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Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of at least 165 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality.

Quotes

 * As political equality is the remedy for political tyranny, so is economic equality the only way of putting an end to the economic tyranny exercised by the few over the many through superiority of wealth. The industrial system of a nation, like its political system, should be a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Until economic equality shall give a basis to political equality, the latter is but a sham.
 * Masthead, from Bellamy's newspaper The New Nation. Quoted in Charles Allan Madison, Critics and Crusaders: Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom, Transaction Publishers, 1948.

Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880)

 * Forgiving sins, I should have known, is not blotting them out. The blood of Christ only turns them red instead of black. It leaves them in the record. It leaves them in the memory.
 * Ch. 1.

 * A sense of utter loneliness—loneliness inevitable, crushing, eternal, the loneliness of existence, encompassed by the infinite void of unconsciousness—enfolded him as a pall. Life lay like an incubus on his bosom. He shuddered at the thought that death might overlook him, and deny him its refuge.
 * Ch. 2.

 * No girl, however coolly her blood may flow, can be pressed to a man's breast, wildly throbbing with love for her, and not experience some agitation in consequence. Whatever may be the state of her sentiments, there is a magnetism in such a contact which she cannot at once throw off. That kiss had brought her relations with Henry to a crisis. It had precipitated the necessity of some decision. She could no longer hold him off, and play with him. By that bold dash he had gained a vantage-ground, a certain masterful attitude which he had never held before. Yet, after all, I am not sure that she was not just a little afraid of him, and, moreover, that she did not like him all the better for it.
 * Ch. 3.

 * The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.
 * Ch. 4.

 * And, in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?...In your day governments were accustomed, on the slightest international misunderstanding, to seize upon the bodies of citizens and deliver them over by hundreds of thousands to death and mutilation, wasting their treasures the while like water; and all this oftenest for no imaginable profit to the victims.
 * Ch. 6.

We have no wars now, and our governments no war powers, but in order to protect every citizen against hunger, cold, and nakedness, and provide for all his physical and mental needs, the function is assumed of directing his industry for a term of years. No, Mr. West, I am sure on reflection you will perceive that it was in your age, not in ours, that the extension of the functions of governments was extraordinary. Not even for the best ends would men now allow their governments such powers as were then used for the most maleficent.
 * Ch. 6.

 * But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.
 * Ch. 8.

 * Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.
 * Ch. 11.

 * The difference between the past and present selves of the same individual is so great as to make them different persons for all moral purposes. That single fact we were just speaking of—the fact that no man would care for vengeance on one who had injured him, provided he knew that all memory of the offence had been blotted utterly from his enemy's mind—proves the entire proposition. It shows that it is not the present self of his enemy that the avenger is angry with at all, but the past self. Even in the blindness of his wrath he intuitively recognizes the distinction between the two.
 * Ch. 11.

Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)

 * In the first place, it was firmly and sincerely believed that there was no other way in which Society could get along, except the many pulled at the rope and the few rode, and not only this, but that no very radical improvement even was possible, either in the harness, the coach, the roadway, or the distribution of the toil. It had always been as it was, and it always would be so. It was a pity, but it could not be helped, and philosophy forbade wasting compassion on what was beyond remedy.
 * Ch. 1.

 * Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. the idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.
 * Ch. 1.

 * What we did see was that industrially the country was in a very queer way. The relation between the workingman and the employer, between labor and capital, appeared in some unaccountable manner to have become dislocated. The working classes had quite suddenly and very generally become infected with a profound discontent with their condition, and an idea that it could be greatly bettered if they only knew how to go about it. On every side, with one accord, they preferred demands for higher pay, shorter hours, better dwellings, better educational advantages, and a share in the refinements and luxuries of life, demands which it was impossible to see the way to granting unless the world were to become a great deal richer than it then was.
 * Ch. 1.

 * It was no doubt the common opinion of thoughtful men that society was approaching a critical period which might result in great changes. The labor troubles, their causes, course, and cure, took lead of all other topics in the public prints, and in serious conversation.
 * Ch. 1.

 * The nervous tension of the public mind could not have been more strikingly illustrated than it was by the alarm resulting from the talk of a small band of men who called themselves anarchists, and proposed to terrify the American people into adopting their ideas by threats of violence, as if a mighty nation which had but just put down a rebellion of half its own numbers, in order to maintain its political system, were likely to adopt a new social system out of fear.
 * Ch. 1.

 * As one of the wealthy, with a large stake in the existing order of things, I naturally shared the apprehensions of my class. The particular grievance I had against the working classes at the time of which I write, on account of the effect of their strikes in postponing my wedded bliss, no doubt lent a special animosity to my feeling toward them.
 * Ch. 1.

 * The cities of that period were rather shabby affairs. If you had the taste to make them splendid, which I would not be so rude as to question, the general poverty resulting from your extraordinary industrial system would not have given you the means. Moreover, the excessive individualism which then prevailed was inconsistent with much public spirit. What little wealth you had seems almost wholly to have been lavished in private luxury. Nowadays, on the contrary, there is no destination of the surplus wealth so popular as the adornment of the city, which all enjoy in equal degree.
 * Ch. 4.

 * The industry and commerce of the country, ceasing to be conducted by a set of irresponsible corporations and syndicates of private persons at their caprice and for their profit, were entrusted to a single syndicate representing the people, to be conducted in the common interest for the common profit. The nation, that is to say, organized as the one great business corporation in which all other corporations were absorbed; it became the one capitalist in the place of all other capitalists, the sole employer, the final monopoly in which all previous and lesser monopolies were swallowed up, a monopoly in the profits and economies of which all citizens shared.
 * Ch. 5.

 * Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.
 * Ch. 6.

 * The organization of society with you was such that officials were under a constant temptation to misuse their power for the private profit of themselves or others. Under such circumstances it seems almost strange that you dared entrust them with any of your affairs. Nowadays, on the contrary, society is so constituted that there is absolutely no way in which an official, however ill-disposed, could possibly make any profit for himself or any one else by a misuse of his power. Let him be as bad an official as you please, he cannot be a corrupt one. There is no motive to be. The social system no longer offers a premium on dishonesty.
 * Ch. 6.

 * We leave the question whether a man shall be a brain or hand worker entirely to him to settle. At the end of the term of three years as a common laborer, which every man must serve, it is for him to choose, in accordance to his natural tastes, whether he will fit himself for an art or profession, or be a farmer or mechanic. If he feels that he can do better work with his brains than his muscles, he finds every facility provided for testing the reality of his supposed bent, of cultivating it, and if fit of pursuing it as his avocation. The schools of technology, of medicine, of art, of music, of histrionics, and of higher liberal learning are always open to aspirants without condition.
 * Ch. 7.

 * Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
 * Ch. 9.

 * The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
 * Ch. 9.

 * When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.
 * Ch. 9.

 * Badly off as the men... were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.
 * Ch. 11.

 * [I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.
 * Ch. 11.

 * An American credit card... is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.
 * Ch. 13.

 * Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture... have simply made us all members of one class.
 * Ch. 14.

 * If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
 * Ch. 18.

 * In your day fully nineteen twentieths of the crime, using the word broadly to include all sorts of misdemeanors, resulted from the inequality in the possessions of individuals; want tempted the poor, lust of greater gains, or the desire to preserve former gains, tempted the well-to-do. Directly or indirectly, the desire for money, which then meant every good thing, was the motive of all this crime, the taproot of a vast poison growth, which the machinery of law, courts, and police could barely prevent from choking your civilization outright.
 * Ch. 19

 * When we made the nation the sole trustee of the wealth of the people, and guaranteed to all abundant maintenance, on the one hand abolishing want, and on the other checking the accumulation of riches, we cut this root, and the poison tree that overshadowed your society withered, like Jonah's gourd, in a day. As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days, when education and good manners are not the monopoly of a few, but universal, such atrocities are scarcely ever heard of.
 * Ch. 19

 * We do without the lawyers, certainly... It would not seem reasonable to us, in a case where the only interest of the nation is to find out the truth, that persons should take part in the proceedings who had an acknowledged motive to color it. But who defends the accused? If he is a criminal he needs no defense, for he pleads guilty in most instances. The plea of the accused is not a mere formality with us, as with you. It is usually the end of the case.
 * Ch. 19

 * If he denies his guilt, must still be tried. But trials are few, for in most cases the guilty man pleads guilty. When he makes a false plea and is clearly proved guilty, his penalty is doubled. Falsehood is, however, so despised among us that few offenders would lie to save themselves... If lying has gone out of fashion, this is indeed the 'new heavens and the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness,' which the prophet foretold.
 * Ch. 19

 * There is neither private property, beyond personal belongings, now, nor buying and selling, and therefore the occasion of nearly all the legislation formerly necessary has passed away. Formerly, society was a pyramid poised on its apex. All the gravitations of human nature were constantly tending to topple it over, and it could be maintained upright, or rather upwrong (if you will pardon the feeble witticism), by an elaborate system of constantly renewed props and buttresses and guy-ropes in the form of laws. A central Congress and forty state legislatures, turning out some twenty thousand laws a year, could not make new props fast enough to take the place of those which were constantly breaking down or becoming ineffectual through some shifting of the strain. Now society rests on its base, and is in as little need of artificial supports as the everlasting hills.
 * Ch. 19

 * Whatever her sorrow had once been, for nearly a century she had ceased to weep, and, my sudden passion spent, my own tears dried away. I had loved her very dearly in my other life, but it was a hundred years ago! I do not know but some may find in this confession evidence of lack of feeling, but I think, perhaps, that none can have had an experience sufficiently like mine to enable them to judge me.
 * Ch. 20

 * You will see...many very important differences between our methods of education and yours, but the main difference is that nowadays all persons equally have those opportunities of higher education which in your day only an infinitesimal portion of the population enjoyed. We should think we had gained nothing worth speaking of, in equalizing the physical comfort of men, without this educational equality....
 * Ch. 21.

 * If it took half the revenue of the nation, nobody would grudge it, nor even if it took it all save a bare pittance. But in truth the expense of educating ten thousand youth is not ten nor five times that of educating one thousand. The principle which makes all operations on a large scale proportionally cheaper than on a small scale holds as to education also.
 * Ch. 21.

 * The actual expense of your colleges appears to have been very low, and would have been far lower if their patronage had been greater. The higher education nowadays is as cheap as the lower, as all grades of teachers, like all other workers, receive the same support. We have simply added to the common school system of compulsory education, in vogue in Massachusetts a hundred years ago, a half dozen higher grades, carrying the youth to the age of twenty-one and giving him what you used to call the education of a gentleman, instead of turning him loose at fourteen or fifteen with no mental equipment beyond reading, writing, and the multiplication table.
 * Ch. 21.

 * The greater efficiency which education gives to all sorts of labor, except the rudest, makes up in a short period for the time lost in acquiring it.
 * Ch. 21.
 * Manual labor meant association with a rude, coarse, and ignorant class of people. There is no such class now.
 * Ch. 21.

 * No single thing is so important to every man as to have for neighbors intelligent, companionable persons. There is nothing, therefore, which the nation can do for him that will enhance so much his own happiness as to educate his neighbors.
 * Ch. 21.

 * To educate some to the highest degree, and leave the mass wholly uncultivated, as you did, made the gap between them almost like that between different natural species, which have no means of communication. What could be more inhuman than this consequence of a partial enjoyment of education!
 * Ch. 21.

 * In your day, riches debauched one class with idleness of mind and body, while poverty sapped the vitality of the masses by overwork, bad food, and pestilent homes. The labor required of children, and the burdens laid on women, enfeebled the very springs of life. Instead of these maleficent circumstances, all now enjoy the most favorable conditions of physical life; the young are carefully nurtured and studiously cared for; the labor which is required of all is limited to the period of greatest bodily vigor, and is never excessive; care for one's self and one's family, anxiety as to livelihood, the strain of a ceaseless battle for life—all these influences, which once did so much to wreck the minds and bodies of men and women, are known no more... Insanity, for instance, which in the nineteenth century was so terribly common a product of your insane mode of life, has almost disappeared, with its alternative, suicide.
 * Ch. 21.

 * Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.
 * Ch. 22.

 * The next of the great wastes was that from competition. The field of industry was a battlefield as wide as the world, in which the workers wasted, in assailing one another, energies which, if expended in concerted effort, as to-day, would have enriched all. As for mercy or quarter in this warfare, there was absolutely no suggestion of it. To deliberately enter a field of business and destroy the enterprises of those who had occupied it previously, in order to plant one's own enterprise on their ruins, was an achievement which never failed to command popular admiration. Nor is there any stretch of fancy in comparing this sort of struggle with actual warfare, so far as concerns the mental agony and physical suffering which attended the struggle, and the misery which overwhelmed the defeated and those dependent on them. Now nothing about your age is, at first sight, more astounding to a man of modern times than the fact that men engaged in the same industry, instead of fraternizing as comrades and co-laborers to a common end, should have regarded each other as rivals and enemies to be throttled and overthrown. This certainly seems like sheer madness, a scene from bedlam.
 * Ch. 22.

 * Your contemporaries, with their mutual throat-cutting, knew very well what they were at. The producers of the nineteenth century were not, like ours, working together for the maintenance e of the community, but each solely for his own maintenance at the expense of the community. If, in working to this end, he at the same time increased the aggregate wealth, that was merely incidental. It was just as feasible and as common to increase one's private hoard by practices injurious to the general welfare. One's worst enemies were necessarily those of his own trade, for, under your plan of making private profit the motive of production, a scarcity of the article he produced was what each particular producer desired.
 * Ch. 22

 * Their system of unorganized and antagonistic industries was as absurd economically as it was morally abominable. Selfishness was their only science, and in industrial production selfishness is suicide. Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production; and not till the idea of increasing the individual hoard gives place to the idea of increasing the common stock can industrial combination be realized, and the acquisition of wealth really begin. Even if the principle of share and share alike for all men were not the only humane and rational basis for a society, we should still enforce it as economically expedient, seeing that until the disintegrating influence of self-seeking is suppressed no true concert of industry is possible.'
 * Ch. 22.

 * My friends, if you would see men again the beasts of prey they seemed in the nineteenth century, all you have to do is to restore the old social and industrial system, which taught them to view their natural prey in their fellow-men, and find their gain in the loss of others. No doubt it seems to you that no necessity, however dire, would have tempted you to subsist on what superior skill or strength enabled you to wrest from others equally needy.
 * Ch. 26.

 * Even the ministers of religion were not exempt from this cruel necessity. While they warned their flocks against the love of money, regard for their families compelled them to keep an outlook for the pecuniary prizes of their calling. Poor fellows, theirs was indeed a trying business, preaching to men a generosity and unselfishness which they and everybody knew would, in the existing state of the world, reduce to poverty those who should practice them, laying down laws of conduct which the law of self-preservation compelled men to break.
 * Ch. 26.

 * Stores! stores! stores! miles of stores! ten thousand stores to distribute the goods needed by this one city, which in my dream had been supplied with all things from a single warehouse, as they were ordered through one great store in every quarter, where the buyer, without waste of time or labor, found under one roof the world's assortment in whatever line he desired. There the labor of distribution had been so slight as to add but a scarcely perceptible fraction to the cost of commodities to the user. The cost of production was virtually all he paid. But here the mere distribution of the goods, their handling alone, added a fourth, a third, a half and more, to the cost. All these ten thousand plants must be paid for, their rent, their staffs of superintendence, their platoons of salesmen, their ten thousand sets of accountants, jobbers, and business dependents, with all they spent in advertising themselves and fighting one another, and the consumers must do the paying. What a famous process for beggaring a nation!
 * Ch. 28.

 * Could they be reasoning beings, who did not see the folly which, when the product is made and ready for use, wastes so much of it in getting it to the user? If people eat with a spoon that leaks half its contents between bowl and lip, are they not likely to go hungry?
 * Ch. 28.

 * Presently, too, as I observed the wretched beings about me more closely, I perceived that they were all quite dead. Their bodies were so many living sepulchres. On each brutal brow was plainly written the hic jacet of a soul dead within.
 * Ch. 28.

 * As I looked, horror struck, from one death's head to another, I was affected by a singular hallucination. Like a wavering translucent spirit face superimposed upon each of these brutish masks I saw the ideal, the possible face that would have been the actual if mind and soul had lived.
 * Ch. 28.

 * I was moved with contrition as with a strong agony, for I had been one of those who had endured that these things should be. Therefore now I found upon my garments the blood of this great multitude of strangled souls of my brothers. The voice of their blood cried out against me from the ground. Every stone of the reeking pavements, every brick of the pestilential rookeries, found a tongue and called after me as I fled: What hast thou done with thy brother Abel?
 * Ch. 28.

 * Do you not know that close to your doors a great multitude of men and women, flesh of your flesh, live lives that are one agony from birth to death? Listen! their dwellings are so near that if you hush your laughter you will hear their grievous voices, the piteous crying of the little ones that suckle poverty, the hoarse curses of men sodden in misery turned half-way back to brutes, the chaffering of an army of women selling themselves for bread. With what have you stopped your ears that you do not hear these doleful sounds?
 * Ch. 28.

 * The folly of men, not their hard-heartedness, was the great cause of the world's poverty. It was not the crime of man, nor of any class of men, that made the race so miserable, but a hideous, ghastly mistake, a colossal world-darkening blunder.
 * Ch. 28.

 * On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
 * Author's postscript.

 * Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
 * Author's postscript.

Equality (1897)
Power
 * Government is actually now what it nominally was in the America of your day--the servant, tool, and instrument by which the people give effect to their will, itself being without will.
 * Power over others is necessarily demoralizing to the master and degrading to the subject.
 * It was not till the kings had been shorn of power and the interregnum of sham democracy had set in, leaving no virile force in the state or the world to resist the money power, that the opportunity for a world-wide plutocratic despotism arrived.
 * Put workingmen in the places of the capitalists and they would have done just as the capitalists were doing. In fact, whenever workingmen did become capitalists they were commonly said to make the hardest sort of masters.

Wage slavery
 * The slave received subsistence--clothing and shelter--and the wage-earner who could get more than these out of his wages was rarely fortunate. The rate of wages, except in new countries and under special conditions and for skilled workers, kept at about the subsistence point, quite as often dropping below as rising above. The main difference was that the master expended the subsistence wage of the chattel slave for him while the earner expended it for himself.

Distribution of labor
 * ...the theory that a person has a right in dealing with his fellows to take advantage of his superior abilities is nothing other than a slightly more roundabout expression of the doctrine that might is right.
 * Even the worker of special ability, who might hope to gain most by it, could not hope to gain so much as he would lose in common with others by sacrificing the increased efficiency of the industrial machinery that would result from the sentiment of solidarity and public spirit among the workers arising from a feeling of complete unity of interest.
 * For the reason that there was no fair play or suggestion of justice in the distribution of work, everybody shirked it who could, and those who could not shirk it cursed the luckier ones and got even by doing as bad work as they could. Suppose a rich young fellow like myself had a feeling that he would like to do his part. How was he going to go about it? There was absolutely no social organization by which labor could be shared on any principle of justice. There was no possibility of co-operation. We had to choose between taking advantage of the economic system to live on other people or have them take advantage of it to live on us...There being no more moral satisfaction in the one alternative than the other, we naturally preferred the first. By glimpses all the more decent of us realized the ineffable meanness of sponging our living out of the toilers, but our consciences were completely bedeviled by an economic system which seemed a hopeless muddle that nobody could see through or set right or do right under.

Property
 * If you own the things men must have, you own the men who must have them.
 * ...the old so-called ethics of property absolutely overlooked the whole ethical side of the subject--namely, its bearing on human relations.
 * The Revolution, that is to say, instead of denying or abolishing the institution of private property, affirmed it in an incomparably more positive, beneficial, permanent, and general form than had ever been known before.
 * The principle of inheritance, the backbone of the whole property system, at the first challenge of serious criticism abandoned all ethical defense and shriveled into a mere convention established by law...

Old economics
 * Their maxim that demand governed supply, and supply would always meet demand, referred in no way to the demand representing human need, but wholly to an artificial thing called the market, itself the product of the profit system.
 * To have criticised the profit system would have been flat blasphemy. The learned men called it a problem--the problem of the unemployed--and gave it up as a conundrum. It was a favorite way our ancestors had of dodging questions which they could not answer without attacking vested interests to call them problems and give them up as insolvable mysteries of Divine Providence.

Private capitalism
 * ...the profit system, by its necessary nature, operated to stop limit and cripple production at the point where it began to be efficient.
 * The whole acknowledged art of wealth-making on a large scale consisted in devices for getting possession of other people's product without too open breach of the law.
 * A vast army of laborers was constantly engaged in manufacturing an infinite variety of articles and appliances of elegance and ostentation which mocked the unsatisfied primary necessities of those who toiled to produce them.
 * The A B C of any science of wealth production is the necessity of co-ordination and concert of effort; whereas competition, conflict, and endless cross-purposes were the sum and substance of the economic methods set forth by these writers.
 * ...under competition there was no free play whatever allowed for the capitalist's better feelings even if he had any. He could not be better than the system. If he tried to be, the system would crush him.
 * No inventor could introduce an invention, however excellent, unless he could get capitalists to take it up, and this usually they would not do unless the inventor relinquished to them most of his hopes of profit from the discovery.
 * ...when any new idea was suggested in religion, in medicine, in science, in economics, in sociology, and indeed in almost any field of thought, the first question which the learned body having charge of that field and making a living out of it would ask itself was not whether the idea was good and true and would tend to the general welfare, but how it would immediately and directly affect the set of doctrines, traditions, and institutions, with the prestige of which their own personal interests were identified.

New economics
 * You see economic science in your day was a science of things; in our day it is a science of human beings.
 * Would it not have startled the old economists to hear that the secret of the most efficient system of wealth production was conformity on a national scale to the ethical idea of equal treatment for all embodied by Jesus Christ in the golden rule?
 * Any economic proposition which can not be stated in ethical terms is false. Nothing can be in the long run or on a large scale sound economics which is not sound ethics. It is not, therefore, a mere coincidence, but a logical necessity, that the supreme word of both ethics and economics should be one and the same--equality. The golden rule in its social application is as truly the secret of plenty as of peace.
 * If, indeed, [society] had but substituted this collective economic organization for the criminal and judicial system it presently would have had as little need of the latter as we do, for most of the crimes that plagued you were direct or indirect consequences of your unjust economic conditions, and would have disappeared with them.
 * Truly, it is these secondary consequences, these moral and social reactions of economic equality to create a noble atmosphere of human intercourse, that, after all, have been the greatest contribution which the principle has made to human happiness.
 * Our economic system puts us in a position where we can follow Christ's maxim, so impossible for you, to 'take no thought for the morrow.'

Aesthetics
 * The aesthetic equivalent of the moral wrong of inequality was the artistic abomination of uniformity. On the other hand, equality creates an atmosphere which kills imitation, and is pregnant with originality, for every one acts out himself, having nothing to gain by imitating any one else.
 * As to the pretension of civilized persons to admire gems or gold for their intrinsic beauty apart from their value, I suspect that was a more or less unconscious sham.

Youth
 * Youth is visited with noble aspirations and high dreams of duty and perfection. It sees the world as it should be, not as it is; and it is well for the race if the institutions of society are such as do not offend these moral enthusiasms, but rather tend to conserve and develop them through life.
 * Youth was as noble in your day as now, and dreamed the same great dreams of life's possibilities. But when the young man went forth into the world of practical life it was to find his dreams mocked and his ideals derided at every turn. He found himself compelled, whether he would or not, to take part in a fight for life, in which the first condition of success was to put his ethics on the shelf and cut the acquaintance of his conscience. You had various terms with which to describe the process whereby the young man, reluctantly laying aside his ideals, accepted the conditions of the sordid struggle. You described it as a 'learning to take the world as it is,' 'getting over romantic notions,' 'becoming practical,' and all that. In fact, it was nothing more nor less than the debauching of a soul.

Religion
 * ...with a high grade of intelligence become universal the world was bound to outgrow the ceremonial side of religion, which with its forms and symbols, its holy times and places, its sacrifices, feasts, fasts, and new moons, meant so much in the child-time of the race. The time has now fully come which Christ foretold in that talk with the woman by the well of Samaria when the idea of the Temple and all it stood for would give place to the wholly spiritual religion, without respect of times or places, which he declared most pleasing to God.
 * But there was a minority of the cultured. Were they bigoted also? Were they tools of ecclesiastics? On the contrary, they always held a calm and tolerant attitude on religious questions and were independent of the priesthoods. If they deferred to ecclesiastical influence at all, it was because they held it needful for the purpose of controlling the ignorant populace.
 * Though the state will enforce no private contracts of any sort, it does not forbid them.
 * Not only were women the chief attendants at religious functions, but it was largely through their influence on the men that the latter tolerated, even so far as they did, the ecclesiastical pretensions...Less educated, as a rule, than men, unaccustomed to responsibility, and trained in habits of subordination and self-distrust, they leaned in all things upon precedent and authority. Naturally, therefore, they still held to the principle of authoritative teaching in religion long after men had generally rejected it.

Quotes about Edward Bellamy

 * Progress is for the convinced ochlocrats a consoling Utopia of madly increased comfort and technicism. This charming but dull vision was always the pseudoreligious consolation of millions of ecstatic believers in ochlocracy and in the relative perfection and wisdom of Mr. and Mrs. Averageman. Utopias in general are surrogates for heaven; they give a meager solace to the individual that his sufferings and endeavors may enable future generations to enter the chiliastic paradise. Communism works in a similar way. Its millennium is almost the same as that of ochlocracy. The Millennium of Lenin, the Millennium of Bellamy, the Millennium as represented in H. G. Wells's, Of Things to Come, the Millennium of Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford — they are all basically the same; they often differ in their means to attain it but they all agree in the point of technical perfection and the classless or at least totally homogeneous society without grudge or envy.
 * Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn writing under the pen name Francis Stewart Campbell (1943), Menace of the Herd, or, Procrustes at Large, Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, pp. 35-36

 * It was the genius of Edward Bellamy that he took Utopia out of the region of hazy dreamland and made it a concrete program for the actual modern world. A reviewer of Looking Backward wrote: Men read the Republic or the Utopia with a sigh of regret. They read Bellamy with a thrill of hope. His picture of a better world, and the hope and expectation of its fulfillment, were transmitted through the years until those who looked to him as the source of their initial inspiration constituted an important part of the army of social progress.
 * Arthur Ernest Morgan, Edward Bellamy. Columbia University Press, 1944.

 * Mr. Bellamy's ideas of life are curiously limited; he has no idea beyond existence in a great city; his dwelling of man in the future is Boston (U.S.A.) beautified. In one passage, indeed, he mentions villages, but with unconscious simplicity shows that they do not come into his scheme of economical equality, but are mere servants of the great centres of civilisation. This seems strange to some of us, who cannot help thinking that our experience ought to have taught us that such aggregations of population afford the worst possible form of dwelling-place, whatever the second-worst might be. In short, a machine-life is the best which Mr. Bellamy can imagine for us on all sides; it is not to be wondered at then this his only idea of making labour tolerable is to decrease the amount of it by means of fresh and ever fresh developments of machinery.
 * William Morris, Bellamy's Looking Backward, Commonweal, 21st June 1889.

 * From boyhood—when I was an ardent admirer of Robert Owen—I have been interested in socialism, but reluctantly came to the conclusion that it was impracticable, and also to some extent repugnant to my ideas of individual liberty and home privacy. But Mr. Bellamy has completely altered my views on this matter. He seems to me to have shown that real, not merely delusive liberty, together with full scope for individualism and complete home privacy, is compatible with the most thorough industrial socialism—and henceforth I am heart and soul with him.
 * Alfred Russel Wallace, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Its Failures. Toronto : G.N. Morang, 1898.

 * Charlotte Perkins Gilman's socialism was non-Marxist; Edward Bellamy, the author of Looking Backward and a sequel, Equality, had influenced her profoundly. Both of Bellamy's utopian visions, but particularly the latter, advocated participation of women in the work force in traditionally masculine occupations such as engineering and the skilled crafts as well as in more conventionally feminine pursuits; economic equality; and the removal of domestic tasks, including child care, to the public realm.
 * Margaret S Marsh, Anarchist Women, 1870-1920 (1981)

 * Each generation repeats its leaders. Each sees men endowed with superior inventiveness, energy, and genius for business, inspired by love of power and possession, launch selfish schemes-Carnegies, Rockefellers, Goulds…Each generation has had its Henry George, its Bellamy, its Bryan, intent on persuading mankind that he had found the way, could lead men to the good life. In each generation employer and employee have faced the decision-war or cooperation.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

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Eugene Field

Eugene Field (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, most famous for his poetry for children and humorous essays.

Quotes

 * Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Within the compass of five generations we find the Puritan first an uncompromising believer in demonology and magic, and then a scoffer at everything involving the play of fancy.
 * The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field: The love affairs of a Bibliomaniac (1896), Ch. IV : The Mania of Collecting Seizes Me, p. 44

A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

 * I feel a sort of yearnin' 'nd a chokin' in my throat When I think of Red Hoss Mountain 'nd of Casey's tabble dote!
 * Casey's Table d'Hôte, st. 1

 * He could whip his weight in wildcats.
 * Modjesky as Cameel, st. 10

 * The best of all physicians Is apple pie and cheese!
 * Apple Pie and Cheese, st. 5

 * It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away.
 * Our Biggest Fish, st. 2

 * When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"
 * The Bottle and the Bird, st. 1

 * Oh, you who've been a-fishing will indorse me   when I say That it always is the biggest fish you catch that    gets away!
 * Our Biggest Fish, st. 4

Love Songs of Childhood (1894)

 * Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe— Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.
 * Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, st. 1

 * The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and stanch he stands; And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket moulds in his hands. Time was when the little toy dog was new, And the soldier was passing fair; And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there.
 * Little Boy Blue, st. 1

Side by side on the table sat'''; 'T was half-past twelve, and (what do you think!) Nor one nor t' other had slept a wink! The old Dutch clock and the Chinese plate Appeared to know as sure as fate There was going to be a terrible spat. What was told to me by the Chinese plate!)
 * '''The gingham dog and the calico cat
 * (I wasn't there; I simply state
 * The Duel, st. 1

 * The gingham dog went "Bow-wow-wow!" And the calico cat replied "Mee-ow!" The air was littered, an hour or so, With bits of gingham and calico.
 * The Duel, st. 2

They found no trace of dog or cat'''; And some folks think unto this day That burglars stole that pair away! But the truth about the cat and pup Is this: they ate each other up! Now what do you really think of that! And that is how I came to know.)
 * '''Next morning, where the two had sat
 * (The old Dutch clock it told me so,
 * "The Duel", st. 4

 * Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill! Mighty glad I ain't a girl—ruther be a boy, Without them sashes, curls, an' things that 's worn by Fauntleroy! Love to chawnk green apples an' go swimmin' in the lake— Hate to take the castor-ile they give for bellyache! 'Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me, But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be!
 * Jest 'Fore Christmas, st. 1

Quotes about

 * Like Mark Twain, Eugene Field was an ardent dissenter against the prevailing social order in private conversation, although not much of that dissent was found in his writings-nor in Twain's. Both of those men were born too soon, or perhaps were just naturally cautious of being combative in public. They were cast by Fate into a period which we know today as the era of rugged individualism-a nation marching behind a banner bearing the legend: "Self conquers all!" Meaning, of course, that it's up to you alone-a doctrine which practically everybody across the land took for granted, and one which hangs on in spite of its falsity. Yet Field and Twain occasionally exhibited signs of doubt and wrote satirical comment on American life. Field poked fun at the shallow culture of the Chicago pork packers, and Mark Twain indulged in brief outbursts of anarchistic protest. None of their onsets, however, was incisive enough to make the big financiers question their loyalty to the existing economic and social system.
 * Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)

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Henry Cabot Lodge

Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. A PhD in history from Harvard, he was a long-time friend and confidant of Theodore Roosevelt. Lodge had the role (but not the official title) of the first Senate Majority Leader. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. Lodge demanded Congressional control of declarations of war; Wilson refused and blocked Lodge's move to ratify the treaty with reservations. As a result, the United States never joined the League of Nations.

Quotes

 * Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty. But let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans...If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.
 * The Day We Celebrate (Forefathers' Day), Address, New England Society of Brooklyn (December 21, 1888).

 * We make no hypocritical pretense of being interested in the Philippines solely on account of others. While we regard the welfare of these people as a sacred trust, we regard the welfare of the American people first. We see our duty to ourselves as well as to others. We believe in trade expansion. By every legitimate means within the province of government and constitution we mean to stimulate the expansion of our trade and open new markets.
 * The Bacon Resolutions (September 1, 1900).

 * It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here many generations.
 * Address (1915).

 * He was a great patriot, a great man; above all, a great American. His country was the ruling, mastering passion of his life from the beginning even unto the end.
 * Theodore Roosevelt, Address Before Congress (February 9, 1919).

 * I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.
 * Remarks in the Senate (August 12, 1919), Congressional Record, vol. 58, p. 3784.

Quotes about Lodge

 * President Wilson would not have changed his opinions in any particular. He would attribute the present condition of the world to the failure of the League, and that failure again to the action of his political enemies in the United States. If he has met Cabot Lodge in the shades, where spirits await their final destiny, he will have pointed out to him the agony of the world to-day and said “My friend, that is your doing.”
 * David Lloyd George, The Truth about the Peace Treaties: Volume II (1938), p. 1403

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Talk:Emperor Norton

Proclamations
I've removed the massive set of proclamations that added a few months ago because Wikiquote is not a place for public domain documents. Wikisource is the correct place to put something like this. I'd also recommend citing a source for these proclamations, so their accuracy may be verified. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:44, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh, I've also removed the 1880 San Francisco Chronicle obituary for the same reason. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:55, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Would you two mind putting those in wikisource, then? Or I'll just put them back.  64.198.112.210 15:44, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Why don't you put them into Wikisource, if you're so anxious to have them? I don't like to add material to any MediaWiki project for which I don't have an explicit source or means to verify. Each project has its own rules about content and sourcing, and its own editors to police such matters. Whether or not this is ultimately added to Wikisource, I will remove it from here if re-added. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:36, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Sourcing information
I moved the two actual quotes from Norton into "Attributed" because neither provides a specific source that would allow readers to verify its accuracy. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:57, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article

 * I could argue all day about the significance of facing east in religious rituals, but a clean table is a clean table.

No primary source provided for "Frisco" proclamation
The text of this supposed proclamation is quoted in a multitude of secondary sources. The "source" provided here is just one more secondary source — in this case, a guidebook — in this long long list. But the author of the book does not provide an original source. Until this proclamation can be properly authenticated with a contemporaneous 19th-century source, I suggest that it be removed from this article. Johnlumea (talk) 03:48, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I restored this with the citation of the relatively recent work containing the quote. I do not find it implausible, based on other anecdotes, but if you insist it should be disputed, a "Disputed" section could be created for it, with the modern source. Correct source citations which exist should generally not be removed without providing earlier ones. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * This is improper. Whether you personally "do not find it implausible, based on other anecdotes" to assert the anti-"Frisco" proclamation as an Emperor Norton quote is immaterial. The question is: Is the quote documented as being authored by Emperor Norton? Answer: It is not. A pop guidebook published 126 years after Emperor Norton's death, and which provides no original documentation for the quote, is not a "correct source citation." It is just one in the long list of latter-day assertions seeking to attach Emperor Norton to this text without providing any evidence that he wrote or said anything of the kind. There's a lot of talk right now about "fake news." Asserting Emperor Norton's authorship of a quote for which no contemporaneous documentation exists is fake history. Johnlumea (talk) 04:39, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)

The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 action/adventure/disaster film about the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner by a tsunami and the desperate struggle of a handful of survivors to journey up to the bottom of the hull of the liner before it sinks.
 * Directed by Ronald Neame and Irwin Allen (action sequences only). Written by Wendell Mayes and Stirling Silliphant, based on the novel by Paul Gallico.

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Opening intro

 * At midnight on New Year's Eve, the S.S. Poseidon, en route from New York to Athens, met with disaster and was lost. There were only a handful of survivors. This is their story.....

Frank Scott

 * [Appealing to the survivors in the ballroom]: I wanna appeal to you the last time. I know this much; the sea's gonna keep pouring in, we're gonna keep settling deeper and deeper, we may even go under before we get up to the bottom to cut our way out! But it's something to try, it's a chance, we might make it. You stay here, you'll certainly die!

 * [Angry at the Doctor for leading his group of 44 the wrong way]: You're going the wrong way, DAMMIT! The BOW'S UNDERWATER!

 * [Sees a blast of steam blocking the last way out, yells in frustration] What more do You want of us?! We've come all this way, no thanks to You! We did it on our own, with no help from You! We did ask You to fight for us, but dammit, DON'T FIGHT AGAINST US! LEAVE US ALONE! How many more sacrifices?! HOW MUCH MORE BLOOD?! [jumps to the steam valve, the steam on the valve's wheel searing his hands, but he holds on] How many more lives?! [turns the wheel of the valve, despite the pain] Belle wasn't enough, Acres wasn't, now this girl?! You want another life, then TAKE ME! [the valve finally closes, clearing the final obstacle.] You can make it. Keep going, Rogo! Get them through! [lets go of the wheel and falls into the flaming water to his death]

Mike Rogo

 * [To Reverend Scott after Linda has fallen off a catwalk to her death]: You! Preacher! You lyin', murderin' son of a bitch! You almost suckered me in! I started to believe in your promises, that we had a chance! What chance? You took from me the only thing I ever loved in the whole world, my Linda. YOU KILLED HER!! [Rogo breaks down]: You killed her.

Linda Rogo

 * I'm going next. So if old fat ass gets stuck in there, I won't get stuck behind her.

Belle Rosen

 * You see, Mr. Scott? In the water, I'm a very skinny lady.

Dialogue

 * Chief Engineer Joe: Chief here. Go ahead.
 * Captain Harrison: Joe, what the hell's going on down there? Is there nothing more you can do with those stabilizers?
 * Chief Engineer Joe: There's nothing wrong with the stabilizers, so there's nothing more I can do with them. Besides I got my hands full with this pump! You know damn well what the trouble is - it's that bastard Linarcos!
 * Captain Harrison: Would you care to repeat yourself? He's standing right here.
 * Chief Engineer Joe: Good! I hope he heard me!
 * Captain Harrison: Alright Joe. Do the best you can until we clear this weather.

 * Mike Rogo: How is she supposed to swallow that pill, when she can't even swallow water?
 * Nurse Gina Rowe: [patiently] They're suppositories, Mr. Rogo. You erm, don't swallow them.
 * Mike Rogo: Then what the hell do you do with them?
 * Linda Rogo: For Christ's sake, I know what to do with suppositories! Just get them outta here!

 * Mr. Linarcos: Order Full Ahead, Captain.
 * Captain Harrison: I have already told you Mr. Linarcos, we don't have enough ballast yet to run at Full Ahead.
 * Mr. Linarcos: I suggest we talk privately. (Linarcos and the Captain meet separately from the crew) I did not suggest Full Ahead, Captain. As the new owner's representative on this ship, I ordered it!
 * Captain Harrison: Goddammit man the Poseidon is too fine a lady to be rushed to the junkyard on her last voyage.
 * Mr. Linarcos: We're already three days behind schedule. And it's costing my consortium thousands of dollars every day to maintain a wrecking crew. I demand we dock Monday night-
 * Captain Harrison: And I can't afford to gamble with the lives of my passengers!
 * Mr. Linarcos: Your business is to deliver this ship where we want it, when we want it!
 * Captain Harrison: Running an unstable ship at full ahead is dangerous!
 * Mr. Linarcos: I am sure-
 * Captain Harrison: Especially one as old as this!
 * Mr. Linarcos: I am sure I don't have to remind you of my legal right to have you relieved of command. Three other officers aboard this ship have their Master's License. Now, order Full Ahead!
 * Captain Harrison: You irresponsible bastard.

 * Robin Shelby: Why don't you shove it?
 * Susan Shelby: [angrily] Don't you ever say that to me again!
 * Robin Shelby: Shove it! Shove it! Shove it!

 * Mike Rogo: You know what it means to be picked out from all the people aboard to sit at the Captain's table on New Year's Eve? Well, I'll tell ya what it means. It means that all your worries about those other women looking on ya is a lot of bull.
 * Linda Rogo: He only invited you because you're a Detective Lieutenant. Why don't you just go without me?
 * Mike Rogo: And what am I supposed to do at midnight? Kiss the Captain?
 * Linda Rogo: Don't knock it. [Linda enters the bathroom and closes the door]
 * Mike Rogo: Why don't you admit the real reason? You're still afraid some bum will recognize you. Well that's pretty stupid! You're out of that business now, you're my wife. You can't keep running around pretending that every guy you bump into is a former customer. Linda, you hear me?!
 * Linda Rogo: Will you shut up?! I'm busy in here! [Toilet flushes]
 * Mike Rogo: You weren't even out on the streets that long! How the hell many guys did you know?! You realize how slim the chances are that even one of these characters is on this boat?!
 * Linda Rogo: [opening the bathroom door] You don't have to shout.
 * Mike Rogo: I SAID THA-...I said, do you realize, how slim-
 * Linda Rogo: I HEARD WHAT YOU SAID! [sitting down on the bed] Mike? I saw a young officer on deck the other day. And he looked pretty damn familiar! Even with his clothes on!
 * Mike Rogo: So he recognized you. So?
 * Linda Rogo: But doesn't that bother you?
 * Mike Rogo: If it bothered me I wouldn't have married you.
 * Linda Rogo: Well first you arrested me six times!
 * Mike Rogo: Well I had to figure out some way to keep you off the streets until you married me!
 * Linda Rogo: [softening] Come here, you lousy cop.

 * Mike Rogo: This is the first trip since we got married.
 * Linda Rogo: Yeah, and why we didn't fly, I'll never know.
 * Reverend Frank Scott: Well, since the Captain put me in charge. let's make a toast.
 * Linda Rogo: Great. What do we drink to?
 * Reverend Frank Scott: To love.
 * Linda Rogo: Here here, to love. [to Mike] To love, dummy!
 * Mike Rogo: Oh.

 * [Discussing the approaching wave]
 * Captain Harrison: It seems to be piling up those shallows... By the way, Happy New Year.
 * First Officer Larsen: Thank you, sir. Same to you.
 * Captain Harrison: [returning to the conversation] What's its speed?
 * First Officer Larsen: 60 knots, sir.
 * Captain Harrison: It must be mountainous...

 * [Tidal wave is approaching the ship and the alarms have been sounded]
 * Captain Harrison: [over intercom to radio room] Sparks!
 * Wireless Operator: Yes, sir?
 * Captain Harrison: Get off a Mayday!
 * Wireless Operator: [puzzled] Mayday, sir?
 * Captain Harrison: Yes, I said Mayday, Mayday, Mayday!

 * Linda Rogo: [dazed] Jesus Christ. What happened?
 * Reverend Frank Scott: We've turned over.
 * Mike Rogo: Linda, Linda honey, are you all right?
 * Linda Rogo: Hi... where the hell have you been?
 * Mike Rogo: Where do you think? Flying around on my ass!

 * Purser: For God's sake, Reverend, what you're doing is suicide!
 * Reverend Frank Scott: We're cut off from the rest of the world. They can't get to us. Maybe we can get to them. You've said enough, now get out of the way.
 * Purser: Pray for us, but don't do this! [to the others] Climbing to another deck will kill you all!
 * Reverend Frank Scott: And sitting on our butts is not gonna to help us either! Maybe by climbing out of here, we can save ourselves. If you've got any sense, you'll come along with us. [to Rogo] Grab a hold.

 * Reverend Frank Scott: Through the kitchen and go deeper and deeper in the ship till we reach the hull. That way!
 * Mike Rogo: Then you just kick out the bottom and we swim ashore, huh?
 * Linda Rogo: Or maybe you could just yell "This is the police" and it'll open right up!
 * Mike Rogo: Don't be a smart ass!

 * [Linda is about to climb up the Christmas tree]
 * Reverend Frank Scott: Ok Mrs. Rogo, up you go. But you'll have to take off that long gown.
 * Mike Rogo: Like hell she will!
 * Reverend Frank Scott: She can't climb in it. It's too tight.
 * Mike Rogo: She's got nothin' under it!
 * Linda Rogo: Just panties. What else do I need?
 * Mike Rogo: What do you mean what else do you need?!
 * Reverend Frank Scott: Give her your shirt.
 * Mike Rogo: But...my...
 * Linda Rogo: Come on.
 * Mike Rogo: Linda, next time you put something on like I told you to put on!

 * James Martin: What do I tell I tell the others?
 * Mike Rogo: Tell them to break out their hymn books and start singing "Nearer My God To Thee"!

 * [The deck behind the group is flooding rapidly, they proceed down the hall]
 * Linda Rogo: This is a bunch of crap. We're sinking and nothing's going to keep us from drowning.
 * Mike Rogo: Keep moving.
 * Manny Rosen: He's right, Mrs. Rogo, there are air pockets all over the ship.
 * Linda Rogo: Air pockets?
 * Manny Rogen: Yes, just because that deck is flooded doesn't mean this one will.
 * Nonnie Parry: How long will we stay afloat?
 * James Martin: [gently] Long enough.
 * Robin Shelby: The Andrea Doria stayed afloat for 10 hours before she sank.
 * James Martin: You see, Nonnie, everything's gonna be alright. We have a long time to go.
 * Mike Rogo: Come on, keep moving, keep moving.

 * Belle Rosen: You see, he's swimming through the corridors and up and down these stairwells, I'm the only one here trained to do things like that!
 * Linda Rogo: Will you shut up?!

 * Manny Rosen: Belle, be careful.
 * Belle Rosen: Manny, you think I'm planning to be careless? [dives in]
 * Mike Rogo: What the hell does he think she's doing?!
 * Manny Rosen: Let her go! She knows what she's doing!

 * [Reverend Scott pulls Mike Rogo up from the water. Nearby lies the lifeless body of Mrs. Rosen, who had just died after saving Scott]
 * Mike Rogo: What the hell happened? You didn't pull the rope.
 * Reverend Frank Scott: I got trapped. Mrs. Rosen freed me.
 * Mike Rogo: Thanks Mrs. Rosen, if it hadn't been for you, none of us...[Scott grabs Rogo's arm, Rogo does a double take and realizes Mrs. Rosen is dead] Aww, Jesus!
 * Reverend Frank Scott: Go back and tell the others.
 * Mike Rogo: And what do I tell him?
 * Reverend Frank Scott: Tell him nothing! Just go back and get him.
 * Mike Rogo: Ya had a lotta guts, lady... a lotta guts.

 * [Manny Rosen is embracing his wife's lifeless body and does not want to leave her]
 * Reverend Frank Scott: Mr. Rosen...look...the last thing she said to me was "Give this to Manny to give to our grandson from both of us". Your place is with the living. If you don't come with us, her death is meaningless. Now come on.
 * Manny Rosen: All right, you go first. I want to stay with her a little longer.
 * Reverend Frank Scott: You've got one minute.

 * James Martin: What kind of a policeman were you? You've done nothing but beef and complain. Always negative, always destructive. Well, now's you're chance to something positive for a change! [tauntingly] Are you quitting, Mr. Rogo? Are you going out with a whimper, on your belly?
 * Mike Rogo: All right, you. That's enough!

Taglines

 * Hell, Upside Down.
 * At midnight on New Year's Day the S.S. Poseidon was struck by a 90-foot tidal wave and capsized.
 * Who will survive in one of the greatest escape adventures ever!
 * Combining the talents of fifteen Academy Award Winners.

Cast

 * Gene Hackman - Rev. Frank Scott
 * Ernest Borgnine - Det. Lt. Mike Rogo
 * Red Buttons - James Martin
 * Carol Lynley - Nonnie Parry
 * Roddy McDowall - Acres
 * Stella Stevens - Linda Rogo
 * Shelley Winters - Belle Rosen
 * Jack Albertson - Manny Rosen
 * Pamela Sue Martin - Susan Shelby
 * Arthur O'Connell - Chaplain John
 * Eric Shea - Robin Shelby
 * Leslie Nielsen - Captain Harrison

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User talk:Madknobs

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Stephen Walt

Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is an author and professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Quotes

 * ...stop subsidizing the security of wealthy allies that have the wherewithal to defend themselves; and stop pursuing hyperglobalization without regard for its damaging consequences at home and its impact on the balance of power abroad. We believe these adjustments would allow the country to concentrate its resources on the challenge that a rising China presents and help address the accumulating problems it faces domestically.
 * "Is the Blob Really Blameless?", Foreign Policy

 * This argument carries some obvious implications for the next U.S. administration. First, as Sino-American rivalry heats up, winning (or at least not losing) will require more than tariffs, restrictions on Chinese students and high-tech firms, and bombastic speeches. It will also require preserving or regaining the lead in critical areas like artificial intelligence and 5G technology, which in turn means leveraging and incentivizing the impressive innovative capacity of U.S. firms and research institutions.
 * "All Great-Power Politics Is Local", Foreign Policy

The Known Knowns of Election Day 2020

 * We may not know who the next president is for some time. But there are a few things we do know.
 * "The Known Knowns of Election Day 2020", Foreign Policy (November 3, 2020)

 * Second, we can be confident that neither Trump nor Biden is going to resurrect old-style neoliberal hyperglobalization.
 * "The Known Knowns of Election Day 2020", Foreign Policy

 * Finally, this election will not end the deep polarization and reflexive partisanship that have roiled U.S. domestic politics for more than two decades, and this condition will continue to exert baleful effects on America’s international position.
 * "The Known Knowns of Election Day 2020", Foreign Policy

 * Polarization will continue to hamper efforts to address the pandemic. It will encourage and facilitate foreign interference in U.S. domestic politics (or even the mere suspicion of the same)....and it makes other states warier of making long-term agreements with the United States because they cannot be sure that any promises that U.S. officials make will survive the next election cycle.
 * "The Known Knowns of Election Day 2020", Foreign Policy

Washington’s reputation

 * Far from making ‘America great again,’ this epic policy failure will further tarnish the United States’ reputation as a country that knows how to do things effectively.
 * Quoted by Julian Borger in US awol from world stage as China tries on global leadership for size, The Guardian, Berger followed the quote with the words: Walt wrote in Foreign Policy, in a commentary titled “the death of American competence”, March 29, 2020

Is the Blob Really Blameless?

 * I present a different set of counterfactuals in the book (and a few other places), suggesting that adopting offshore balancing in the 1990s would have 1) led to better (though not perfect) relations with Russia; 2) made the 9/11 attacks much less likely to happen;
 * "Is the Blob Really Blameless?", Foreign Policy (September 22, 2020)

 * ...stop subsidizing the security of wealthy allies that have the wherewithal to defend themselves; and stop pursuing hyperglobalization without regard for its damaging consequences at home and its impact on the balance of power abroad. We believe these adjustments would allow the country to concentrate its resources on the challenge that a rising China presents and help address the accumulating problems it faces domestically.
 * "Is the Blob Really Blameless?", Foreign Policy

 * It is obvious that this approach failed, which is why U.S. leaders now worry about unfavorable power trends in Asia and are actively trying to build a balancing coalition to contain Chinese power. I share their concerns and agree with this prescription (and said so in the book), yet Gavin apparently regards the policies that led to this worrisome situation as a great success. They surely were for China—but not for the United States.
 * "Is the Blob Really Blameless?", Foreign Policy

 * If U.S. policies were so successful, why did the Obama administration have to send more troops to Europe to reassure America’s prosperous but poorly equipped allies, and why did Trump ultimately do the same, despite his all-too-obvious skepticism about NATO’s value?
 * "Is the Blob Really Blameless?", Foreign Policy

 * Deng Xiaopeng's “Four Modernizations” began the process of unleashing China's enormous potential, but the United States consciously aided its ascent, based on the hope that doing so would hasten its transition to democracy, turn Beijing into a “responsible stakeholder,” and bind it so tightly within U.S.-led institutions that future conflicts would be easy to manage. One is hard-pressed to think of another case where an overwhelmingly dominant great power deliberately facilitated the rise of the only country that could possibly pose a serious challenge to its privileged position.
 * "Is the Blob Really Blameless?", Foreign Policy

2010s

 * So here’s the puzzle: Realist advice has performed better than its main rivals over the past two-and-a-half decades, yet realists are largely absent from prominent mainstream publications.
 * "What Would a Realist World Have Looked Like?", Foreign Policy (January 8, 2016)

 * So here’s my challenge to Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos, the Sulzberger family, and anyone else who runs a major media operation: Why not hire a realist? If you’re looking for some suggestions, how about Paul Pillar, Chas Freeman Jr., Robert Blackwill, Steve Clemons, Michael Desch, Steve Chapman, John Mearsheimer, Barry Posen, Andrew Bacevich, or Daniel Larison? Give one of them a weekly column, and then you could genuinely claim to be offering your readers a reasonably comprehensive and balanced range of opinion on international affairs. I mean: What are you folks so afraid of?
 * "What Would a Realist World Have Looked Like?", Foreign Policy (January 8, 2016)

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Egyptian
Anyone think the Egyptian soul bit is a bit too long and involved to be included here? I haven't read the book it's from but jeez it seems like we have most of a chapter here.24.3.229.31

Last Words : The Final Journals of William Burroughs
Hello, I'm working on Burroughs' page on the french wikiquote and I would like to find original citations from Last Words : The Final Journals of William Burroughs (1997). If anyone owns this book please leave me a message, Bye. P.S. – Sorry if this is not the right place to post this kind of request. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MyXiLo (talk • contribs) 11:11, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * This is certainly a reasonable place for this request. I don't have the 1997 edition, but I can get a 2000 edition at my library. Let me know if you'd like me to do this. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 12:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * It would be great if you can get it. It's not an heavy work (6 quotes, maybe a little more) so it won't take too long. Thanks a lot. MyXiLo 13:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I should have it within a week. (It's coming from a remote branch.) Let me know what you're looking for. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * You can find the french quotes on my page. I've given you the days from the journal, and you'll also find the pages from my french translation(actually it won't really help). Do you speak french? If you're not I'll make some summaries or anything that would help. Thanks again. MyXiLo 13:38, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I have not answered what you've asked me : I'm looking for the original quotes from the translated ones I have. MyXiLo 13:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Ce n'est pas une problème — je parle français, un peu. I should have no difficulty finding the quotes you list, even in a different edition. I'll let you know. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:45, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Thank you. MyXiLo 19:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Anybody ? MyXiLo 20:29, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Rejected as spam when I tried to save the WSB quotes:

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 * Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article

 * A paranoid is someone who has all the facts. Chicago Reader: "William Burroughs, Unabridged" Better version might be: "Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts." [see here]

 * A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what’s going on.

 * America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

 * Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

 * Kerouac (editing Naked Lunch): Bill, what is all this stuff about young naked boys being hanged in limestone caves? Burroughs: No idea. I know I'm some kind of interplanetary agent but I don't think my signals are decoding properly.

 * Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece.

 * General procedure: Read and learn all you can about problem. Look at problem from a point of zero preconception. Devise variations and alternative solutions. Check back to see if your solution has workable advantage over solutions previously arrived at . . . To carry the method a step further than solution of purely technical problem where purpose is implicit in the artifact: devising more efficient gun, tool, boat, signal system, medical or interrogation procedure.

 * Heroin is a vitamin...don't let anyone tell you different heroin IS a vitamin...there's nothing in the game plan...that says that all vitamins have to be good for you. (this is entirely the work of an impersonator who distributed audio files posthumously, along with several of the others in this category)

 * I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them.I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

 * I think all novelists particularly are engaged in the creation of Tulpas. That is exactly what they are doing. Ahh... they are trying to create characters that have an existence apart from the novel, apart from the page.

 * If you're doing business with a religious son-of-a-bitch, get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit. Not with the good lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.from the track "Words of Advice"

 * I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.

 * Images. Millions of images. That's what I eat.

 * I say we are here in human form to learn by the human hieroglyphs of love and suffering. There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt.  It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without reserve or defense.

 * It would be certainly a very foolish thing: try paint the Internet, start making oil-on-canvas paintings out of the computer world.
 * "Conversations" (1996)

 * Jesus Christ, by their fruits ye shall know them, not by their disclaimers.
 * On Kerouac's later apparent disavowals of Beat creeds

 * Language is a virus.
 * Variant: Language is a virus from outer space.
 * Variant: Language is obviously a virus as it depends on replication.
 * Variant: The word us a virus (Ten Years and a Billion Dollars reprinted in The Adding Machine, essay written in 1971?, p. 51)
 * Used as a song title by Laurie Anderson

 * Love! What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE
 * This is credited in "Last Words" as his final journal entry. I don't have it in front of me so I can't give you a date on it.

 * Madness is confusion of levels of fact... Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

 * Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

 * Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

 * No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

 * Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation'. Creative viewing.

 * Now the perpetrating of miracles constitutes a brazen attempt to loosen up the universe. When you set up something as MIRACLE, you deny the very concept of FACT, establish a shadowy and spurious court infested by every variety of coyote and shady fixer beyond Court of Fact.

 * Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did.

 * Son, never listen to a priest or a policeman...the only thing they have is the key to the shithouse.

 * Survive, it's the name of the game. Would I give a shit about these people?

 * The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right.

 * There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

 * There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.

 * There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no good reason.
 * To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain

 * Thou shalt not be such a shit, you don't know you are one.

 * Thou shalt not blow pot-smoke into the face of my pet. Say's whom who want's to get high.

 * Thou shalt not drop an atom bomb or even shit one out in the first place - I'm talking to you, Robert Oppenheimer.

 * 'Treatment is symptomatic' - which means in the trade there is none.

 * When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.

 * Word is a virus.

 * Words, colors, light, sound, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre!... Steal anything in sight.

Psychotic variations
Seen a couple variations of this floating around attributed to him:
 * A psychotic is just a guy who's found out what's going on
 * A psychotic is just a guy who finally figured out what the hell was going on

Any idea as to whether fake or real? 64.231.171.12 05:29, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

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User talk:Hirudo

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title: User talk:Hirudo