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Michael Ignatieff

Michael Grant Ignatieff (born 12 May 1947, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian scholar, novelist and former Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons. He also was the leader of the party from 2008 until 2011.

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 * The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
 * "Nation Building Lite", New York Times Magazine (July 2002)

 * To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
 * The New York Times Magazine (May 2, 2004)

 * The dilemmas here are best illustrated by looking closely at pre-emptive war. It is a lesser evil because, according to our traditional understanding of war, the only justified resort to war is a response to actual aggression. But those standards are outdated. They were conceived for wars against states and their armies, not for wars against terrorists and suicide bombers. Against this kind of enemy, everyone can see that instead of waiting for terrorists to hit us, it makes sense to get our retaliation in first.
 * The New York Times Magazine (May 2, 2004)

 * The difference between us and terrorists is supposed to be that we play by these rules, even if they don't. No, I haven't forgotten Hiroshima and My Lai. The American way of war has often been brutal, but at least our warriors are supposed to fight with honor and can be punished if they don't. There is no warrior's honor among terrorists.
 * The New York Times Magazine (May 2, 2004)

 * A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.
 * The New York Times Magazine (May 2, 2004)

 * The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible political goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence...
 * The Lesser Evil (Penquin, 2004) Pg. 144

 * It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy.
 * "Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?", The New York Times Magazine (June 26, 2005)

 * Until George W. Bush, no American president -- not even Franklin Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson -- actually risked his presidency on the premise that Jefferson might be right. But this gambler from Texas has bet his place in history on the proposition, as he stated in a speech in March, that decades of American presidents' excusing and accommodating tyranny, in the pursuit of stability in the Middle East inflamed the hatred of the fanatics who piloted the planes into the twin towers on Sept. 11. If democracy plants itself in Iraq and spreads throughout the Middle East, Bush will be remembered as a plain-speaking visionary.
 * "Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?", The New York Times Magazine (June 26, 2005)

 * As a former denizen of Harvard, I’ve had to learn that a sense of reality doesn’t always flourish in elite institutions. It is the street virtue par excellence. Bus drivers can display a shrewder grasp of what’s what than Nobel Prize winners. The only way any of us can improve our grasp of reality is to confront the world every day and learn, mostly from our mistakes, what works and what doesn’t. Yet even lengthy experience can fail us in life and in politics. Experience can imprison decision-makers in worn-out solutions while blinding them to the untried remedy that does the trick.
 * Getting Iraq Wrong, The New York Times (August 5, 2007).

 * Here's what we shouldn't do. We shouldn't import failed criminal justice policies from the United States. Mega prisons and mandatory minimums have failed in the United States,we've got to learn from the failure of the American criminal justice policy. Get tough on guns, invest in crime prevention and invest in victim services
 * English Language Leaders' Debate (April 12, 2011).

 * Moral globalisation is best understood not as a tide of convergence in which we are swept together into a single modernity, but instead as a site of struggle over whether, and to what extent, the cash nexus can be made to serve moral imperatives of equity and justice and which civilisational model – Chinese, American, or some other rival’s – will define the order of the twenty-first century.
 * The Ordinary Virtues, p. 16

 * You shouldn’t go into politics just to prove yourself—skydiving would be an easier path.
 * "Why Would Anyone Become a Politician?", The Atlantic (7 September 2023)

Canada in the World Speech, University of Ottawa (30 March 2006)

 * Ever since I entered Parliament in January, people have been asking me: Why have you gone into politics? As in: “Are you nuts?” No, I’m not nuts. This is my country, after all.

 * I’m in politics to speak up for a Canada that takes risks, that stands up for what’s right. A Canada that leads.

 * I believe in Canadians. I believe in you. As I said at the beginning, we are a serious people.

From "Living Fearlessly in a Fearless World" Ignatieff Commencement Address to Whitman College (USA), 2004

 * There is only one thing we can do about this: live the way we are supposed to live, as our Constitution commands us to, with dignity and respect for all. Being an American is not easy. It is hard. We are required to keep some serious promises. We are judged by a high standard, one we crafted for ourselves in the founding documents of the republic, the ones that talk about the equality of all people, the ones that tell us that government is of the people, by the people and for the people. We need to live by this, at home and abroad, and it is just about the only thing we can do to face the hatred of those who want to destroy us. Our best defense is to stay true to who we are. Our best defense is to refuse to live in fear, of them, of ourselves, of anyone.

 * We are living a moment of truth in Iraq, a moment in which we have to look fair and square at disagreeable realities, in which we have to look at ourselves. The pictures from Abu Ghraib prison are a kind of mirror in which we have to look at ourselves and ask: what kind of people did this? How did this become possible? Could I have done a thing like this to those people?

 * We do need to ask ourselves, as a society, as a free people, how we came to this pass. Those soldiers were acting in the name of America, and they disgraced its name. We have to ask who authorized them to do so. Who should take responsibility here? We need answers to these questions, and we need to take responsibility as citizens that we get answers, and that accountability is established, right up the chain of command if need be, so that we do not go here again as a country.

 * Some voices are calling on America to circle the wagons. Some are even saying that our enemies do worse, so we should respond in kind. The problem here is that this is America. This is a constitutional republic based on the rule of law and equal respect for all persons. We can’t pretend that we can bend the rules any which way. We made the rules for ourselves. We have to live by them.

 * As Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
 * Coalition if necessary, but not necessarily a coalition.
 * In response to his position on the Coalition Accord signed between the Liberal Party, New Democratic Party and Bloc Quebecois parties, by his predecessor Stephane Dion.

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As i began to learn about Laika it hurt my heart. It felt that the whole world was being crushed into pieces and full of regret. I never thought that a defenseless dog would actually die such a painful death. I feel ashamed of us humans. Dont we know better than to take over others because of there intelligance rate. This dog had nothing to do with this and i hope that with our expierences another event doesn't take place. As for me i dedicate my self to this day to start honoring Laika. Not for her launch into space but her sacrifice she made to uus idiotic humans. Especially NASA. I think that we would beter be off without NASA!!!!
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Bella Abzug

Bella Savitsky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998) was an American political figure, a leader of the women's movement, and a member of the United States House of Representatives.

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 * When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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 * When I went to represent my law firm anywhere—I was a young kid just out of college—I said, “How do you do? I'm Bella Abzug from the law firm of such and such,” and people would say, “Yes, fine, fine, sit down.” So I'd wait and nothing much would happen, so finally I'd clear my throat and say, “I'm Bella Abzug from the law firm of such and such,” and they'd say, “Yes, we know, but we're waiting.” I'd say, “What are we waiting for?” And they'd say, “We're waiting for the lawyer.” They thought I was the secretary. So I had this identity crisis. I went home and discussed it with my husband, Martin. In those days professional women wore hats—and gloves, so I put on gloves and a hat. And every time I went anywhere for business, with the hat and gloves, they knew I was there for business. And I jokingly often say, as you can see, I've taken off the gloves. But I like wearing hats and I continue to wear it. When I ran for Congress and got to Washington, they made such a fuss about the hat instead of what was under it that I didn't know whether they wanted me to take it off or keep it on. I decided that they wanted me to take it off, which made me determined to keep it on.
 * Interview with Global Education Motivators, April 24, 1997

Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington (1972)

 * Just imagine for a moment what life in this country might have been if women had been properly represented in Congress. Would a Congress where women in all their diversity were represented tolerate the countless laws now on the books that discriminate against women in all phases of their lives? Would a Congress with adequate representation of women have allowed this country to reach the 1970s without a national health care system? Would it have permitted this country to rank fourteenth in infant mortality among the developed nations of the world? Would it have allowed the situation we now have in which thousands of kids grow up without decent care because their working mothers have no place to leave them? Would such a Congress condone the continued butchering of young girls and mothers in amateur abortion mills? Would it allow fraudulent packaging and cheating of consumers in supermarkets, department stores and other retail outlets? Would it consent to the perverted sense of priorities that has dominated our government for decades, where billions have been appropriated for war while our human needs as a people have been neglected?
 * “February 7” section (p 30)

 * When it comes to child care, the United States is at a primitive stage compared to countries like Israel, Denmark, Sweden and Russia. (p 39)

 * All I say is that anybody who thinks he can take me lightly because I'm fresh and colorful had better watch out. (p 49)

 * Ever since my youth I've been a Zionist, and I worked hard for the cause of a Jewish homeland too. I've visited Israel and I raised my kids with a very strong background in Jewish culture. Besides that, I spent a couple of years of my life as a Hebrew teacher! To try to make me out as anti-Israel was nothing but rotten and vicious. (p 70)

 * The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes. (p. 80)

 * Then up gets Carl Albert to tell us he supports Bolling's resolution because he wants to see us work together with the Republicans to end the war. I was appalled! Here was the Speaker of the House-a man in that kind of position-giving us more old-fashioned, desperate, moldy garbage from the past. Since World War II the Democrats and the Republicans have been "joining hands" to fight international communism, and where has it gotten us? We've created a nuclear monster and a vast, uncontrollable military machine. We've inspired guys like Joe McCarthy and Spiro Agnew to level all the opposition. The military and the industrialists and the munitions-makers have moved in to take over our power structure, influencing it, manipulating it and dominating it. All for the sake of good old bipartisanism; all for the sake of good old anticommunism. (p 93)

 * Without getting scientific or psychological or historical about it, it's long been my judgment that women have been at the forefront of social change. When we first got the vote, we used it to clean up the sweat shops, to clean up the horrors of child labor, and so on. Then we got sidetracked. Instead of carrying forth Carrie Chapman Catt's notion that women should organize as a political movement, the movement became nonpartisan and followed the League of Women Voters route. So between their nonpositions and Madison Avenue's assigned stereotype of women as flowers in the home who can be sold all kinds of products to beautify themselves, and Hollywood with its awful stereotypes, women were sunk. Up until now, we've been laboring under the concept of women as appendages to men and children and subjected to constant brainwashing by Madison Avenue, Hollywood, TV-and the descendants of John Adams who know when they have a good thing going. We now see the concept changing because the women's movement, which renewed itself several years ago as an intellectual revolt of the bored middle class housewife, has grown into a broad movement seeking complete economic, social and political change in all arenas. It's like the black movement, which started out over the right to a seat in the front of the bus and then extended itself to pursue for the black people their rightful piece of the whole system. The women's movement, like the black movement and the movement of the young people, comes at a time when the system is not responding to the largest numbers of its people. This puts all these movements in a very critical perspective, because out of all this ferment the last thing we can realistically expect is for things to remain the same. (p 202)

 * This moment in history requires women to lead the movement for radical change (p 203)

Introduction

 * I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prizefighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash and overbearing. Whether I'm any of these things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am-and this ought to be made very clear at the outset-I am a very serious woman. I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business. It's no joke to me that women in this country are terribly oppressed and are made to suffer economic, legal and social discrimination. I am not evoking a wild fantasy when I claim that I'm going to help organize a new political coalition of the women, the minorities and the young people, along with the poor, the elderly, the workers and the unemployed, which is going to turn this country upside down and inside out. We're going to reclaim our cities, create more jobs, better housing, better health care, more child care centers, more help for drug addicts; we're going to start doing something for the millions of people in this country whose needs, because of the callousness of the men who've been running our government, have taken a low priority to the cost of killing people in Indochina. To some people all this may sound a bit grandiose, but let me tell you something: This is the only thing we can do and still survive.

it they will demand an end to it.
 * Perhaps the best way to change Congress to make it more representative, to make it more responsive-is to show people exactly what it is. This is the reason I've decided to keep this diary. I want people to share my personal experiences in struggling with the system. Having spent many years as the legislative director of Women Strike for Peace, I'm no innocent to Washington. I've already had a pretty good whiff of what to expect. The inside operation of Congress-the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building-is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about

 * I felt if we are going to get anywhere, Congress has got to begin to reflect in its composition the great diversity of this country.

 * I am an activist. I'm the kind of person who does things at the same time that I'm working to create a feeling that something can be done. And I don't intend to disappear in Congress as many of my predecessors have. My role, as I see it, is among the people, and I am going to be outside organizing them at the same time that I'm inside fighting for them. That is the kind of leadership that I believe will build a new majority in this country, and it was primarily in the hope of being able to exemplify that kind of leadership that I ran for Congress.

 * These are very special times we live in. The priorities in this country-against the will of the people-are upside down. At this moment, as the 92nd Congress is about to convene, the mood of the country is one place and its government is someplace else.

 * I want to bring Congress back to the people. If that proves to be impossible to do by working from within, then I'm prepared to go back outside again-to the streets-and do it from there.

Epilogue

 * It's also important for me to run again so that other women will be encouraged to do the same. One thing that crystallized for me like nothing else this year is that Congress is a very unrepresentative institution. Not only from an economic class point of view, but from every point of view-sex, race, age, vocation. Some people say this is because the political system tends to homogenize everything, that a Congressman by virtue of the fact that he or she represents a half million people has to appeal to all sorts of disparate groups. I don't buy that at all. These men in Congress don't represent a homogeneous point of view. They represent their own point of view-by reason of their sex, background and class.

 * the liberals. They've not only been a terrible disappointment to me, but further proof that the nature of Congress must be changed. Unfortunately, the liberals have failed to take notice of the massive and fundamental movement for social change in this country, so they're still too busy patching things up when what we need is a whole new set of works. I'm sympathetic with them; I think they did very well in such things as defeating the SST and getting the detention camp bill reversed; and I know they've been trying hard to get us out of Vietnam; but I'm also very annoyed that they aren't out there fighting for and organizing people, encouraging the young to register and the underfranchised to run for office. We need activists for leaders-and they aren't filling the bill.

 * the men in Congress represent essentially their own class interests and are opposed to any kind of real change that might benefit people at large.

 * who are they representing? Themselves or their constituents?

 * People are desperate for help, for leadership. There's no place else to go but to me, they say, and the sad thing is that very often they are right. That's what I want to help change.

“WOMEN AND THE FATE OF THE EARTH” (17 MARCH 1990)

 * Earth’s most valuable and most neglected natural resource: women.

 * much of what has been done in the name of progress and growth and development has been done without much regard for the effects on human beings—women, men and children—on water, air and soil, on our delicately balanced, intricately interconnected global ecology.

 * Women are not just victims. We are thinkers, organizers, and activists. We are part of a worldwide women’s movement that has brought into every nation of the world, no matter how poor or oppressed, the message that women can work together to take control of our lives and to bring our collective experience, wisdom, and numbers into the areas where the policies and decisions are being made about the future of our planet.

 * It was thousands of women marching and demonstrating against dangerous Strontium 90 nuclear fallout who helped to win the ban on atmospheric nuclear tests and who have continued their struggle against the nuclear arms race and hazards in areas ranging from Greenham Common, Europe and the U.S. to Africa and Asia.

 * it was Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland’s vision and leadership as head of the UN Commission on Environment and Development that told us of “our common future” and what we must do to assure that we have a livable future. Dr. Brundtland is an inspiring example of what can happen when the right woman is in the right place.

 * Women are both affected by and effectors of the environmental crisis. We must be part—a central part—of the solution. Our views on economic justice, human rights, reproduction and the achievement of peace—all elements of the environment/development crisis—must be heard at local, national, and international forums wherever policies and decisions are made that can affect the future of life on our planet.

 * Women are participating in large numbers at the grassroots levels, but in the overwhelming majority of nations, we still lack effective political power. And that is also true in the United Nations—in the Secretariat and in the member nation delegations.

 * All over the world, ordinary citizens are coming forward to assert their democratic and human rights, and concern about the environment permeates their demands.

 * Some of you may have been at the UN Decade of Women conferences in Nairobi in 1985. That was where global feminism came of age—a symbol of sisterhood, of international women’s networks, of our hopes for a better, fairer, safer world. Nairobi was the birthplace of the “Forward-Looking Strategies” document, the most comprehensive historic statement of our agenda, encompassing peace, equality, human rights, sustainable development and environmental protection. Now we must move on and expand our vision. The women’s movement is strong and continues to grow. We are everywhere, and we will be heard . . . or else we—women, men and children—will all hear from Mother Nature. Remember, hell hath no fury like a woman—or an Earth—scorned and despoiled.

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 * Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments...It is an agenda for change, fueled by the momentum of civil society, based on a transformational vision of a better world for all.

 * We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

 * As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

 * Some wonder how I have kept going for so long and how I manage to remain optimistic. When governments were removing the brackets from the document over the last two weeks, the French tested another nuclear weapon in the Pacific, NATO was bombing Bosnia and the Serbs were shelling Sarajevo. Refugee camps overflowed in too many places around this globe. Conditions for women on factory floors did not change. Women died in childbirth and in their homes Hunger gnawed at the bellies of millions. The world went on, in its downward spiral we all know all too well. In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice and democracy. I am strengthened by each of them. And to each government delegate who pushed the boundaries of progress I thank you. I thank the United Nations and my sisters in the NGO community for your good humor and hard work. I wish each of you well and sustainable optimism for the days ahead. Never underestimate the importance of what we are doing here. Never hesitate to tell the truth. And never, ever give in or give up.

Quotes about Bella Abzug

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

 * As activists and rebels, Jewish women like Emma Goldman, Maud Nathan, Rose Schneiderman, Bella Abzug, and Betty Friedan influenced many of the key social movements of their eras suffrage, trade unionism, international peace, and the contemporary women's rights movement.
 * Joyce Antler The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America (1997)

 * She did not appear in Brooklyn, but about five minutes before the Washington press conference started I had a call from an Abzug aide asking whether Bella could appear with me and my supporters at the event. I could not discover whether she intended to endorse me, or what she had in mind, but I said yes because I could see no reason to say no. After my statement, Mitchell and Dellums spoke; they gave me strong and moving endorsements. Then Bella made a strange statement, largely about movements and the underprivileged in politics. She said lit about my candidacy, except that it was "an idea whose time has come," if I remember correctly. Later a reporter asked her whether she had endorsed me or not. Bella hedged. She said she supported "the idea" of my candidacy and would support me in those states where I was running. Bella never offered to campaign for me in Florida, North Carolina or even New York, for that matter. It was a letdown, and also bewildering: if she intended to sit on the fence, why did she ask to appear with me when I made my announcement for the Presidency?
 * Shirley Chisholm The Good Fight (1973)

 * I believe in the stubbornness of civil disobedience and I'm not afraid of it. I remember one May Day demonstration. In 1971. Still wartime. We were arrested and we were in this big, sort of football field. Barbara Deming and I were walking around, arm in arm. We had been arrested together. It was very cold. Everybody was finding someone to walk very close to. Later on, one person wasn't enough, we would try to get into groups that huddled: fifteen. But at that point, Barbara and I were walking arm in arm and it was a pretty messy place, because that was the year they arrested thirteen or fourteen thousand people, just picking them up off the street, and then they didn't know what the hell to do with them. At that point we were in a football field. Later, we were put inside a stadium. And so we were walking around, arm in arm, talking to each other, and then congresspeople came in to see what was going on, and Bella Abzug came over to talk to us. She and I had always had these disagreements about the electoral work and what you can call action, direct action, and we would talk to each other about this. So she came over and she looked at me and Barbara walking arm in arm. She asked how we were. She was a congresswoman at this time. She was worried about us. We said we were all right. And then she said, "Well, I guess you're where you want to be and I'm where I want to be." And we laughed, we all laughed together. And I want to say about Bella that she was at this Women's Pentagon demonstration. She came, she walked with everybody, she didn't look for any limelight of any kind. She just sort of walked, and begged me not to get arrested. Again, she said she thought it was a waste of time. I could do more outside. But she really was just a part of the action. That's what we wanted all of our leaders to be, just a part of the women's action.
 * 1981 interview in Conversations with Grace Paley

 * Bella Abzug established a standard of integrity and chutzpah (nerve, courage) that challenges us all to tell the truth and to fight back.
 * Debra L. Schultz Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement (2002)

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Lucius Accius

Lucius Accius (170 BC – 86 BC) was a Roman tragic poet, literary scholar and playwright. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurm, a town founded in the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC. He was the son of a freedman and freedwoman, probably from Rome.

The year of his death is unknown, but he must have lived to a great age, since Cicero (born 106 BC, hence 64 years younger) writes of having conversed with him on literary matters.

Quotes

 * E. H. Warmington, ed., Remains of Old Latin, Vol. 3, LCL 314 (1935)
 * Norbert Gutterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1968), pp. 42–4

 * Saepe ignavavit fortem ex spe expectatio.
 * ... hope that's hope Deferred has oft dispirited strong men.
 * Fragment of Aeneadae, quoted by Nonius, 123, 12 (tr. Warmington)

 * Muliebre ingenium, prolubium, occasio.
 * A woman's nature, lust, and opportunity.
 * Fragment of Andromeda, quoted by Nonius, 64, 5 (tr. Warmington)

 * Virtuti sis par, dispar fortunis patris.
 * ... In valour be you like your father, In fortune be unlike him.
 * Fragment of Amorum iudicium, quoted by, Saturnalia, VI, 1, 58 (tr. Warmington)
 * Literally, 'Be like your father's valour, unlike his fortunes.'

 * Cuius sit vita indecoris mortem fugere turpem haut convenit.
 * Whose life is unseemly it befits not to escape a shameful death.
 * Fragment of Athamas, quoted by Nonius, 488, 36 (tr. Warmington)

 * Oderint dum metuant.
 * Let them hate, so long as they fear.
 * Fragment of Atreus, quoted by Seneca, , I, 20, 4 (tr. Warmington)

 * ... Vigilandum est semper; multae insidiae sunt bonis.
 * Wide awake a man must always be; many are the ambushes laid for the good.
 * Fragment of Atreus, quoted by Cicero, pro Plancio, 24, 59 (tr. Warmington)

 * Probae etsi in segetem sunt deteriorem datae fruges, tamen ipsae suapte natura enitent.
 * Good grain, though to a field of poorer kind 'Tis given, yet it grows of its own nature Into a gleaming crop.
 * Fragment of Atreus, quoted by Cicero, , II, 5, 13 (tr. Warmington)

 * Laetum in Parnaso inter pinos tripudiantem in ciroulis in ludo atque taedis fulgere.
 * You will see him glowing in a sport of torches, Capering happily in ring-dances Amongst the pines on Parnassus.
 * Fragment of Bacchae, quoted by Nonius, 506, 15 (tr. Warmington)

 * Sapimus animo, fruimur anima; sine animo anima est debilis.
 * Intelligence is ours through the mind; Enjoyment, in our breath; when mind is absent, Breath is a thing enfeebled.
 * Fragment of Epigoni, quoted by Nonius, 426, 25 (tr. Warmington)

 * Probis probatum potius quam multis fore.
 * That by the honourable I'll be honoured Rather than by the many.
 * Fragment of Epinausimache, quoted by Nonius, 519, 1 (tr. Warmington)

 * Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
 * He only is a wretched man, Whose own renown has made his woes renowned.
 * Fragment of Telephus, quoted by Nonius, 352, 5 (tr. Warmington)
 * Variants:Wretched, indeed, is the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. —Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005), p. 49

 * Immo enim vero corpus Priamo reddidi, Hectora abstuli.
 * No no! It is a corpse that I have rendered To Priam; Hector I have taken from him.
 * Ex incertis fabulis, quoted by Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, I, 44, 105 (tr. Warmington)

About

 * Accius was a writer of tragedies, and being once asked why he, whose dialogue was celebrated for its energy, did not engage in the practice at the bar, answered, because in his tragedies he could make his characters say what he pleased; but that at the bar he should have to contend with persons who would say anything but what he pleased.
 * John Quincy Adams, Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Vol. 2 (1810), p. 91

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Ice Age: The Meltdown

 is a 2006 CGI-animated comedy adventure film produced by and distributed by. The film is a sequel to the 2002 computer-animated film Ice Age. It stars Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary,, , and Queen Latifah

 * Directed by Carlos Saldanha. Written by Gerry Swallow and Peter Gaulke.

Manny

 * [to Sid] I told you, Sid, you're not qualified to run a camp.
 * [when a male anteater asked him when it was the last time he saw another mammoth] Mammoths can't go extinct! They're the biggest things on Earth!
 * Fast Tony was right. Everything is melting.
 * Shut up, Sid.
 * Stop singing, Sid!
 * Sid, I'm gonna fall on you again, and this time, I will kill you.
 * [to his reflection] I guess it's just you and me now.
 * [referring to Ellie] Do you believe her? [imitating] "Bravery is just dumb. Maybe, you should run away more." She's infuriating and stubborn and narrow minded!
 * [after Crash gets knocked out by a tree when crash launches him] Uh-Oh.

Sid

 * We're gonna live! [Water rapidly rises around them] We're gonna die!
 * [Laid by Manny after a slid] I can't breathe! I think I just coughed up my spleen.
 * [Cholly the Chalicotherium farts on him] Phew! Well, don't that put the "stink" in "extinction"?
 * [singing] Stop, hey, what's that sound, all the mammoths are in the ground! (Parody of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth")
 * [singing] If your species will continue, clap your hands (clap clap) If your species-- (Parody of "If you're happy and you know it")
 * [Talking to Diego about his fear of water] Fine, but we're living in a melting world buddy! You're gonna have to face your fears, sooner, or later.
 * Hey, can you guys slow down a little? I'm dying here! [Vultures stare at him] It was just a figure of speech!
 * Not in front of the K-I-D-Z.
 * [after an elaborate dance sequence with the mini-sloths which ends in him getting tied up] This is either really good or really bad.
 * Yep, tomorrow's the day the scary vulture said we're all gonna die. [Immediately starts snoring]
 * [After dodo bird gets fried by geyser] I just did something involuntary, and messy.
 * [After Manny suggests that Ellie's "tree" doesn't go "all the way to the top branch"] Manny, brink of extinction is a bad time to be picky.
 * [After Manny threw him away while inside a tree; while referring to Manny] I think I'm starting to get through to him.
 * [last lines] I saved you, little buddy! [when Scrat attacks him] I-I saved you, little buddy! Remember, I.. Ow! Ow! Ow! OW!

Diego

 * [After he and Sid are humiliated by Crash and Eddie] If anyone asks, there were 50 of them. And uh, they were rattlesnakes.
 * Then the hungry tiger ate the pesky little kids. [he roars at the kids causing them to be scared and run away]
 * [To Sid] Congratulations. You're now an idiot in two languages.
 * [After Sid ate some blueberries and licked on his claws] Hey, if you ever master hygiene, try working on sensitivity.
 * (Referring to Ellie) She's not half bad. Crazy and confused but...sweet.
 * Possum, about 11 foot tall?

Fast Tony

 * It's all a part of my accu-weather forecast.
 * The five day outlook is calling for intense flooding, followed by the end of the world!
 * You, ma'am. You look like a fat, hairy beast! How would like to lose a ton or two?
 * [After Manny mentions he would sell his mother for a grape, due to his greediness] Are you making an offer? I mean no, I would not!

Crash and Eddie

 * Eddie: [To Diego] You want a piece of us? Let's go!
 * Crash: Banzai!
 * [As Diego is about to bite Crash's head] You know the best part? We're carrying diseases!

 * Eddie: Crash, Crash, don't leave me! Who's gonna watch my back? Who's gonna be my wingman of mayhem? Who's gonna roll in that dung patch with me?
 * Crash: [awakening] Dung patch?! Wait! My legs... I can stand.
 * Eddie: He can stand!
 * Crash: I can run!
 * Eddie: He can run! It's a miracle!

Ellie

 * I'm not a mammoth. I'm a possum.
 * I thought fat guys are supposed to be jolly.
 * That was the bravest thing I've ever seen!
 * It's not a compliment. For a possum, bravery is just dumb.
 * [to Manny when he slingshot Crash from a tree] What's wrong with you?

Others

 * Stu: Hey, I can smell the ocean!
 * James: Make me, sloth.
 * Cholly: Sorry. My stomach hates me.
 * Teratornis: Do not leave your children unattended. All unattended children will be eaten.
 * Layla Zee: Worth a shot.
 * Mini Sloth: Fire King.
 * Molehog Grandpa: Well, I'm not leaving! I was born in this hole and I'll die in this hole.

Dialogue

 * Sid: Look! I opened my camp, Campo del Sid. That means "Camp of Sid".
 * Diego: Congratulations, you're now an idiot in two languages.

 * Freaky Mammal: Look! Some idiot's going down the Eviscerator!
 * Manny: [to Diego; sighs] Please tell me it's not our idiot.
 * Sid: [on the top of a glacier] Okay! I'm gonna jump on the count of 3! 1...2...
 * Manny: Sid! Don't move a muscle. We're coming up!
 * Crowd of animals: Jump, jump, jump...!
 * Diego: [joining in] Jump, jump, jump! [Manny glares at him] Sorry.
 * Sid: [readies himself to jump off the Eviscerator] 2 and 3/1,000ths, 2 and 4/1,000ths…
 * Manny: Sid, what are you doing? Get down from there!
 * Sid: No way! I'm gonna be the first to jump off the Eviscerator, and then you guys are gonna have to start showing me some respect!
 * Manny: If you jump off this, the only respect you're gonna get is respect for the dead!
 * Diego: Come on, Manny, he's not that stupid. [Sid is about to jump off the Eviscerator] But I have been wrong before.
 * Sid: Geronimo! [Manny grabs Sid and throws him, they slide as Sid screams]
 * Diego: Hey, watch it! [they bumped into him, sliding]
 * Sid: [laid on by Manny] I can't breathe! [tries to get out] I think I just coughed up my spleen.
 * [Diego sees the ice breaking, and runs from the water, revealing his Aquaphobia, holding onto Manny]
 * Manny: Uh, Diego, retract the claws please.
 * Diego: Oh...Right. Sorry.
 * Sid: You know, if I didn't know you better, Diego, I'd think you’re afraid of the water. [chuckles until Diego grabs his throat] Okay, okay, good thing I know you better!
 * Manny: Guys, Fast Tony was right. Everything is melting. [the whole top of the ice glaciers is shown and is melted into water] It's all gonna flood. Come on, we gotta warn them.
 * Sid: Maybe we could rapidly evolve into water creatures.
 * Diego: That's genius, Sid.
 * Sid: Call me "Squid".

 * Dung Beetle Dad: [rolling a ball of dung] Do we have to bring this crap? I'm sure there's crap where we're going.
 * Dung Beetle Mom: Ugh! That was a gift from my mother!

 * Sid: ♪ Someday, when you've gone extinct. When you make a stink... ♪
 * Manny: Shut up, Sid.
 * Sid: Okay. [later at night] ♪ Stop, hey, what's that sound, all the mammoths are in the ground! ♪
 * Manny: [groans with shakes a head] Stop singing, Sid!
 * Sid: [the next morning] ♪ If your species will continue, clap your hands. [claps his hand twice] If your species will... ♪
 * Manny: Sid, I'm gonna fall on you again, and this time, I will kill you.
 * Sid: Okay. Someone doesn't like the classics.

 * [Sid and Diego are tangled up after trying catch Crash and Eddie]
 * Crash: Surrender?
 * Diego and Sid: Never!
 * Crash and Eddie: Cool!
 * [They shoot out of their holes in slow motion, and rapidly shoot pebbles out of the blow-dart shooters at Diego and Sid, who fell onto the ground]
 * Diego: [to Sid] If anyone asks, they were 50 of them and uh, they were...rattlesnakes.
 * [Crash and Eddie climb down a tree and taunt Diego]
 * Eddie: Here, kitty, kitty!
 * Diego: Big mistake, you miscreants!
 * Eddie: Miscreants? [starts laughing along with Crash]
 * Sid: Uh, Diego, they're possums.
 * [Crash and Eddie act like chickens until Diego roars and runs after them]
 * Crash: [hops into Eddie's arms] Retreat!
 * [Eddie runs away screaming as Diego chases them. We fade to the scene where Manny walk and felt alone and look at the pond water]
 * Manny: I guess it’s just you and me now. [looks around, and Ellie screaming and break tree branch] I knew it! I knew it was the only one.
 * Ellie: Me too. Everybody falls out of the tree every now and then, they just don't admit it!

 * [Sid realizes Manny has found another mammoth]
 * Ellie: Where? Wait a minute, I thought mammoths were extinct. [pauses] What are you looking at me for?
 * Manny: I don't know, maybe because you're a mammoth?
 * Ellie: Me?! Don't be ridiculous! I'm not a mammoth! I'm a possum!
 * Manny: Right, good one. I'm a newt. [points to Diego] This is my friend, the badger. [points to Sid] And my other friend, the platypus.
 * Sid: Why do I gotta be the platypus? Make him the platypus! [points to Diego]
 * Crash: [points to Manny] This guy givin' you trouble, sis?
 * Manny, Diego, and Sid: [shocked] "Sis"?!
 * Ellie: That's right. These are my brothers. Possum, possum, possum.
 * Manny: I don't think her tree goes all the way to the branch.

 * [Sid, Diego and the possum duo are fighting when they heard ice cracking and Diego spits him out]
 * Manny: Okay, thanks to Sid, we're now traveling together. And like it or not, we're gonna be one big happy family! I'll be the daddy, Ellie will be the mommy, and Diego will be the uncle who eats the kids who get on my nerves! Now let's move it before the ground fall out from under our feet! [walks away]
 * Ellie: I thought that fat guys are supposed to be jolly.
 * Manny: Hey, I'm not fat! It's this fur! It makes me look big! It's poofy!
 * Ellie: [chuckling] Oh, okay. [to Crash and Eddie] He's fat.

 * Manny: [referring to Ellie and her bizarre antics] So, you think she's the girl for me?
 * Sid: Oh, yeah. She's tons of fun, and you're no fun at all. She completes you.

 * Crash: Hey! Hey, Manny! Can you pull back the tree and shoot me into the pond?
 * Manny: No.
 * Crash: Aw, come on!
 * Sid: Now. How do you except to impress Ellie with that attitude?
 * Manny: I don't wanna impress her.
 * Sid: Then why're you trying so hard to, convince her that she's a mammoth?
 * Manny: Because that's what she is. I don't care if she thinks she's a possum, you can't be two things!
 * Sid: Au contrarie, My friend. Tell that to the bullfrog, chicken hawk or turtledove.
 * Diego: He's never gonna let up on you. It'll be easier on all of us if you just go with it.
 * Manny: [groans, and goes over to Crash, who's standing on a small tree] So, uh, what do you want me to do?
 * Crash: Pull back the tree and shoot me into the pond.
 * Manny: [looks from the tree to the pond] I don't know.
 * Crash: Well, if you're too lame to do it, we can get Ellie.
 * Manny: No, no. I can do it. I can do it. [pulls the tree back with his trunk]
 * Crash: Farther...farther...farther...
 * Manny: Have you done this before?
 * Crash: Ha! Only a million times. Farther...farther...farther... [Manny pulls it back so far that the end of the branch is resting on the ground] Perfect! FIRE! [Manny let go off the tree; he goes soaring through the air] Yeah! I can fly! [singing] ♪ I believe I can fly...! ♪ [rams headfirst into an oak tree, and falls to the ground, unconscious, leaving behind an impression of himself in the trunk]
 * Eddie: [screams] Crash!
 * Manny: Uh-oh.
 * Eddie: Crash! Crash! Crash, you okay?
 * Ellie: What happened?
 * Eddie: Manny shot him out of a tree!
 * Ellie: What's wrong with you?
 * Manny: He said he could do it!
 * Ellie: And you listened to him.
 * Eddie: Crash, whatever you do, don't go into the light!
 * Manny: Can I help in any way?
 * Ellie: You done enough?
 * Manny: [to Sid] Are you happy now?
 * Eddie: Crash, Crash, don't leave me! [crying] Who's gonna watch my back? Who's gonna be my Wingman of Mayhem? WHO'S GONNA ROLL IN THAT DUNG PATCH WITH ME?!?!
 * Crash: [wakes up] Dung patch? Wait, my legs! I can stand!

 * Ellie: [when she recognizes a familiar place] You know, deep down, I knew I was different. I was a little bigger than the other possum kids. Okay, a lot bigger. Oh. Now I understand why the possum boys didn't find me appealing.
 * Manny: Well, that's too bad. Because as far as mammoths go, you're uh...you know...
 * Ellie: What?
 * Manny: Well, uh...attractive.
 * Ellie: Really?
 * Manny: Sure!
 * Ellie: What about me is attractive?
 * Manny: Well, uh, I dunno. That's your...uh...butt.
 * Ellie: What about it?
 * Manny: It's...big? [Pauses]
 * Ellie: [sincerely] Oh, you're just saying that.
 * Manny: No really! It's huge! Biggest darn butt I've ever seen!
 * Ellie: Oh, that is really sweet! What a crazy day. This morning, I woke up a possum and now...I'm a mammoth.

 * Ellie: [storms into the campsite] Okay, let's go! We traveled with you all day, now you're coming with us at night.
 * Manny: But we can't see at night.
 * Ellie: Then enjoy the flood.
 * Eddie: I can't even look at him!
 * Crash: Pervert! [makes the 'I'm watching you' gesture towards Manny]
 * Sid: [sarcastically] Makin' friends. Everywhere you go, just makin' friends.

 * [The herd is trying to hold balance]
 * Diego: Stop moving! [the two mammoths do so and the rocky platforms stop] Thank you. [the rocks holding the platform break, making it move again and Sid loses his grip and falls down though he manages to hold onto another rocky platform, which Ellie is standing on starts to break underneath her] Manny! Ellie! Lock trunks! [Manny and Ellie glare at each other] Now! [the two wrap their trunks and walk up the rock, keeping it in balance] Crash, Eddie! Grab onto that ledge!
 * [The two possums see a ledge that could be their only chance of survival then look down to the abyss]
 * Crash: Ha! Funny.
 * Eddie: Now what's your real plan?
 * Diego: Just do it!
 * Crash: Bye, Eddie!
 * Eddie: Bye, Crash!
 * Crash: Bye, Ellie!
 * Diego: Go, now! [Crash stretch out and grab the ledge with Eddie holding on to his tail]
 * Manny: [to Ellie] Um, uh, I'm sorry if what I said before offended you.
 * Ellie: What do you mean if it offended me?!
 * Crash: That it offended her, that it offended her!
 * Manny: I meant that! That it offended you! (Diego: What?!) You just overreacted, that's all!
 * Ellie: What?!
 * Crash: Take it back!
 * Eddie: There are many lives at stake here!
 * Sid: Wait a minute! He's got a point!
 * Crash: He's got nothing!
 * Sid: It was a misunderstanding!
 * Eddie: It was insensitive!
 * Diego: Apologize!
 * Manny: Why me?! She overreacted!
 * Diego: Just apologize!
 * Manny: No!
 * Diego: Do it!
 * Ellie: Okay! I'm sorry!
 * All: What?!
 * Ellie: He's right, overreacted.
 * Manny: You mean you...?!
 * Diego: Not another word or I'll come down there and push you over myself!
 * Sid: I got it, I got it, I got it. [rocks tip over] Uh, oh. [Manny and Ellie lock trunks when the rocks collapsed]
 * Diego: Manny, Ellie! Run! RUN!!! [Manny, Ellie, Crash and Eddie all run from their lives, Diego runs fast as he can but misses until Manny and Ellie catch him with their trunks leaves him dangling off the cliff]
 * Ellie: I guess we finally did something right together. [she and Manny smiled at each other]
 * Diego: [interrupts]Hey, if you don't mind me, just hangin' out on the edge of a cliff here. Hoo. [Manny and Ellie pull him up on top]

 * Sloth: Fire King.

 * Sid: [tied up] This is either really good or really bad? [looks down and screams to see a lava pit underneath him] No, no, no. Me fire-king. Why kill fire-king? 1,000 years bad juju for killing fire king?!
 * Chief Sloth: Super-heated rock from the Earth's core is surging into the crust, melting ice built up over thousands of years.
 * Sid: You're a very advanced race. Together, we can look for a solution!
 * Chief Sloth: We have one: sacrifice the fire king!
 * Sid: That's not very advanced.
 * Chief Sloth: Worth a shot!

 * Sid: [singing] ♪ Food, Glorious Food-- ♪
 * Manny and Diego: Sid!
 * Sid: What? It's catchy!

 * Sid: Oh, it's just a little hot water and steam. How bad can it be? [one of the dodos was launched by the geyser and became roasted like a turkey] I just did something involuntary, and messy.
 * Manny: Okay, come on!
 * Diego: Manny, get back! It's a minefield out there!

 * [The herd is about to moves]
 * Eddie: What if we're the last creatures left alive? We'll have to repopulate the earth!
 * Crash: How? Everyone's either a dude or our sister.

 * Sid: Manny, who do you like better, me or Diego?
 * Manny: Diego. It's not even close.
 * Diego: [smug] Heh, told ya.
 * Ellie: Manny, you can't choose between your kids!
 * Manny: He's not my kid, he's not even my dog. If I had a dog, and my dog had a kid and that dog's kid had a pet, that would be Sid.
 * Sid: Can I have a dog, Manny?
 * Manny: No.
 * Sid: Ellie, can I have a dog?
 * Ellie: Of course, you can, sweetie.
 * Manny: Ellie, we have to be consistent with him.

About

 * I have done a lot of sequels, going all the way back to ICE AGE When I did the first ICE AGE a decade ago, we had no idea we would do a second one. The movie ended up being a huge success, and we had to say to ourselves: 'okay people want more, so let’s tell another story.' We had to really work hard on that sequel and it took a long time to get there, because we were caught off guard. After that, we learned our lesson (laughs). We understood that if the audience likes the story and characters and wants to see more, you have think early on about how to continue the story. Not that you plan a sequel, when I make a movie
 * Carlos Saldanda

Taglines

 * Kiss Your Ice Goodbye.
 * He Never Thaw It Coming.
 * Chill out with some friends!
 * The Pack Is Back
 * The Chill Is Gone

Cast

 * Ray Romano — Manny
 * John Leguizamo — Sid
 * Denis Leary — Diego
 * Queen Latifah — Ellie
 * Seann William Scott — Crash
 * Josh Peck — Eddie
 * Will Arnett — Lone Gunslinger Teratornis
 * Jay Leno — Fast Tony
 * Tom Fahn — Stu
 * Chris Wedge — Scrat
 * Alex Sullivan — James
 * Alan Tudyk — Cholly
 * Steve Coogan - Freaky Mammal
 * Bill Nighy - Start
 * Seth Rogen - Kevin
 * Leslie David Baker - Josh

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Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich, Ph.D (born 19 April 1940) is a professor in the zoology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing, zoology, ecology, and evolution.

A Year in the Maine Woods (1995)

 * I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing — to be sharp, yet open.
 * Wondering how golden-crowned kinglets, which eat insects from open branches, survive the Maine winters, in "December 11 : Wind", p. 150

 * Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
 * "December 11 : Wind", p. 152

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Ronald David Laing

Ronald David Laing (October 7, 1927 – August 23, 1989) was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote on mental illness and the experience of psychosis.

False quotes

 * The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
 * A poem by Daniel Goleman, modeled in style on R.D. Laing's "knots" and often mistakenly used as a quotation of Laing.
 * D. Goleman (1985). Vital lies, simple truths. New York: Simon & Schuster, p. 24.

The Divided Self (1960)

 * The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

 * Existential phenomenology attempts to characterize the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself. It is not so much an attempt to describe particular objects of his experience as to set all particular experiences within the context of his whole being-in-his-world. The mad things said and done by the schizophrenic will remain essentially a closed book if one does not understand their existential context. In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world. Although retaining the terms schizoid and schizophrenic for the sane and psychotic positions respectively, I shall not, of course, be using these terms in their usual clinical psychiatric frame of reference, but phenomenologically and existentially.
 * Ch. 1 : The existential-phenomenological foundations for a science of persons

 * We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on "his" behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.

The Politics of Experience (1967)

 *  Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. There is little conjunction of truth and social "reality". Around us are pseudo-events, to which we adjust with a false consciousness adapted to see these events as true and real, and even as beautiful. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism — can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat? The requirement of the present, the failure of the past, is the same: to provide a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man.
 * p. 1 of Introduction

 * We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
 * p. 1 of Introduction

 * We are all murderers and prostitutes — no matter to what culture, society, class, nation, we belong, no matter how normal, moral, or mature we take ourselves to be. Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities. This basic vision prevents us from taking any unequivocal view of the sanity of common sense, or of the madness of the so-called madman. … Our alientation goes to the roots. The realisation of this is the essential springboard for any serious reflection on any aspect of present inter-human life.
 * p. 2 of Introduction

 * Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
 * p. 3 of Introduction

 * Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence". We can see other people's behaviour, but not their experience. This has led some people to insist that psychology has nothing to do with the other person's experience, but only with his behaviour. The other person's behaviour is an experience of mine. My behaviour is an experience of the other. The task of social phenomenology is to relate my experience of the other's behaviour to the other's experience of my behaviour. Its study is the relation between experience and experience: its true field is inter-experience.
 * Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence

 * I see you, and you see me. I experience you, and you experience me. I see your behaviour. You see my behaviour. But I do not and never have and never will see your experience of me. Just as you cannot "see" my experience of you. My experience of you is not "inside" me. It is simply you, as I experience you. And I do not experience you as inside me. Similarly, I take it that you do not experience me as inside you. "My experience of you" is just another form of words for "you-as-l-experience-you", and "your experience of me" equals "me-as-you-experience-me". Your experience of me is not inside you and my experience of you is not inside me, but your experience of me is invisible to me and my experience of you is invisible to you.
 * Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence

 * I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. All men are invisible to one another. Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything. Only experience is evident. Experience is the only evidence. Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.
 * Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence

 * Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.
 * Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence

 * Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
 * p. 28

 * Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible. From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful.
 * p. 58

 * We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.
 * p. 58

 * It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course.
 * p.82 (of original version see Google Books link here)

 * A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
 * p. 104

 * There is no such "condition" as "schizophrenia," but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
 * p. 121

Knots (1970)

 * Page numbers refer to the April 1972 Vintage Books edition (New York: Random House), ISBN 0394717767

You must be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me      if you are not laughing at me.
 * I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.
 * §2, p. 22

I think I know If I don't know I know I think I don't know
 * If I don't know I don't know
 * §3, p. 55

the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it
 * I am doing it
 * §5, p. 84

one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate
 * Before one goes through the gate
 * "Although innumerable beings have been led to Nirvana no being has been led to Nirvana", §5, p. 85

Disputed

 * Insanity — a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
 * As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 412; this might be a paraphrase, as the earliest occurrence of this phrase thus far located is in the form: "Ronald David Laing has shocked many people when he suggested in 1972 that insanity can be a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." in Studii de literatură română și comparată (1984), by The Faculty of Philology-History at Universitatea din Timișoara. A clear citation to Laing's own work has not yet been found.

Quotes about Laing

 * Laing was profoundly disenchanted with most analysts' closed-minded and dogmatic world-views, and their derogatory attitude toward psychotics. The Freudians and Kleinians in London, for their part, did not trust Laing because he committed the cardinal sin of taking Jung's notion of metanoia seriously. This was not yet evident in 1960, when he published The Divided Self. But it was vividly apparent in The Politics of Experience, published in 1967.
 * Daniel Burston, in "R. D. Laing and The Politics of Diagnosis" in Janus Head (Spring 2001)

 * Fed up with the limelight, in 1970, Laing left for India and Ceylon, where he studied Buddhist mediation and Shiviite Yoga for 18 months. He returned a changed man. Unlike his former, angrier, radical self, the new R.D. Laing now enjoined a kind of gentle, Buddhist austerity as the best path to liberation, and expressed a great skepticism about the left's agenda and methods. Moreover, he no longer condemned the nuclear family or the use of psychotropic medication as a treatment of last resort, provided these drugs were taken voluntarily, with the patient's informed consent. He remained categorically opposed to electroshock and involuntary psychiatric treatment, and eager to explore alternatives to psychiatry. But he now rejected the "anti-psychiatry" label that others had placed on him, and made several conciliatory gestures toward his estranged psychiatric colleagues.
 * Daniel Burston, in "R. D. Laing and The Politics of Diagnosis" in Janus Head (Spring 2001)

 * Many things have changed since The Politics of Experience created such a sensation. The general public isn't as moved by the plight of these people as they were in Laing's day. And though Laing was far more effective with people like these than the average clinician in a one-on-one setting, he never developed a workable alternative to the conventional mental hospital. In the absence of such an alternative, people in distress are inclined to rely on the devil they know. Besides, really good psychotherapy is time and labor intensive. It requires a substantial emotional investment from the therapist as well as the patient. It is not cheap and not fast, and in the recent climate of fiscal restraint we want a quick fix: something clean and cost-effective, not messy and time consuming.
 * Daniel Burston, in "R. D. Laing and The Politics of Diagnosis" in Janus Head (Spring 2001)

 * Laing argued that labeling the individual often has little to do with accurate assessment of the patient's real problems, and that the remedial interventions mandated by a specific diagnosis often serve complex social functions by equilibrating extant social-systems, i.e. maintaining the status quo. In short, clinicians frequently locate the cause of the disturbance in individuals to divert attention from the processes that actually engendered their disturbed behavior. If they did not, they would often construe the "signs and symptoms" of these diagnostic entities as intelligible responses to what Laing termed "unlivable situations" — ones which the patient can neither understand, nor tolerate, nor change effectively.
 * Daniel Burston, in "R. D. Laing and The Politics of Diagnosis" in Janus Head (Spring 2001)

 * Laing had an aching addiction to fame and celebrity and it unquestionably damaged his reputation. … His need for attention was a lifelong problem and robbed his work of credibility, particularly after he had a serious midlife crisis of creativity and felt he had run out of things to say. He became a tragic figure, his behaviour erratic and self-destructive. There were flashes of the old brilliance, but much of his later output was of questionable value. Frankly, it was dreck.
 * Daniel Burston, a professor of psychology at Duquesne University, as quoted in "RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man," The Sunday Times, (12 April 2009)

 * His most original contribution, the source of his inspiration, what he wrote about and where he wrote from, was the time that he spent listening to mad people. Before Ronnie, few psychiatrists, if any, spoke with such a good ear for madness. There were others including Freud, Jung, Fromm-Reichman and Rosen, who attempted in some way to decode mad-speak, but Ronnie "hung out" with mad people. He was first of all a guy who, with people who were seen as mad, entered into a kind of a friendship; he created space that hadn't before opened up, between himself and the "mad." Also he was very plastic and mimetic, so he could imitate and get into other people's moods, thoughts, language, and world, including those of so-called "mad" people. And he was able to bring back and speak of what it was like to be "mad" (more or less). This gave "mad" people an enormous sense of relief. Someone heard them. They were not alone. Madness was not unreason, a total unintelligibility, a total difference between the sane and the insane. Ronnie showed that we're all in it together. There was not an unbridgeable gulf between sanity and madness: rather there is a continuum. Mad people felt that "this guy really understands what I'm going through." This proved extremely helpful for people who thought they were going mad, or who were told they were mad.
 * Steven Gans, in "Remembering Ronnie" in Janus Head (Spring 2001)

 * Being the son of RD Laing was neither amazing nor enlightening …For most of the time it was a crock of shit.
 * Adrian Laing, as quoted in "RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man," The Sunday Times (12 April 2009)

 * The square root of nothing.
 * An expression to describe him, used by Anne Hearne Laing, his ex-wife, as quoted in "RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man" in The Sunday Times (12 April 2009)

 * There was a lot of violence when we were young — vicious, nasty stuff — and at times it certainly felt an unsafe place to be. It was an awful culture shock when my parents separated, leaving our schools and friends in London and arriving in Glasgow in the early 1960s, which then had a frightening reputation for gang violence. We had occasional visits from my father which always ended in rows. I felt hurt, angry and confused he couldn’t be there for us. I have sat in on sessions with my father while he was working with clients and experienced his genius as a man who could relate to another human’s pain and suffering. There seems to me to be a huge void and contradiction between RD Laing the psychiatrist and Ronnie Laing the father. There was something he was constantly searching for within himself and it tortured him.
 * His eldest daughter, Karen, as quoted in "RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man" in The Sunday Times (12 April 2009)

 * We’ve got too many problems for him. … He can solve everybody else’s, but not ours.
 * Susan Laing, his second eldest daughter, in a 1974 feature on the children of celebrities, as quoted in "RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man" in The Sunday Times (12 April 2009)

 * Ronnie was brilliant, a complete original, but he desperately overdid the drugs and drink. He was one of those drunks whose body would jack it in while his mind kept working. He would be lying on the floor, paralytic but talking nonstop and making perfect sense.
 * Sally Vincent, a lover, as cited in "RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man", The Sunday Times (12 April 2009)

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