] My duty has ALWAYS been to kill you, soldier!

 * Sarge: [upon DoomGuy entering the Communications level] Marine, have you reached the Communications facility yet? You've gotta get that message to the fleet now! And watch out for Campbell and Swann, those UAC suits don't give a damn about what happens to any of us. Now get a move on!

 * Sarge: [if DoomGuy cancels the transmission] Marine, you have just violated a direct order! Get your ass back to the counsel and send that transmission!

 * Betruger: Welcome to my domain. Behold the shape of things to come. The time has come for the forces of Hell to escape their prison and drive Mankind into darkness. Your darkest fears will soon be realized as your soul burns in Hell! There's nowhere to run. I am everywhere. And you will never find the thing you seek!

 * Betruger: [as soon as DoomGuy confronts the Guardian of Hell] My Guardian will destroy you!

About Doom

 * His sound would cause great fear during my gaming sessions. Upon discovery of this character I felt frozen watching him methodically reanimating his brethrens one by one. Carefully he walked to each of the fallen corpses summoning his endless energy into the once lifeless body calling upon it to walk again. The feeling of helplessness combined with a shear state of panic had set in. If left unattended he would resurrect all of the characters I had painstaking silenced one by one. If I was to confront him, I was surely to become engulfed in flames and loose all sense of direction looking for the nearest corner to block his line of sight. If unsuccessful in my search for shelter, I would be dealt with swiftly and forcibly by a power so great I would surely be catapulted high in the air and my lifeless body left to fall to the floor. I'm talking about no other then the Arch-Vile of Doom II.
 * Paul Butterfield

 * Carmack: On the thematic side of things, I pushed certainly for the demonic aspect of it. That's still something that I feel good about, looking back: In later games and later times, when games get attacked with some of the moral ambiguity or actual negativity about what you're doing, I always felt good about the decision that in Doom, you're fighting demons. There's no gray area here, it is black and white, you're the good guys, they're the bad guys and everything that you're doing to them is fully deserved. There was the little bit of undercurrent, especially when I was younger and I was a bit more aggressive. I think at one point, I said it was fun offending the easily offended. Poking at the fundamentalists was at least a sub-current of picking the demons, and the pentagrams, and the goat's heads and all the things in there. So I was certainly supportive in pushing that but obviously all the actual instantiations of them were done by the artists, Kevin and Adrian.
 * WIRED: Were you, then, surprised when it became as controversial as it did?
 * Carmack: Not really. I think that it was interesting being the poster child for Congress for a decade; to get up and wave a game around, it was always Mortal Kombat and Doom until Grand Theft Auto came around and made us look pretty tame in comparison for moral outrage purposes.

 * Carmack: I am greatly proud of the fact that Doom is one of those things where everything that has a 32-bit processor has had Doom run on it, and I think that's been one of the great aspects of having it be open source, having everything out there means that people have maintained that and kept it up to date.
 * John Carmack, [HTTPS://WWW.WIRED.COM/2013/12/JOHN-CARMACK-DOOM/ "Q&A: DOOM'S CREATOR LOOKS BACK ON 20 YEARS OF DEMONIC MAYHEM, CHRIS KOHLER"], WIRED, (12.10.13)

 * Thematically, Doom was viewed as 'Aliens' meets 'Evil Dead 2'.
 * John Carmack,

 * There is a scene in 'The Color of Money' where Tom Cruise shows up at a pool hall with a custom pool cue in a case. 'What do you have in there?' asks someone. 'Doom.' replied Cruise with a cocky grin. That, and the resulting carnage, was how I viewed us springing the game on the industry.
 * John Carmack on why the game was named "Doom"

 * In 1993, we fully expect to be the number one cause of decreased productivity in businesses around the world.
 * Doom press release by id Software (1993)

 * I remember playing Doom 'til 3 o'clock in the morning. It was the first time I had ever been frightened while I was using a computer. And it really opened my eyes - experiences like that are why we play computer games.
 * Gabe Newell

 * Those seeking the ultimate in home demon protection can now protect their plane of existence with a double-barreled, pump-action combat shotgun that blasts more holes than Mobil Oil.
 * GameSpot on Doom II

 * This ultimately wonderful classic is truly the most inspirational first-person shooter ever created, and if you had to choose between Doom and another game, I don't care what it is, Doom would always be the winner.
 * David Keyes
 * These games are getting really realistic. Next year I might even play in the big Doom tournament. You might wonder what I'm doing here. Well, I'm getting kind of an inside look at some of these new games.
 * Bill Gates at a 1995 developer event, giving a presentation to promote Windows 95 as a gaming platform while digitally superimposed into Doom.

 * Don't interrupt me.
 * Bill Gates, in the same presentation, shooting a zombie.

 * Playing this game for one hour may be acceptable. Playing for many hours could be cause for anxiety and/or depression. Playing for hundreds of hours is getting you ready to take action against anyone who gets in your way.
 * John Gocke, in a review of Doom published at Christian Spotlight's Guide to Games in 2000

 * It's gonna be like fucking Doom man - after the bombs explode. Tick, tick, tick, tick... Haa! That fucking shotgun [he kisses his gun] straight out of Doom.
 * Eric Harris

 * Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; teach a man to play Doom, and you'll never get another day's work out of him.
 * PC Gamer magazine

 * I have no problems with the demons in the game. They're just cartoons. And, anyway, they're the bad guys.
 * Sandy Petersen, when asked if his work on Doom conflicted with his Mormon beliefs; as quoted in David Kushner, Masters of Doom.

 * An old Doom map was the inspiration for 2forts, as well as TF itself
 * PlanetFortress

 * Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun.  Eat leaden death, demon...
 * Terry Pratchett

 * It has to be well timed. It needs to have the right components that maybe contain emerging technologies or something like, say, when Doom came out -- the Network play -- there weren't many games like that. There was a really great 3D world that a lot of people hadn't seen. It was light-years ahead of Wolfenstein. It was shareware, so it had Internet distribution. We used the Internet to get it all over the place. So it used a lot of stuff that was just becoming popular at that time. id just capitalized on it.
 * John Romero, in response to "What makes a classic game?"

 * Bobby Prince was a lawyer before he was a musician. He knew the legal amount of sampling that he could do without getting into trouble.
 * John Romero on the Doom & Doom II soundtracks

 * GamesBeat: What do you say when people ask you for the quick “What’s the legacy of Doom? What’s the cultural impact of Doom?” It would make my head hurt.
 * Romero: Geez. The first-person shooter genre. Video game violence. Multiplayer. Maybe e-sports. The game engine. Modifying games. The mod community, which is where Portal and Team Fortress and Counter-Strike and all these other huge franchises came from.
 * GamesBeat: Did you know you would offend people? Was it a countercultural thing?
 * Romero: No. We never made our games to offend people or shock people. We made games for ourselves.

 * We weren’t worried about offensive stuff, because that would stop us from making what we were trying to make. As artists, we’re trying to be true to our vision. Because, in the game, you were killing demons, and demons are really a religious thing—everyone in the company was an atheist. We didn’t believe in hell or heaven or any of that stuff. Putting demons in there was just, “This is what people believe in.” We thought that the juxtaposition of future science—a space marine on a moon of Mars with all these experiments happening, it’s very scientific and futuristic—and then all of a sudden this religious thing happens, demons coming through a portal, versus aliens—
 * GamesBeat: I think Tom Hall mentioned there was a comic book that gave you guys some ideas?
 * Romero: For weapons, yeah, the Mage comic book. That gave us some weapon ideas. But the whole, “It’s not aliens, it’s actually hell coming,” we just tried to be true to that. What would hell have in it? Probably pentagrams and people shredded in half hanging from the ceiling. Beating hearts and crazy stuff like that. So that’s what we made – the things that people think would be in hell. Not that we believe in hell. We just made the things that everyone imagines would be there. We tried to be true to that vision for the game.
 * John Romero, "After 20 years, Doom co-creator John Romero looks back on the impact of a seminal (and Satanic) game (interview)" by Dean Takahashi, Venturebeat.com (December 11, 2013)

 * Doom is to id Software what Revolver was to the Beatles.
 * Harvey Smith

 * I jumped out of my seat the first time I saw one of those pink bruisers, and I cringed when I heard the imps the first time - but when I walked out into that big arena with that rocket spewing giant chasing me down I literally broke out in a cold sweat. Nothing before or since has induced that same mix of adrenaline fueled terror.
 * Mark Terrano on the Cyberdemon

 * When any device gets smart enough, someone, somewhere ports the classic first-person shooter to it, simply because they can.
 * Wired,

 * Along with Doom II, we also saw the first traces of multiplayer gaming. Playing it against your friend was something so different, and that is also why we continued to play today.
 * X9

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