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George Gissing

George Robert Gissing (November 22 1857 – December 28 1903) was an English novelist and short story writer.

Quotes

 * It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.
 * The Unclassed (1884), ch. 1: School

 * No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
 * The Odd Women (1893), ch. 1

 * The thought, however, of his girls having to work for money was so utterly repulsive to him that he could never seriously dwell upon it.
 * The Odd Women (1893), ch. 1

 * The insult was thrown out with a peculiarly reckless air; it astounded the hearer, who sat for an instant with staring eyes and lips apart; then the blood rushed to his cheeks.
 * Eve's Ransom (1895), ch. 1

 * To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.
 * Will Warburton (1905), ch. 3

 * It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
 * As quoted in The Book Of Us : A Guide To Scrapbooking About Relationships'' (2005) Angie Pedersen, p. 46

 * It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
 * As quoted in Quote Junkie Funny Edition (2008) by the Hagopian Institute, p. 47

New Grub Street: A Novel (1891)

 * 'A man who comes to be hanged,' pursued Jasper, impartially, 'has the satisfaction of knowing that he has brought society to its last resource. He is a man of such fatal importance that nothing will serve against him but the supreme effort of law. In a way, you know, that is success.'
 * Vol. I, Ch. 1 : A Man of His Day, p. 3

 * I am learning my business. Literature nowadays is a trade. Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets; when one kind of goods begins to go off slackly, he is ready with something new and appetising. He knows perfectly all the possible sources of income. Whatever he has to sell he'll get payment for it from all sorts of various quarters; none of your unpractical selling for a lump sum to a middleman who will make six distinct profits.
 * Vol. I, Ch. 1 : A Man of His Day, p. 8

 * People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads — that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.
 * Vol. I, Ch. 1 : A Man of His Day, p. 17

 * I maintain that we people of brains are justified in supplying the mob with the food it likes. We are not geniuses, and if we sit down in a spirit of long-eared gravity we shall produce only commonplace stuff. Let us use our wits to earn money, and make the best we can of our lives. If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold fifty thousand copies. But it needs skill, mind you; and to deny it is a gross error of the literary pedants. To please the vulgar you must, one way or another, incarnate the genius of vulgarity.
 * Vol. I, Ch. 1 : A Man of His Day, p. 17

Our Friend the Charlatan (1901)

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 * Women, he held, had never been treated with elementary justice. To worship them was no less unfair than to hold them in contempt. The honest man, in our day, should regard a woman without the least bias of sexual prejudice; should view her simply as a fellow-being, who, according to circumstances, might or not be on his own plane. Away with all empty show and form, those relics of barbarism known as chivalry! He wished to discontinue even the habit of hat-doffing in female presence. Was not civility preserved between man and man without such idle form? Why not, then, between man and woman? Unable, as yet, to go the entire length of his principles in every-day life, he endeavoured, at all events, to cultivate in his intercourse with women a frankness of speech, a directness of bearing, beyond the usual. He shook hands as with one of his own sex, spine uncrooked; he greeted them with level voice, not as one who addresses a thing afraid of sound. To a girl or matron whom he liked, he said, in tone if not in phrase, "Let us be comrades." In his opinion this tended notably to the purifying of the social atmosphere. It was the introduction of simple honesty into relations commonly marked — and corrupted — by every form of disingenuousness. Moreover, it was the great first step to that reconstruction of society at large which every thinker saw to be imperative and imminent. But Constance Bride knew nothing of this, and in her ignorance could not but misinterpret the young man's demeanor. She felt it to be brusque; she imagined it to imply a purposed oblivion of things in the past.
 * Ch. II

 * Now he was indifferent to all "questions" save that prime solicitude of the human race, how to hold its own against the hostile forces everywhere leagued against it. Life was a perpetual struggle, and, let dreamers say what they might, could never be anything else; he, for one, perceived no right that he had to claim exemption from the doom of labour. Had he felt an impulse to any other kind of work, well and good, he would have turned to it; but nothing whatever called to him with imperative voice save this task of tilling his own acres. It might not always satisfy him; he took no vow of one sole vocation; he had no desire to let his mind rust whilst his hands grew horny. Enough that for the present he had an aim which he saw as a reality.
 * Ch. XXVIII

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)

 * Old companion, yet old enemy! How many a time have I taken it up, loathing the necessity, heavy in head and heart, my hand shaking,my eyes sickdazzled! How I dreaded the white page I had to foul with ink! Above all, on days such as this, when the blue eyes of Spring laughed from between rosy clouds, when the sunlight shimmered upon my table and made me long, long all but to madness, for the scent of the flowering earth, for the green of hillside larches, for the singing of the skylark above the downs. There was a time— it seems further away than childhood — when I took up my pen with eagerness; if my hand trembled it was with hope. But a hope that fooled me, for never a page of my writing deserved to live. I can say that now without bitterness. It was youthful error, and only the force of circumstance prolonged it. The world has done me no injustice; thank Heaven I have grown wise enough not to rail at it for this! And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? If my shoemaker turn me out an excellent pair of boots, and I, in some mood of cantankerous unreason, throw them back upon his hands, the man has just cause of complaint. But your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it? If it is honest journeywork, yet lacks purchasers, at most you may call yourself a hapless tradesman. If it come from on high, with what decency do you fret and fume because it is not paid for in heavy cash? For the work of man's mind there is one test, and one alone, the judgment of generations yet unborn. If you have written a great book, the world to come will know of it. But you don't care for posthumous glory. You want to enjoy fame in a comfortable armchair. Ah, that is quite another thing. Have the courage of your desire. Admit yourself a merchant, and protest to gods and men that the merchandise you offer is of better quality than much which sells for a high price. You may be right, and indeed it is hard upon you that Fashion does not turn to your stall.
 * Spring, § I, p. 2

 * This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
 * Summer, § VII, p. 89

 * For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
 * Winter § I, p. 213

 * Time is money — says the vulgarest saw known to any age or people. Turn it round about, and you get a precious truth —money is time. I think of it on these dark, mist-blinded mornings, as I come down to find a glorious fire crackling and leaping in my study. Suppose I were so poor that I could not afford that heartsome blaze, how different the whole day would be! Have I not lost many and many a day of my life for lack of the material comfort which was necessary to put my mind in tune? Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. Money is time, and, heaven be thanked, there needs so little of it for this sort of purchase. He who has overmuch is wont to be as badly off in regard to the true use of money, as he who has not enough. What are we doing all our lives but purchasing, or trying to purchase, time? And most of us, having grasped it with one hand, throw it away with the other.
 * Winter, § 24, p. 287; in Conducting Effective Faculty Meetings (2008) by Sue Ellen Brandenburg, p. 12 this appears paraphrased in the form: "Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time."

Quotes about George Gissing

 * Gissing, whose work Henry James admired, said that in all character there sits a mind, and that the mind of the dullest is not dull because, at its lowest, it will at least reflect the social dilemma.
 * Josephine Herbst "The Ruins of Memory" (April 4, 1956) in The Nation

 * As a matter of derivation, Mr Gissing, in his earlier essays in fiction, owed more to Dickens than to any realistic novelist. ... The inspiration was indirect. Mr Gissing had not the master-faculty of 'Martin Chuzzlewit,' and he did not counterfeit it. But in studying the works of Dickens, he appears to have seen how much of the real gloom had been left out of the picture of the London populace; how much what was eccentric and humorous had been insisted upon, and how much what was joyless, and yet equally representative, had been omitted; and this darker and more unrelieved side of lower London life Mr Gissing determined to describe.
 * October 1902, quotation from pp. 400–401

 * When I admit neglect of Gissing, They say I don't know what I'm missing. Until their arguments are subtler, I think I'll stick to Samuel Butler.
 * Dorothy Parker, "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature" from Sunset Gun (1927); reproduced in Not So Deep as a Well: Collected Poems (1937), p. 110.

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Bruce Fairchild Barton

Bruce Fairchild Barton (5 August 1886 – 5 July 1967) was an American author, advertising executive, and Republican politician. He represented Manhattan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1941.

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 * A man may be down, but he is never out.
 * A slogan Barton wrote for the Salvation Army

 * There are two seas in Palestine. One is fresh, and fish are in it. Splashes of green adorn its banks. Trees spread their branches over it and stretch out their thirsty roots to sip of its healing waters... The Sea of Galilee receives but does not keep the Jordan. For every drop that flows into it another drop flows out. The giving and receiving go on in equal measure. The other sea is shrewder, hoarding its income jealously. It will not be tempted into any generous impulse. Every drop it gets, it keeps. The Sea of Galilee gives and lives. The other sea gives nothing. It is named The Dead. There are two kinds of people in the world. There are two seas in Palestine.
 * "There are Two Seas", McCall's magazine (1928); reprinted in the Reader's Digest (1946)

 * Give advertising time. That is the thing that it needs most. The advertising agency is the most precious infant among the professions. Is it fair to expect perfection in a profession that counts only a single generation to its credit? We are learning. I see no reason why advertising agencies, too, should not outlive their founders and the successors of their founders, growing wiser with each generation and gathering a priceless possession of recorded experience.
 * BBDO Newsletter (1966)

 * I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
 * As quoted in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984) by Steven Fox

 * The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model—whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.
 * As quoted in Fables of Abundance: a cultural history of advertising in America (1994) by Jackson Lears

 * Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things . . . I am tempted to think . . . there are no little things.

 * What a curious phenomenon it is, that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world, who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
 * "The Fine, Rare Habit of Learning to Do Without", Every Week magazine, as quoted in The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol 95, No 31, 1 August 1918, pp. 18-19

The Man Nobody Knows (1924)

 * The Man Nobody Knows : A Discovery of the Real Jesus

 * To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
 * On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive

 * It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
 * Ch. 4 : His Method

 * Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.
 * Ch. 4 : His Method

 * Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.
 * Ch. 5 : His Advertisements

 * Generalities would have been soon forgotten. But the story that had its roots in everyday human existence and need, lives and will live forever. It condensed the philosophy of Christianity into half a dozen unforgettable paragraphs. The parable of the Good Samaritan is the greatest advertisement of all times.
 * Ch. 5 : His Advertisements

 * Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere — the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.
 * On the teachings of Jesus, in Ch. 5 : His Advertisements

Misattributed

 * He was in fact an adman: persuading, recruiting followers, finding the right words to arouse interest and create desires, in short exemplifying all the principles of modern salesmanship.
 * Stephen R. Fox, summarizing Barton's beliefs regarding Jesus, in The Mirror Makers : A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984); this has been quoted as if it were a statement of Barton's.

Quotes about Barton

 * Bruce Barton's advertising career started quite accidentally. One of Collier's clients, the Harvard Classics "Dr. Elliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books," had traditionally been sold on double page spreads. At the last minute, the pressroom man told Barton that he had an extra quarter page left to fill. Barton tore a page out of one of the classics, and asked his readers, "This is Marie Antoinette riding to her death. Have you ever read her tragic story?" Barton had created a unique benefit for his readers — cultural enrichment in less than fifteen minutes a day — and this simple idea sold over 400,000 sets of the classics.
 * Steven Fox in The Mirror Makers : A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984)

 * I knew I'd never be more than a second-rate business man and a second-rate writer — so I decided to add the two things together and be a first rate advertising man.
 * "Barnham Dunn" (a character based on Barton) in The Virgin Queene (1928) by Harford Powel Jr; quoted in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984) by Steven Fox

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri-Frédéric Amiel (27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss philosopher, mystic, poet and critic.

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 * "There is a great affinity in me with the Hindu genius - that mind, vast, imaginative, loving, dreamy and speculative, but destitute of ambition, personality and will. Pantheistic disinterestedness, the effacement of the self in the great whole, womanish gentleness, a horror of slaughter, antipathy to action - these are all present in my nature, in the nature at least which has been developed by years and circumstances. Still the West has also its part in me. What I have found difficult to keep up a prejudice in favor of my form, nationality or individuality whatever. Hence my indifference to my own person, my own usefulness, interest or opinions of the moment. What does it all matter? It is not perhaps not a bad thing,' he says, 'that in the midst of the devouring activities of the Western world there should be a few Brahmanical souls."
 * Amie1, Henri Frederic Amie! s journal: The Journal intime of Henri-Frederic Amie! p. 159 161,224. and 269.    quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.

Journal Intime (1882)

 * The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel as translated by Mary Augusta Ward

Quotes used in the Introduction by Ward

 * Ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others, more determined to conquer their hostility or indifference? It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation — to force the esteem of others — seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation. A struggle with unfavorable opinion has seemed to me beneath me, for all the while my heart has been full of sadness and disappointment, and I have known and felt that I have been systematically and deliberately isolated. Untimely despair and the deepest discouragement have been my constant portion. Incapable of taking any interest in my talents for their own sake, I let everything slip as soon as the hope of being loved for them and by them had forsaken me. A hermit against my will, I have not even found peace in solitude, because my inmost conscience has not been any better satisfied than my heart.

 * [There still remains the question whether] he who discovers a new world in the depths of the invisible would not do wisely to plant on it a flag known to himself alone, and, like Achilles, "devour his heart in secret;" whether the greatest problems which have ever been guessed on earth had not better have remained buried in the brain which had found the key to them, and whether the deepest thinkers — those whose hand has been boldest in drawing aside the veil, and their eye keenest in fathoming the mysteries beyond it — had not better, like the prophetess of Ilion, have kept for heaven, and heaven only, secrets and mysteries which human tongue cannot truly express, nor human intelligence conceive.
 * Review of L'Art Chrétien by Alexis-François Rio in the Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève. (1842)

 * There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine. Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me. There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being.

 * I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

 * I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me — and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world. I am, or rather my sensible consciousness is, concentrated upon this ideal standing-point, this invisible threshold, as it were, whence one hears the impetuous passage of time, rushing and foaming as it flows out into the changeless ocean of eternity. After all the bewildering distractions of life — after having drowned myself in a multiplicity of trifles and in the caprices of this fugitive existence, yet without ever attaining to self-intoxication or self-delusion — I come again upon the fathomless abyss, the silent and melancholy cavern, where dwell 'Die Mütter,' where sleeps that which neither lives nor dies, which has neither movement nor change, nor extension, nor form, and which lasts when all else passes away.

Journal entries

 * Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. — Amiel's journal; the Journal intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1890 (p.368)

 * There is but one thing needful — to possess God. All our senses, all our powers of mind and soul, all our external resources, are so many ways of approaching the divinity, so many modes of tasting and of adoring God. We must learn to detach ourselves from all that is capable of being lost, to bind ourselves absolutely only to what is absolute and eternal, and to enjoy the rest as a loan, as a usufruct…. To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
 * 16 July 1848
 * Only one thing is necessary: to possess God — All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God. We should be able to detach ourselves from all that is perishable and cling absolutely to the eternal and the absolute and enjoy the all else as a loan, as a usufruct…. To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
 * As translated in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * To adore, to understand, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: there is my law my duty, my happiness, my heaven. Let come what come will — even death. Only be at peace with self, live in the presence of God, in communion with Him, and leave the guidance of existence to those universal powers against whom thou canst do nothing! If death gives me time, so much the better. If its summons is near, so much the better still; if a half-death overtake me, still so much the better, for so the path of success is closed to me only that I may find opening before me the path of heroism, of moral greatness and resignation. Every life has its potentiality of greatness, and as it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
 * 16 July 1848

 * It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.
 * 20 July 1848

 * At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.
 * 20 July 1848

 * I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.
 * 3 May 1849

 * Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
 * 3 May 1849

 * To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also — He above all — is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.
 * 27 May 1849

 * Redemption, eternal life, divinity, humanity, propitiation, incarnation, judgment, Satan, heaven and hell — all these beliefs have been so materialized and coarsened, that with a strange irony they present to us the spectacle of things having a profound meaning and yet carnally interpreted. Christian boldness and Christian liberty must be reconquered; it is the church which is heretical, the church whose sight is troubled and her heart timid. Whether we will or no, there is an esoteric doctrine, there is a relative revelation; each man enters into God so much as God enters into him, or as Angelus, I think, said, "the eye by which I see God is the same eye by which He sees me."
 * 1 October 1849; Amiel is here actually quoting Meister Eckhart, not Angelus Silesius as he supposed.

 * Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology — that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.
 * 1 October 1849

 * Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh — that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
 * 1 October 1849

 * The relation of thought to action filled my mind on waking, and I found myself carried toward a bizarre formula, which seems to have something of the night still clinging about it: Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious. It seemed to me that our most trifling actions, of eating, walking, and sleeping, were the condensation of a multitude of truths and thoughts, and that the wealth of ideas involved was in direct proportion to the commonness of the action (as our dreams are the more active, the deeper our sleep). We are hemmed round with mystery, and the greatest mysteries are contained in what we see and do every day. In all spontaneity the work of creation is reproduced in analogy. When the spontaneity is unconscious, you have simple action; when it is conscious, intelligent and moral action.
 * 30 December 1850

 * Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind.
 * 30 December 1850

 * Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship. Each star passes but once in the night through the meridian over our heads and shines there but an instant; so, in the heaven of the mind each thought touches its zenith but once, and in that moment all its brilliancy and all its greatness culminate. Artist, poet, or thinker, if you want to fix and immortalize your ideas or your feelings, seize them at this precise and fleeting moment, for it is their highest point. Before it, you have but vague outlines or dim presentiments of them. After it you will have only weakened reminiscence or powerless regret; that moment is the moment of your ideal.
 * 30 December 1850

 * Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence. (30 December 1850)

 * To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
 * Variant translation: To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

 * In the conduct of life, habits count for more than maxims, because habit is a living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct. To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

 * Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not yet the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear and undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light and serenity.
 * 6 April 1851

 * My privilege is to be spectator of my life drama, to be fully conscious of the tragi-comedy of my own destiny, and, more than that, to be in the secret of the tragi-comic itself, that is to say, to be unable to take my illusions seriously, to see myself, so to speak, from the theater on the stage, or to be like a man looking from beyond the tomb into existence. I feel myself forced to feign a particular interest in my individual part, while all the time I am living in the confidence of the poet who is playing with all these agents which seem so important, and knows all that they are ignorant of. It is a strange position, and one which becomes painful as soon as grief obliges me to betake myself once more to my own little rôle, binding me closely to it, and warning me that I am going too far in imagining myself, because of my conversations with the poet, dispensed from taking up again my modest part of valet in the piece. Shakespeare must have experienced this feeling often, and Hamlet, I think, must express it somewhere. It is a Doppelgängerei, quite German in character, and which explains the disgust with reality and the repugnance to public life, so common among the thinkers of Germany. There is, as it were, a degradation a gnostic fall, in thus folding one's wings and going back again into the vulgar shell of one's own individuality. Without grief, which is the string of this venturesome kite, man would soar too quickly and too high, and the chosen souls would be lost for the race, like balloons which, save for gravitation, would never return from the empyrean.
 * 8 November 1852

 * Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
 * 17 December 1854

 * We must learn to look upon life as an apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, a perpetual diminution in our pretensions, our hopes, our powers, and our liberty.
 * 22 October 1856

 * To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

 * Without passion, man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
 * 27 October 1856

 * Liberty, equality — bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness.
 * Undated entry of December 1863 or early 1864, as translated by Mrs. Humphry Ward (1893), p. 215

 * The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
 * 21 January 1866

 * The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
 * 16 February 1868

 * Clever men will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness; every authority rouses their ridicule, every superstition amuses them, every convention moves them to contradiction. Only force finds favor in their eyes, and they have no toleration for anything that is not purely natural and spontaneous. And yet ten clever men are not worth one man of talent, nor ten men of talent worth one man of genius. And in the individual, feeling is more than cleverness, reason is worth as much as feeling, and conscience has it over reason. If, then, the clever man is not mockable, he may at least be neither loved, nor considered, nor esteemed. He may make himself feared, it is true, and force others to respect his independence; but this negative advantage, which is the result of a negative superiority, brings no happiness with it. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
 * 16 February 1868

 * Action limits us; whereas in the state of contemplation we are endlessly expansive. Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. My soul wavers between half a dozen antagonistic general conceptions, because it is responsive to all the great instincts of human nature, and its aspiration is to the absolute, which is only to be reached through a succession of contraries. It has taken me a great deal of time to understand myself, and I frequently find myself beginning over again the study of the oft-solved problem, so difficult is it for us to maintain any fixed point within us. I love everything, and detest one thing only — the hopeless imprisonment of my being within a single arbitrary form, even were it chosen by myself. Liberty for the inner man is then the strongest of my passions — perhaps my only passion. Is such a passion lawful? It has been my habit to think so, but intermittently, by fits and starts. I am not perfectly sure of it.
 * 8 March 1868
 * The will localizes us, thought universalizes us. My soul wavers between two, four, six general and contradictory conceptions, for it obeys all the great instincts of human nature, and aspires to the absolute, which can only be realized by a succession of contraries.
 * As translated in The Private Journal of Henri Frédéric Amiel (1935), p. 238

 * Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!
 * December 16, 1868.
 * As translated in Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1885), by Mrs. Humphry Ward. Description and preview. Macmillan.

 * My mind has been a tumult of opposing systems, — Stoicism, Quietism, Buddhism, Christianity. Shall I never be at peace with myself? If impersonality is a good, why am I not consistent in the pursuit of it? and if it is a temptation, why return to it, after having judged and conquered it? Is happiness anything more than a conventional fiction? The deepest reason for my state of doubt is that the supreme end and aim of life seems to me a mere lure and deception. The individual is an eternal dupe, who never obtains what he seeks, and who is forever deceived by hope. My instinct is in harmony with the pessimism of Buddha and of Schopenhauer. It is a doubt which never leaves me, even in my moments of religious fervor. Nature is indeed for me a Mala; and I look at her, as it were, with the eyes of an artist. My intelligence remains skeptical. What, then, do I believe in? I do not know. And what is it I hope for? It would be difficult to say. Folly! I believe in goodness, and I hope that good will prevail. Deep within this ironical and disappointed being of mine there is a child hidden — a frank, sad, simple creature, who believes in the ideal, in love, in holiness, and all heavenly superstitions.''' A whole millennium of idyls sleeps in my heart; I am a pseudo-skeptic, a pseudo-scoffer.
 * 31 August 1869

 * This morning the music of a brass band which had stopped under my windows moved me almost to tears. It exercised an indefinable, nostalgic power over me; it set me dreaming of another world, of infinite passion and supreme happiness. Such impressions are the echoes of Paradise in the soul; memories of ideal spheres whose sad sweetness ravishes and intoxicates the heart. O Plato! O Pythagoras! ages ago you heard these harmonies, surprised these moments of inward ecstasy, — knew these divine transports! '''If music thus carries us to heaven, it is because music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
 * 17 March 1870

 * Society lives by faith, develops by reason.
 * 7 May 1870

 * The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic or eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith,—that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind. The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship, the power of proselytism. When the "cross" became the "foolishness" of the cross, it took possession of the masses.
 * 5 June 1870

 * If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.
 * 25 October 1870

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Peter Mandelson

Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson (born 21 October 1953) is a British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, and held a number of Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was also the European Commissioner for Trade between 2004 and 2008.

Quotes

 * Before this campaign started, it was said that I was facing political oblivion, my career in tatters, apparently never to be part of political life again. Well they underestimated Hartlepool and they underestimated me, because I am a fighter and not a quitter! My political opponents can have their pound of flesh, and they do, but they will not eat into of my beliefs, what I stand for and have done in politics. That is the inner steel in me.
 * Jason Beattie, Jon Hibbs, "Triumphant Mandelson hails new Labour victory", Scotsman, 8 June 2001, p. 5.
 * Acceptance speech after re-election as MP for Hartlepool in the 2001 General Election.

 * Bashar is an intelligent and cultured individual who, having lived and studied in London, wanted to show off his perfect English (unfortunately I did not meet his English wife); but also because, like so many leaders of his type and generation, he is looking for a fresh paradigm for his country that will rescue it from economic backwardness without plunging it into political chaos. Hu Jintao, visiting London this week from China, could tell an identical story.
 * 1 November 2001 The Independent

 * No serious challenge on the Left exists to Third Way thinking anywhere in the world. This is hardly surprising as globalisation punishes hard any country that tries to run its economy by ignoring the realities of the market or prudent public finances. In this strictly narrow sense, and in the urgent need to remove rigidities and incorporate flexibility in capital, product and labour markets, we are all "Thatcherite" now.
 * "There's plenty of life in the 'new' Third Way yet", The Times, 10 June 2002, p. 16.

 * Apart from the fact that I am not actually Jewish, I wear my father's parentage with pride.
 * 2003, responding to comments by Tam Dalyell

 * In 2004 when as a Labour government, we were not only welcoming people to come into this country to work, we were sending out search parties for people and encouraging them, in some cases, to take up work in this country.
 * 14 May 2013 statements at the Daily Mail.

Quotations about Peter Mandelson

 * The Lord Mandelson, denied the opportunity to become Foreign Secretary by the sad combination of a Prime Minister too weak to remove his Foreign Secretary and, equally, a Foreign Secretary too weak to challenge the Prime Minister, has gone around instead collecting titles and even whole Departments to add to his name. His title now adds up to, “The right hon. the Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Privy Council and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills”. It would be no surprise to wake up in the morning and find that he had become an archbishop! That is exactly what happened with Cardinal Wolsey.
 * William Hague Hansard, 10 Jun 2009, House of Commons: Column 871.

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Serenity (2005 film)

Serenity is a 2005 space western film which continues the canceled Fox science fiction television series Firefly, taking place about two months after the events of the final episode.
 * Directed and written by Joss Whedon.

Can't stop the signal. (taglines)

River Tam

 *  People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.
 * I swallowed a bug.
 * Her calm comment after a dramatic chase over rough terrain, in which a Reaver ship nearly captured them.
 * The Reavers! They're all made up of rage. I can't shut them up!
 * On her inability to exclude the insanity of the Reavers from affecting her own mind.
 * It's not safe … for them.
 * After Simon asks if she wants to stay with the crew.

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds

 * What was that?
 * Appears in an early scene and the last scene, as some part breaks off Serenity.
 * I look out for me and mine. That don't include you 'less I conjure it does. Now you stuck a thorn in the Alliance's paw. That tickles me a bit. But it also means I got to step twice as fast to avoid them and that means turning down plenty of jobs. Even honest ones. Put this crew together with the promise of work, which the Alliance makes harder every year. Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you.
 * To Simon
 * This is how it is. Anybody doesn't wanna fly with me anymore, this is your port of harbor. There's a lot of fine ways to die. I ain't waiting for the Alliance to choose mine. I mean to confound these bungers. Take my shot at getting to Miranda. Maybe find something I can use to get clear of this. So I hear a word out of any of you that ain't helping me out or taking your leave, I will shoot you down.
 * Sorry about the throat. Expect you'd want to say your famous last words right now. Just one trouble. I ain't gonna kill you. Hell, I'm gonna grant your greatest wish. I'm gonna show you a world without sin.
 * After defeating the Operative
 * I'm assumin' y'all were listenin'? Did you hear us fight? [pause] Trap.
 * After Kaylee asks how he knows Inara's call is a trap

Zoe Washburne

 * We crashing again?
 * Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later.
 * At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime.
 * Sarcastically, as a small vault is opened with very little money.
 * This is the place. We'll buy you the time.
 * She's tore up plenty, but she'll fly true. [when asked by Mal about the status of Serenity, referring to both the ship and herself after the final battle]

Hoban "Wash" Washburne

 * Let's go back to the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a ninety-pound girl, 'cause I don't think that's ever gonna get old.
 * I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.

Jayne Cobb

 * We're gonna explode!? I don't wanna explode!
 * Shiny! Let's be bad guys.
 * I just don't get it. How's a man get so wrong? Cuttin' on his own face, rapin' and murdering — Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight. Or if he bothers me. Or if there's a woman. Or if I'm gettin' paid. Mostly only when I'm gettin' paid. But these Reavers... last ten years they show up like the bogeyman from stories. Eating people alive? Where's that get fun?
 * She is starting to damage my calm!

Mr. Universe

 * It was a very beautiful ceremony. Lenore wrote her own vows.  I cried.  Like a baby.  A hungry, angry baby.
 * You guys always bring me the very best violence.
 * Watching the video of River taking down dozens of men in a bar.
 * Bring it on, bring it on, bring it on. From here to the eyes and the ears of the 'verse, that's my motto. Or at least it would be, if I start having a motto.
 * Can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.
 * They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal.

The Operative

 * This is a good death. There's no shame in this, in a man's death. A man who has done fine works. We’re making a better world. All of them, better worlds.
 * You should have let me see her, Captain. We should have done this as men. Not with fire.
 * Waiting with a fleet to destroy Serenity
 * Target the Reavers. Target the Reavers! Target everyone! Somebody fire!
 * Abandoning his ambush as the Reaver fleet suddenly emerges, chasing Serenity.

Others

 * Shepherd Book: [Last words] I don’t care what you believe. Just believe in... whatever she...
 * Kaylee: Don’t pay anybody in advance. And don’t ride in anything with a Capissen 38 engine, they fall right out of the sky.

Dialogue

 * The Operative: River was your greatest success. A prodigy. A phenomenon. Until her brother walked in here and took her from you.
 * Dr. Mathias: It's not quite so simple.
 * The Operative: I'm well aware of that.
 * Dr. Mathias: There was no way that I could—
 * The Operative: No. No. Of course. The boy spent his entire fortune developing the contacts to infiltrate this place.
 * Dr. Mathias: Gave up a brilliant future in medicine as well. It's madness.
 * The Operative: Madness? Have you looked at this scan carefully, Doctor? At his face? It's love, in point of fact, something a good deal more dangerous.

 * The Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Doctor?
 * Dr. Mathias: I wonder if—
 * The Operative: It's pride.
 * [Rewinds the scan]
 * Dr. Mathias: [in the scan] Key members of Parliament have personally observed this subject. I was told that the Alliance's support—
 * The Operative: “Key members of Parliament.” Key. The minds behind every military, diplomatic, and covert operation in the galaxy, and you put them in a room with a psychic.
 * Dr. Mathias: If there was some classified information that she... She never spoke of it. I don't know what it is.
 * The Operative: Nor do I. And judging by her deteriorating mental state, I'd say we're both better off. Secrets are not my concern. Keeping them is.
 * Dr. Mathias: Whatever secrets she might have accidentally gleaned, it's probable she doesn't even know she knows them. That they're buried beneath layers of psychosis.
 * The Operative: You know, in certain older civilized cultures when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords.
 * Dr. Mathias: Well, unfortunately, I forgot to bring a sword—
 * [The Operative pulls out a sword and slowly turns to him]
 * Dr. Mathias: I would put that down right now, if I were you.
 * The Operative: [Hold the handle of the sword out to him] Would you be killed in your sleep like an ailing pet?

 * Wash: Well, if she doesn't get us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burn-through, this landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
 * Mal: Define "interesting"?
 * Wash: [deadpan] "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?
 * Mal: [over intercom] This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 * Mal: Jayne, how many weapons you plan on bringing? You only got the two arms.
 * Jayne: I just get excitable as to choice — like to have my options open.
 * Mal: I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job.
 * Jayne: Well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.
 * Mal: No grenades. [Jayne groans]  No grenades!
 * Zoë: We crashin' again?
 * Mal: Go talk to your husband. Is the mule prepped?
 * Zoë: Good to go, sir. Just loading her up. [To Jayne] Are those grenades?
 * Jayne: Cap'n doesn't want them.
 * Zoë: We're robbing the place; we're not occupying it.

 * Mal: Kaylee! Kaylee, what in the sphincter of hell are you playing at? We got the primary buffer panel coming right—
 * Kaylee: Everything's shiny, Captain. Not to fret.
 * Mal: You told me those entry couplings would hold for another week!
 * Kaylee: That was six months ago, Captain.
 * Mal: My ship don't crash. If she crashes, you crashed her.

 * Mal: Bit of a rockety ride. Nothing to be worried about.
 * Simon: I'm not worried.
 * Mal: Fear is nothing to be ashamed of, Doctor.
 * Simon: This isn't fear. This is anger.
 * Mal: Well, kind of hard to tell one from the other, face like yours.
 * Simon: Well, I imagine if it were fear, my eyes would be wider.
 * Mal: Mm, I'll keep a lookout for that next time.

 * [Preparing to leave the ship]
 * Mal: Hey little one. Understand your part in all this?
 * River: ...Do you?
 * Mal: This is what I do, darlin'. This is what I do.

 * Simon: Now River, stay behind the others. If there’s fighting, drop to the floor or run away. It’s okay to leave them to die.
 * Mal: Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection here. If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could tears. [Drives off]

 * Mal: Listen up! We are coming down to empty the vault!
 * Guard: You have to give me your authorization password!
 * [Jayne fires a couple of rounds of his gun]
 * Guard: ...Okay.

 * [As the Reavers are chasing them]
 * Mal: Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
 * Jayne: How come they ain't blowing us out the air?
 * Mal: They wanna run us down. The up-close kill.
 * River: They want us alive when they eat us.
 * Jayne: Boy, sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?!

 * [Mal's Mule crashes into Serenity's bay. Simon, who stayed behind, rushes to River asking if she's all right. Kaylee, who also stayed behind, rushes to Simon.]
 * Kaylee: [to Simon] Are you okay?
 * Mal: Is HE okay?!

 * Zoe: Sir, I don't disagree on any particular point. It’s just... in the time of war, we would've never left a man stranded.
 * Mal: ...Maybe that's why we lost.

 * Simon: River, do you want to stay with them?
 * River: It isn't safe.
 * Simon: No. I fear it isn't safe anymore. [Walks off]
 * River: For them.

 * Zoë: Cap'n didn't make 'em fugitives.
 * Kaylee: But he coulda made 'em family! 'Steada keepin' Simon from seein' I was there. And I carried such a torch, and we coulda... Goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!
 * Mal: [shocked] Oh, God! I can't know that!
 * Jayne: I could stand to hear a little more.

 * [Speaking with Fanty and Mingo, who are identical twins]
 * Mal: Fanty. Mingo.
 * Mingo: He's Mingo.
 * Mal: He's Fanty. You're Mingo.
 * Mingo: [grins] How is it you always know?
 * Mal: Fanty's prettier.

 * Simon: I thought she was getting better.
 * Jayne: And I thought they was getting off! Didn't we have an intricate plan how they were gonna be not here anymore?
 * Kaylee: We couldn't leave them now.
 * Jayne: No, now that she’s a killer woman, we ought be bringing her tea and dumplings.

 * Book: Only one thing is gonna walk you though this, Mal. Belief.
 * Mal: You know I always look to you for counsel, but sermons make me sleepy, Shepherd. I ain't looking for help on high. That's a long wait for a train don't come.
 * Book: When I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?

 * [After the crew, eavesdropping on a 'wave between Mal and Inara, sees Inara invite the crew to join her at the companion training house]
 * Wash: Inara. Nice to see her again.
 * Zoë: So... trap?
 * Mal: Trap.
 * Zoë: Are we going in?
 * Mal: Only but a few hours out.
 * Wash: Yeah, but, remember the part where it's a trap?
 * Mal: If that’s the case, then Inara's already caught in it. She wouldn't set us up willing. Might be we got a shot at seeing who's turning these wheels. We go in.
 * Kaylee: But how can you be sure Inara don't just wanna see you? Sometimes people have feelings. And I'm referring here to people.
 * Mal: You all were watching, I take it?
 * Kaylee: Yes.
 * Mal: Did you see us fight?
 * Kaylee: No.
 * Mal: Trap.

 * Wash: We’re about 70 miles from the Training House, and nobody on radar. If the Alliance is about they're laying low.
 * Mal: They're about. Find us a home. I'll take the shuttle a little closer. Zoe, ship is yours. Remember. If anything happens to me or if you don't hear from me within the hour, you take this ship and you come and you rescue me.
 * Zoe: [Jokingly] What? Risk my ship?
 * Mal: I mean it. It's cold out there. And I don't wanna get left.

 * Mal: Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket—
 * Inara: Mal, what are you doing here!?
 * Mal: You invited me.
 * Inara: I never thought for a second you'd be stupid enough to come!
 * Mal: Well, that makes you kind of a tease, doesn't it?

 * Mal: She is a mite unpredictable. Mood swings, of a sort.
 * The Operative: It's worse than you know.
 * Mal: It usually is.
 * The Operative: That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain.
 * Mal: The way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.

 * The Operative: But I have to hope you understand you can't beat us.
 * Mal: I got no need to beat you. I just want to go my way.
 * The Operative: And you can do that, once you let me take River Tam back home.
 * Mal: No, no. You’re working this deal all crabbed. You got to open with payment.
 * The Operative: That is a trap. I offer money, you'll play the man of honor and take umbrage. I ask you to do what is right, you'll play the brigand. I have no stomach for games. I already know you will not see reason.
 * Mal: The Alliance wanted to show me reason, they shouldn't have sent an assassin.
 * The Operative: I have a warship in deep orbit, Captain. We locked onto Serenity's pulse beacon the moment you hit atmo. I can speak a word and send a missile to that exact location inside of three minutes.
 * Mal: You do that, you'd best make peace with your dear and fluffy lord.
 * [Mal tosses a mechanism to the Operative, who catches it and immediately recognizes what it is]
 * The Operative: Pulse beacon.
 * Mal: Advice from an old tracker. You want to find someone? Use your eyes.

 * The Operative: How long do you think you can really run from us?
 * Mal: I never credited the Alliance with an overabundance of brains. And if you're the best they got—
 * The Operative: Captain Reynolds, I should tell you, so that you don’t waste your time - you can't make me angry.
 * Inara: Please, spend an hour with him.

 * The Operative: I want to resolve this like civilized men. I'm not threatening you. I'm unarmed-
 * Mal: Good.
 * [Mal draws his gun and shoots the Operative in the chest. He attempts to exit, only for the Operative to grab him from behind]
 * The Operative: I am of course wearing full body armour. I am not a moron.

 * [After the Operative beats Mal and Inara]
 * The Operative: Nothing here is what it seems. [Picks up his sword] He isn't the plucky hero. The Alliance isn't some evil empire. This is not the grand arena...
 * Inara: And that's not incense.
 * [The Operative turns just as the flash bomb goes off]

 * Jayne: You dumb-ass hogs, the only people she's a threat to is us on this boat.
 * Mal: Look, we get back to Haven in a few hours' time—
 * Jayne: Oh, yeah. Hiding under the Shepherd's skirts, that's a manful scheme.
 * Mal: You wanna run this ship?
 * Jayne: Yes!
 * Mal: [Thrown] Well... you can’t.

 * Inara: This isn't the war, Mal.
 * Mal: You telling me that 'cause I don’t know?
 * Inara: You came to the Training House looking for a fight.
 * Mal: I came looking for you.
 * Inara: I just want to know who I'm dealing with. I've seen too many versions of you to be sure.
 * Mal: I start fighting a war, I guarantee you'll see something new.

 * [As River is holding a gun on him]
 * Mal: The government's man, he says you're a danger to us. Not worth helping. Is he right? Are you anything but a weapon? I've staked my crew's life on the theory you're a person. Actual and whole, and if I'm wrong, you’d best shoot me now—
 * [River cocks the gun]
 * Mal: [Quickly] Or, we can talk more.

 * [On Haven, Mal finds Shepherd Book, mortally wounded in an Alliance attack]
 * Mal: It shouldn't have been you. The Alliance should've hit us, it should've been me.
 * Book: That crossed my mind. [coughs] I shot him down. [looks at the wreck of an Alliance ship]
 * Mal: Yeah, I see.
 * Book: I killed the ship that killed us. Not very Christian of me.
 * Mal: You did what's right.
 * Book: Coming from you, that means... almost nothing. [Mal smiles] I'm long gone.
 * Mal: No, Doc'll bring you around. I look to be bored by many more sermons before you slip. Just don't move.
 * Book: Can't order me around, boy. I'm not one of your crew.
 * Mal: [voice breaking] Yes, you are.

 * The Operative: I'm sorry. If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to. You should have taken my offer. Or did you think none of this was your fault?
 * Mal: I don't murder children.
 * The Operative: I do, if I have to.
 * Mal: Why? Do you even know why they sent you?
 * The Operative: It's not my place to ask. I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin.
 * Mal: So me and mine gotta lay down and die so you can live in your better world?
 * The Operative: I'm not going to live there... There's no place for me there, any more than there is for you. Malcolm, I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done.

 * [Mal and the crew watch a holographic report on the Mirandans' fate]
 * Dr. Caron: There's thirty million people here, and they just let themselves die.
 * [Everyone jumps at the sound of a brutal attack in the distance.]
 * Dr. Caron: I have to be quick! About a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to the Pax. Their aggressor response increased beyond madness. They have become...
 * [A crash is heard in the background, now closer]
 * Dr. Caron: [sobs] Well, they've killed most of us. And not just killed… they've done things...
 * Wash: [Realizes] Reavers... They made them.
 * Dr. Caron: I won't live to report this, but people have to know. We meant it for the best... to make people safer.

 * Mal: This report is maybe twelve years old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear, because there's a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They're gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people…better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
 * Jayne: Shepherd Book used to tell me, "If you can't do somethin' smart... do somethin' right."

 * Jayne: Captain's right. Can't be thinking on revenge if we're gonna get through this.
 * Zoe: Do you really think any of us are gonna get through this?
 * Jayne: [Sounding hopeful] ...I might.

 * Simon: My one regret in all of this is never being with you.
 * Kaylee: With me? You mean to say as...[hopeful] sex?
 * Simon: [nods] I mean to say...
 * Kaylee: [cocks her gun] Hell with this! I'm gonna live!

 * Mal: You shot me in the back! I haven't made you angry, have I?
 * The Operative: There are a lot of innocent people in the air being killed right now.
 * Mal: You have no idea how true that is. I know the secret. The truth that burned up River Tam's brain. Rest of the 'verse is going to know it too. 'Cause they need to.
 * The Operative: Do you really believe that?
 * Mal: I do.
 * The Operative: You willing to die for that belief?
 * Mal: I am.
 * [The Operative nods and begin to pull out his gun, but Mal draws first and shoots the gun out of his hand and backs the Operative into a corner.]
 * Mal: 'course, that ain't exactly Plan A.

 * The Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Mal?
 * Mal: Ah, hell, I'm a fan of all seven. But right now, I'm gonna have to go with wrath.

 * [After Simon is wounded]
 * Simon: River. River, I’m sorry.
 * River: No. No.
 * Simon: I hate to leave.
 * River: You won’t. You take care of me, Simon. You've always taken care of me. My turn. [Runs out and fights the Reavers, closing the door behind her.]

 * The Operative: It's not over. I can't guarantee that they won't come after you. The Parliament. Your broadwave about Miranda has weakened their regime. They are not gone, and they are not... forgiving.
 * Mal: That don't bode especially well for you, giving the order to let us go, patching up our hurt.
 * The Operative: I told them the Tams were no longer a threat, damage done. They might listen, but I think they know I'm no longer... their man.
 * Mal: They take you down, I don't expect to grieve overmuch. Like to kill you myself, I see you again.
 * The Operative: You won't. [Pause] There is nothing left to see.

 * [Deleted scene]
 * The Operative: Serenity... you lost everything in that battle. Everything you had, everything you were. How did you go on?
 * Mal: If you're still standing there when that engine starts, you never will figure it out.
 * Mal: (After the Operative has left) What a whiner.

 * Mal: Taking her out, should be about a day's ride to get you back to your girls.
 * Inara: Right.
 * Mal: Ready to get off this heap, back to civilized life?
 * Inara: I, uh... I don't know.
 * Mal: [Smiles] Good answer.

 * Mal: It ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.
 * River: I do. But I like to hear you say it.
 * Mal: Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turnin' o' worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down. Tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
 * River: Storm's getting worse.
 * Mal: We'll pass through soon enough.

Taglines

 * Can't stop the signal.
 * Space Pirates on the run!
 * This is one "River" you do not want to cross.
 * The future is worth fighting for.
 * They aim to misbehave.

Cast

 * Nathan Fillion - Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds
 * Gina Torres - Zoë Washburne
 * Alan Tudyk - Hoban "Wash" Washburne
 * Morena Baccarin - Inara Serra
 * Adam Baldwin - Jayne Cobb
 * Jewel Staite - Kaylee Frye
 * Sean Maher - Dr. Simon Tam
 * Summer Glau - River Tam
 * Ron Glass - Shepherd Book
 * Chiwetel Ejiofor - The Operative

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J. R. D. Tata

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was a French-born Indian aviator and business tycoon. He was the former Chairman of. He became India's first licensed pilot in 1929. In 1983, he was awarded the French Legion of Honour and, in 1992, India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.

Quotes

 * If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.
 * To lead men, you have to lead them with affection.
 * His Biographers remark quoted in “Believing in Perfection” in New India Digest

 * His Biographer remarked: Of course, ‘Sir, you believe in excellence.' JRD Tata) retorted sharply, 'Not excellence. Perfection. You aim for perfection, you will attain excellence. If you aim for excellence, you will go lower.
 * His Biographers remark quoted in “Believing in Perfection” in New India Digest

 * I don't want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.
 * In the article “The business ethics of J.R.D. Tata” in The Hindu dated 29 July 2005

 * If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.

Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders
Quotes from Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders by J. R. D Tata

 * While I usually came back from meeting Gandhiji elated and inspired but always a bit sceptical, and from talks with Jawaharlal, fired with emotional zeal but often confused and unconvinced, meetings with Vallabhbhai were a joy from which I returned with renewed confidence in the future of our country. I have often thought that if fate had decreed that he, instead of Jawaharlal, would be the younger of the two, India would have followed a very different path and would be in better economic shape that it is today.

 * I wish, I were big enough, like Einstein, to do what he did on one occasion. A hundred-dollar-a-plate dinner was organised for him to speak, and leaders of America in all fields, particularly in the field of science, were invited to hear the great man. When his turn came, he rose and said:'I've nothing to say,' and sat down. You can imagine the consternation, quite apart from the wasted cost of the dinner! Realising the frightful effect his remarks had on the audience, Einstein got up again and said: 'When I've something to say, I'll let you know.'
 * Address to the Lions Club of Jamshedpur, August 22, 1963.

 * The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.
 * 'On November 2, 1943, J.R.D. Tata spoke to the Bombay Rotary Club.''

 * There is today hardly any country in the world outside the communist bloc which does not have a mixed economy. In fact, even countries which call themselves socialist would object to theirs not being described as a mixed economy, for it would imply that it was a totalitarian one, while countries like Germany or Japan, usually thought of as having typically free enterprise economies, would do the same; for, otherwise, it would imply that theirs was a nineteenth century laissez-faire economy.
 * Address on 'Why a Mixed Economy?' to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, New Delhi, April 4, 1975.

 * The Psychology of Delay. Some of the causes of delay in coming to economic decisions in our country seem to lie in the psychological realm. There is such a thing as the psychology of power which motivates people: power of control and patronage, power to delay an application, power to hold up a file, power to keep people waiting in an ante-room, all of which are consciously or subconsciously treated as symbols of prestige and hallmarks of importance.
 * To The Central Advisory Council of Industries, New Delhi, January 3, 1969.

 * At the Crossroads.The effective execution of a Plan is what counts and not mere planning on paper; it is not what we put on our plate or even what we eat that provides nourishment and growth, but what we digest.
 * The Central Advisory Council of Industries, New Delhi, August 13, 1965

 * Road to Social Justice. The first and perhaps the most important of the factors which have contributed to our failure to make real impact on poverty expressed in terms of total number who live below the poverty line has clearly been the uncontrolled growth of our population...First, we must, at all costs, make a much more earnest effort at controlling the growth of our population. As it is, we are running out of time and there is no longer any possibility of preventing it from exceeding 1,000 million souls by the end of the century.
 * At The International Seminar of Economic Journalists, New Delhi, December 5, 1972.

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Bowser

Bowser is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Nintendo's Mario franchise. In Japan, the character bears the title of Daimaō (大魔王, Great Demon King). In the United States, the character was first referred to as "Bowser, King of the Koopas" and "the sorcerer king" in the instruction manual. Bowser is the leader of the turtle-like Koopa race, and has been the archenemy of Mario since his first appearance, in the 1985 video game Super Mario Bros. ==Quoteaback=- "Hear this! I will kidnap Peach OVER and OVER until I pull it off! And no one can stop me! Losing is not an option! And neither is giving a helmet!"

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (12 November 1815 – 26 October 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially the abolition of slavery.

Quotes

 * While the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.
 * As quoted in Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012), by Allen C. Guelzo, Chapter One

 * The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her... He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective to the franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she has no voice... Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, her has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
 * Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (July 19-20, 1848).

 * In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object.
 * Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (July 19-20, 1848).

 * Resolved, That is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
 * First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, [July, 19-20, 1848]. Resolution IX.

 * The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man.
 * Speech before the New York Legislature (February 18, 1860).

 * Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.
 * Letter to Susan B. Anthony (June 14, 1860).

 * Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
 * Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (January 13, 1868).

 * Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
 * Letter to Lucretia Mott (April 1, 1872).

 * We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
 * Diary of December 27, 1890. Published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences By Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot Stanton Blatch. Harper & brothers, 1922. p 270. GoogleBooks URL accessed September 18, 2009.

 * We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
 * First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, [July, 19-20, 1848]. Declaration of Sentiments.

 * I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

 * For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power and the canon law.

 * In defense of the right to...marry whom we please -- we might quote some of the basic principles of our government [and] suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union.
 * Statement regarding Frederick Douglass' marriage to Helen Pitts..

 * To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
 * Address to the Tenth National Women's Rights Convention on Marriage and Divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860; as published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith.

Susan B. Anthony (1884)

 * "Susan B. Anthony" from Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times (1884)

 * All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

 * Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.

 * In ancient Greece she would have been a Stoic; in the era of the Reformation, a Calvinist; in King Charles's time, a Puritan; but in this nineteenth century, by the very laws of her being, she is a Reformer.

Solitude of Self (1892)

 * Address delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress, Monday, January 18, 1892

 * The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

 * No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

 * No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

 * To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

The Woman's Bible (1898)

 * Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

 * The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

 * Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

 * The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.

 * Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjection?

 * In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes.

 * In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He"?

Quotes about Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 * The vision that impels feminists to action was the vision of the Grandmothers' society, the society that was captured in the words of the sixteenth-century explorer Peter Martyr nearly five hundred years ago. It is the same vision repeated over and over by radical thinkers of Europe and America, from François Villon to John Locke, from William Shakespeare to Thomas Jefferson, from Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels, from Benito Juarez to Martin Luther King, from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Judy Grahn, from Harriet Tubman to Audre Lorde, from Emma Goldman to Bella Abzug, from Malinalli to Cherrie Moraga, and from Iyatiku to me. That vision as Martyr told it is of a country where there are "no soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles, kings, regents, prefects, or judges, no prisons, no lawsuits... All are equal and free."
 * Paula Gunn Allen The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986)

 * I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.
 * Susan B. Anthony in Woman's Tribune (February 22, 1890)

 * I never saw that great woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, but I l have read her eloquent and unanswerable arguments in behalf of the liberty of womankind. I have met and known most of the progressive women who came after her — Lucretia Mott, the Grimké sisters, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone — a long galaxy of great women. I have heard them speak, saying in only slightly different phrases exactly what I heard these newer advocates of the cause say at these meetings. Those older women have gone on and most of those who work with me in the early years have gone. I am here for a little time only and then my place will be filled as theirs was filled. The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop. There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause — I wish I could name every one — but with such women consecrating their lives, failure is impossible!
 * Susan B. Anthony speech February 15, 1906 — 38th Annual Convention, National American Woman Suffrage Association, Baltimore MD

 * there was considerable anti-Semitic sentiment among Protestant suffrage leaders. Stanton focused on the Jewish (“Old”) Testament attitude to women...
 * Ellen DuBois Interview

 * It is no wonder that the eager, highly intelligent, already rebellious, young bride Elizabeth Cady Stanton found Lucretia Mott a "revelation," and they "walked home arm in arm" from the convention hall to their lodgings in Queen Street declaring "it was high time some demand was made for the liberties of women," and "discussing the propriety of calling a woman's rights convention."
 * Time and Tide (July 27, 1923) in Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution

 * The struggle for the right of women to vote was nationwide and growing. It had started with the first Equal Rights Convention, at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, which was addressed by Frederick Douglass, the great Negro leader. The suffragists had been ridiculed, assaulted by mobs, refused halls, arrested for attempting to vote, disowned by their families. By 1904, groups of working women, especially Socialist women, were banding together to join in the demand for the vote. Two years later, International Women's Day was born on the East Side of New York, at the initiative of these women demonstrating for suffrage. It spread around the world and is universally celebrated today, while here it is deprecated as "a foreign holiday."
 * Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1955)

 * Brave women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had been the early pioneers, facing abuse and ridicule, violence and even arrests for attempting to vote. Later, women like Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt headed the National American Women's Suffrage Association, which struggled against "the lethargy of women and the opposition of men." But by 1916 a younger, bolder and more militant group emerged, which was dissatisfied with the slower process of winning suffrage, state by state, and fought for a constitutional amendment. They organized the Women's Party in 1916, which planned to mobilize the women's vote in all suffrage states only for parties and candidates who would support national suffrage. That year a group of wealthy suffragists financed and toured in a Suffrage Special. They did not campaign directly for the Republican candidate, Charles Evans Hughes, but their slogan was anti-Wilson: "Vote against Wilson! He Kept Us Out of Suffrage!" Many voted for Eugene V. Debs, then in prison.
 * Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1955)

 * Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Bloomer, Carrie Nation, Frances Willard, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, and the later suffragists of whom she [her mother] was one. These courageous women set a pattern not understood yet, standing in their prim strength, in their sweetness and sobriety against cruel ridicule, moral censure, charges of insanity; for there is no cruelty like that of the oppressor who feels his loss of the bit on those it has been his gain to oppress. "Pine knots as we are," Susan Anthony said. They used the only means open to them - they became orators when it was considered immoral for a woman to speak in public; if she went to meetings she was only to listen and learn. But they could use their constitutional right of petition, and they could tramp up and down, getting signatures for the right to work, to get a divorce, to speak in public, to vote.
 * Meridel Le Sueur "Crusaders" (1955)

 * The History of Woman Suffrage is an incomplete, flawed and heavily biased assemblage of sources. It distorts the origins of the movement by ignoring or downplaying the role of many activists and antecedent activists in favor of stressing the leadership of a few women. The strongly secular bias of its editors and their disenchantment with the organized churches in regard to the struggle of women for their emancipation are reflected in the way they defined the movement as mostly political and constitutional, disregarding the important feminist struggles in the various churches during the century.It is also factionally biased in its downplaying of the role of the women who in 1869 split with Stanton and Anthony, a distortion which is particularly striking in regard to the role of Lucy Stone. Yet these volumes have provided the basis for over a hundred years of historiography on the subject and, in what Mary Ritter Beard called "the long history of women," represent a milestone.
 * Gerda Lerner The Creation of Feminist Consciousness (1993)

 * I have documented 700 years of feminist bible criticism prior to 1870, and every woman who engaged in that feminist bible criticism thought she was the first woman ever to do this. And when Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1893, published the Woman’s Bible, she put in the forward, “No woman before me has ever done this.” This is tragic, because it symbolizes the true position that women held in the world, which was to think, each woman thought, and each man taught each woman to think, and each mother taught their sons and daughters to think, that women have not contributed significantly to the creation of thought, to the creation of culture, and to the creation of civilization. This is a lie, all right?
 * Gerda Lerner Speech (1998)

 * Mainstream feminist leaders (with the exception of the aging Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the younger Charlotte Perkins Gilman) muted the earlier criticism of sexual and familial relationships in favor of concentration on legal and political issues. Whether they shifted their emphasis because of ideological considerations or as a tactical move was in one sense irrelevant; in the eyes of both its own rank-and-file and the larger society the movement as a whole became less radical, less threatening, and hence less likely to effect fundamental changes. The anarchist-feminists refused to accept this solution to the dilemma.
 * Margaret S Marsh, Anarchist Women, 1870-1920 (1981)

 * From the mid-seventies onward, organized feminism had become increasingly decorous. Matilda Joslyn Gage, after all, was forced to go outside the organized movement to find a platform for her anticlerical views, and the venerable but always irreverent Elizabeth Cady Stanton found herself out-flanked and outvoted by her more conventional sisters. While feminism moved toward respectability, anarchism, at least in the public view, became increasingly radical. Partly because of the fiery rhetoric of Johann Most and his admirers, and partly because of antiforeign sentiment, the anarchist came to be viewed as a symbol of irrational violence. The public image of the anarchist was that of a deranged terrorist.
 * Margaret S Marsh, Anarchist Women, 1870-1920 (1981)

 * Elizabeth Cady Stanton who, amid no little derision from American lawyers, had battled valiently against William Blackstone's dictum that woman was a favorite in English law and had lived to see many triumphs over common-law doctrines in the enactment of married women's property acts in state after state.
 * Mary Ritter Beard, Woman as force in history (1946)

 * With constant reiteration, the acclaimed legalist of the woman movement in the nineteenth century, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an outstanding pleader for women's rights before law-making bodies, spoke and wrote as if William Blackstone's account of English law was in fact the law of the land-supreme law-in nearly all vital man-woman relations. It is true that Mrs. Stanton mentioned from time to time the gains which women had been making and were making in their struggle against formulas of the common law; but she repeatedly resorted to wholesale generalizations which treated Blackstone's sweeping generalizations as still binding in law, even to her day in the United States.
 * Mary Ritter Beard, Woman as force in history (1946)

 * Struggle brought about the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited the government from denying women the right to vote. The amendment did not just appear: It was the fruit of the struggle of the suffragettes, led by such figures as Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the mid-nineteenth century.
 * Bernie Sanders Our Revolution (2016)

 * Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the greatest of the early leaders
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

 * I had always resented the pains that militant suffragists took to belittle the work that woman had done in the past in the world, picturing her as a meek and prostrate "doormat." They refused, I felt, to pay proper credit to the fine social and economic work that women had done in the building of America. And in 1909, after we took over the American Magazine, I burst out with a series of studies of leading American women from the Revolution to the Civil War, including such stalwarts as Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams, Esther Reed, Mary Lyon, Catharine Beecher, the fighting antislavery leaders-not omitting two for whom I had warm admiration, if I was not in entire agreement with them, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

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