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Prostitution

Prostitution is the sale of sexual services. A person selling sexual services is a prostitute.

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 * What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician – these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
 * Polly Adler, A House is Not a Home (1953), Ch. 9.

 * Gender discrimination in much of the world prohibits women from owning property or earning a living wage. To survive these harsh economic realities, many women are forced into prostitution. Paul Farmer, the Harvard physician and anthropologist, has noted that the women he interviewed in Haiti “were straightforward about the nonvoluntary aspect of their sexual activity: in their opinions, poverty had forced them into unfavorable unions. Under such conditions, one wonders what to make of the notion of ‘consensual sex.’”
 * Alsan, Marcella (April 2006). "The Church & AIDS in Africa: Condoms & the Culture of Life". Commonweal: A Review of Religion, Politics, and Culture. 133 (8). Archived from the original on 2006-08-21. Retrieved 2006-11-28.

 * The criminalization of sex work makes sex workers more vulnerable to violence on the job and less likely to report violence. It prevents sex workers from accessing health care and other critical services, feeds an out of control mass incarceration system, and further marginalizes some of society’s most vulnerable groups, such as trans women of color and immigrants. Sex workers deserve the same legal protections as anybody else. They should be able to maintain their livelihood without fear of violence or arrest, access health care and other services without discrimination, and seek justice when they are harmed. Decriminalization would help bring sex workers out of the dangerous margins and into the light where people are protected — not targeted — by the law.
 * “It's Time to Decriminalize Sex Work”, American Civil Liberties Union, (July 3, 2023)

 * Police abuse against sex workers is common, but police rarely face consequences for it. That’s partly because sex workers fear being arrested if they come forward to report abuse. Police also take advantage of criminalization by extorting sex workers or coercing them into sexual acts, threatening arrest if they don’t comply. Criminalizing sex work only helps police abuse their power — and get away with it. Decriminalizing sex work would remove the fear of arrest that too often prevents sex workers from seeking justice.
 * “It's Time to Decriminalize Sex Work”, American Civil Liberties Union, (July 3, 2023)

B

 * To you, a prostitute is some kind of beautiful object. You respect her as you do the Mona Lisa, in front of whom you also would not make an obscene gesture. But in so doing, you think nothing of depriving thousands of women of their souls and relegating them to an existence in an art gallery. As if we consort with them so artistically! Are we being honest when we call prostitution "poetic." I protest in the name of poetry. And we are being infinitely smug when, with subjective self-promotion, we believe we are able to endow the prostitute's life with meaning. I would like you to acknowledge the shallow aestheticism of what you write. You yourself do not want to relinquish humanity. Yet you would have us believe that there are people who are objects. You arrogate human dignity to yourself. As for the rest, they are pretty things. And why? So that we have a noble gesture for ignoble deeds.
 * Walter Benjamin, Letter to Herbert Belmore, June 23, 1913, in The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940, p. 35

 * On the evening of the last day of October, 1501, Cesare Borgia arranged a banquet in his chambers in the Vatican with "fifty honest prostitutes", called courtesans, who danced after dinner with the attendants and others who were present, at first in their garments, then naked. After dinner the candelabra with the burning candles were taken from the tables and placed on the floor, and chestnuts were strewn around, which the naked courtesans picked up, creeping on hands and knees between the chandeliers, while the Pope, Cesare, and his sister Lucretia looked on. Finally, prizes were announced for those who could perform the act most often with the courtesans, such as tunics of silk, shoes, barrets, and other things.
 * Cesare Borgia's Diary, as quoted in Johann Burchard, Pope Alexander VI and His Court: Extracts from the Latin Diary of Johannes Burchardus, 1921, F.L. Glaser, ed., New York, N.L. Brown, pp. 154-155

 * Prostitution accordingly not only became a tolerated occupation in many medieval communities, but was even treated in some places as a public utility of sorts. In the fourteenth century many towns carried this principle to its logical conclusion and began to build and operate municipal brothels as a means of regulating the sex trade while realizing a profit from it at the same time. Moral ambiguity concerning the prostitution industry long persisted, and the public policy on the matter still remains controversial in Western societies. Both lawyers and lawgivers typically sought to contain the practice of prostitution by restricting harlots and brothels to specially-designated regions within towns. Municipal statutes, following the decree of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), often required prostitutes to wear distinctive collectors and types of clothing. The rationale that lawmakers usually proposed to explain such regulations was that they would spare respectable women, especially the wives and daughters of established citizens, from the sexual importuning of randy men. This, in turn, was justified as a means to preserve civic peace and harmony. Municipal authorities also attempted in many places to restrict the practice of prostitution to well-defined and usually marginal regions within their towns. Here again they habitually invoked the public good as a reason for these restrictions, although it seems likely that legislation of this sort may also have served the economic and social interests of landlords and property owners in the more salubrious and desirable neighborhoods of the town. Church leaders and civic authorities alike, moreover, were concerned to provide women who wished to abandon the life of shame with realistic opportunities to do so. Thus, for example Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) early in the thirteenth century reversed a long-standing policy that had prohibited good Christian men from marrying prostitutes. Innocent not merely permitted these marriages, but positively encouraged them and promised spiritual rewards for men who married loose women, provided of course that the husbands of former prostitutes kept close watch over their wives to make sure that they remained sexually faithful and did not return to their wanton ways. The prospect of marrying a reformed prostitute may well have been especially alluring to financially disadvantaged men, since successful strumpets occasionally managed to accumulate tidy dowries from the profits of their trade.
 * James A Brundage in “Ch. 2 Sex and Canon Law”; in Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, eds., “Handbook of Medieval Sexuality”, Garland, (1996), p.44

 * The thirteenth century likewise witnessed the creation of convents and religious orders of women that provided a haven and a degree of security and chaste companionship for reformed daughters of joy. The most successful of thee religious institutes, the Order of St. Mary Magdalene (whose members were informally known as the White Ladies, established houses in many major European cities and in a surprising number of minor one as well. Such institutions in effect constituted a social security system of sorts for prostitutes who wished to retire from their occupation but required both social and economic support in order to do so.
 * James A Brundage in “Ch. 2 Sex and Canon Law”; in Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, eds., “Handbook of Medieval Sexuality”, Garland, (1996), p.45

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 * Prostitution does injury to the dignity of the person who engages in it, reducing the person to an instrument of sexual pleasure. The one who pays sins gravely against himself: he violates the chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body, the temple of the Holy Spirit. Prostitution is a social scourge. It usually involves women, but also men, children, and adolescents (The latter two cases involve the added sin of scandal.). While it is always gravely sinful to engage in prostitution, the imputability of the offense can be attenuated by destitution, blackmail, or social pressure.
 * Catechism of the Catholic Church 2355 by Pope John Paul II (1992)

D

 * No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute. You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.
 * Deuteronomy 23:17-18

 * I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
 * John Dryden, Imitation of Horace (1685), "On Fortune", Book III, Ode 29, l. 81 - 87.

E

 * The UN working group’s recommendation that sex workers’ rights need to be better protected in international human rights law is an important step in addressing the widespread discrimination sex workers face across the globe.  It recommended that full decriminalization of adult voluntary sex work holds the greatest promise to address the systemic discrimination and violence sex workers frequently suffer, as well as impunity for violations of sex workers’ rights.  It says that sex workers should be involved in creating the legal and policy frameworks that impact them, as they are often left out of this process, have their views ignored, or are otherwise marginalized.  Human rights standards relating to sex workers’ rights are currently limited, and whether and how to advance them has often been a divisive issue. These recommendations offer a way forward that could allow all human rights defenders to come together and build a common position.
 * Carrie Eisert as quoted in “Global: Experts back decriminalization as the best means to enhance the rights of sex workers”, Amnesty International, (September 29, 2023)

 * Madams moved west as entrepreneurs, and though the New Western history has touched on many topics, the business end of frontier prostitution remains virgin territory, so to speak. Knowledgeable madams first tried the cowtowns of Kansas and then moved west into the mining camps of Colorado. Moving east from San Francisco into the uproar of Virginia City Nevada, madams issues tokens worth from 5 to 50 cent. In the brawling, bustling Western mining camps, according to Mark Twain in his class book “Roughing It”, full jails and hordes of prostitutes were signs of prosperity. He wrote, “Vie flourished luxuriantly during the heyday of our ‘flush times.’ The Saloons were overburdened with custom; so were the police courts, the gambling dens, the brothels and the jails-unfailing signs of prosperity in a mining region-in any region for that matter.” Why did women seek out the sporting life? Many had been abused or abandoned as children and could not maintain stable relationships, but some women simply wanted a gayer, more exciting life than being a farm wife and mother or being married to the factory floor back east.
 * Max Evans, “Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan”, University of New Mexico Press, 2002, p.xii

F

 * Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
 * Jane Fonda, in Thomas Kiernan, Jane: An Intimate Biography of Jane Fonda (1970).

 * Better a live whore than a dead virgin!
 * Esther Friesner, Harlot’s Ruse (1986), ISBN 0-445-20208-4, p. 196

G

 * Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. It is its most cherished child, all hypocritical sanctimoniousness notwithstanding. The prostitute is the fury of our century, sweeping across the "civilized" countries like a hurricane, and leaving a trail of disease and disaster. The only remedy Puritanism offers for this ill-begotten child is greater repression and more merciless persecution.
 * Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

 * She whom Luke calls the sinful woman, whom John calls Mary, we believe to be the Mary from whom seven devils were ejected according to Mark. What did these seven devils signify, if not all the vices? It is clear, that the woman previously used the unguent to perfume her flesh in forbidden acts. What she therefore displayed more scandalously, she was now offering to God in a more praiseworthy manner. She had coveted with earthly eyes, but now through penitence these are consumed with tears. She displayed her hair to set off her face, but now her hair dries her tears. She had spoken proud things with her mouth, but in kissing the Lord’s feet, she now planted her mouth on the Redeemer’s feet. For every delight, therefore, she had had in herself, she now immolated herself. She turned the mass of her crimes to virtues, in order to serve God entirely in penance.
 * Pope Gregory the Great (homily XXXIII)

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 * The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger at least once in her life. Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants. But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads; there is a great multitude of women coming and going; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice. Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple; but while he casts the money, he must say, “I invite you in the name of Mylitta” (that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite). It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her. So then the women that are fair and tall are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot fulfil the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four. There is a custom like this in some parts of Cyprus.
 * Herodotus, The Histories 1.199, tr A.D. Godley (1920)

 * I think it proves that if my business could be made legal, the way off-track betting is in New York, I and women like me could make a big contribution to what Mayor John Lindsay calls Fun City, and the city and state could derive the money in taxes and licensing fees that I pay off to crooked cops and political figures.
 * Xaviera Hollander, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (2002), 253.

K

 * Do you understand, gentlemen, that all the horror is in just this—that there is no horror!
 * Aleksandr Kuprin, The Pit, translation by Bernard G. Guerney.

L

 * Prostitution is not a monolith. The newspapers use the plight of the most vulnerable women to symbolize the entire field, ignoring the diversity of the sex-worker community.
 * Carol Leigh, quoted in: "Slick S.F. posters advocate decriminalizing prostitution" by Kevin Foley, San Francisco Chronicle, (August 14, 1995).

M

 * Prostitution remained a major topic of social concern. The early, time-honoured view that, like the poor, prostitutes were a fact of life was replaced in the 1840s by a social morality that anathematised sexual licence and especially its public manifestations. Gathering intensity as the urban population rose, and with it the 'circulating harlotry' in the streets, theatres and pleasure gardens, moral panic over prostitution was at its height in the 1850s and early 1860s. In part, this was because it betokened visible female freedom from social control. As daughters, employees or servants, young women were subject to male authority; as whores they enjoyed economic and personal independence. The response was a sustained cultural campaign, in sermons, newspapers, literary and visual art, to intimidate, shame and eventually drive 'fallen women' from the streets by representing them as a depraved and dangerous element in society, doomed to disease and death. Refuges were opened and men like future Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone patrolled at night to persuade girls to leave their life of 'vice'. In actuality, the seldom-voiced truth was that in comparison to other occupations, prostitution was a leisured and profitable trade, by which women improved their circumstances, helped to educate siblings and often saved enough to open a shop or lodging house.
 * Jan Marsh, “Sex & Sexuality in the 19th Century”, Victoria and Albert Museum, (2016)

 * Prostitution has little to do with morality, and everything to do with poverty.
 * Lisa Mason, The Golden Nineties (1995), ISBN 0-553-57307-1 p. 407

 * What I am saying is that truth is usually more complicated than any one perspective can capture. Prostitution is not a monolith. Each woman experiences the profession in a different manner. And nothing can be gained by having different groups of feminists or prostitutes — all of whom are probably telling the truth of their own experiences — attempting to discredit each other.
 * Wendy McElroy, "Prostitutes, Anti-Pro Feminists and the Economic Associates of Whores", in: Prostitution: on whores, hustlers, and johns (1999), ed by James Elias.

 * A prostitute was forgiven by Allah, because, passing by a panting dog near a well and seeing that the dog was about to die of thirst, she took off her shoe, and tying it with her head-cover she drew out some water for it. So, Allah forgave her because of that.
 * Muhammad Bukhari 4:538 This is an extraordinary hadith, because following the Sunnah of Muhammad, prostitutes can be extremely despised figures among most Muslims, yet it expresses the idea that even someone working in one of the most despised of professions, in showing mercy to an animal, can merit the forgiveness of Allah, and the wise.

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 * [in Kenya]...any woman who is single and has multiple male sex partners is considered to be a prostitute, whether or not money changes hands.
 * New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.

 * [in India] Any sexual intercourse outside socially acceptable unions is likely to be regarded as prostitution.
 * New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.

 * [In Iran] Under mut'a, it is possible to be 'married' for as little as half an hour.
 * New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.

 * Egyptian law states that a man who is caught with a prostitute is not imprisoned; instead, his testimony is used to convict and imprison the prostitute.
 * New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.

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 * The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.
 * Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943).

 * Because “marriageable” women had to be virgins, American men at the end of the 19th century commonly turned to brothels and “red light districts” for sexual pleasure with “unmarriageable” women. So many new husbands unknowingly brought sexually transmitted infections to their brides on their wedding nights that the birthrate plummeted, especially among the middle class.
 * Planned Parenthood, “A History of Birth Control Methods “, p.10

Q

 * And all married women except those whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you. Lawful to you are all beyond those mentioned, so that you may seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery. And those whom you enjoy, give them their shares as a duty. And there is no sin for you in what you do by mutual agreement after the duty. Indeed, Allah is ever-knower, wise.
 * Quran 4.24
 * For Shi‘ites, this verse is a justification for the concept of temporary marriage, or pleasure marriage (mut’ah ), which some see as a form of prostitution. See for example, on Quran 4.24 : The critical qur’an: explained from key islamic commentaries and contemporary historical research. (2021). . Bombardier Books.

R

 * Who are prostitutes? Ideas seem to lurch between contradictory stereotypes, perhaps unsurprisingly for a group more often spoken about than to. Much as immigrants are seen as lazy scroungers while somehow also stealing the jobs of "decent people", sex workers are simultaneously victim and accomplice, sexually voracious yet helpless maidens.
 * Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (2018)

 * Sex workers - not journalists, politicians, or the police - are the experts on sex work. We bring our experiences of criminalisation, rape, assault, intimate partner abuse, abortion, mental illness, drug use and epistemic violence with us in our organising and our writing. We bring the knowledge we have developed through our deep immersion in sex worker organising spaces - spaces of mutual aid, spaces that are working towards collective liberation.
 * Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (2018)

 * It is very difficult to prevent anyone from selling sex through criminal law. Criminalisation can make it more dangerous, but there is little the state can do to physically curtail a person's capacity to sell or trade sex. Thus, prostitution is an abiding strategy for survival for those who have nothing - no training, qualifications, or equipment. There are almost no prerequisites for heading out to the streets and waiting for a client. Survival sex work may be dangerous, cold, and frightening- but for people whose other options are worse (hunger, homelessness, drug withdrawal) it's there as a last resort: the "safety net" onto which almost any destitute person can fall. This explains the indomitable resilience of sex work.
 * Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (2018)

 * Criminalising the prostitute is rooted in disgust and hatred - entangled with misogyny, racism, and fear of the visibly queer or diseased body. These coalesce into the belief that the prostitute is a threat who must be warded off through punishment.
 * Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (2018)

 * Criminalising sex work isn't working. At its core, exchanging sex for money - like migrancy, drug use, and abortion - is a legitimate and pragmatic human response to specific needs. Prohibiting it produces evasiveness and risk-taking among sex workers, driving them into the margins and exposing them to even more harm.
 * Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (2018)

S

 * The Iceberg Slim story revolves around a sex worker at the natural end of her career, and her pimp, who goes to great lengths to force her, his best earner, into further years of indentured servitude. He stages a death and pins the blame on her, the guilt and shame breaking her spirit. Only her pimp can offer her salvation, and the only way to repay that debt is to keep working.
 * Dave Schilling, "A Close Read of the Pimp Story Dave Chappelle Tells in The Bird Revelation", Vulture, (Jan 3, 2018).

X

 * When we see a woman bartering beauty for gold, we look upon such a one as no other than a common prostitute; but she who rewards the passion of some worthy youth with it, gains at the same time our approbation and esteem. It is the very same with philosophy: he who sets it forth for public sale, to be disposed of to the highest bidder, is a sophist, a public prostitute.
 * Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.6.11, T. Stanley, trans., p. 535.

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 * A Pimp Named Slickback: So you see, my dearest Riley, it is this instinctive and burning need to procreate between a man and a bitch that not only keeps the human race going but also fuels many important industries such as my very own.
 * Riley: So what do you think about Homies Over Hoes?
 * A Pimp Named Slickback: Is that something at Denny's? I don't know what that is.
 * Riley: Homies Over Hoes? You know, like, you supposed to put your homie over a ho. That's how pimps do, right?
 * A Pimp Named Slickback: I don't think Homies Over Hoes is a sentiment that A Pimp Named Slickback can cosign, Riley. I mean don't get me wrong. A Pimp Named Slickback would put a lot of things over a ho. Money over a ho? Always. Brand new gators over a ho? Absolutely. A turkey sandwich with just tomato? Guaranteed. But homies? Oh no. A Pimp Named Slickback don't do shit for the homies. Let me reiterate. Don't do shit for the homies. Unless the homie wanna walk that stroll and get that money, a homie ain't gettin' a goddamn thing.
 * A Pimp Named Slickback as interpreted by Katt Williams and Riley Freeman as interpreted by Regina King in "The Story of Gangstalicious Part 2", The Boondocks; story by Aaron McGruder, screenplay by Rodney Barnes, (February 4, 2008)

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The quotes about Liberty are also about Freedom, and the quotes about freedom are also about liberty. I think these articles should be merged. Binky The WonderSkull 18:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, because liberty is a type of freedom, and usually the two are usued interchangeably. Also, note that on the WP Freedom page, it has Liberty linked under "Freedom as a concept" ~Lewis1350 (talk)
 * That may be so, but the purpose is to make quotes easy to find. Just now I found this page looking for a quote I knew used "liberty".  Had it been buried on the "freedom" page, I never would have found it.  If the concepts can be linked then links should be enough; merging the pages only makes sense if the words are synonyms, which they aren't.

 * The terms for Liberty and Freedom (political) or Freedom (philosophy) have often been used and abused in various ways. There are usually distinctions that are made between Freedom and Liberty, though often the meanings of different words and the differing ideas represented merge and mingle. The pages should probably remain separate for convenience in looking up quotes with the words, as pointed out in the post above. I will remove the merge tags and do a bit of cleanup on the articles. ~ V for Victory 04:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Freedom

The quotes about Freedom are also about Liberty, and the quotes about liberty are also about freedom. I think these articles should be merged. Binky The WonderSkull 18:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

 * "Свобода или смрт (freedom or death)" — is bulgarian revolutionary cry, not macedonian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayna_Popgeorgieva

 * The terms for Liberty and Freedom (political) or Freedom (philosophy) have often been used and abused in various ways. There are usually distinctions that are made between Freedom and Liberty, though often the meanings of different words and the differing ideas represented merge and mingle. The pages should probably remain separate for convenience in looking up words, as pointed out in Talk:Liberty. I will remove the merge tags and do a bit of cleanup on the articles. ~ V for Victory 04:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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 * Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting
 * Alan Dean Foster

 * The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
 * Aristotle

 * In the army of the free, the army of the free. We'll live and die together, in the army of the free!
 * "Army of the Free"

 * You are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
 * Barbara Hall

 * They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
 * Benjamin Franklin

 * It is better to die with a sword in your hands, than a chain over your wings.
 * Richard Rahl

 * If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
 * Carl Schurz

 * Freedom is participation in power
 * Cicero

 * We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
 * Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

 * Only the educated are free.
 * Epictetus

 * Freedom is not the power to do what one wants. Freedom is the power to do what is right.
 * Pope John Paul II

 * The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
 * Justice Anthony Kennedy

 * Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
 * Lawana Blackwell

 * While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
 * Lenin

 * Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
 * Malcolm X

 * You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
 * Malcolm X

 * It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
 * Mark Twain

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 * Patricia Sampson

 * To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
 * Robert Louis Stevenson

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 * Thomas Jefferson

 * Man is free at the moment he wishes to be
 * Voltaire

 * The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
 * William Hazlitt

 * Before you seek one’s freedom, you must assume that any individual, in and of itself, has that quality called freedom, meaning that he can act according to his own free choice.
 * Yehuda Ashlag

 * That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
 * Ayn Rand

 * Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
 * Ayn Rand

 * Freedom defined is freedom denied.
 * Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy

 * America was neither founded, nor freed, by the well-behaved.
 * Semmes Luckett

 * Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 * A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence.
 * Jean-Paul Sartre

 * All men are born free, and yet everywhere lie in chains.
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 * 'Eternal Vigilence is the Price of Liberty' used to mean we watched the government — not the other way around.
 * Bill Stewart

 * Freedom is free of the need to be free.
 * Funkadelic

 * Free your mind and your ass will follow. The kingdom of heaven is within.
 * Funkadelic

 * No Dictator, No invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe, than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. -G'kar (fictional character, Babylon 5)

 * Free at last, free at last, Gawd Almighty, I'm free at last
 * Unknown

 * Freedom is something that dies unless it is used.
 * Hunter S. Thompson

 * Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
 * Wayne Dyer

 * Freedom? Oh, freedom, well, that's just some people talking, your prison is walking through this world all alone.
 * The Eagles in 'Desperado'

 * Ελευθερία ή θάνατος (freedom or death)
 * Cretan war cry

 * Freedom - Responsibility = Anarchy, Responsibility - Freedom = Slavery, Freedom + Responsibility = Liberty

 * Give me your blood, I will give you freedom!
 * Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

 * Hydames, you have not equally weighed each side in your advice to us. For you have tried the one which you advise, the other has remained untried by you. You know what it means to be a slave, but you have never yet tried freedom, to know whether it is sweet or not. For if you had tried it, you would have advised us to fight for it, not merely with spears, but also with axes.
 * Spartans Sperthia and Bulis to Persian satrap Hydarnes

 * Easy isn’t for the free. Easy is for the willfully confined. So how easy do you want it?
 * Matthew Good

 * If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too.
 * W. Somerset Maugham

 * Freedom is over rated
 * Chasse Gunter

 * Freedom is something that the human dream feeds, that none can explain and none cannot understand
 * Cecília Meireles

N — Z

 * Свобода или смърт (freedom or death)
 * Bulgarian revolutionary cry

 * The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.
 * Frank Zappa

 * This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
 * Elmer Davis, on the US

 * Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. Don't bother us with politics, respond those who don't want to learn.
 * Richard Stallman

 * Without freedom, life is not worth living. --(Manuel Belgrano)

 * With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
 * Jean Luc Picard (fictional character, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

 * We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
 * Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

 * Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
 * George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

 * There is no worse cage for a bored man than freedom.
 * Jonathan J. Gardner
 * How can you ever be free without being given the choices to do what you please? Why should you be condemned from what you believe because of another person's grasp on you?
 * Robin Sussman

Anonymous

 * Freedom is like air, you breathe it in and never think of it until it runs out.

 * To be alone is to be free.

 * There is no peace, there is no freedom

 * A Free man is one who has enslaved himself to his inner ideals.

 * Full freedom is chaos, full order is slavery.

Quote Limit
Shouldn't this page be trimmed by now? It contains to many quotes here.(StarWarsFanBoy 19:07, 18 January 2010 (UTC))

Free speech
I propose that quotes about free speech (freedom of expression) should be separated from the main article. Quite often when people speak of freedom this is the freedom that is implied, and it would be good to separate the two. Alternatively there can be made a subsection of this existing article for such quotes. Beta M 18:52, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * See the Freedom of speech article. ~ Ningauble 12:22, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Incorrect attributed quote
Freedom is another word for having nothing else to lose. Clint Eastwood

I do not doubt that Clint Eastwood said this, but he was definitely quoting someone else (maybe unconsciously). I know this quote from the Janis Joplin song 'Me and my Bobby McGee' which Mr Eastwood definitely knows. Probably the quotation is not originally Janis Joplin's either. I guess this is much older.
 * Corrected attribution; earliest I could find was the songwriter. BD2412 T 17:07, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

apparently non-notable source

 * The person who says freedom must have collateral damage is either trying to make a buck or has been duped by someone making a buck on them. This is the primary justification for any group or person engaged in the sale of weapons and killing machines.
 * Nicholas Colin McLaughlin, in "Of Nature: The Hopes and Delusions of a Species" (2011)

An anonymous editor had removed this without any stated reason. I had restored it earlier, but can find no internet indications of the reality of this work, and thus have removed it. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:10, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Regarding Elijah Muhammad quote
Only the latter half of this quote pertains to freedom, but the beginning is necessary to understand who "they" is. ~ Peter1c (talk) 18:57, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Besides the point?

 * We thought (the United States) could lead us to freedom, but they led us into feardom, not freedom.
 * Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011)

 * Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.
 * Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011)

 * As long as man is a slave to another power, he is not free to serve God with mature responsibility. He is not free to become what he is—human.
 * James Cone, Black Theology and Black Power (1969), p. 39

You might think ironsmiths, bricklayers, stable hands, knife grinders, peasants, chambermaids, and others with little to lose would protest the heavy hand of El Deseado. Wrong. Spaniards trapped at birth at the bottom of the heap were fiercely conservative. As Klingender explains, the more these people suffered, "the more fanatical did they become in their loyalty to Church and crown, which they associated with their memories of a better life in the past." They saw in Ferdinand the restoration of Spanish values.
 * Excepting those who see only a boisterous celebration, this macabre work [El entierro de la sardina] makes people uncomfortable. Malraux comments that the figures are not men and women in fancy dress, they are butterflies hatched for one brief moment from a larvel world, the revelation of freedom. Goya's picture therefore symbolizes not a dream fulfilled so much as a desire to be free.
 * Evan S. Connell, Francisco Goya (2005) p. 194

Biohistorian15 (talk) 11:28, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American journalist, author of non-fiction books, and mountaineer. In 1999 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Although he is perhaps best known as an "adventure writer," Krakauer has in fact written about a wide range of subjects since very early in his career.

Into the Wild (1996)

 * Early on a difficult climb, especially a difficult solo climb, you constantly feel the abyss pulling at your back. To resist takes a tremendous conscious effort; you don't dare let your guard down for an instant. The siren song of the void puts you on edge; it makes your movements tentative, clumsy, herky-jerky. But as the climb goes on, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control. By and by your attention becomes so intensely focused that you no longer notice the raw knuckles, the cramping thighs, the strain of maintaining nonstop concentration. A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand. At such moments something resembling happiness actually stirs in your chest, but it isn't the sort of emotion you want to lean on very hard. In solo climbing the whole enterprise is held together with little more than chutzpah, not the most reliable adhesive.
 * Ch. 14.

Into Thin Air (1997)

 * Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet. I understood on some dim, detached level that the sweep of earth beneath my feet was a spectacular sight. I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
 * Ch. 1.

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (2003)

 * I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty. There are some ten thousand religious sects — each with its own cosmology, each with its own answer for the meaning of life and death. Most assert that the other 9,999 not only have it completely wrong but are instruments of evil, besides. None of the ten thousand has yet persuaded me to make the requisite leap of faith. In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life. An abundance of mystery is simply part of the bargain — which doesn't strike me as something to lament. Accepting the essential inscrutability of existence, in any case, is surely preferable to its opposite: capitulating to the tyranny of intransigent belief. And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why — which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.
 * Author's Remarks.

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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. He wrote twelve novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres.

 * See also:
 * Suttree
 * All the Pretty Horses
 * The Road
 * No Country for Old Men (film)
 * No Country for Old Men
 * Blood Meridian

Quotes

 * There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
 * The New York Times, April 19, 1992, "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction" by Richard B. Woodward

 * I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
 * The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen

 * I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
 * The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen

The Orchard Keeper (1965)

 * Yes, he said. I busted him and he busted me. That's fair, ain't it?The boy was still silent, calmly incredulous.No, Sylder went on, I ain't forgettin about jail. You think because he arrested me that throws it off again I reckon? I don't. It's his job. It's what he gets paid for. To arrest people that break the law. And I didn't jest break the law, I made a livin at it.

Outer Dark (1968)

 * The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.

 * And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.

 * Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

 * Yes mam. I'm sorry you've had such troubles. Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don’t need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

 * And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.

 * What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him stooped and hounded through the windy recrements of the day like those old exiles who divorced of corporeality and enjoined ingress of heaven or hell wander forever the middle warrens spoorless increate and anathema.

 * Drovers were racing brokenly across the milling hogs like wind through grass until a whole echelon of them careering up the outer flank forsook the land and faired into space with torn cries. Now the entire herd had begun to wheel wider and faster along the bluff and the outermost ranks swung centrifugally over the escarpment row on row wailing and squealing and above this the howls and curses of the drovers that now upreared in the moil of flesh they tended and swept with dust had begun to assume satanic looks with their staves and wild eyes as if they were no true swineherds but disciples of darkness got among these charges to herd them to their doom.

 * Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.

 * I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Child of God (1973)

 * It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong. (p.71)

 * Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls. (p.128)

 * In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself. (p.130)

 * He could not swim, but how would you drown him? His wrath seemed to buoy him up. Some halt in the way of things seems to work here. See him. You could say that he is sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their blood in history and will have it. But they want this man's life. He has heard them in the night seeking him with lanterns and cries of execration. How then is he borne up? Or rather, why will not these waters take him? (p.147)

 * Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)

 * You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. (p.158)

 * He dreamt that night that he rode through the woods on a low ridge. Below him he could see deer in a meadow where the sun fell on the grass. The grass was still wet and the deer stood in it to their elbows. He could feel the spine of the mule rolling under him and he gripped the mule's barrel with his legs. Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed, he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins slender like bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day ever was and he was riding to his death. (p.162)

The Crossing (1994)

 * If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.

 * The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

 * When he looked back at the primadonna she was watching them through the spyglasses. As if she might better assess them in that way where they set forth upon the shadowbanded road, the coming twilight. Inhabiting only that ocular ground in which the country appeared out of nothing and vanished again into nothing, tree and rock and the darkening mountains beyond, all of it contained and itself containing only what was needed and nothing more.

 * We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.

 * Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.

 * Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.

 * You do not know what things you set in motion, he said. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value.

 * He said that while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor. He said that it was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation?

 * He said the wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror men will not speak against it. That men have just enough stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose. He said that true evil has power to sober the smalldoer against his own deeds and in the contemplation of that evil he may even find the path of righteousness which has been foreign to his feet and may have no power but to go upon it. Even this man may be appalled at what is revealed to him and seek some order to stand against it. Yet in all of this there are two things which perhaps he will not know. He will not know that while the order which the righteous seek is never righteousness itself but is only order, the disorder of evil is in fact the thing itself. Nor will he know that while the righteous are hampered at every turn by their ignorance of evil to the evil all is plain, light and dark alike. This man of which we speak will seek to impose order and lineage upon things which rightly have none. He will call upon the world itself to testify as to the truth of what are in fact but his desires. In his final incarnation he may seek to indemnify his words with blood for by now he will have discovered that words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

 * The world has no name, he said. The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them so that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. That they cannot find for us the way again.

 * He said that both views were one view and that while men may meet with death in strange and obscure places which they might well have avoided it was more correct to say that no matter how hidden or crooked the path to their destruction yet they would seek it out. He smiled. He spoke as one who seemed to understand that death was the condition of existence and life but an emanation thereof.

 * If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

 * In the night as he slept Boyd came to him and squatted by the deep embers of the fire as he'd done times by the hundreds and smiled his soft smile that was not quite cynical and he took off his hat and held it before him and looked down into it. In the dream he knew that Boyd was dead and that the subject of his being so must be approached with a certain caution for that which was circumspect in life must be doubly so in death and he'd no way to know what word or gesture might subtract him back again into that nothingness out of which he'd come. When finally he did ask him what it was like to be dead Boyd only smiled and looked away and would not answer. They spoke of other things and he tried not to wake from the dream but the ghost dimmed and faded and he woke and lay looking up at the stars through the bramblework of the treelimbs and he tried to think of what that place could be where Boyd was but Boyd was dead and wasted in his bones wrapped in the soogan upriver in the trees and he turned his face to the ground and wept.

Cities of the Plain (1998)

 * The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

 * The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

 * Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

The Sunset Limited (2006)

 * Black: Belief aint like unbelief. If you a believer then you got to come finally to a well of belief itself and then you dont have to look no further. There aint no further. But the unbeliever has got a problem. He has set out to unravel the world, but everything he can point to that aint true leaves two new things layin there. If God walked the earth when he got done makin it then when you get up in the mornin' you get to put your feet on a real floor and you dont have to worry about where it come from. But if he didnt then you got to come up with a whole other description of what you even mean by real. And you got to judge everything by that same light. If light is is. Includin yourself. One question fits all.
 * White: I long for Darkness. I pray for death, real death. And if I thought that in death I would meet the people I knew in life, I don't know what I would do. That would be the ultimate horror, the ultimate nightmare. If I thought I was gonna meet my mother again an' start all of that over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to... that would be the final nightmare. Goddamn Kafka on wheels.
 * White: You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

The Passenger (2022)

 * She slept and sleeping she dreamt that she was running after a train with her brother running along the cinderpath and in the morning she put that in her letter. We were running after the train Bobby and it was drawing away from us into the night and the lights were dimming away in the darkness and we were stumbling along the track and I wanted to stop but you took my hand and in the dream we knew that we had to keep the train in sight or we would lose it. That following the track would not help us. We were holding hands and we were running and then I woke up and it was day.

 * In his dreams of her she wore at times a smile he tried to remember and she would say to him almost in a chant words he could scarcely follow. He knew that her lovely face would soon exist nowhere save in his memories and in his dreams and soon after that nowhere at all. She came in half nude trailing sarsenet or perhaps just her Grecian sheeting crossing a stone stage in the smoking footlamps or she would push back the cowl of her robe and her blonde hair would fall about her face as she bent to him where he lay in the damp and clammy sheets and whisper to him I’d have been your shadowlane, the keeper of that house alone wherein your soul is safe. And all the while a clangor like the labor of a foundry and dark figures in silhouette about the alchemic fires, the ash and the smoke. The floor lay littered with the stillborn forms of their efforts and still they labored on, the raw half-sentient mud quivering red in the autoclave. In that dusky penetralium they press about the crucible shoving and gibbering while the deep heresiarch dark in his folded cloak urges them on in their efforts. And then what thing unspeakable is this raised dripping up through crust and calyx from what hellish marinade. He woke sweating and switched on the bedlamp and swung his feet to the floor and sat with his face in his hands. Dont be afraid for me, she had written. When has death ever harmed anyone?

 * He’d no photograph of her. He tried to see her face but he knew he was losing her. He thought that some stranger not yet born might come upon her photo in a school album in some dusty shop and be stopped in his place by her beauty. Turn back the page. Look again into those eyes. A world at once antique and never to be. After she left the quarry he sat alone until the small flames in their tins had guttered out one by one. Then just the dark of the countryside, the silence of it. The faint drone of a truck out on the highway.

 * He wrote in his little black book by the light of the oil lamp. Mercy is the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you. We pour water upon the child and name it. Not to fix it in our hearts but in our clutches. The daughters of men sit in half darkened closets inscribing messages upon their arms with razorblades and sleep is no part of their life.

 * He climbed into the loft and sat at the tower window wrapped in his blanket. Spits of rain on the sill. Summer lightning far out to sea. Like the flare of distant fieldpieces. The patter on the tarp he’d stretched over his bed. He turned up the wick of the lamp at his elbow and took the notebook from its box and opened it. Then he stopped. He sat for a long time. In the end, she had said, there will be nothing that cannot be simulated. And this will be the final abridgment of privilege. This is the world to come. Not some other. The only alternate is the surprise in those antic shapes burned into the concrete. The ages of men stretching grave to grave. An accounting on a slate. Blood, darkness. The washing of dead children on a board. The stone laminations of the world with their fossil prints unreckonable in form and number. My father’s latterday petroglyphs and the people upon the road naked and howling. The storm passed and the dark sea lay cold and heavy. In the cool metallic waters the hammered shapes of great fishes. The reflection in the swells of a molten bolide trundling across the firmament like a burning train. He bent over his grammar in the light of the oil lamp. The straw roof hissing in the bellshaped dark above him and his shadow on the roughtroweled wall. Like those scholars of old in their cold stone rooms toiling at their scrolls. The lenses of their lamps that were made of tortoiseshell boiled and scraped and formed in a press and the fortuitous geographies they cast upon the tower walls of lands unknown alike to men or to their gods.

 * Finally he leaned and cupped his hand to the glass chimney and blew out the lamp and lay back in the dark. He knew that on the day of his death he would see her face and he could hope to carry that beauty into the darkness with him, the last pagan on earth, singing softly upon his pallet in an unknown tongue.

Quotes about Cormac McCarthy

 * Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is without question the book that made me want to try to be a fiction writer as an actual serious undertaking.
 * Rachel Kushner interview quoted here

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Annie Proulx

Edna Annie Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an American journalist and author, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping News and her short story Brokeback Mountain.

Personal life and writing career

 * “I loathe interviews and getting me to sit still for a whole day is unprecedented.”
 * On her dislike of interviews in “Annie Proulx, The Art of Fiction No. 199” in The Paris Review (Spring 2009)

 * “Place and history are central to the fiction I write, both in the broad, general sense and in detailed particulars. Rural North America, regional cultures in critical economic flux, the images of an ideal and seemingly attainable world the characters cherish in their long views despite the rigid and difficult circumstances of their place and time. Those things interest me and are what I write about. I watch for the historical skew between what people have hoped for and who they thought they were and what befell them.”
 * On the subjects that she most likes to write about in “An Interview with Annie Proulx” in The Missouri Review (1999 Mar 1)

 * “The construction of short stories calls for a markedly different set of mind than work on a novel, and for me short stories are at once more interesting and more difficult to write than longer work. The comparative brevity of the story dictates more economical and accurate use of words and images, a limited palette of events, fewer characters, tighter dialogue, strong title and punctuation that works to move the story forward. If the writer is trying to illustrate a particular period or place, a collection of short stories is a good way to take the reader inside a house of windows, each opening onto different but related views—a kind of flip book of place, time and manners.”
 * On her short story collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories in “An Interview with Annie Proulx” in The Missouri Review (1999 Mar 1)

 * “Where a story begins in the mind I am not sure—a memory of haystacks, maybe, or wheel ruts in the ruined stone, the ironies that fall out of the friction between past and present, some casual phrase overheard. But something kicks in, some powerful juxtaposition, and the whole book shapes itself up in the mind…”
 * On her writing process in in “An Interview with Annie Proulx” in The Missouri Review (1999 Mar 1)

 * “It’s kind of an old-fashioned book…It’s long; it has a lot of characters; it takes a big theme. It isn’t a navel-staring, dysfunctional-family thing that’s so beloved of most American writers. It’s different, but I think people probably miss those books that were written some time ago – the big book that was written with care.”
 * On her novel Barkskin in “Annie Proulx: ‘I’ve had a life. I see how slippery things can be’” in The Guardian (2016 Jun 5)

 * “I don’t think I was a particularly good or diligent mother. It took a long time for the obvious to become obvious: I could not operate in a conventional family.”
 * On women being expected to embrace motherhood naturally in “Annie Proulx: ‘I’ve had a life. I see how slippery things can be’” in The Guardian (2016 Jun 5)

 * “This has always bothered me, the division: as though there was something about women who write that is very different.”
 * On literary prizes only awarded to women in “Annie Proulx: ‘I’ve had a life. I see how slippery things can be’” in The Guardian (2016 Jun 5)

 * “I have never fallen in love with one of my characters. The notion is repugnant. Characters are made to carry a particular story; that is their work. The only reason one shapes a character to look as he or she does, behave and speak in a certain way, suffer particular events, is to move the story forward in a particular direction. I do not indulge characters nor give them their heads and “see where they go,” and I don’t understand writers who drift downriver in company with unformed characters…”
 * On how she doesn’t favor any of her literary creations in “An Interview with Annie Proulx” in The Missouri Review (1999 Mar 1)

Barkskins (2016)

 * In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.

 * As he cut, the wildness of the world receded, the vast invisible web of filaments that connected human life to animals, trees to flesh and bones to grass shivered as each tree fell and one by one the web strands snapped.

 * Deiter felt himself too old, lost in the forest of his own experience.

 * That world he wanted them to know had vanished as smoke deserts the dying embers that made it.

 * The future flickered before him as a likely series of disappointments.

The Shipping News (1993)

 * In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.
 * Intro

 * All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.
 * P. 2

 * Quoyle large, white, stumbling along going nowhere
 * P. 4

 * Quoyle, who spoke little himself, inspired talkers. His only skill in the game of life
 * P. 9

 * That was the stuff of other lives, he was waiting for his to begin. He got in the habit of walking around the trailer and asking aloud, "Who knows?" He said, "Who knows?" For no one knew. He meant, anything could happen. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
 * P. 11

 * Quoyle with regards to Petal, his wife, "There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering...In another time, in another sex, she would have been Genghis Khan.
 * P. 13

 * Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
 * P. 24

 * Quoyle, you got any maritime connections?' 'My grandfather was a sealer.' 'Jesus. You always come out at me out of left field.
 * P. 30

 * Dad, there's smoke coming out of the can and coming out of your mouth, too. How do you do that, daddy?
 * P. 42

 * And three lucky stones strung on a wire to keep the house safe.
 * P. 45

 * the old place of the Quoyles, half ruined, isolated, the walls and doors of it pumiced by stony lives of dead generations. The aunt felt a hot pang. Nothing would drive them out a second time.
 * P. 47

 * He [Quoyle] did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
 * P. 49

 * 'Dad, are we scared?' said Sunshine. 'No, honey. It's an adventure.
 * P. 51

 * It was not until the next evening that he discovered he had a page from Leviticus stuck to his back.
 * P.53

 * Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.
 * P. 53

 * For the devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle initial was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork.

 * which bloody misbegotten Card takes the liberty of recasting in his own insane tongue. As the bloody bog-rat's just done.
 * P. 58

 * The editorial page played streams of invective across the provincial political scene like a fire hose. Harangues, pitted with epithets. Gammy bird was a hard bite. Looked life right in its shifty, bloodshot eye. A tough little paper. Gave Quoyle an uneasy feeling, the feeling of standing on a playground watching others play games whose rules he didn't know.
 * P. 63

 * We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.

 * Nutbeem influenced a little by the lunar cycle. Had a touch of werewolf. At full moon he burst, talked himself dry, took exercise in the form of dancing and fighting at the Starlight Lounge, then slowly fell back to contemplation.
 * P. 75

 * The ocean twitched like a vast cloth spread over snakes.
 * P. 193

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User talk:65.10.56.129

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User talk:24.211.206.224

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Rod Coronado

Rodney Adam Coronado (born July 3, 1966) is an American eco-anarchist, and animal rights activist. Coronado was a proponent of the use of direct action to end what he sees as cruelty to animals and destruction of the environment. More recently, while imprisoned, he renounced direct action.

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 * What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time — and that is working within the system.
 * Activists Uncaged

 * I wish I could do it again, only I wish I could take all of the animals out of the environmental fur farm ... I have absolutely no regrets, and I hope the same thing continues to happen at MSU and every other college campus that does animal research.
 * Activists Uncaged

 * You know, those people - I think they should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.
 * ALF 2003

 * I’m a member of the Pascua Yaqui Nation and as an indigenous person, the fur trade represents so much more to me than just animal abuse. It represents cultural genocide.  They were the foot soldiers of an invasion and conquest in the “new world.”  They were the ones who introduced disease.  They were the ones who introduced alcoholism.  They were the ones who introduced gunpowder and many, many things that led to our decimation.
 * A Voice for Liberation

 * You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.
 * Feds arrest environment radical over S.D. speech

 * Don't ask me how to burn down a building. As me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. that is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.
 * Open letter to supporters

 * In my years past I have argued that economic sabotage was an appropriate tactic for our time. Like all strategists I have also been forced to recognize that times have changed and it is now my belief that the movements to protect earth and animals have achieved enough with this strategy to now consider an approach that does not compromise objectives, but increases the likelihood of real social change. Let our opposition who believe in violence carry the burden for its justification, but let those who believe in peace and love practice a way of life that our society sorely needs now more than ever.
 * ^ Message from Rod Coronado in Prison

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Other people's money

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The result was: Delete. — Jeff Q (talk) 03:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Other people's money
Notability in this case is not even claimed, since no name has been provided for the quote. - InvisibleSun 03:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; 1 discounted delete (late); no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 13:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete extremely specific theme article with only a single, unsourced quote from an unidentified quotee. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:40, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - it is possible that the quote is from either the movie Other People's Money or the book Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It. In any case the article title is incorrect, the page isn't formated correctly, etc. May as well delete, unless the actual topic of the page can be clarified. Koweja 17:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete ~ UDScott 18:24, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Australian rules football

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The result was: Delete. — Jeff Q (talk) 03:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Australian rules football
This page contains two quotes, neither of which are about Australian rules football; they both seem to have been said by people connected with it, but the quotes seem to relate only to specific incidents within the sport, not the sport in general. —LrdChaos 13:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (3 deletes; 1 discounted delete (late); no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 13:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with LrdChaos. We seem to be developing a number of theme articles with quotes that have only a passing connection to their purported subjects. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 18:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:39, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:01, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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