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User talk:Paranoid1

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:54, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Pages without quotations
Why are you creating Wikiquote pages that don't have any quotes? Unless these pages include notable quotations, they will end up getting deleted. - InvisibleSun 23:18, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * In fact, I've just nominated Ghost in the shell SAC, Adventures of Chico & Guapo, The, Wonder Showzen, Kyle XY and Kappa Mikey for deletion at Votes for deletion because they contain no quotes. If you (or someone else) do not add quotes to those pages, it is very likely they will be deleted. —LrdChaos 23:41, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Now that you have added some quotes, these pages will likely survive the vfd process, but until a vote has ended, the vfd tag must remain on the page. I've restored the tags to these pages. Again, I don't expect that these pages will end up being deleted, due to the addition of quotes, but plese let the voting process complete. One not, the quotes you've added help, but the formatting of them is a bit off. I've corrected the formatting on Ghost in the shell SAC, as well as moving it to its full title. The other pages should have similar formatting cleanup performed on them. Thanks! ~ UDScott 12:54, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The best way to avoid having articles nominated for deletion because of no quotes is, of course, to compile some quotes before you create the article. Empty articles usually get deleted, so their creators get no credit in the edit history for having created them. (Furthermore, there is a stigma attached to those users who create quoteless articles that is easily avoided by doing even a little homework before starting a page.) You get a better reputation as a Wikimedia editor by making an article substantive than you do by creating a stub article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:03, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Just Added Quotes
Hey i just added quotes to Kappa Mikey, Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex, Wonder Showzen, Adventures Of Chico and Guapo, and Kyle XY. They were left with no quotes because i was trying to find them. Wait a little while before you add something to deletion. You can remove them now from the deletion page.
 * In the future, you should probably hold off on creating a page until you have at least one quote to put on it. Since this is Wikiquote, the whole point of this wiki is quotes, and a page without quotes is useless. I nominated all of those pages for deletion since we're not in the business of duplicating info found in Wikipedia (the intro) without adding something of our own (the quotes). —LrdChaos 21:41, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

The Oblongs
Please take a look at the edits I did on your recent additions to this page. The formatting you used had to be corrected. I appreciate your addition of new quotes, but please make sure they are put in correctly. By the way, it's good to find a fellow fan of this show! ~ UDScott 12:42, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Request for adminship
Paranoid1, I see that you have requested adminship at Wikiquote. I'm afraid I don't understand why you are requesting this. I notice that you have a chronologically long history with Wikiquote, although you have yet to achieve 500 edits. (At the moment, I see 355 edits, and many of those appear to be minor edits to correct problems that you didn't appear to notice before saving your edits. Do you use "Show Preview" to check the results of your edits before committing them to the database?)

I'm encouraged to see that your activity is on an upward trend. However, I think it is a bit premature to be requesting adminship. Besides your relatively low edit count and less-than-optimal editing practices, you don't seem to exhibit any of the characteristics that I, at least, look for in a sysop:

 * Awareness of Wikiquote policies and practices, especially style practices in the genres you contribute most to.
 * Participation in a wide variety of articles, not just a few articles in a single genre.
 * Participation in Wikiquote community and policy discussions (not just asking questions, but providing answers, too).
 * General unprivileged administrative tasks like recent-change monitoring, vandalism reversion, new-user welcoming, general article cleanup (like adding intros, IMDb links, categories), etc.

Although admin privileges are "no big deal", they do put a responsibility on the holder of those privileges. Also, they are not usually given unless the editor wishes to do something that they can't already do without them. I'm not sure what you expect to be able to do as an admin that you can't already do. Could you explain why you are requesting adminship? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:02, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh ok nah it's cool. I was just suggesting it, in case you guys need any help. I really love the site so I like to help as much as possible but yeah I was just merely throwing it out there. I know I'm not the best choice for it and was just wondering if you need any help. Thanks for the answer back. I'll get back to adding some more quotes now hehe. Paranoid1 11:09 PM Centeral Time, July 21 2006

 * We can always use help. But you don't need to be an admin to help out. Almost none of the maintenance, assistance, and community participation activities require admin privileges. Some examples of what all editors can do to help out:

 * Click on "Random page" (in the left-margin "navigation" box) and consider improving the article by adding missing items like proper introductory paragraphs, Wikipedia links, or categories; checking an existing source to verify the information; doing a Google or other search on an unsourced quote to find a reliable source for it; and/or reformat the article to meet the style guidelines listed at Templates and its genre subpages. Besides helping out, it can be entertaining just reading random pages.

 * Click on "Recent changes" (also in the "navigation" box), then click on the "diff" links to see what edits people have made. Most will have some kind of sense to them, but some of them will be accidents or experiments, and some of them will be prank edits or even vandalism. You can revert the mistakes and pranks by editing the older version of the article and saving it over top of the newer version. (Be sure to put something like "reverted to previous version" in the edit summary if you do this. And always try to assume good faith; i.e., try not to accuse others of bad-faith editing without substantial evidence.)

 * Nominate articles for deletion if they don't seem to be about famous people or works. Likewise, you can vote for or against such nominations that others make. (It's good to read Wikiquote, WQ:NOT, and the top of Votes for deletion before doing this, though.)

 * Join in discussions on article talk pages or community pages like Village pump and Reference desk. There are no foolish questions, and you never know when you might raise an issue that no one has seriously considered before.

 * These are just a few things that not only help the community, but also provide opportunities to get comfortable with Wikiquote practices and policies and get to know your fellow Wikiquotians. And anyone can do them, at any time. Moreover, you can do that at your own pace, as much or as little as you wish. (Believe me, not being an admin makes this much easier, at least if you're as responsibility-obsessed as I am. ☺) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the info Jeffq. I don't know if I'll probably doing some requesting of deleting any time soon but I will continue editting and adding. Paranoid1

Simple links
I've responded to your excellent village pump question about recovering old information, but I also noticed that the article link you used was more complex than necessary:

 * The_Boondocks_%28TV_series%29 → The_Boondocks_%28TV_series%29

I assume you got this by copying part of the URL of the page. Might I suggest a simpler form that makes such links much more readable to editors?

 * The Boondocks (TV series) → The Boondocks (TV series)

Notice that this version uses the punctuation and spaces of the actual article title. (It also works for section headings.) Both versions work, but the latter is much easier to understand and less likely to incur an editing error that breaks it. There are occasions where the %nn and underscore encoding is needed, but they are rare, and should only be used when the standard links don't work. (One should always test links in any text one writes, either for articles or discussion pages, before saving, by using the "Show preview" feature of the edit window. I apologize if you already do this, but unfortunately, it is all too common, even among experienced wikians, to forget this essential editing step.)

The "how to edit a page" link mentioned in the welcome message above gives quite a bit of details and examples of some of these useful editing tricks. I highly recommend reading it and then experimenting with edits (using Sandbox) to get a feel for some of these cool wiki capabilities. (I still remember how excited I got about the possibilites while reading this material when I first was learning about Wikipedia, but then I'm an incurable computer nerd. ☺) Anyway, I hope you find this info helpful. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:44, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh ok thanks for the heads up about that. I'll make sure to do it correctly next time. Paranoid1 2:08 AM CST 23, July 2006

Bette Davis
Thank you for creating this page. I have cleaned it up and added sourced quotes. Cirt (talk) 14:46, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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Home Movies (TV series)

Home Movies (1999–2004) is a dialogue-driven animated series about 8-year-old Brendon Small (voiced by the creator, head writer, and lead musician of Home Movies, Brendon Small), who makes films with his friends, Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis, in his spare time. He lives with his divorced mother, Paula, and his adopted baby sister, Josie. He is also friends with his alcoholic, short-tempered soccer coach, John McGuirk.

Get Away From My Mom [1.01]

 * Coach McGuirk: I've got trademark products all over my body because I was drunk one night. Don't live like me.

 * Coach McGuirk: You know, I mean, uh, kids don't want to do anything. You know, in my experience, Paula? Kids are always like "I don't wanna do that!" I consider my job to kinda twist them in the direction of doing stuff. I mean that's what coaching's all about. That's why I love it. Every day I go out there and I twist the kids into doing something they don't wanna do!

I Don't Do Well In Parent-Teacher Conferences [1.02]

 * Coach McGuirk: You know Lynch, uh, it's funny when I talk to you, I get a little uncomfortable because I feel like you're being condescending to me, and I hope that's not the case, because if it is, I'm gonna kick your ass, and if it isn't, let's clear it up right now. So, you can tell me whether you're being condescending to me whenever we speak, and if you say yes, I'm gonna beat you up right here in the faculty lounge, and if you say no then I'm going to, uh, say, "Fine." Alright? You being condescending right now?
 * Mr. Lynch: Hmm.

 * Jason: Excuse me, monster coming through. Coming through, how you doin'?
 * Melissa: Aim for his heart. Aim for his heart!
 * Brendon: Fire!
 * Jason: Ahhh!
 * Melissa: Direct Hit.
 * Jason: Ahh! Maybe you should look at yourself before you take it out on me. I'm just one monster and when I'm gone! You'll remember me! Ooow! Oww! And then you'll have to at yourselves. And own up to what you've done. For isn't every man a monster!
 * Brendon: I guess he's right! I guess we're all!
 * Jason: Your're damn right I'm right!
 * Brendon: Yea Yeah I know!
 * Jason: Stop shooting!
 * Brendon: Ok! Hey guys!
 * Jason: Don't you realize that if you stop now I might be able to get surgery!
 * Brendon: Uhh yeah I'm going to tell them hold on.
 * Jason: Tell the guy that's shooting to stop shooting!
 * Brendon: Who's shooting!?!
 * Jason: Oh for god's sakes, tell 'em to stop!
 * Brendon: I'm trying!
 * Jason: I mean hello!
 * Brendon: I know!
 * Jason: Do you have any control of your people!?!?!
 * Brendon: I..I Who's shooting?!? Please stop!
 * Jason: Ah forget it, leave him alone. I'll just die!

The Art Of The Sucker Punch [1.03]

 * Brendon: I'd like to make an appointment, with you if you're free, on Wednesday.
 * Shannon: About what time?
 * Brendon: I'm thinking maybe 3:30. Alright keep that open.
 * Shannon: What's this about?
 * Brendon: I'm going to pound the crap out of you.

 * Jason: What happens after you punch his butt a second time?
 * Brendon: I'm gonna probably kick him.
 * Jason: Kick him! Where you gonna kick him?
 * Brendon: I'm gonna go for the butt again.
 * Jason: Okay. Let's get away from the butt.

Yoko [1.05]

 * Brendon: So I just feel like I'm in the way... of Mitch & Lonny.
 * Paula: Brendon.
 * Brendon: Yeah?
 * Paula: You're 8 years old. You need to remember to bring your homework folder to school everyday. You need to remember to wash your hands before you eat your breakfast, lunch, dinner & snack. And you need to worry about all this...

 * Melissa:  Do you want to hear about how great they are together?
 * Brendon:  I WANT TO KNOW WHY THEY PICKED ME TO PLay this trick on, this joke.
 * Melissa:   It wasn't a joke.
 * Brendon:   I got played by both of them and you know what sister? DONT PLAY ME! Dont play Brendon Small because he dont like that stuff.
 * Melissa:   You were playing the game of love and when you play the game of love someone always  get's hurt.
 * Brendon:   I'm turning my chips in, you know why?
 * Melissa:   Because you lost?
 * Brendon:   NO I QUIT!
 * Melissa:   You forfeit?
 * Brendon:   I fold!  I know what my cards are and you know something? I DONT HAVE A GOOD HAND!

Director's Cut [1.06]

 * Jason [As Louis Braille]: I'm going to get a house with a nice view of the ocean.
 * Brendon [As Louis Pasteur]: But you're blind.
 * Jason: Well, my entire family isn't blind. Did you ever think of that?
 * Brendon: Sorry, I don't know what I was thinking.

 * Brendon [As Louis Pasteur]: We are two great men from France, both named Louis!

It Was Supposed to be Funny [1.07]

 * McGuirk:Then there’s nice funny--like maybe a little light sarcasm or a clever twist or a knock-knock joke. I like those. You like those?
 * Brendon: Um…
 * McGuirk: Knock-knock.
 * Brendon: Huh.
 * McGuirk: Brendon. Knock-knock. I’m doing a knock-knock joke. Knock-knock.
 * Brendon: Uh, hello.
 * McGuirk: what do you mean, hello? You say who’s there? Brendon. Do you knock a knock-knock joke?
 * Brendon: Yeah, uh…
 * McGuirk: I say knock-knock you say who’s there?
 * Brendon: Yeah, right. I’m not a big fan of…
 * McGuirk: You know what? Do it. Knock-knock.
 * Brendon: Who’s there?
 * McGuirk: No, wait a minute, you say knock-knock.
 * Brendon: I don’t…knock-knock.
 * McGuirk: Who’s there?
 * Brendon: I don’t know.
 * McGuirk: I don’t know who?
 * Brendon: I don’t know, I hate this joke.
 * McGuirk: That’s not funny. It’s got to be a pun or something. You know what? Forget it. Where was I? Oh, yeah, nice funny.

 * McGuirk: Hey, ladies, uh, my name is John McGuirk. I, uh, am a professional soccer coach at the elementary school level and I own a nice car though I do not currently have legal access to it. Um, as you can see, I used to be in good shape and, uh, in the last two years I’ve successfully completed four out of five rehab programs. The kind of woman I’m interested in is the one, I guess, who’s still watching this video.
 * Brendon: Cut. I’m going to stop you right there.
 * McGuirk: What’s? That was, uh, that was not good or…
 * Brendon: We got it. We got this.
 * Erik: I think you nailed it.

Life Through A Fish Eye Lens [1.09]

 * Brendon: You ever heard the phrase "Slipped him a Mickey"? As in: Somebody just slipped that guy a mickey, and now everything looks weird to him.

School Nurse [1.10]

 * Jason: Nurse, beautiful swan.

Mortgages And Marbles [1.11]

 * Paula: Oh, oh, is she okay? What is that strange wheezing noise?

 * Doctor: Oh, uh, that's called mouth-breathing. Most children do it, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives.

Law & Boarders [1.12]

 * Judge: So you were riding your bike on the wrong side of the street. What were you thinking, Brendon?
 * Brendon: Nothing. Oh, wait, I was trying to remember the name of the guy who played Tron, in Tron.

 * [As part of his court-ordered video essay, Brendon films Melissa and Jason in a dramatic re-enactment of the accident. Melissa and Jason are in a cardboard box car]
 * Melissa: I love this new car.
 * Jason: Me too. Do you know what else I love?  You.
 * Melissa: Yeah... We should run over some children.
 * Jason: Yes! Let's go kill children.
 * Melissa: Yeah! Look!  There's one riding towards us now.
 * Jason: Well put your seat-belt on. Let's see what this baby can do!
 * [After running Brendon over with the cardboard-box-car, Melissa and Jason stand over him]
 * Melissa: Is he still alive?
 * Jason: Yeah. Hey, go in the trunk, Hotstuff, and go get daddy the bat.
 * Melissa: Sure thing!
 * Jason: We'll finish him off.

Brendon's Choice [1.13]

 * Melissa Robbins: You had an affair? And now she's trying to kill us? How could you?
 * Brendon: I'm sorry.
 * Melissa Robbins: Who is she?
 * Brendon: Just some woman.
 * Melissa Robbins: Is it because I'm fat?
 * Brendon: No... In fact, she's fat too.

 * [Brendon, Melissa and Jason have won a trophy for Best Young Filmmakers of the Year]
 * Brendon: All right, uh, so I'll keep it for the first day, Melissa, uh, keeps it for the second
 * day, and Jason will keep it for the third day, and we'll keep doing it like that for...
 * the rest of our lives.
 * Melissa Robbins: Okay.
 * Jason: What if, um, one of us gets hit by a car and then it gets mangled?
 * Brendon: Then you miss your turn.

Politics [2.01]

 * Shannon: Why is Brendon resigning?
 * Melissa: Because he knows it wasn't a fair election, Shannon. You beat up Thurmond and stuffed the ballot boxes and threatened everybody.
 * Shannon: No, I didn't.
 * Melissa: You didn't?
 * Shannon: No.
 * Melissa: Then what happened to Thurmond Thackeray?
 * Shannon: I don't know, maybe he fell. He's a stupid, clumsy kid.
 * Brendon: [on stage]] And so now I turn the office of the presidency over to the man who should have won. Ladies and gentlemen, Thurmond Thackeray.
 * [Thurmond walk onto the stage, trips and falls off the stage.]
 * Melissa: Well, look at that.
 * Jason:: He's not getting up.

 * Brendon: Any questions? Anybody have any requests?
 * Female Student: Can we get pizza more?
 * Brendon: "Pizzamore"! I have no idea what that means. Next question!
 * Male Student #2: Is ketchup a vegetable?
 * Brendon: Very good question. Ketchup is actually a fruit. It's a magical fruit...from outer space! Next question.
 * Male Student: You suck!
 * Brendon: Looks like we have a heckler in the audience! Why don't I take off my head and remove my brain, and we'll start out as equals, huh? Hello?
 * Male Student #3: Shut up!
 * Brendon: I don't think that's a question.

Identifying a Body [2.02]

 * Coach John McGuirk: This sausage is probably eighteen years old... This sausage could vote. It could go to war and die for its country.

 * Coach John McGuirk: He left me a frozen sausage that's what you're telling me...oh my life.

The Party [2.05]

 * Melissa: Jason, what are you getting Fenton for his birthday?
 * Brendon: Oh, right, Fenton's party.
 * Jason: Um...I got him an eraser. It's looks like, um, a little football.
 * Brendon: It sounds great.
 * Jason: It has a dual function.
 * Melissa: What does it do other than erase?
 * Jason: You can play catch with it.
 * Melissa: Oh...
 * Brendon: You can almost do that with anything.
 * Jason: But it's shaped like a football, Brendon.
 * Brendon: Melissa, what did you get him.
 * Melissa: I got him a CD.
 * Jason: That's stupid.
 * Melissa: You could also play catch with it.

 * Melissa: Stop it, Jason. you've had enough. You're embarrassing me.
 * Jason: (mocking) Stop it, Jason. you've had enough.
 * Melissa: You're embarrassing yourself.
 * Jason: You're embarrassing me. You're embarrassing me.
 * Melissa: Keep your voice down.
 * Jason: Keep your voice down, Melissa.
 * Melissa: My voice is down.
 * Jason: Well, mine's down, too, then!
 * Melissa: Jason, everyone's staring.
 * Jason: Nobody's staring at me. People are staring at you and your stupid rich-bitch dress.
 * Melissa: Jason, you've had enough.
 * Jason: I know when I've had enough, Melissa, all right? And I certainly haven't had enough. The only thing I've had enough of is you.
 * Melissa: I'm just trying to help you.
 * Jason: (grabs Melissa) Oh, my god, help me. Help me, Melissa.
 * Melissa: (hugs Jason) I'll help you, Jason.
 * Fenton's Mom: (holding a bowl of gummy bears) More candy, kids?
 * Jason: I gotta go. ''(grabs the bowl of gummy bears)

Dad [2.07]

 * Andrew: Oh, by the way, we're going to meet my girlfriend Linda at the zoo, since you've agreed to go to the zoo.
 * Brendon: What, is she one of the exhibits?
 * Andrew: Let me tell you something, she could be.
 * Brendon: Is she an animal?
 * Andrew: No, you're not kidding.

 * Linda: [in her underwear] Why didn't you wake me?
 * Andrew: Uh, Linda, could you get a robe on or something?
 * Brendon: Good morning to me!
 * Linda: You were supposed to wake me at 7:45.
 * Andrew: I did.
 * Linda: Yeah, well, you didn't do a very good job of it. It's 8:30!
 * Andrew: I know, but--
 * Linda: I've got to be at the cancer institute at 9:00!
 * Andrew: I'm sorry, I guess you fell back to sleep.
 * Linda: Oh, so you're only going to wake me once, is that it? I get one shot and that's it. Thanks a lot. Now I gotta rush. Great. I'm going to have a fun day at the cancer institute.

Therapy [2.08]

 * Jason: I hate my acting. It's horrible.
 * Melissa: You think you're bad. What about me? I couldn't act my way into a paper bag. Into.
 * Brendon: Are you guys serious? My acting sucks on ice. What was I doing up there? That was not acting, that's for sure.
 * Jason: Brendon, why don't you put some extra bait on that hook.
 * Melissa: Yeah, and don't forget your tackle box for your compliment fishing trip.
 * Brendon: I thought we were all fishing for compliments. That's what we were--oh, forget it.

 * Paula: But are you learning anything? I mean, psychology can be kind of interesting.
 * Brendon: Well, I learned that "should" is a word I shouldn't use.
 * Paula: Why shouldn't you?
 * Brendon: I don't know. Because it makes the doctor mad. He should lighten up a little.
 * Paula: Maybe you should lighten up a little.
 * Brendon: Maybe you should go to therapy with Linda.
 * Paula: Maybe she should lighten up a little.
 * Brendon: Maybe everybody should lighten up a little.
 * Paula: What should we have for dinner?
 * Brendon: We should have pizza.
 * Paula: We should have salad, too.
 * Brendon: You should have salad.
 * Paula: Maybe Linda should have salad?
 * Brendon: I feel that it would be in her best interest.
 * Paula: Should be in her best interest.
 * Brendon: What do you mean? Whose best interest?
 * Paula: The salad.
 * Brendon: The salad is in Linda's best interest?
 * Paula: No, the pizza's in the salad's best interest...the point is, Brendon, you don't have to go to therapy. But I think a person like you really should.

Class Trip [2.09]

 * Clarisse: My girlfriend and I were born on the same exact day.
 * McGurik: Well, that's exciting? What day was that, D-Day?
 * Clarisse: No. You're funny.
 * McGurik: Yes, I am.
 * Clarisse: My boyfriend could get really jealous of you.
 * McGurik: Uh-huh. Look, little mama, let me tell you something, all right? I'm here to do my time, make my money, and that's it. I can't possibly get involved with a coworker. That would be wrong. Plus, how old are you?
 * Clarisse: 18.
 * McGurik: I could potentially get involved with a coworker.

 * [In front of a coffee shop]
 * Brendon: This is the perfect place to shoot the final scene.
 * Melissa: Let's go back to the hotel.
 * Brendon: No, no, no. It's fine. Plus I have to pee, so...
 * Melissa: Hold your breath.
 * Jason: Uh, I think that only works for hiccups.
 * Melissa: It works for pee, too.

History [2.10]

 * Picasso: Look, we're being watched by Starboy and the Captain of Outer Space.
 * Annie: Then they must know of our plan.
 * Washington: Not to worry, my evil ones, we've yet to reveal our biggest secret. Bring in the hostages!
 * William Shakespeare [played by Walter]: I'm Shakespeare.
 * Oliver Twist [played by Perry]: And I'm Oliver Twist.
 * The Mermaid Queen [played by Junior]: And I'm the Mermaid Queen.
 * All: Help us!
 * Picasso: Yes, if anything should happen to us while we innocently destroy the human race, the hostages get it! And we start with Shakespeare.
 * Shakespeare: No! I'm too young, and I'm still writing my masterpiece called Katz.
 * Annie: And you'll be next, Oliver Twist.
 * Oliver: Fine with me.
 * [Oliver starts laughing, Shakespeare and The Mermaid Queen also starts laughing]
 * Annie: Silence!
 * Washington: And finally you, the mermaid.
 * The Mermaid Queen: But I no do nothing wrong and neither do the other four.
 * Oliver: The other two.
 * Shakespeare: Three.
 * The Mermaid Queen: The other...
 * Annie: Two.
 * The Mermaid Queen: Two? I'm sorry, I have trouble with the mathematics. Look, I am just saying, please don't kill The Mermaid Queen!
 * Washington: You interfere and they get it! Understand, Starboy?

 * [After seeing the end of the movie]
 * Paula: Foremothers, huh?
 * Brendon: Yeah, I wanted to be equal.
 * Paula: Yeah.
 * Brendon: Did you enjoy it?
 * Paula: Mm...yes. It was a little confusing.
 * Brendon: Well, it's the kind of movie you have to watch a few times to totally get.
 * Paula: I'm sort of concerned, though, about your brains.
 * Brendon: What about them?
 * Paula: I'm concerned that they might have been damaged.
 * Brendon: Oh, so, you've seen my test.
 * Paula: I don't think that counted as a test, because in a test, you're supposed to answer the questions.
 * Brendon: I know.
 * Paula: You did not answer the questions.
 * Brendon: I know.
 * Paula: Though you did diagram the sentences of the questions...
 * Brendon: Yeah.
 * Paula: Which you did wrong.
 * Brendon: Am I in trouble?
 * Paula: Well, the bad news is you are grounded.
 * Brendon: What's the good news?
 * Paula: I'm not letting you use your camera for a week.
 * Brendon: I think that's still bad news.
 * Paula: Trust me. That is good news.

Writer's Block [2.11]

 * McGuirk: DVD PLAYER!!!!

 * Walter and Perry: we hate fenton, we hate fenton.

 * Students: he was a good test subject...I'll call the cops.

Pizza Club [2.12]

 * Andrew: How's the documentary?
 * Brendon: Good.
 * AndrewHow's Cynthia?
 * Brendon: Hates me.
 * Andrew: Good, everything seems to be in order then.
 * Brendon: Actually, the way I had it originally planned is that she would like me instead of hate. I somehow mixed it up.
 * Andrew Ah.
 * Brendon: Yeah.
 * Andrew: You accidentally made her hate you instead of like you?
 * Brendon: Yes I must have mixed something up.
 * Andrew: Hmm, sometimes that happens, a classic problem. Did you uh, try too hard around her?
 * Brendon: Yes, I tried very hard, I tried very, very hard.
 * Andrew: It didn’t work? Have you been acting weird around her?
 * Brendon: Yes!
 * Andrew: Unnatural? Did you try acting unnaturally?
 * Brendon: Yes! I rehearsed.
 * Andrew: Right. Did you blurt stuff out you didn’t mean?
 * Brendon: Yes! I figured, I’m gonna make myself more memorable.
 * Andrew: Mmhmm, right. So she’s never seen you relaxed?
 * Brendon: No, she’s never seen me-No. And she still hates me!
 * Andrew: Hmm, well have you told her how you feel about her?
 * Brendon: Hahahahaha, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

The Wedding [2.13]

 * Andrew: It looks more like i'm going to my prom than my wedding.

 * Brendon: Yeah. So you're thinking the green ones, with the big ties--those are better?

 * McGuirk: You wanna know what a real rash is? I'll tell you! You get a rash somewhere on your body. It hurts so bad that YOU GO BLIND. You blow up like a balloon...end up looking like a circus freak. Next thing you know, you're IN THE CIRCUS. Touring, making good money. You know my life.

Shore Leave [3.01]

 * [Melissa is in the mall selling items in her Fairy Princess costume.]
 * McGuirk: Give me those wings.
 * Melissa: No, I'll get in trouble. Coach, please.
 * McGuirk: No. Coach wants to fly away.
 * Melissa: Coach, are you drunk?
 * McGuirk: Yeah, that's why I came to the mall.

 * {Melissa, Jason and Brendon are in their movies about two mates and a captain on shore leave, with Melissa as the captain}
 * Melissa: I gots a better idea what we can do! Let's punch out some scumsuckers, and get drunk, and pee out the window! Then seduce women! Lots of women! Arrgh!
 * Jason: What window?

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do [3.02]

 * Paula: And get my wallet and checkbook, they're in the third drawer--

 * Brendon: I know where they are mother!

 * Paula: Brendon how do you know where my wallet and checkbook are?

 * Brendon: ...what?

 * Paula: How do you know where my wallet and checkbook are?

 * Brendon: ...Brendon can't come to the uh, hallway, right now...

 * Paula: Explanation please!

 * Brendon: uhh...you know we really should think about calling the fire department.

 * Paula: Well I just off the phone with dad--he's really broken up about this.

 * Paula's Mother: Oh please, the only way to break that man's heart would be to whack it with a sledge-hammer... or take away his anti-depressants. Let's get something to eat, I'm starved!

Bad Influences [3.03]

 * Jason: Makes me hungry just thinking about all the heat.
 * Brendon: MAKES ME HUNGRY HOT!
 * Jason: Damn hungry hot.
 * Brendon: Damn Chips...

 * Brendon: Jason, I'm going to leave you.
 * Jason: No. Brenden, no.
 * Brendon: We have to leave each other.
 * Jason: No, Brenden, we only have each other. And food.
 * Brendon: Jason, we have to leave each other. We can't do this anymore.
 * Jason: [sighs]

Renaissance [3.06]
Melissa: "Jason, aren't you more interested in the history of medieval times? I mean, it really happened."

Jason: "So did the sci-fi stuff."

Melissa: "When, in the future?"

Jason: "No! That's why you don't understand it. It's already happening."

My Cheatin' Heart [3.07]

 * Jason: Sucks this. Get it? It's backwards for "this sucks."

 * Melissa: Do you think I'm a horrible person?
 * Jason: No, I think you're very pretty
 * Melissa: I don't mean horrible to look at, I mean horrible because you're my sister's fiance and we just had an affair.
 * Jason: Oh, then yeah.

Guitarmageddon [3.08]

 * McGuirk: What the hell is wrong with you people. Are you on drugs?
 * Brendon: No.
 * Melissa: No.
 * McGuirk: With all the nicknames. What are those, drug nicknames?
 * Melissa: They're band nicknames.

Storm Warning [3.09]

 * Perry: Sounds trite.
 * Walter: Yeah, it sounds like it's been done before.
 * Paula: No, I don't think so...
 * Walter: Lame!
 * Perry: Double Lame-o!
 * Walter: Yeah!
 * Perry: Double Lame-O Donkey D*ck!
 * Walter: Sucking on the Witch's T*t!
 * (Walter and Perry embrace and fall down, laughing)

Time To Pay The Price [3.10]

 * [environmental film]
 * Melissa: [as a lumberjack] I'm going to chop you down, tree.
 * Brendon: [as a tree] Well, okay, but, um, don't, um, because what about the environment?
 * Jason: [as a skunk, moves from behind Brendon] Hello, I'm a skunk.
 * Brendon: Hello.
 * Melissa: Hello.
 * Jason: Hey, um, I mean, don't chop down the forest.
 * Melissa: Okay, I won't chop down the forest, just this tree.
 * Brendon: But I'm a tree, and I'm a house for birds and chipmunks and cats and dogs. And I can be useful for people, too. I can be made into wood...
 * Jason: Oh, man. Chop it down.
 * Melissa: I'm with you skunk.
 * Brendon: Hey, you guys suck.
 * Jason: Lumberjack.
 * Melissa: Yep?
 * Jason: Pass me that ax.
 * [chops Brendon down with the ax and falls down]
 * Brendon: [bleeding maple syrup] Aaaah! It hurts!
 * Melissa: You can't shut this one up.
 * Jason: Hope you learned your lesson, tree.
 * Jason & Melissa: It's time to pay the price.

 * [prison film]
 * Jason: Well, we've done a lot of bad things, right, guys?
 * Melissa: Yes, we have. Yes, we have.
 * Brendon: And now we're here in jail.
 * Melissa: Yes, we are. We're here being punished.
 * Jason: And we hate it. But what can we do? We did wrong.
 * Brendon: We can't do anything. Justice has been done. It's time to...[mumbling] pop it pop...
 * Melissa: Yeah.
 * Jason: You speak the truth, my brother. It is time to...
 * Melissa: Time for that.
 * Jason: Yes, time to...
 * Brendon & Melissa: Pay the...
 * [all mumbling]
 * Jason: What time is it, actually?
 * Brendon: It's 2:30.
 * Jason: Yeah, I got to go home.
 * Brendon: Okay, fade to black. The End. Well, we tried.

Broken Dreams [3.11]

 * Brendan: (to Melissa) You read a book a month? Man, it would take me like a year to read a book a month.

 * Coach McGuirk: (to Brendon) Quarter for the bus, quarter for the bus. The end. Hey Brendon, the end.

Coffins And Cradles [3.13]

 * Brendon: I'm leaving. Doctor, I'm sorry you had to see me this way.
 * Linda: Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
 * Brendon: What?
 * Linda: You heard me.
 * Brendon: No, I was outside. What?

 * Coach McGuirk: Oh my god it's death!
 * Melissa: Coach it's me Melissa.
 * Coach McGuirk: Oh my god it's Melissa!
 * Melissa: This is my costume.
 * Coach McGuirk: Hey you know Melissa you shouldn't be walking around the hospital dressed as death.

Everyone's Entitled To My Opinion [4.01]

 * McGuirk: What else are ya gonna do, Lynch? Are you gonna spank me? Spank me.
 * Lynch: McGuirk...
 * McGuirk: [pulls down pants] Here. Here it is, spank it.

Camp [4.02]

 * Brendon: I can't believe the water is hotter than the air!
 * Jason: Don't talk Brendon, I'm peeing.

 * McGuirk: Alright, look! Here's what i need. Food. Fast food, preferrably. Beer. Light Beer. Preferrably.
 * Brendon: Alright, Melissa, do you mind fake writing this down?
 * Melissa: Yeah.
 * Brendon: OK. Go ahead!
 * McGuirk: I need a satellite map of this entire area
 * Brendon: OK. Melissa write it down
 * Melissa: Got it.
 * McGuirk: I need some hair dye, a fake moustache, i need gunpowder..
 * Melissa: Coach, Would you settle for some marshmellows?
 * McGuirk: Oh you got marshmellows?
 * Melissa: We can get you some marshmellows.
 * McGuirk: Yeah! Ill take 'em. Hey!, lets make smores! You got graham crackers?
 * Melissa: No.
 * McGuirk: Sh*t.

Bye, Bye Greasy [4.03]

 * Fenton: He punched me.
 * Mr. Lynch: Who did?
 * Brendon: Fenton.
 * Fenton: Uh, me did. It's a lighting thing.

 * McGuirk: Everybody move, I got to back up. [he backed up but got bumped by a box] Oh, my God. Somebody move that box over there! [He backs up again, but got bumped yet again] Oh, [censor beep] it. [he backs up again but this time the car hit down the stage]
 * Audience: [clapping]

The Heart Smashers [4.04]

 * Melissa: Okay good and action!
 * Jason: Wait. Let me get back in the shot.
 * Melissa: Sorry about that.
 * Jason: Okay and action!
 * Melissa: Wait. Cut, let me get rid of my gum. [throws her gum away] Action!
 * Fenton: Hey, I'm thirsty.
 * Melissa: Cut! Jason, could you get him something?
 * Fenton: Thank you. Jason.
 * Jason: No, Melissa you get him something.
 * Melissa: Jason, I asked you to get him something.
 * Jason: Well I'm telling you, you get...
 * Fenton: Someone get me a soda, please.
 * Jason: Right. Melissa go get him a soda.
 * Melissa: You get him a soda.
 * Jason: I'm not gonna.
 * Fenton: Please! Stop fighting and just get me a soda.
 * Melissa: You know, lets forget the soda and action!
 * Fenton: Oh, let's not forget the soda and get it!
 * Melissa: Get him soda.
 * Jason: You said action.
 * Fenton: Listen to my [making sounds with his tongue] drying mouth. [making sounds with his tongue]
 * Melissa: (sigh)

 * Brendon: Well let's kill Simon and eat him.
 * Jason: Let's just kill someone.
 * Brendon: Yeah.
 * Jason: Yeah, I mean how many times do I have to hint.
 * Brendon: Okay, well we're all in on this you know that?
 * Jason: Thank you, I mentioned it like seven times.

The Wizard's Baker [4.05]

 * Eugene: We get trophy if we win race, at spaghetti dinner it is also award ceremony. Ha ha, I will be victorious over you.
 * Junior: There's something very diabolical and informative about Eugene.

 * Jason: Naturally, our director is extremely busy. I'm sure-
 * Melissa: [on a telephone] I don't think he's coming.
 * Jason: Scurrying around the city finding new locations.
 * Melissa: [on a telephone] He's not coming!
 * Jason: Melissa, please.
 * Melissa: [hangs up the telephone] Our stupid director isn't coming.
 * Jason: Melissa, you're blowing the deal.
 * Melissa: Why me? It's stupid Brendon.
 * Jason: All right, I agree, he's stupid! You know something, this is stupid! [knocks a calculator off the table]
 * Melissa: Jason, you're blowing the deal!
 * Jason: No, I'm not, it's Brendon, Melissa!
 * Melissa: You're the one who dropped the baby.
 * Jason: So, it's a fat baby! How was I suppose to hold it? You try picking it up, Melissa!
 * Melissa: I'm not picking up fat babies, Jason.
 * Jason: What's the matter, Melissa, chicken to pick up a fat baby?! There it is, pick him up!
 * Melissa: That's it, I'm leaving!
 * Jason: Good-bye! [Melissa leaves, to investors.] I am so sorry for what you just witnessed. But I'd like to talk to you two about back end points.

Curses [4.07]

 * Coach McGuirk- I've got to agree with your mom, Brendon. Cursing is a sign of ignorance. [to referee] Oh [censor beep], ref! Please! [to Brendon] There's no place for cursing in a civilized society.

 * Coach McGuirk: It's called creative use of words. It's like poetry. Robert Frost, stopping by the woods on a snowy [censor beep] evening. That kind of [censor beep].
 * Brendon: Yeah, that's good stuff.
 * Coach McGuirk: But it's my poetry. It's the everyday-man's poetry.
 * Brendon: Yeah, yeah.
 * Coach McGuirk: Alright, 'cause we can't find good metaphors like the woods... or the snow, or the horse or that kind of stuff. [to referee] Oh [censor beep]-ing [censor beep] me, ref!
 * Erik: Hey guys.
 * Coach McGuirk: Hey Erik. Want a [censor beep]-ing donut?

Honkey Magoo [4.08]
(Referring to the dog)
 * Jason : He's been splattering poop like a monkey's racehorse.

 (referring to Taunto)
 * Coach McGuirk: Next time that thing comes near me, I'm gonna eat it. I'm serious!

Cho & The Adventures Of Amy Lee [4.10]

 * Perry: Chase the butterfly!
 * Walter: Smash the butterfly!

 * Melissa: Brendon, is your grandfather really dying?
 * Brendon: We're all dying, Melissa.

Definite Possible Murder [4.11]

 * Brendan:Did you just say "weeeow?"

 * Melissa: That's insane you don't have any poof.
 * Brendon: Poof?
 * Melissa: Proof!

Temporary Blindness [4.12]

 * Doctor: Well what time is there?
 * McGuirk: What do you mean what time is it there??? What time zone are you in!!!
 * Doctor: Don't call this number again

 (during his eye surgery)
 * McGuirk:- I smell burning eye.

 * McGuirk:- I hate ping-pong and too cool. I hate Mr Stingy too I'd like to kill the son of a bitch.

Focus Grill [4.13]

 * Jason: So are there any questions or comments?
 * Junior: Well, that was not so great, but it was better than that fairy princess bull-shit.
 * Melissa: Hey!
 * Fenton: Um, that's not a twist, it's just stupid.
 * Jason: Save it for the comment card Fenton.
 * Fenton: I'm sorry, but it was bad.
 * Brendon: Fenton, we know you have opinions, but if you could keep them to yourself that would be great.
 * Fenton: Well, what's the point of having a screening if we don't keep our opinions to ourselves. You just don't want to hear criticism that it was bad.
 * Walter: I have an idea! What if in the end me and Perry...
 * Perry: Uh huh.
 * Walter: Walk up to the front of the camera...
 * Perry: I like it, I like it.
 * Walter: And dance like this.
 * [They dance like the peanuts]

 * Fenton: Don't touch me.
 * Junior: This guy needs to loosen up, and you know what I think Walter and Perry. MAKEOVER!
 * Walter: I hear that!
 * Perry: Me too.
 * Fenton: Don't touch my hair.
 * Junior: I've been looking at you this entire focus group Fenton, and I have to give you a facial scrub so bad.
 * Walter: And your hair needs some gel.
 * Perry: I want to pluck your eye-brows so bad.
 * Fenton: I don't even know what you guys are talking about you morons. Clean up your own backyards.
 * Walter and Perry: Clean up our own backyards?
 * Brendon: Get out of here!

 * Brendon (as biker): I'm sick of findin' myself on the road. It's been takin' way too long. These hotels are too expensive - and I'm sick o' lookin' at the map and the road at the same time. I'll get killed if I keep doing that.
 * Melissa (as biker): I don't wanna find myself either. It's more interesting not knowing where I might be.
 * Jason (as biker): Maybe we should build a house together out of our bikes and random trash and live in it together, forever.

 * Brendon: This is gonna sound really weird, guys. I don't - honestly - I don't think our movies should be watched.
 * Melissa: They shouldn't?
 * Brendon: No.
 * Melissa: Then why are we making them?
 * Brendon: I - I have...I have no idea why we make them. All I know is this: we keep coming here after school every single day... and we just keep doing it. And then, I dunno, its just - and then we just do it and then I guess it feels like we should just be doing it, I guess! I dunno!
 * Jason: Sigh, huh. Weird. Weird - we are...god, we're weird.
 * Melissa: What's wrong with us?
 * Brendon: I don't know!
 * Jason: We're weirdos!

Cast

 * Paula Poundstone - Paula Small (1999)
 * Brendon Small - Brendon Small, Dwayne, Walter, Ken and Junior Addleburg, various
 * H. Jon Benjamin - Jason Penopolis, Coach John McGuirk, Perry, Various
 * Melissa Bardin Galsky - Melissa Robbins, Various
 * Janine Ditullio - Paula Small (2001-2004)
 * Ron Lynch - Mr. Lynch
 * Jonathan Katz - Erik Robbins
 * Emo Phillips - Shannon
 * Eugene Mirman - Eugene
 * Louis C.K. - Andrew Small
 * Laura Silverman - Linda
 * Sam Seder - Fenton Mulley

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and founding member of the Confessing Church.

Quotes

 * Your Yes to God demands your No to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and the poor, to all godlessness and mocking of the holy. Your Yes to God demands a brave No to everything that will ever hinder you from serving God alone, whether it be your profession, your property, your house, your honor before the world. Faith means decision.
 * "The Gift of Faith" (9 April 1938), in The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012), p. 203

 * Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
 * As quoted in LIFE magazine (22 April 1957), p. 152; also in Letters and Papers from Prison (1967), p. 47

 * How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.
 * Letter to Eberhard Bethge (25 May 1944), Letters and papers from Prison (1997), p. 311

 * We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God… It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God’s “crooked but straight path”. It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
 * Life Together, as quoted in The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives (2002), by Brennan Manning, California: HarperSanFrancisco, p. 74

Costly Grace (1937)

 * As translated by R. H. Fuller, with some revision by Irmgard Booth (1959)

 * Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting to-day for costly grace. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks’ wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices. Grace is represented as the Church’s inexhaustible treasury, from which she showers blessings with generous hands, without asking questions or fixing limits. Grace without price; grace without cost! The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. Since the cost was infinite, the possibilities of using and spending it are infinite. What would grace be if it were not cheap?
 * p 43

Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. Grace alone does everything, they say, and so everything can remain as it was before.
 * Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God. An intellectual assent to that idea is held to be of itself sufficient to secure remission of sins. The church which holds the correct doctrine of grace has, it is supposed, ipso facto a part of that grace. In such a Church the world finds a cheap covering for its sins; no contrition is required, still less any real desire to be delivered from sin. Cheap grace therefore amounts to a denial of the living Word of God, in fact, a denial of the Incarnation of the Word of God.
 * p 43

 * Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.
 * p. 45

Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner.
 * Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
 * p. 45

Costly grace is the sanctuary of God; it has to be protected from the world, and not thrown to the dogs.''' It is therefore the living word, the Word of God, which he speaks as it pleases him. Grace is costly because it compels a man to submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him; it is grace because Jesus says: "My yoke is easy and my burden is light."
 * God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. '''Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.
 * p. 49

Discipleship (1937)

 * Quotes from English translations of Nachfolge (1937), also translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1949)

When holy scripture speaks of following Jesus, it proclaims that people are free from all human rules, from everything which presumes, burdens, or causes worry and torment of conscience. In following Jesus, people are released from the hard yoke of their own laws to be under the gentle yoke of Jesus Christ. … Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
 * Should the church be trying to erect a spiritual reign of terror over people by threatening earthly and eternal punishment on its own authority and commanding everything a person must believe and do to be saved? Should the church's word bring new tyranny and violent abuse to human souls? It may be that some people yearn for such servitude. But could the church ever serve such a longing?
 * "Preface", as translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss (2001)

Costly Grace

 * Cheap grace means justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. Grace alone does everything they say, and so everything can remain as it was before. … Well, then, let the Christian live like the rest of the world, let him model himself on the world’s standards in every sphere of life, and not presumptuously aspire to live a different life under grace from his old life under sin. That was the heresy of the enthusiasts, the Anabaptists and their kind. … Let him live like the rest of the world! Of course he would like to go and do something extraordinary, and it does demand a good deal of self-restraint to refrain from the attempt and content himself with living as the world lives. Yet it is imperative for the Christian to achieve renunciation, to practice self-effacement.
 * translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 43

 * As Christianity spread, and the Church became more secularized, this realization of the costliness of grace gradually faded. The world was Christianized, and grace became its common property. It was to be had at low cost. Yet the Church of Rome did not altogether lose the earlier vision. It is highly significant that the Church was astute enough to find room for the monastic movement … Thus monasticism became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity and the cheapening of grace. … Monasticism was represented as an individual achievement which the mass of the laity could not be expected to emulate. By thus limiting the application of the commandments of Jesus to a restricted group of specialists, the Church evolved the fatal conception of the double standard.
 * translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), pp. 46-47

 * The call to the cloister demanded of Luther the complete surrender of his life. But God shattered all his hopes. He showed him through the Scriptures that the following of Christ is not the achievement or merit of a select few, but the divine command to all Christians without distinction. Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual self-assertion of the "religious."
 * translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 47

 * The outcome of the Reformation was the victory, not of Luther's perception of grace in all its purity and costliness, but of the vigilant religious instinct of man for the place where grace is to be obtained at the cheapest price.
 * translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 49

 * The antithesis between the Christian life and the life of bourgeois respectability is at an end. The Christian life comes to mean nothing more than living in the world and as the world, in being no different from the world, in fact, in being prohibited from being different from the world for the sake of grace. The upshot of it all is that my only duty as a Christian is to leave the world for an hour or so on a Sunday morning and go to church to be assured that my sins are all forgiven. I need no longer try to follow Christ, for cheap grace, the bitterest foe of discipleship, which true discipleship must loathe and detest, has freed me from that.
 * translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 51

 * At the end of a life spent in the pursuit of knowledge Faust has to confess: "I now see that we can nothing know." That is the answer to a sum, it is the outcome of a long experience. But as Kierkegaard observed, it is quite a different thing when a freshman comes up to the university and uses the same sentiment to justify his indolence. As the answer to a sum it is perfectly true, but as the initial data it is a piece of self-deception.
 * translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 51

Discipleship and the Cross

 * As translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss (2001).

 * Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected. … Suffering and being rejected are not the same. Even in his suffering Jesus could have been the celebrated Christ. Indeed, the entire compassion and admiration of the world could focus on the suffering. Looked upon as something tragic, the suffering could in itself convey its own value, its own honor and dignity. But Jesus is the Christ who was rejected in his suffering. Rejection removed all dignity and honor from his suffering. It had to be dishonorable suffering. Suffering and rejection express in summary form the cross of Jesus. Death on the cross means to suffer and to die as one rejected and cast out. It was by divine necessity that Jesus had to suffer and be rejected. Any attempt to hinder what is necessary is satanic. Even, or especially, if such an attempt comes from the circle of disciples, because it intends to prevent Christ from being Christ. The fact that it is Peter, the rock of the church, who makes himself guilty doing this just after he has confessed Jesus to be the Christ and has been commissioned by Christ, shows that from its very beginning the church has taken offense at the suffering of Christ. It does not want that kind of Lord, and as Christ's church it does not want to be forced to accept the law of suffering from its Lord.
 * p. 84

 *  "If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. … "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves … and take up their cross."
 * p. 85

 * The cross is not random suffering, but necessary suffering. The cross is not suffering that stems from natural existence; it is the suffering that comes from being Christian. … A Christianity that no longer took discipleship seriously remade the gospel into only the solace of cheap grace. Moreover, it drew no line between natural and Christian existence. Such a Christianity had to understand the cross as one's daily misfortune, as the predicament and anxiety of our daily life. Here it has been forgotten that the cross also means being rejected, that the cross includes the shame of suffering. Being shunned, despised, and deserted by people, as in the psalmists unending lament, is an essential feature of the suffering of the cross, which cannot be comprehended by a Christianity that is unable to differentiate between a citizen's ordinary existence and a Christian existence. The cross is suffering with Christ.
 * p. 86

It is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering that everyone has to experience is the call which summons us away from our attachments to this world. It is the death of the old self in the encounter with Jesus Christ. Those who enter into discipleship enter into Jesus' death.
 * God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
 * p. 87

 * The Cross is not the terrible end of a pious happy life. Instead, it stands at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ. Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.
 * p. 87. This quote ends with an oft quoted aphorism: Jeder Ruf Christi fährt in den Tod.
 * Variant translations:
 * Every call of Christ leads into death.
 * When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

 * Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.
 * p. 88

The Righteousness of Christ

 * It was the error of Israel to put the law in God’s place, to make the law their God and their God a law.
 * p. 122

Truthfulness

 * The truthfulness which Jesus demands from his followers is the self-abnegation which does not hide sin. Nothing is then hidden, everything is brought forth to the light of day. In this question of truthfulness, what matters first and last is that a man’s whole being should be exposed, his whole evil laid bare in the sight of God. But sinful men do not like this sort of truthfulness.
 * p. 138

The Beatitudes

 * “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.” With each beatitude the gulf is widened between the disciples and the people, their call to come forth from the people becomes increasingly manifest. By “mourning” Jesus, of course, means doing without what the world calls peace and prosperity: He means refusing to be in tune with the world or to accommodate oneself to its standards. Such men mourn for the world, for its guilt, its fate, and its fortune.
 * p. 108

The Visible Community

 * A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. “Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the stand.” … The bushel may be the fear of men, or perhaps deliberate conformity to the world for some ulterior motive.
 * exegesis of Matthew 5:13, p. 118

 * “Reformation theology” … pretends to prefer to Pharasaic ostentation a modest invisibility, which in practice means conformity to the world. When that happens, the hallmark of the Church becomes justitia civilis instead of extraordinary visibility. The very failure of the light to shine becomes the touchstone of our Christianity.
 * p. 118

Revenge

 * As translated by R. H. Fuller, with some revision by Irmgard Booth (1959)

At this point it becomes evident that when a Christian meets with injustice, he no longer clings to his rights and defends them at all costs. He is absolutely free from possessions and bound to Christ alone.''' Again, his witness to this exclusive adherence to Jesus creates the only workable basis for fellowship, and leaves the aggressor for him to deal with. The only way to overcome evil is to let it run itself to a stand-still because it does not find the resistance it is looking for. Resistance merely creates further evil and adds fuel to the flames. But when evil meets no opposition and encounters no obstacle but only patient endurance, its sting is drawn, and at last it meets an opponent which is more than its match. Of course this can only happen when the last ounce of resistance is abandoned, and the renunciation of revenge is complete. Then evil cannot find its mark, it can breed no further evil, and is left barren.
 * The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law. The Church is not to be a national community like the old Israel, but a community of believers without political or national ties. The old Israel had been both — the chosen people of God and a national community, and it was therefore his will that they should meet force with force. But with the Church it is different: it has abandoned political and national status, and therefore it must patiently endure aggression. Otherwise evil will be heaped upon evil. '''Only thus can fellowship be established and maintained.
 * p. 141

 * By willing endurance we cause suffering to pass. Evil becomes a spent force when we put up no resistance. By refusing to pay back the enemy with his own coin, and preferring to suffer without resistance, the Christian exhibits the sinfulness of contumely and insult. Violence stands condemned by its failure to evoke counter-violence.'''
 * p. 142

 * By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.
 * p. 142

 * Jesus bluntly calls the evil person evil. If I am assailed, I am not to condone or justify aggression. Patient endurance of evil does not mean a recognition of its rights. That is sheer sentimentality, and Jesus will have nothing to do with it. The shameful assault, the deed of violence and the act of exploitation are still evil. … The very fact that the evil which assaults him is unjustifiable makes it imperative that he should not resist it, but play it out and overcome it by patiently enduring the evil person. Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.
 * p. 142

 * Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus. And the cross is the only justification for the precept of non-violence, for it alone can kindle a faith in the victory over evil which will enable men to obey that precept. And only such obedience is blessed with the promise that we shall be partakers of Christ's victory as well as his sufferings.
 * p. 142

 * The passion of Christ is the victory of divine love over the powers of evil, and therefore it is the only supportable basis for Christian obedience. Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion. How can we convince the world by our preaching of the passion when we shrink from that passion in our own lives? On the cross Jesus fulfilled the law he himself established and thus graciously keeps his disciples in the fellowship of his suffering.
 * p. 142

 * Distinction between person and office is wholly alien to the teaching of Jesus. He says nothing about that. He addresses his disciples as men who have left all to follow him, and the precept of non-violence applies equally to private life and official duty. He is the Lord of all life, and demands undivided allegiance.
 * p. 143

The Enemy, the "Extraordinary"

 * The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
 * p. 147

 * In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility. For Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.
 * pp. 147-148

 * By our enemies Jesus means those who are quite intractable and utterly unresponsive to our love.
 * p. 148

 * Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy’s hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is no inner discord between private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.
 * p. 148

 * The disciples realized that they too were his enemies, and that he had overcome them by his love. It is this that opens the disciple’s eyes, and enables him to see his enemy as a brother.
 * p. 150

 * The πξρισσον [extraordinary] never merges into the το αυτο [merely personal]. That was the fatal mistake of the false Protestant ethic which diluted Christian love into patriotism, loyalty to friends, and industriousness, which in short, perverted the better righteousness into justitia civilis.
 * p. 152

The Hidden Righteousness

 * From whom are we to hide the visibility of our discipleship? Certainly not from other men, for we are told to let them see our light. No. We are to hide it from ourselves. Our task is simply to keep on following, looking only to our Leader who goes on before, taking no notice of ourselves or of what we are doing.
 * p. 158

The Disciple and Unbelievers

 * The sword wherewith they judge their brethren will fall upon their own heads. Instead of cutting themselves off from the brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus.
 * p. 183

 * When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.
 * p. 184

 * Love for the sinner is ominously close to love of the sin. But the love of Christ for the sinner in itself is the condemnation of sin.
 * p. 184

 * To everyone God is the kind of God he believes in.
 * p. 185

 * By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which other are just as entitled to as we are.
 * p. 185

 * If when we judged others, our real motive was to destroy evil, we should look for evil where it is certain to be found, and that is in our own hearts. But if we are on the look-out for evil in others, our real motive is obviously to justify ourselves.
 * p. 185

 * Jesus offers his disciples a simple rule of thumb which will enable even the least sophisticated of them to tell whether his intercourse with others is on the right lines or not. All he need do is to say “I” instead of “Thou,” and put himself in the other man’s place.
 * p. 188

Ethics (c. 1943, published posthumously)

 * To be conformed with the one who became human means that we may be the human beings that we really are. Pretension, hypocrisy, compulsion, forcing oneself to be something different, better, more ideal than one is - all are abolished. God loves the real human being. God became a real human being.
 * p. 41

 * Bodily life, which we receive through no action of our own, intrinsically bears the right to its preservation. This is not a right that we have stolen or earned for ourselves; it is in the truest sense a right that is “born with us.”
 * p. 116

 * Catholic moral theology ... eliminates the unnaturalness of contraception, but replaces this with the unnaturalness of a marriage without bodily communion.
 * p. 137

Who Stands Fast?
Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; they exhaust themselves and are beaten. They get entangled in non-essentials and fall into the trap set by cleverer people.
 * The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil. The "reasonable" people's failure is obvious. With the best intentions and a naive lack of realism, they think that with a little reason they can bend back into position the framework that has got out of joint. In their lack of vision they want to do justice to all sides, and so the conflicting forces wear them down with nothing achieved. Disappointed by the world's unreasonableness, they see themselves condemned to ineffectiveness; they step aside in resignation or collapse before the stronger party.
 * p. 4

 * Then there is the man with a conscience, who fights single-handedly against heavy odds in situations that call for a decision.

 * Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God — the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?
 * p. 5

Civil Courage

 * What lies behind the complaint about the dearth of civil courage? In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves. To attribute this simply to personal cowardice would be too facile a psychology; its background is quite different. In a long history, we Germans have had to learn the need for and the strength of obedience. In the subordination of all personal wishes and ideas to the tasks to which we have been called, we have seen the meaning and greatness of our lives. We have looked upwards, not in servile fear, but in free trust, seeing in our tasks a call, and in our call a vocation. This readiness to follow a command from "above" rather than our own private opinions and wishes was a sign of legitimate self-distrust. Who would deny that in obedience, in their task and calling, the Germans have again and again shown the utmost bravery and self-sacrifice? But the German has kept his freedom — and what nation has talked more passionately of freedom than the Germans, from Luther to the idealist philosophers? — by seeking deliverance from self-will through service to the community. Calling and freedom were to him two sides of the same thing. But in this he misjudged the world; he did not realize that his submissiveness and self-sacrifice could be exploited for evil ends. When that happened, the exercise of the calling itself became questionable, and all the moral principles of the German were bound to totter. The fact could not be escaped that the Germans still lacked something fundamental: he could not see the need for free and responsible action, even in opposition to the task and his calling; in its place there appeared on the one hand an irresponsible lack of scruple, and on the other a self-tormenting punctiliousness that never led to action. Civil courage, in fact, can grow only out of the free responsibility of free men. Only now are the Germans beginning to discover the meaning of free responsibility. It depends on a God who demands responsible action in a bold venture of faith, and who promises forgiveness and consolation to the man who becomes a sinner in that venture.
 * p. 5

On Stupidity

 * Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
 * The Bonhoeffer Reader, p. 766–7

 * One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.

 * Neither protest nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradicts one's prejudgment simply need to be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental.

 * Greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one.

Are we still of any use?

 * A letter sent out to his closest friends for New Year's Day 1943, also published as After Ten Years : A Reckoning made at the New Year 1943

 * We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds: we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straightforward men. Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves remoreseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and straightforwardness?
 * p. 16

The view from below

 * There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learned to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated — in short, from the perspective of those who suffer.
 * p. 17

The Friend

 * Der Freund, published in Widerstand und Ergebung, Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft (1952), p. 269

wo Blut und Geschlecht und Schwur mächtig und heilig sind, wo die Erde selbst gegen Wahnsinn und die geweihten heilgen uralten Ordnungen hütet und schützt und rächt, — nicht aus dem schweren Boden der Erde, sondern aus freiem Gefallen und freiem Verlangen des Geistes, der nicht des Eides und des Gesetzes bedarf, wird der Freund dem Freunde geschenkt. where blood and sex and oath rule in their hallowed might, where the earth itself, guarding the primal consecrated order, avenges wantonness and madness — '''not from the heavy soil of the earth, but from the spirit's choice and free desire, needing no oath of legal bond, is friend bestowed on friend.''' not from the heavy soil where blood and race and oaths are mighty and holy, where the earth itself watches over the sacred hallowed and ancient ordinances and defends and avenges them, '''not from the heavy soil of the earth, but from free choice and the free desire of the heart, which are not in need of an oath or a law.'''
 * ''Nicht aus dem schweren Boden
 * Not from the heavy soil
 * Variant translation:
 * A friend is a gift to a friend
 * As translated in A New Critique of Theoretical Thought (1953) by Herman Dooyeweerd, Vol. 3, p. 179

taken and fashioned from the heavy earth, beside our marriage, work, and war '''the free man, too, will live and grow towards the sun. Not the ripe fruit alone — blossom is lovely, too.''' Does blossom only serve the fruit, or does fruit only serve the blossom — who knows? But both are given to us.
 * Beside the staff of life,

man's heart and brow with thoughts that are lofty, bold, serene, so that with clear eyes he will face the world as a free man may'''; when the spirit gives birth to action by which alone we stand or fall; when from the sane and resolute action rises the workd that gives a a man's life content and meaning — then would that many, lonely and actively working, know of the spirit that grasps and befriends him...
 * '''When the spirit touches

that feed, in the shade of the good, on envy, greed, and suspicion, by the snake-like hissing of venomous tongues that fear hate and revile the mystery of free thought and upright heart '''The spirit would cast aside all deceit, open his heart to the spirit he trusts, and unite with him freely as one.'''
 * Sickened by vermin

not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.'''
 * '''Man seeks, in his manhood,

in joy or in sorrow, '''each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.'''
 * Distant or near,

Meditations on the Cross (1996)

 * Das Außerordentliche wird Ereignis : Kreuz und Auferstehung (1996), as edited by Manfred Weber, and translated by Douglas W. Scott (1998)

Encountering the Extraordinary

 * (first written 1934, revised up to 1937)

The Extraordinary is without doubt that visible element over which the Father in heaven is praised. It cannot remain hidden; people must see it.
 * What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience. It is the cross. The peculiar feature of Christian life is precisely this cross, a cross enabling Christians to go beyond the world, as it were, thereby granting them victory over the world. Suffering encountered in the love of the one who is crucified — that is the "extraordinary" in Christian existence.
 * p. 1

 * The activity will prove to be "peculiar" by leading the active person into Christ's own passion. This activity itself is perpetual suffering and enduring. In it, Christ is suffered by his disciple. If this is not the case, it is not the activity Jesus intended. In this way, the "extraordinary" is the fulfilling of the law, the keeping of the commandments.
 * p. 1

Back to the Cross

 * (written in 1936)

 * Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory. Before the disciples must descend with Jesus into the abyss of human guilt, malice, and hatred, Jesus leads them to a high mountain from which they are to receive help. Before Jesus' face is beaten and spat upon, before his cloak is torn and splattered with blood, the disciples are to see Him in his divine glory. His face shines like the face of God and light is the garment he wears.
 * p. 3

The disciples are not allowed to do this. God's glory comes quite near in the radiant cloud of God's presence, and the Father's voice says: "This is my beloved son; listen to him!" … '''There is no abiding in and enjoying his visible glory here. Whoever recognizes the transfigured Jesus, whoever recognizes Jesus as God, must also immediately recognize Him as the crucified human being, and should hear him, obey him.''' Luther's vision of Christ: "the crucified Lord!" … Now the disciples are overcome by fear. Now they comprehend what is going on. They were, after all, still in the world, unable to bear such glory. They sinned against God's glory.
 * We want Jesus as the visibly resurrected one, as the splendid, transfigured Jesus. We want his visible power and glory, and we no longer want to return to the cross, to believing against all appearances, to suffering in faith … it is good here... let us make dwellings. …
 * p. 3

Misattributed

 * Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.
 * Attributed to Bonhoeffer on the internet, but this is from a remark about him, not by him, in Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (2010), p. 486

 * Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
 * Attributed to Bonhoeffer on the Internet, and supposedly from Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (2010) by Eric Metaxas; however, there is no actual reference in that book. However, in advertising the book Metaxas does state on his site that the quote is from Bonhoeffer. First attributed to Bonhoeffer in Explorations 12:1 (1998), p. 3, as referenced by James Cone (2004) Theology's Great Sin: Silence in the Face of White Supremacy, Black Theology, 2:2, 139-152, footnote 1
 * Compare "Not to Act, is to Act!" by Francis W. McPeek, The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, v.141-142 (1945-1946), "Missionary herald, 1945 - Congregational churches," pp.34-35 (We must realize that church inaction is a form of political action, and it is altogether negative. “Not to act, is to act.”)

Quotes about Bonhoeffer

 * For Bonhoeffer, the foundation of ethical behaviour lay in how the reality of the world and the reality of God were reconciled in the reality of Christ. Both in his thinking and in his life, ethics were centered on the demand for action by responsible men and women in the face of evil. He was sharply critical of ethical theory and of academic concerns with ethical systems precisely because of their failure to confront evil directly. Evil, he asserted, was concrete and specific, and it could be combated only by the specific actions of responsible people in the world. The uncompromising position Bonhoeffer took in his seminal work Ethics, was directly reflected in his stance against Nazism.
 * Douglas Huff, in "Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906—1945)" at The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 * An unsystematic theologian in the tradition of Søren Kierkegaard who has spoken to successive generations of religiously questing young people is the Nazi-martyred Dietrich Bonhoeffer. At the age of thirty-nine he was executed for his implication in the abortive March 13, 1943 assassination plot on Adolf Hitler. His fragmentary writings have had an astonishing circulation and ready acceptance in many parts of the world. … Bonhoeffer questioned whether the modern church had so obscured the gospel by adding dogmas, burdensome rules, and irrelevant demands that to make a genuine decision for Christ has become extremely difficult, if not impossible … Discipleship, argued Bonhoeffer, means joy, and is not limited to the spiritual elite but is for everyone.
 * William P. Anderson, in A Journey through Christian Theology (2000), p. 181

 * Bonhoeffer was disinterested in another world, opposed to setting apart so-called religious activities, such as prayer and church-going, from the everyday activities of earning a living or engaging in politics. … Religion if it is to be vital, must lead to the amelioration of social problems.
 * William P. Anderson, in A Journey through Christian Theology (2000), p. 185

 * When Bonhoeffer comprehended the implications of Nazi policy towards citizens of Jewish origin, he became a convinced advocate of the need to have Hitler removed from office because he was a grotesque caricature of what a German head of state should be. Indeed, for Bonhoeffer Hitler was the agent of the Antichrist. Clearly, his principles for ultimately endorsing tyrannicide were strictly circumscribed and, as such, very different from any of the past English, American, or French revolutionaries in their situation.
 * John Anthony Moses, in The Reluctant Revolutionary : Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History (2009), Introcuction, p. xi

 * Bonhoeffer was highly critical of the lack of intellectual rigor in Western thought … but becomes through his constructive criticism, and ardent advocate of ecumenism as an instrument that could be employed to advocate peace among nations.
 * John Anthony Moses, in The Reluctant Revolutionary : Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History (2009), Introcuction, p. xix

 * Bonhoffer offers an insight into friendship. He notes that it is not easy to classify this relationship sociologically, unlike the relationships which derive from, what he refers to as, the divine mandates, namely marriage, work, the state and the church. Because it cannot be classified or defined as such, friendship cannot be protected by the courts or society in general. Rather, friendship develops in freedom, or as Bonhoffer says, friendship appeals to the necessitas of liberty. Friendship is defined by "the binding content between two people." … The Christian's service of God entails service of one's neighbor. The community united in worship is a manifestation of God's presence. In worship we "rehearse" or "act out" what we are to become as God's people, namely "One." Moreover, in a sense we "worship one another," in that we are aware that each member of the community is an image of the living God.
 * Thomas J. Scirghi, in An Examination of the Problems of Inclusive Language in the Trinitarian Formula of Baptism (2000), p. 127

 * Cross and resurrection, suffering and the overcoming of death were central themes in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's exegetical and theological work. Again and again during his lifetime … he focused on these themes, trying to disclose their relevance for human life and actions, and to answer the question regarding just what Christian life really is.
 * Manfred Weber, in the Foreword to Meditations on the Cross (1996), p. vii

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Hip hop

Hip hop refers to both a musical and a cultural genre that was developed predominantly by African Americans and Latinos (primarily of Puerto Rican ethnic heritage) in urban communities in the United States starting in the 1970s.

Quotes

 * I think it’s unconstitutional when art is used against an artist to implicate them in a crime. The First Amendment provides that people have free expression, and I think with Black men the lens — we’re evaluated almost exclusively through a criminal lens. And so what would be art in the eyes of, or at the creation of, one person becomes a crime when it’s created by a young Black man. Again, it’s good that the judges pushed back against those attacks on 2Pac’s artistry and his constitutional right, but we’ve seen that since that time, prosecutors have continued to use rap lyrics to try to chill free expression.
 * Paul Butler as quoted by Alec Banks, “The Oakland Police Lawsuit, the Gangsta Rap Defense, & Chokeholds”, Rockthebells.com

 * Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
 * Kurt Cobain, as quoted by Karen Bliss, M.E.A.T. Magazine (September 1991).

 * So if I act like a pimp ain't nothin to it gangsta rap made me do it If I call you a nappy headed ho ain't nothin to it gangsta rap made me do it If I shoot up your college ain't nothin to it gangsta rap made me do it If I rob you of knowledge ain't nothin to it gangsta rap made me do it
 * Ice Cube, "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It", Raw Footage, (January 3, 2008).

 * But as with yesterday's comic books, the fact that future generations will snicker at gangsta rap's glorification of violence and over-the-top misogyny doesn't mean that Bill Cosby is wrong to deplore it today - and the fact Americans seem to cope with the steady coarsening of our popular culture by becoming steadily more jaded about just about everything ought to be cause for concern, rather than complacency.
 * Ross Douthat, “Yesterday's Culture Wars”, The Atlantic, (April 17, 2008)

 * The only trend I do not like in rap right now is the message rap. I consider the message rap the equivalent of what strings were to rock 'n' roll in the late '50s - a capitulation to the adult norm who can't accept the music on its own terms. The people who considered "Sixty Minute Man" by Billy Ward and the Dominoes, "Annie Had a Baby" - as the pinnacles of '50s R&B now are super uptight over the - in quotes - hotel/motel lyrics of rap. Rap is definitely as true to the essence of rock 'n roll as anything that's out there today.
 * Aaron Fuchs quoted by David Toop (1991). Rap Attack 2, p. 120. New York: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1852422432.

 * [T]he hip hop nation is wonderful. Surely there are those who would demonize this group of young people, but they are only doing what our ancestors have always done: used what they have to get where they need to go.
 * Nikki Giovanni, Poet's Statement for "RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture" at the National Portrait Gallery (2008).

 * The history of conscious hip-hop is interesting. The best MCs in the world have always — when I first came in the business — always needed to have something conscious, something dealing with the community, something uplifting, something positive. Even if the majority of the content was negative, you had to have that. And that changed over time. You had Tupac and Biggie came out, and then you had Jay-Z. And the best rapper became about who was the tough guy, you know? Who's busting they gun off or something like that. And now you have Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Wale, J. Cole. They're talking a lot about partying; you know, sex, having fun. And those are the guys who are considered the best. People consider conscious rap now, in hip-hop circles, to feel condescending or feel like not a part of the mainstream. So the challenge for me is, "How do I be as good or better than these rappers out here?" and "How do I stay relevant with my music still being considered conscious?"
 * Talib Kweli, "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School", The Record, NPR, (April 24, 2013).

 * These artists talk about 'ho this, bitch this, skank this' and all the other stuff. They're talking about all our mothers, all our sisters. They're talking about their own mothers, grandmothers. You have to have knowledge of self and knowledge of history. Because if you had that you would not use that terminology. You would not even be in that mindset. And we're in a time when young black boys and girls want to be pimps and strippers, because that is what they see. . . . Something is definitely wrong.
 * Spike Lee, Ryerson University speech in "Spike Lee derides gangsta rap lyrics in T.O. speech" by CTV.ca (Canadian Press), (March 15, 2005); as quoted in The Free Radical.

 * Young black kids didn't grow up wanting to be a pimp or a stripper like they do now. You might think I'm making generalizations, but I don't think I am. That's how serious this stuff is. When I was young, cats going to college got as much (love) as the ones who could rap or play ball.
 * Spike Lee, Middle Tennessee State University's Alumni Memorial Gym speech in "Spike urges a smarter kind of cool" by Kate Howard, Tennessean.com, (November 3, 2005); as quoted in The Free Radical.

 * Huey: Who cares about what Hip-Hop is supposed to be? I’m talking about what it is. Most of rap music is violent and stupid, and that ain’t the media’s fault!
 * Caesar: But most entertainment across the board is violent. You don’t see people attacking Robert De Niro for being violent in movies!
 * Huey: But in movies, everyone acknowledges it’s fake! Robert De Niro doesn’t kill someone in a movie, then look at the audience and go, “Bobby D. Fool, what?!”
 * Caesar: But, man it’d be cool if he did, though, right?
 * Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks,(11/14/2002).

 * Huey: Look, rap, for the most part, has been stuck in the “Gangsta Rap” era for over ten years now – mostly because it sells so well to white kids. But rap doesn’t clearly draw the line between fact and fiction. The whole point seems to be to make people believe that made-up gangster tales are true.
 * Caesar: Now waitaminute – I know you’re not trying to imply that Ja Rule isn’t really a killer. Me and you ‘bout to fight.
 * Huey: Never mind.
 * Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, (11/15/2002).

 * New music is often popular for the very fact that earlier generations find it shocking; this was "our" music, misunderstood by others. What most people heard was just a loud of shouting and swearing; they thought the music appealed because of its shock value. They couldn't have been more wrong. These rappers were bright, street smart, and articulate. Their rhymes encapsulated the experiences of being young, male, and black in a way that simply didn't exist elsewhere in the media. This was a time when banana skins were still being thrown at black players at football matches, when Nelson Mandela was still in prison, and when the beating of Rodney King by the LAPD was about to send shockwaves around the world. The sense of disenfranchisement, that you couldn't rely on the state for help, was very real.
 * Maajid Nawaz, Radical: My Journey out of Islamic Extremism (2013), p. 21

 * The potential for [rappers] to deliver a message of extraordinary power, that gets people thinking [is there]. The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
 * Barack Obama, BET interview; as quoted in "Barack Obama, first president to come of age in hip-hop era", Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune, (November 09, 2008).

 * This is hip hop. Hands up, if you're forever a fan of hip hop. I wake up hip hop, go to sleep hip hop. Dream about hip hop, because I am hip hop.
 * Joell Ortiz, "Hip Hop", The Brick (2007).

 * Please, please don't call rap music; it's and some of it's groovy. But if you can't hum it, it's not music.
 * , as quoted in "'It's been a drag,' but it's spring, again, for Parris; Parris back on stage again", Kathleen McKenna, The Boston Globe (May 14, 2006).

 * Many black rappers--including Ice-T and Sister Souljah--contend that they are being unfairly singled out because their music reflects deep changes in society not being addressed anywhere else in the public forum. The white politicians, the artists complain, neither understand the music nor desire to hear what's going on in the devastated communities that gave birth to the art form.
 * Chuck Philips, (July 19, 1992). "Cover Story: The Uncivil War: The battle between the Establishment and supporters of rap music reopens old wounds of race and class". LA Times.

 * Rap — so many words, so little said. What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another.
 * Keith Richards, reported in Jon Blistein, "Keith Richards: Rap Is for 'Tone-Deaf People'", Rolling Stone (September 3, 2015).

 * Because most rappers started out with a DJ playing records for musical accompaniment (no live musicians), many rap records are based around the chords and bass lines of popular songs.
 * David Toop (1991). Rap Attack 2, p. 17. New York: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1852422432.

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Der Fuehrer's Face, also known as Donald Duck in Nutzi Land, was a popular wartime cartoon released in 1943 in which Donald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime. The "Nutzis" are caricatures of of Benito Mussolini on the bass drum, Herman Göring on the piccolo, Hideki Tojo on the tuba, Heinrich Himmler on the snare drum and Joseph Goebbels on the trombone. The picture from which the song sensation was taken! taglines

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This appears to contain what might be the full lyrics of a song that is probably still under copyright, which is against Wikiquote and Wikimedia policies. Much of these lyrics should probably be trimmed down. ~ Kalki 01:24, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

re. possible copyvio. Ah, yes, you got me. I was somewhere else at the time. Matthew Platts 02:55, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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We cannot delete them yet, there is an active vote on deleting them. Jeff has declared that he'll take the result of the vote as a declaration of policy, and will delete them all if the vote (as it seems now) ends in "delete". I am just trying to make his work easier by listing the pages here. ~ MosheZadka (Talk)

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