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Talk:Jello Biafra

 * This page is reserved for talk concerning wikiquote's page on Jello Biafra. I have removed comments directed toward the artist and/or his fans.
 * Does anyone have additional information (e.g., a date or a citable record) for Biafra's address to the Green Party? Thanks. tartaruga 02:05, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Sources for Biafra's nicknames for political figures would also be greatly appreciated. I have moved them to the Attributed heading for now. tartaruga 17:37, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Jello Biafra. --Antiquary 14:46, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * "Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it."

 * "My favorite cartoon characters (growing up) were Bullwinkle and Senator Everett Dirksen." -- On growing up being a fan of both animation and network news.

 * "They already know who we are, so why not get louder, and louder, and louder?" -- On protests.

 * "For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground."

 * "Who can deny how delicious it is to vote down another sports stadium."

 * "Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush."

 * "Punk rock isn't dead, it just deserves to die."

 * [On Dick Cheney's appearance] "That man must live exclusively on Cheesy Poofs and venom!"

 * [On creationism being taught in public schools} "If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve!"

 * "If you love God, burn the church."

 * "I know someone who had the audacity to misuse people's hope...his name was Bill Clinton."

 * "The people in New York nominated me because what I was saying dove-tailed with what the Green Party was saying!"

 * "What causes more crime and death on this planet? Drug addiction, or wealth addiction?"

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--Aphaia 17:22, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Methuselah Jones
Your recent edit to Methuselah Jones removed the category, I assume by accident. I have restored it now, but please be more careful in the future. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 17:57, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

 * This is the problem when articles lack an introduction — nobody has any idea whom you are talking about, and we are forced into google searches to find it. Can you please add an introduction, including wikipedia links if there are any, to Methuselah Jones? Fixing the category would also be appreciated (rather than removing it), but after there's an intro, categorization is possible by others too. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 03:23, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Methuselah Jones has been nominated for deletion as a possible vanity page (quotes from an unnotable subject, usually the article creator). This is often a consequence of the lack of identifying information. I recommend adding a brief introduction to help the community decide on its suitability. (See Templates for format suggestions.) Thank you for your assistance. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:12, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I am sorry for the misunderstanding. If you want, I can recover the old contents of Methuselah Jones and put them in a subpage of your user page. Users are free to put quotes from unnotable subjects on their user pages or subpages thereof. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 18:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Teen Titans

Formatting
Based on the source text of this article, which appears to have expected each line of dialog to be on a separate physical line, I have changed the formatting to include an indentation. The earlier structure doesn't work on wiki pages, as single-line separation merely concatenates text into a single line. There are several ways to get around this, including adding absurd amounts of blank lines, but the cleanest and most common practice for dialog is simply to indent each line. (One notable variation used for Terra's plaque and for Master of Your Fate is to double-indent each physical line, which gives the text the feel of a tombstone, sign, or lyrics.) Someday, I hope that the MediaWiki developers will create markup that makes dialog easier to format, but until then, this is probably the most practical means to achieve decent formatting. — Jeff Q (talk) 18:03, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Oh, another thing — I reformatted the season and episode titles to use common Wikiquote conventions: — Jeff Q (talk) 18:15, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Italicize titles, not descriptive data (e.g., "Episode 1: Final Exam").
 * Use wiki markup ( == HEADING == ) to format sections and provide a table of contents, especially for very long pages.

Copyediting
Can the folks who are most interested in this article keep an eye on the incoming edits for various errors? Quite a bit of the material appears to be copied and pasted from sources like TV Tome, and these can be somewhat less than accurate in grammar, punctuation, and spelling, to put it mildly. I've just gone through the entire article and combed out what errors I could determine without actually watching the episodes, but that's only a one-time contribution. There are a number of quotes that seem likely to be inaccurate, but require episode review to be sure. Not being a fan of the show, I leave it to interested parties to do any further copyediting. Please consider that accuracy is a major goal of Wikiquote, and that no other quote sites can boast any such attention to detail. (I've found that even IMDb's Quote pages rarely have a single quote that is completely accurate. Most quotes that aren't simply copied from another webpage appear to be added from memory, which is incredibly fallible.) — Jeff Q (talk) 18:05, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This is just 3 years late in commenting, but as I watch the show I tend to add notable quotes. I have the DVDs and watch them on the computer, so it's fairly easy to pause and get a verbatim transcript that way. If I watch an episode, I'll quickly glance at this page afterwards to see if any quotes need repairing.- ellusion - 10:39, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Episode 257-494
This show was originally listed as Episode 12 of Season 3, probably because it was aired during the third season. However, it appears to be officially designated as Episode 1 of Season 4. There are other clues to this official nature: jokes and references inside the show, the fact that it aired in-between the two parts of Titans East (clearly an out-of-order broadcast), and the way its inclusion in Season 4 provides all four major seasons with 13 episodes. (Also, if airdate were the sole consideration, one might argue that The Lost Episode should be 3-12, 257-494 be 3-14, and TE 1 and 2 be 3-13 and 3-15, respectively.) I've moved Episode 257-494 to correspond to the official listing. — Jeff Q (talk) 18:09, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup
We have the put it in order of who talked first. For example, Star Fire did not say "Tell me again what they are called." after she says, "I did not know we were supposed to bring shovels." (which was in episode Sisters, Sisters, but I cleaned it up, already) --anon

On another Note, Several of the quotes listed here are pointlessly long. Cut to the chaste, the part of the quote that sticks out. For example "Tick Tock Raven, Time is running out" instead of the entire dialouge between Slade and Raven during the time. --Evil Bob

Reference
Forgive the plug, but for a strong reference source, TitansGo.net is good - it has a transcript for every episode, and though I haven't gone through and compared each and every episode to the corresponding transcripts, as far as I can tell, they're perfect, dialogue and quotes included.

Again?
Uh... what happened to the new format? I liked it. A lot less clunky. Caswin 04:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Teen Titans Season 5
Why is there a page for Teen Titans Season 5? Is it completely unrelated? Because if it's part of the series, shouldn't it be merged with this page? Raisin56 05:14, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably. Of course, the really hard-core fans of the show don't like season 5 nearly as much. After all, no Slade. 69.73.110.152 16:20, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * EDIT Actually, it appears that there are separate pages for all 5 seasons, and that this page is a compilation of all 5. 69.73.110.152 17:47, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Season 1 episodes 1 & 3
I think that S1E1, "Final Exam," should, chronologically, come after S1E3, "Divide and Conquer." My reasoning is that it is in Final Exam that any of the Titans first learn who Slade is, and in Divide and Conquer, the viewer can see Slade's hand in the events, but Robin, when considering the idea of a master planner, does not even consider the possibility of involvement by Slade. (Robin): "Breaking into jail? Using Plasmus to distract us? The whole plan seems to be a little too smart for Cinderblock.... Someone must have been pulling the strings. But who?" Also, Divide and Conquer is the only episode in which we see signs of the following:

1) Raven has the ability to melt things

2) Slade has normal human processes like eating and drinking

3) Slade has a butler.

In addition, Divide and conquer shows a very strong center around the primary antagonist of the series (Slade). This, along with showing things that are not shown at any other point in a series, are very common among first episodes, and very rare among most others.

Anyway, I'm thinking that if we're moving Episode 257-494 to the beginning of season 4 despite its release date, I think we should move Divide and Conquer to Episode 1. 69.73.110.152 18:20, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Why on earth is there a Season 6?
There hasn't been one yet, but for some reason, there are quotes already about it. TechFlash1 (talk) 19:15, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

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The Office (British TV series)

The Office is a British television comedy that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough, Berkshire branch of the fictitious Wernham Hogg Paper Company.

 * The Office (U.S. TV series) has a separate Wikiquote page.

Downsize [1.01]

 * David: My proudest moment here wasn’t when I increased profits by 17%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went "Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?". Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish!

 * David: I said, "If Head Office try and come here and interfere, they've got me to contend with, okay? You can go and fiddle with Neil's people, but I'm the head of this family. You're not going to fiddle with my children. I am, if anyone does."

 * [Gareth is describing his renovated car]'
 * Gareth: I've got some photos... [opens drawer and recoils in shock] Oh, what is that!?
 * David: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
 * Gareth: [To Tim] Right, that is it!
 * David: Slow down, you move too fast. Solomon's here. All part of the job. What's going on?
 * Gareth: [taking out a plate of yellow jelly with a stapler in it] He's put my stapler inside a jelly again. That's the third time he's done that. It wasn't even funny the first time.
 * David: Why's he done that?
 * Gareth: I told him once that I don't like jelly. I don't trust the way it moves.
 * David: Yeah, you show him a weakness, he pounces, you should know about that. Oh, what is in here?
 * Gareth: It's my stapler.
 * [Gareth pulls the stapler out of the jelly]
 * David: Well don't do that! Eat it out! [To the camera] There's people starving in the world, which I hate. So, it's a waste. So... [To Gareth] How do you know it's yours?
 * Gareth: 'Cause it's got my name on it in tippex.
 * David: Yeah, don't eat it now. Chemicals.

Work Experience [1.02]

 * David: "Dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs." Now you do not punish someone, Dutch or otherwise for having big boobs.
 * Gareth: If anything they should be rewarded.
 * David: They should be equal.
 * Gareth: Women are equal.
 * David: I've always said that.

 * Gareth: You know the phrase "Slowly, slowly catchy monkey", I could kill a monkey. If I was starving I could. I’d make poison darts out of the poison of the deadly frogs. One milligram of that poison can kill a monkey. Or a man. Prick yourself and you’d be dead within a day. Or longer. Different frogs, different times.

The Quiz [1.03]

 * Ricky: You really are a couple of sad little men, aren't you?
 * Gareth: Oh yeah, they're sad little men. He’s thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done?

 * David: There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I'll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there's nothing funny about them. Or deformity. It's like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go "Ooh, look at him, he's not able-bodied. I am, I'm prejudiced". Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded. Unless he's not - it's difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.

Training [1.04]

 * Gareth: All farmers have wives.
 * Tim: This one doesn't, he's gay.
 * Gareth: Well, then, he shouldn't be allowed near animals, should he?

 * Dawn: He proposed on a Valentine's Day, although he didn't do it face to face, he did it in one of the little Valentine bits in the paper. I think he had to pay for it by the word, because it just said "Lee love Dawn, marriage?" which you know, I like, because it's not often you get to something that's both romantic and thrifty.

 * Rowan: Gareth, what's your ultimate fantasy?
 * Gareth: Two lesbians, probably. Sisters. I'm just watching.
 * Rowan: Okay.. umm, Tim?
 * Tim: I never thought I'd say this, but can I hear more from Gareth please?

[David and Rowan are role-playing]
 * David: I'd like to make a complaint please.
 * Rowan: Don't care.
 * David: Well, I am staying in the hotel..
 * Rowan: Don't care, it's not my shift.
 * David: Well you're an ambassador for the hotel...
 * Rowan: I don't care what you think..
 * David: I think you'll care when I tell you what the complaint is...
 * Rowan: I don't care!
 * David: I think there's been a rape up there! [Rowan stares at him in shock] See, I got his attention. Get. Their. Attention.

New Girl [1.05]

 * Tim: There was, oh my God, a themed nightclub called Henry the Eighth's. This was incredible. It had the Anne Bowl-in Alley, this is true, as you went into the loo, there was a sign that said "Mind Your Head" - nice... and underneath someone had written "Don't get your Hampton Court." It's not there any more. But not a day goes by that I don't think about it.

 * Gareth: If you're so clever, what am I thinking now?
 * Tim: You're thinking "how can I kill a tiger armed only with a biro?"
 * Gareth: No.
 * Tim: You're thinking "if I crash land in a jungle will I be able to eat my own shoes?"
 * Gareth: No. And you can't.
 * Tim: What are you thinking Gareth?
 * Gareth: I was just wondering whether will there ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark.

Judgement [1.06]

 * David: Well, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that Neil will be taking over both branches, and some of you will lose your jobs. Those of you who are kept on will have to relocate to Swindon, if you wanna stay. I know, gutting. On a more positive note, the good news is, I've been promoted. So, every cloud... You're still thinking about the bad news, aren't you?

 * David: You’ve seen how I react to people, make them feel good, make them think that anything’s possible. If I make them laugh along the way, sue me. And I don’t do it so they turn round and go "Thank you David for the opportunity, thank you for the wisdom, thank you for the laughs." I do it so, one day, someone will go "There goes David Brent. I must remember to thank him."

 * Tim: I think it was John Lennon who said "Life is what happens when you're making other plans." And that's how I feel. Although he also said "I am the walrus. I am the eggman." So I don't know what to believe.

Merger [2.01]

 * David: Some of you seem to have got off on the wrong foot with me. You didn't like some of the jokes I told earlier. You've got to chill out, yeah, trust me, this is what I do, alright? You will never work in a place like this again. This is brilliant. Fact. And you will never have another boss like me. Someone who's basically a chilled out entertainer.

 * Tim:Team leader don’t mean anything mate.
 * Gareth: Excuse me, it means I’m the leader of a team.
 * Tim: No it doesn't-it’s a title someone’s given you to get you to do something they don’t want to do, for free. Right? It’s like making a div kid at school milk monitor. No one respects it.
 * Gareth: I think they do.
 * Tim: No they don’t Gareth.
 * Gareth: Er, yes they do, because if people were rude to me then I used to give them their milk last, so it was warm.

Appraisals [2.02]

 * Dawn: I always wanted to be a children's illustrator and when people said, "What do you do?" I would say, "Well, I'm an illustrator, but I do some reception work for a little bit of extra cash."  So, for years, I was an illustrator who did some reception work.  Then Lee thought it would be a good idea for us both to get full-time jobs and then you're knackered after work and it's hard to do illustrating.  So now, when people ask me what I do, I say I'm a receptionist.

 * David: Under "Strengths"... you've just put "accounts."
 * Keith: Yeah.
 * David: That's your job though, that's, that's just—
 * Keith: —Mmm. [nods]
 * David: No, Keith. What. I was sort of looking for your skills within your job. So is there anything else you could have put there?
 * Keith: [shrugs]
 * David: Nope. Okay. Umm... Under "Weaknesses" you've put eczema.

Party [2.03]

 * David: How old would you say I was if you didn't know me?
 * Employee: Forty?
 * David: No, how old do you think I look?
 * Employee: Thirty nine?
 * David: Most people think I look about thirty, so..
 * Employee: Definitely not.
 * David: Oh, you calling them liars?! What do you think?
 * Oliver: Well, between thirty and forty.
 * David: Yes. More honest.

 * Tim: Now guys, we're about to enter a warehouse environment, now I must warn you that some of the people in here will be working class, so there may be arse cleavage. So just find a partner, hold hands. Don't talk to anyone though.

Motivation [2.04]

 * David: The reason I put "If it's in you" is, if I waste good time and money looking for it, and see it's definitely not in you, I don't wanna be sued 'cos you haven't got it, so, you know, you're not gonna get me on that.

 * Simon: You know Bruce Lee's not really dead, don't you? Yeah, it's in a book. What he did was he faked his own death so that he could work undercover for the Hong Kong police, inflitrating drugs gangs and the Triads.
 * Gareth: Yeah, I reckon that's true.
 * Tim: Yeah, I reckon that's true. Because if you were gonna send someone undercover to investigate the Triads, you'd probably want the world's most famous Chinese film star.

Charity [2.05]

 * David: What's more important: you, Neil, with your report, or some starving children? Oh, I dunno. Oh, what would Lenny Henry say? I think we know. Imagine him going out of the door on Comic Relief day and Dawn French is going "Where you going, you haven't done the washing up. You haven't put the rubbish out." [middle finger] "DO IT YOURSELF, I'VE GOTTA SAVE SOME AFRICANS!".

 * David: And that's not going "Ooh, look at me today, I'm entertaining whilst saving lives aren't I brilliant?", it's going "If you think I'm brilliant, then give generously and help save these guys who are starving, but are also brilliant"—not as entertainers, a lot of them can't even speak English, but you know don't give them their own game show, but save them from dying at least.

Interview [2.06]

 * David: I don't look upon this like it's the end, I look upon it like it's moving on you know. It's almost like my work here's done. I can't imagine Jesus going, "Oh, I've told a few people in Bethlehem I'm the son of God, can I just stay here with Mum and Dad now?" No. You gotta move on. You gotta spread the word. You gotta go to Nazareth, please. And that's, very much like... me.

 * David: Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

Part 1

 * Gareth: I did learn a lot from David. I learnt from his mistakes. We're very different people; he used humour where I use discipline. And I learnt that nobody respects him. And in a war situation, if you want your platoon to go over the top with you to certain death, it's no good saying to them "Please come with me lads, I'll tell you a joke." It's a direct order "Come with me." And they'll go "Yes, he's got good leadership skills, let's all go with him to our certain death".

 * Gareth: Right, her details. Her marital status: single, divorced—
 * David: Not divorced. Nah, husband might still be around, might be a nutter. I'm not getting into all that.
 * Gareth: Widowed?
 * David: I'd bloody love her to be widowed.

Part 2

 * Tim: And what happens, you're going into battle situation, right, you are up the front, with your men, or are you coming up the rear?
 * Gareth: Well, depends...
 * Dawn: So it's possible you'd come up the rear?
 * Gareth: It's possible, yeah.
 * Tim: That's all we wanted to know.

 * Tim: The people you work with are people you were just thrown together with. I mean, you don't know them, it wasn't your choice. And yet you spend more time with them than you do your friends or your family. But probably all you have in common is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for eight hours a day. And so, when you find someone you have a connection with. And, yeah, Dawn was a ray of sunshine in my life.

 * [David, Neil and Chris Finch are exchanging banter after David's blind date leaves. Earlier, David had come to the office with a labrador puppy]
 * Neil: No dog with you today, David?
 * Finchy: What, did you not see? She just left!
 * [He and Neil laugh. David does not]
 * David: [As the laughter subsides] Chris. Why don't you fuck off?
 * [David leaves, leaving Finch looking lost for words]

 * [Last lines of the series]
 * David Brent: [In "talking head"] Have you got everything you need? [The interviewer answers affirmatively off-camera] Cheers.
 * [He gets up and walks off camera]

Cast

 * Ricky Gervais - David Brent
 * Martin Freeman - Tim Canterbury
 * Mackenzie Crook - Gareth Keenan
 * Lucy Davis - Dawn Tinsley

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User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.

I won't go into detail about myself here; I have a personal web site that manages to deal with this feat by itself. However, I am an American, living in the horrible state of Florida; I used to write short-stories (typically science fiction or "speculative fiction"), though I remain unpublished.

As for Wikipedia, I first encountered the English Wikipedia in late 2004 and subsequently began the Battlestar Wiki, a Wikipedia using MediaWiki software for all things related to Battlestar Galactica.

Since then, I have branched out my Wiki-related activities; see below for additional information.

Statistics
Number of times this user page has been vandalized by mental degenerates: 1 (see: 06:53, 13 May 2005 edit)

My contributions
Having contributed to Wikiquote since 6 May 2005, I've done the following:

Created articles: Film: Clerks. • Logan's Run • Team America: World Police • Television: Blake's 7 • Crusade (B5 Spinoff) • The Office

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Ernest Gellner

Ernest André Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a philosopher and social anthropologist, cited as one of the world's "most vigorous intellectuals."

Quotes

 * The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes ‘forms of life’ for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology.
 * The crisis in the humanities and in the mainstream of philosophy (1964), reprinted in The Devil in Modern Philosophy (1974)

 * (J. L. Austin's) admirers claim that his supreme preoccupation was truth. His work, with its sad conjunction of extraordinary cunning in presentation with very thin content, leaves rather the impression of a man who had little sense of real problems but who liked winning arguments and dominating people in the course of them, and who was well equipped to gratify his taste. He was the supreme dialectical poker player, unsurpassed at making people believe that their bluff had been called when in fact they weren’t bluffing, and at stone-walling any attempt to call his own. It would be hypocritical not to say all this. Hypocrisy might not matter, but it would also be unfair to those students who are still conned into supposing that this kind of philosophizing has much in common with serious intellecual endeavour.
 * Poker Player (1969), reprinted in The Devil in Modern Philosophy (1974)

 * Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.
 * The Coming of Nationalism and Its Interpretation: The Myths of Nation and Class in Mapping the Nation

 * Dr J. O. Wisdom once observed to me that he knew people who thought there was no philosophy after Hegel, and others who thought there was none before Wittgenstein; and he saw no reason for excluding the possibility that both were right.
 * Spectacles & Predicaments (1979)

 * Wittgenstein's appeal lies in the fact that he provides a strange kind of vindication of romanticism, of conceptual Gemeinschaft, of custom-based concepts rather than statute-seeking Reform, and that he does so through a very general theory of meaning, rather than from the premisses habitually used for this purpose. Because there is no unique formal notation valid for all speech, each and every culture is vindicated. One never knew that could be done — and so quickly too! It is that above all which endows his philosophy with such a capacity to attract and to repel. His mystique of consensual custom denies that anything can sit in judgment of our concepts, that some may be more rational and others less so. So all of them are in order and have nothing to fear from philosophy, as indeed he insists. This is a fairly mild form of irrationalism, invoking no fierce dark Gods, merely a consensual community. It is the Soft Porn of Irrationalism.
 * Concepts and Community, in Relativism and the Social Sciences (1985)

 * When knowledge is the slave of social considerations, it defines a special class; when it serves its own ends only, it no longer does so. There is of course a profound logic in this paradox: genuine knowledge is egalitarian in that it allows no privileged source, testers, messengers of Truth.  It tolerates no privileged and circumscribed data. The autonomy of knowledge is a leveller.
 * Plough, Sword, and Book : The Structure of Human History (1988), Ch. 5 : Codification, p. 123

 * It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
 * Nations and Nationalism (1983)

 * [I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.
 * Postmodernism, Reason and Religion (1992)

 * Knowledge which ... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.
 * Reason and Culture (1992)

 * It is this which explains nationalism: the principle — so strange and eccentric in the age of agrarian cultural diversity and the 'ethnic' division of labour — that homogeneity of culture is the political bond, that mastery of (and, one should add, acceptability in) a given high culture ... is the precondition of political, economic and social citizenship.
 * Nationalism (1997)

 * I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.
 * "Reply to Critics" in The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner

 * Primitive man has lived twice: once in and for himself, and the second time for us, in our reconstruction.
 * Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History (1988)

 * There is a story about German students who were told by their Professor of Philosophy that they, the students, had a real existence, and who went wild with joy on being given this information. Ethnomethodology also teaches us that our daily lived world and experience are real, and we can and do rejoice in this.
 * Ethnomethodology: The Re-Enchantment Industry or The Californian Way of Subjectivity (1975)

Words and Things (1959)

 * A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

 * Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.
 * p. 94

 * The idea that some of the members of the smooth, bland variety of second generation of linguistic philosophers undergo ”perplexity”, let alone intellectual cramp, has an element of high comedy.
 * p. 138

 * Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
 * p. 265

Thought and Change (1964)

 * The new perspective also manifested itself in other ways: the shift of attention to sociologists such as Max Weber who were primarily concerned, not with overall 'development', but with the one specific development, that of modern society; the tendency to be concerned with those aspects of Marxism relevant to this one transition, and to ignore its Evolutionist aspects; and, recently and most characteristically, the concern with the notion of industrial society, and its antithesis, to the detriment of other classifications, oppositions and alternatives.

 * In the twentieth century, the essence of man is not that he is a rational, or a political, or a sinful, or a thinking animal, but that he is an industrial animal. It is not his moral or intellectual or social or aesthetic ... attributes which make man what he is. His essence resides in his capacity to contribute to, and to profit from, industrial society. The emergence of industiral society is the prime concern of sociology.

Contemporary Thought and Politics (1974)

 * The model that can be drawn up, of a plural society in which the multiplicity of forces and institutions prevent any one of their number dominating the rest, and which function on the basis of a broad and non-doctrinaire consensus — this picture does not warm the blood like wine. To appreciate and savour its appeal, one needs a rather sophisticated taste, perhaps.

 * Looking at the contemporary world, two things are obvious: democracy is doing rather badly, and democracy is doing very well. New states are born free, yet everywhere they are in chains. Democracy is doing very badly in that democratic institutions have fallen by the wayside in very many of the newly independent 'transitional' societies, and they are precarious elsewhere. Democracy, on the other hand, is doing extremely well in so far as it is almost (though not quite) universally accepted as a valid norm.

Legitimation of Belief (1975)

 * People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
 * pp. 99

 * What are the motives of those who wish to endorse all cultures? A part of their motive is, no doubt, a kind of universal benevolence — let a hundred flowers bloom, let all cultures enjoy their own life and their own values. This kind of liberalism on behalf of cultural wholes faces the same difficulty as liberalism on behalf of individuals (but it does not even attempt to face it) — is it to be freedom for the pikes or the minnows? Many traditional cultures are exclusive and intolerant, and oppress subcultures within their own territory. Who exactly is to be granted this protected status?
 * pp. 143

 * In practice, those who espouse this universal cultural tolerance are indeed inevitably selective; what they mean is nice, cosy, traditional cultures, not as they exist, but as they are pictured in the romantic imagination. And above all, they are interested in selective preservation within their own society. Not surprisingly, they dislike scientism, positivism, rationalism in their own society, and rather ignore the fact that these traits also constitute a culture, and one which, from the viewpoint of their initial and rather abstract starting point, has at least as good a claim as the cosiest of closed societies.
 * pp. 144

Nations and Nationalism (1983)

 * In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state — a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation — should not separate the power holders from the rest.
 * Chapter 1, Definitions, p. 1

 * Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.
 * Chapter 6, Social Entropy And Equality, p. 87

 * Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
 * Chapter 7, A Typology Of Nationalism, p. 97

 * Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.
 * Chapter 8, The Future Of Nationalism, p. 114

Conditions of Liberty (1994)

 * Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep ...

 * This is indeed one of the most important general traits of a modern society: cultural homogeneity, the capacity for context-free communication, the standardization of expression and comprehension.

Anthropology and Politics (1995)

 * I do not recommend any legislative action against hermeneutics. I am a liberal person opposed to all unnecessary state limitation of individual liberties. Hermeneutics between consenting adults should not, in my view, be the object of any statutory restrictions. I know, only too well, what it would entail. Hermeneutic speakeasies would spring up all over the place, smuggled Thick Descriptions would be brought in by the lorry-load from Canada by the Mafia, blood and thick meaning would clot in the gutter as rival gangs of semiotic bootleggers slugged it out in a series of bloody shoot-outs and ambushes. Addicts would be subject to blackmail. Consumption of deep meanings and its attendant psychic consequences would in no way diminsh, but the criminal world would benefit, and the whole fabric of civil society would be put under severe strain.''' Never!

 * America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

Quotes about Gellner

 * Whereas Weber was so bewitched by the spell of nationalism that he was never able to theorize it, Gellner has theorized nationalism without detecting the spell.
 * Perry Anderson, A Zone of Engagement (1992), Ch. 9 : Max Weber and Ernest Gellner: Science, Politics, Enchantment

 * The state is the dominant political form in the world today, and nationalism remains a powerful political force. This book will help you understand where it came from and why it endures.
 * Stephen Walt, My “top ten” books every student of International Relations should read (April 9, 2009); on Nations and Nationalism

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Talk:Twelve-tone technique

Something vaguely supportive could be included as well, if it exists. From the entry, I get the impression the sole purpose of the twelve-tone technique was to be vilified.

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