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James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century.
 * See also:
 * The American Democrat (1838)

Quotes

 * I will go upon the rock, boys, and look abroad for the savages," said Ishmael shortly after, advancing towards them with a mien which he intended should be conciliating, at the same time that it was authoritative. "If there is nothing to fear, we will go out on the plain; the day is too good to be lost in words, like women in the towns wrangling over their tea and sugared cakes."
 * The Prairie (1827)

 * One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.
 * A Letter to His Countrymen (1834)

 * God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
 * The Pathfinder (1840)

 * 'Tis grand! 'tis solemn! 'tis an education of itself to look upon!
 * The Deerslayer (1841), Ch. 6

 * For a time our efforts seem to create, and to adorn, and to perfect, until we forget our origin and destination, substituting self for that divine hand which alone can unite the elements of worlds as they float in gasses, equally from His mysterious laboratory, and scatter them again into thin air when the works of His hand cease to find favour in His view. Let those who would substitute the voice of the created for that of the Creator, who shout "the people, the people," instead of hymning the praises of their God, who vainly imagine that the masses are sufficient for all things, remember their insignificance and tremble. They are but mites amid millions of other mites, that the goodness of providence has produced for its own wise ends; their boasted countries, with their vaunted climates and productions, have temporary possessions of but small portions of a globe that floats, a point, in space, following the course pointed out by an invisible finger, and which will one day be suddenly struck out of its orbit, as it was originally put there, by the hand that made it. Let that dread Being, then, be never made to act a second part in human affairs, or the rebellious vanity of our race imagine that either numbers, or capacity, or success, or power in arms, is aught more than a short-lived gift of His beneficence, to be resumed when His purposes are accomplished.
 * The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific (1847), Ch. XXX

 * Those families, you know, are our upper crust—not upper ten thousand.
 * The Ways of the Hour (1850), Ch. 6

 * Trust to HIM. There are days in which the sun is not seen—when a lurid darkness brings a second night over the earth. It matters not. The great luminary is always there. There may be clouds before his face, but the winds will blow them away. The man or the people that trust in God will find a lake for every See-wise.
 * The Lake Gun (1851)
 * I shall only say that I have passed a varied and eventful life, that it has been my fortune to see earth, heavens, ocean, and man in most of their aspects; but never have I beheld any spectacle which so plainly manifested the majesty of the Creator, or so forcibly taught the lesson of humility to man as a total eclipse of the sun.
 * The Eclipse (1869), conclusion

The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1823)

 * There is an uneasy desire among a vast many well-disposed persons to get the fruits of the Christian Faith, without troubling themselves about the Faith itself. This is done under the sanction of Peace Societies, Temperance and Moral Reform Societies, in which the end is too often mistaken for the means. When the Almighty sent His Son on earth, it was to point out the way in which all this was to be brought about, by means of the Church; but men have so frittered away that body of divine organization, through their divisions and subdivisions, all arising from human conceit, that it is no longer regarded as the agency it was so obviously intended to be, and various contrivances are to be employed as substitutes for that which proceeded directly from the Son of God!
 * The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1824); Preface

 * It is probable a true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of that reason of which we so much boast.
 * The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1829); Preface

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

 * Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.
 * Introduction

 * It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
 * Ch. 1

 * In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.
 * Ch. 1

 * Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
 * Ch. 2, Cora

 * I am on the hill-top, and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps, there will no longer be any of the blood of the Sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans.
 * Ch. 3, Chingachgook

 * “'Tis a strange calling!” muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, “to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and downs that may happen to come out of other men's throats.
 * Ch. 6

 * It should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed. Thus, in a new country, the woods and other objects, which in an old country would be maintained at great cost, are got rid of, simply with a view of “improving” as it is called.
 * Ch. 6

 * I have listened to all the sounds of the woods for thirty years, as a man will listen whose life and death depend on the quickness of his ears.
 * Ch. 7, Hawkeye

 * It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience.
 * Ch. 8

 * When the white man dies, he thinks he is at peace; but the red-men know how to torture even the ghosts of their enemies.
 * Ch. 10, Magua

 * Is it justice to make evil and then punish for it?
 * Ch. 11, Magua

 * History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
 * Ch. 18

 * Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
 * Ch. 21, Hawkeye

 * Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
 * Ch. 25, Hawkeye

 * Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in an attitude of friendship these two sturdy and intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.
 * Ch. 33

 * It is enough. Go, children of the Lenape, the anger of the Manitou is not done. Why should Tamenund stay? The pale faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red men has not yet come again. My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the night has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans.
 * Ch. 33, Tamenund

The Wing-and-Wing (1842)

 * There is something so gratifying to human vanity in fancying ourselves superior to most around us, that we believe few young men attain their majority without imbibing more or less of the taint of unbelief, and passing through the mists of a vapid moral atmosphere, before they come to the clear, manly, and yet humble perceptions that teach most of us, in the end, our own insignificance, the great benevolence as well as wisdom of the scheme of redemption, and the philosophy of the Christian religion, as well as its divinity. Perhaps the greatest stumbling-block of the young is a disposition not to yield to their belief unless it conforms to their own crude notions of propriety and reason. If the powers of man were equal to analyzing the nature of the Deity, to comprehending His being, and power, and motives, there would be some little show of sense in thus setting up the pretence of satisfying our judgments in all things, before we yield our credence to a religious system. But the first step we take brings with it the instructive lesson of our incapacity, and teaches the wholesome lesson of humility. From arrogantly claiming a right to worship a deity we comprehend, we soon come to feel that the impenetrable veil that is cast around the Godhead is an indispensable condition of our faith, reverence, and submission.
 * Preface

Oak Openings or The bee-hunter (1848)

 * For ourselves, we firmly believe that the finger of Providence is pointing the way to all races, and colors, and nations, along the path that is to lead the east and the west alike to the great goal of human wants. Demons infest that path, and numerous and unhappy are the wanderings of millions who stray from its course; sometimes in reluctance to proceed; sometimes in an indiscreet haste to move faster than their fellows, and always in a forgetfulness of the great rules of conduct that have been handed down from above. Nevertheless, the main course is onward; and the day, in the sense of time, is not distant, when the whole earth is to be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, "as the waters cover the sea. One of the great stumbling-blocks with a large class of well-meaning, but narrow-judging moralists, are the seeming wrongs that are permitted by Providence, in its control of human events. Such persons take a one-sided view of things, and reduce all principles to the level of their own understandings. If we could comprehend the relations which the Deity bears to us, as well as we can comprehend the relations we bear to him, there might be a little seeming reason in these doubts; but when one of the parties in this mighty scheme of action is a profound mystery to the other, it is worse than idle, it is profane, to attempt to explain those things which our minds are not yet sufficiently cleared from the dross of earth to understand.
 * Preface

 * Parson Amen's speculations on this interesting subject, although this may happen to be the first occasion on which he has ever heard the practice of taking scalps justified by Scripture. Viewed in a proper spirit, they ought merely to convey a lesson of humility, by rendering apparent the wisdom, nay the necessity, of men's keeping them-selves within the limits of the sphere of knowledge they were designed to fill, and convey, when rightly considered, as much of a lesson to the Puseyite, with abstractions that are quite as unintelligible to himself as they are to others; to the high-wrought and dogmatical Calvinist, who in the midst of his fiery zeal, forgets that love is the very essence of the relation between God and man; to the Quaker, who seems to think the cut of a coat essential to salvation; to the descendant of the Puritan, who whether he be Socinian, Calvinist, Universalist, or any other "1st," appears to believe that the "rock" on which Christ declared he would found his church was the "Rock of Plymouth"; and to the unbeliever, who, in deriding all creeds, does not know where to turn to find one to substitute in their stead. Humility, in matters of this sort, is the great lesson that all should teach and learn; for it opens the way to charity, and eventually to faith, and through both of these to hope; finally, through all of these, to heaven.
 * Ch. XI

 * Let a man get once fairly possessed of any peculiar notion, whether it be on religion, political economy, morals, politics, arts, or anything else, and he sees little beside his beloved principle, which he is at all times ready to advance, defend, demonstrate, or expatiate on. Nothing can be simpler than the two great dogmas of Christianity, which are so plain that all can both comprehend them and feel their truth. They teach us to love God, the surest way to obey him, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. Any one can understand this; all can see how just it is, and how much of moral sublimity it contains. It is Godlike, and brings us near the very essence of the Divinity, which is love, mercy, and truth. Yet how few are content to accept the teachings of the Saviour in this respect, without embarrassing them with theories that have so much of their origin in human fancies.
 * Ch. XVI

 * The powers, and faculties, and principles that are necessary fully to comprehend all that we see and all that surrounds us, exist and have been bestowed on man by his beneficent Creator. Still, it is only by slow degrees that he is to become their master, acquiring knowledge, step by step, as he has need of its services, and learns how to use it. Such seems to be the design of Providence, which is gradually opening to our inquiries the arcana of nature, in order that we may convert their possession into such uses as will advance its own wise intentions. Happy are they who feel this truth in their character of individuals! Thrice happy the nations which can be made to understand, that the surest progress is that which is made on the clearest principles, and with the greatest caution! The notion of setting up anything new in morals, is as fallacious in theory as it will be found to be dangerous in practice.
 * Ch. XXI

The Sea Lions or The Lost Sealers (1849)

 * I do not pretend to understand why such a sacrifice should be necessary, but I believe it, feel it; and believing and feeling it, I cannot but adore and worship the Son, who quitted heaven to come on earth, and suffered, that we might possess eternal life. It is all mystery to me, as is the creation itself, our existence, God himself, and all else that my mind is too limited to comprehend. But, Roswell, if I believe a part of the teachings of the Christian church, I must believe all. The apostles, who were called by Christ in person, who lived in his very presence, who knew nothing except as the Holy Spirit prompted, worshiped him as the Son of God, as one 'who thought it not robbery to be equal with God;' and shall I, ignorant and uninspired, pretend to set up my feeble means of reasoning, in opposition to their written instructions!"… I do not deny that we are to exercise our reason, but it is within the bounds set for its exercise. We may examine the evidence of Christianity, and determine for ourselves how far it is supported by reasonable and sufficient proofs; beyond this we cannot be expected to go, else might we be required to comprehend the mystery of our own existence, which just as much exceeds our understanding as any other. We are told that man was created in the image of his Creator, which means that there is an immortal and spiritual part of him that is entirely different from the material creature One perishes, temporarily at least--a limb can be severed from the body and perish, even while the body survives; but it is not so with that which has been created in the image of the deity. That is imperishable, immortal, spiritual, though doomed to dwell awhile in a tenement of clay. Now, why is it more difficult to believe that pure divinity may have entered into the person of one man, than to believe, nay to feel, that the image of God has entered into the persons of so many myriads of men?
 * Ch. XII

 * The idea of not having a Deity that he could not comprehend had long been one of Roswell Gardiner's favourite rules of faith. He did not understand by this pretending dogma, that he was, in any respect, of capacity equal to comprehend with that of the Divine Being, but simply that he was not to be expected or required to believe in any theory which manifestly conflicted with his knowledge and experience, as both were controlled by the powers of induction he had derived directly from his Creator. In a word, his exception was one of the most obvious of the suggestions of the pride of reason, and just so much in direct opposition to the great law of regeneration, which has its very gist in the converse of this feeling --Faith.

 * As our young master paced the terrace alone, that idea of the necessity of the Creator's being incomprehensible to the created, recurred to him. The hour that succeeded was probably the most important in Roswell Gardiners life. So intense were his feelings, so active the workings of his mind, that he was quite insensible to the intensity of the cold; and his body keeping equal motion with his thoughts, if one may so express it, his frame actually set at defiance a temperature that might otherwise have chilled it, warmly and carefully as it was clad.

 * Roswell Gardiner has never wavered in his faith, from the time when his feelings were awakened by the just view of his own insignificance, as compared to the power of God! He then learned the first, great lesson in religious belief, that of humility; without which no man can be truly penitent, or truly a Christian. He no longer thought of measuring the Deity with his narrow faculties, or of setting up his blind conclusions, in the face of positive revelations. He saw that all must be accepted, or none; and there was too much evidence, too much inherent truth, a morality too divine, to allow a mind like his to reject the gospel altogether. With Mary at his side, he has continued to worship the Trinity, accepting its mysteries in an humble reliance on the words of inspired men.
 * Chapter XXX, conclusion of the novel

Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper (1922)

 * Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper

 * Genesis. What an extraordinary history! It is impossible for us to appreciate conduct, when a power like that of God is directly brought to bear on it. Obedience to him is our first law.
 * Journal kept by Cooper from January to May 1848

 * Hebrews. This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
 * Journal kept by Cooper from January to May 1848

Quotes about James Fenimore Cooper

 * Speaking of their reading the Bible together, [my mother] says it was on his birth-day, about five or six years since that they began to read it together, regularly ; not by chapters but a hundred verses every morning before breakfast, unless the close of a chapter occurred to break or prolong the reading. He admired the Psalms inexpressibly. The Book of Job also. The prophesies of Isaiah, and the Epistles to the Hebrews struck him very forcibly. He admired the Epistle of St. James very much, calling it a beautiful pastoral letter. He told Mother once, "I used to think a great deal of St. James when I was a boy." He was deeply impressed with the book of Revelations. The allusions to Melchisedec always interested him particularly. He said, speaking of the definition of faith by St. Paul : "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," that it was so noble, so comprehensive, so just, so full, that the words themselves seemed to have been sent directly from Heaven. Speaking of the admiration he had always felt for the Liturgy, dear Mother mentioned his most deep sense of the excellence of the Lord's Prayer. He loved particularly the anthem, "God be merciful unto us, etc., etc." "The Liturgy was a blessed service to him," I observed. "Oh," cried dear Mother, "Blessed indeed! He lived on the Collects for the last few months!" They were in the habit of saying together every morning for years "Direct us O Lord, etc., etc." They knelt together, Father's arms about Mother; when he grew feeble she knelt, and he leaned his head on her shoulder. On the morning of his death dear Mother kneeled at the bedside and said the prayers they had been accustomed to use together. He seemed to understand, and follow, though with effort — partially conscious to the very last hour. For many years before separating, for even a short business absence of dear Father's, they always said together the prayer in the Marriage Service. Dear Mother added this prayer to others the last morning of his life. He seemed to understand but could not speak. The morning of his death when I came into the room dear Mother said, "Here is Susie, come to kiss you!" He partly opened his eyes, made an effort to smile, and put up his lips to kiss me — but his voice was gone.
 * Note written by Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper, James' eldest daughter, after the death of his father. See Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper. Yale University Press

 * The French and Indian War would later be seen as the trigger for independence of the settler population, in which the distinctly "American" nation was born. This mythology was expressed in the 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, in which the author-land speculator James Fenimore Cooper-created a usable settler-colonial history. Blockbuster Hollywood adaptations of the book in 1932 and 1992 reinforced the mythology. But the 1940 film, based on the best-selling novel Northwest Passage, which is considered a classic and remains popular due to repeated television showings, goes even further in portraying the bloodthirsty mercenaries, Rogers's Rangers, as heroes for their annihilation of a village of Abenakis.
 * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

 * The Indian-fighting frontiersmen and the "valiant" settlers in their circled covered wagons are the iconic images of that identity. The continued popularity of, and respect for, the genocidal sociopath Andrew Jackson is another indicator. Actual men such as Robert Rogers, Daniel Boone, John Sevier, and David Crockett, as well as fictitious ones created by James Fenimore Cooper and other best-selling writers, call to mind D. H. Lawrence's "myth of the essential white American"-that the "essential American soul" is a killer.
 * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

 * Most of the books published during the five-year period leading up to, during, and after the invasion of Mexico were war-mongering tracts. Euro-American settlers were nearly all literate, and this was the period of the foundational "American literature," with writers James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville all active-each of whom remains read, revered, and studied in the twenty-first century, as national and nationalist writers, not as colonialists.
 * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

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Peter Mere Latham

Peter Mere Latham (July 1, 1789 – July 20, 1875) was an English physician and educator.

Collected Works

 * The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.
 * Book I, p. xxv

 * There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.
 * Book I, p. 51.

 * Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.
 * Book I, p. 60.

 * Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.
 * Book I, p. 138.

 * The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible.
 * Book I, p. 173.

 * We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.
 * Book I, p. 174.

 * Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use, be it great or be it small!
 * Book II, p. 11.

 * Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
 * Book II, p. 389.

 * It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.
 * Book II, p. 398.

 * Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.
 * Book II, p. 408.

 * It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.
 * Book II, p. 415.

 * It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings.
 * Book II, p. 474.

 * It is the great mystery of life itself which is at the bottom of all the mysterious language we are obliged to employ concerning it.
 * Book II, p. 494.

 * People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact.
 * Book II, p. 525.

 * Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
 * Desk Reference of Clinical Pharmacology - Page 1 by Manuchair S. Ebadi - Medical - 2008.

 * Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
 * Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians - Page 179 by Linda Hammer Burns, Sharon N. Covington - Medical - 2000.

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Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine) (October 21, 1790 – February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet, and politician.

Quotes

 * Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
 * "L'Isolement", Méditations Poétiques (1820)

 * O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!
 * The Lake (1820), st. 6

 * I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
 * The Lake (1820), st. 8

 * Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
 * The Lake (1820), st. 9

 * Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.
 * The Valley (1820), st. 9

 * Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
 * Méditations Poétiques (1820), Sermon 2

 * What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
 * Méditations Poétiques (1820), Second series, Sermon 15

 * Les utopies ne sont souvent que des verités prématurées.
 * Utopias are often only premature truths.
 * Histoire des Girondins (1847), p. 322

 * Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
 * Speech at Mâcon (1847)

 * To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
 * Graziella (1849), Pt. IV, ch. 5

 * The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
 * From Count d'Orsay's Letter to John Forster (1850)

 * Si la grandeur du dessein, la petitesse des moyens, l'immensité du résultat sont les trois mesures du génie de l'homme, qui osera comparer humainement un grand homme de l'histoire moderne à Mahomet?
 * If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls. Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Conqueror of Ideas, Restorer of Rational beliefs... The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire — that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
 * Histoire de la Turquie (1854), Livre Premier, p. 277

 * Never has a man set for himself, voluntarily or involuntarily, a more sublime aim, since this aim was super human; to subvert superstitions which had been imposed between man and his Creator, to render God unto man and man unto God; to restore the rational and sacred idea of divinity amidst the chaos of the material and disfigured gods of idolatry, then existing. Never has a man undertaken a work so far beyond human power with so feeble means, for he Muhammad had in the conception as well as in the execution of such a great design, no other instrument than himself and no other aid except a handful of men living in a corner of the desert. Finally, never has a man accomplished such a huge and lasting revolution in the world, because in less than two centuries after its appearance, Islam, reigned over the whole of Arabia, and conquered, in God's name, Persia, Khorasan, Transoxania, Western India, Syria, Egypt, Abyssinia, all the known continent of Northern Africa, numerous islands of the Mediterranean Sea, Spain and part of Gaul. If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls. . . his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire; his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death; all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was twofold, the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with words. Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
 * Alphonse de Lamartine, Histoire de la Turquie (1854), Vol. I, pp. 276-277

Les confidences (1849)

 * Les confidences (Confidential Disclosures), translated by Eugène Plunkett, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857.

 * Silence is the winding-sheet of the past: it is sometimes impious, often dangerous to raise it. But even when it is raised piously and lovingly, the first moment is a cruel one.
 * Book I, Note I, p. 18

 * My God! I have often regretted that I was born! I have often wished to fall back even into nothingness, rather than advance through so many falsehoods, so many sufferings, and so many successive losses, towards that loss of ourselves which we call death! Still, even in those moments of terrible faintheartedness, when despair overmasters reason, and when man forgets that life is a task imposed upon him to finish, I have always said to myself: "There are some things which I would regret not to have tasted — a mother's milk, a father's love, that relationship of heart and soul between brothers, household affections, joys, and even cares!" Our family is evidently our second self, more than self, existing before self, and surviving self with the better part of self. It is the image of the holy and loving unity of beings revealed by the small group of creatures who hold to one another, and made visible by feeling!
 * Book I, Note II, p. 19

 * The very eagle, destined to soar so high and to see so far, begins his life in the fissures of the rocks, and in his early days only sees the arid and sometimes fetid borders of his eyry.
 * Book IV, Note III, p. 50

 * My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity. She believed, and I am of the same belief, that these habits of hard-heartedness towards the gentlest animals, our companions, our auxiliaries, our brethren in toil and even in affection here below; that these immolations, these sanguinary appetites, this sight of palpitating flesh, are calculated to brutalize the instincts of the heart and make them ferocious. She believed, and I am of the same belief, that this nurture, which is seemingly much more succulent and much more energetic, contains in itself active causes of irritation and putridity, which sour the blood and shorten the days of mankind. In support of these ideas of abstinence, she quoted the innumerable gentle and pious tribes of India who deny themselves all that has had life; and the strong and healthy races of the shepherds and even of the laboring classes of our fields.
 * Book IV, Note VIII, p. 60

 * My mother took me to town with her, and made me pass, as if by accident, through the yard of a slaughter-house. I saw some men, their arms naked and besmeared with blood, knocking a bull in the head; others cutting the throats of calves and sheep, and separating their still heaving limbs. Streams of smoking gore ran along the pavement. An intense feeling of pity, mingled with horror, seized upon me. I asked to be led away quickly. The thought of these scenes, the necessary preliminaries of one of those dishes of meat which I had so often seen on the table, made me take a disgust to animal food and inspired me with a horror for butchers.
 * Book IV, Note VIII, p. 61

 * Until the age of twelve, then, I only lived on bread, milk-food, vegetables, and fruit. My health was not less robust on this account, nor my growth less rapid, and it was to this diet, perhaps, that I was indebted for that purity of feature, that exquisite sensibility of feeling, and that serene gentleness of humor and character which I had preserved up to that period.
 * Book IV, Note VIII, p. 61

 * The doctrine of the cynics is the Ideal reversed, the parody of physical and moral beauty, the crime of mind, the degradation of imagination. I could not take pleasure in it. There was too much enthusiasm within me to permit me to crawl through those sinks of the brain. My nature had wings. The dangers to which I was exposed were above, not below.
 * Book VI, Note V, p. 86

About Lamartine

 * The first romantics were seers without even really realizing it: their soul’s education began by accident: abandoned trains still smoking, occasionally taking to the tracks. Lamartine was a seer now and again, but strangling on old forms. Hugo, too pigheaded, certainly saw in his most recent works: Les Misérables is really a poem. I’ve got Les Chatiments with me; Stella gives some sense of Hugo’s vision. Too much Belmontet and Lamennais with their Jehovahs and colonnades, massive crumbling edifices.
 * Arthur Rimbaud : LETTER TO PAUL DEMENY, 1871. Charleville, 15 mai 1871.

title: Alphonse de Lamartine


text:
Rain Man

Rain Man is a 1988 film about a selfish L.A. yuppie who learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed. He absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
 * Directed by Barry Levinson. Written by Barry Morrow.

A journey through understanding and fellowship.

Raymond Babbitt

 * Are you taking any prescription medication?
 * If the syrup is on the table after the pancakes, then it will definitely be too late.
 * Charlie Babbitt made a joke.

Charlie Babbitt

 * What you have to understand is, four days ago he was only my brother in name. And this morning we had pancakes.

Dialogue

 * Charlie: When I was a little kid and I got scared, the Rain Man would come and sing to me.
 * Susanna: Rain what?
 * Charlie: Oh you know, one of those imaginary childhood friends.
 * Susanna: What happened to him?
 * Charlie: Nothing, I just grew up.
 * Susanna: Not so much.

 * Charlie: Hey, who is this guy?
 * Susanna: He just jumped in the car.
 * Charlie: Yeah, well, he can jump out. Come on!
 * Raymond: I'm an excellent driver.
 * Charlie: That's good. Come on! Susanna, why'd you let him get in this car? It's not a toy.
 * Susanna: He says he drives this car.
 * Raymond: Dad lets me drive slow on the driveway every Saturday. Course the seats were originally brown leather. Now they're a pitiful red.
 * Charlie: [surprised] Hey, these seats were brown leather. You know this car?
 * Raymond: I know this car.
 * Charlie: How do you know this car?
 * Raymond: It's a 1949 Buick Roadmaster, Straight 8, Fireball 8, only 8,985 production models. Dad lets me drive slow on the driveway but not on Monday, definitely not on Monday.
 * Charlie: Who's your dad?
 * Raymond: Sanford Babbitt. 10961 Beachcrest Street, Cincinnati Ohio.
 * Charlie: That's my address. Hey, who's your mother?
 * Raymond: Eleanor Babbitt. Died January 5, 1965 after short and sudden illness.
 * Charlie: Who the hell are you?
 * Raymond: Uh oh, fifteen minutes to Judge Wapner.
 * [Raymond proceeds back to Walbrook, ignoring Charlie]
 * Charlie: Wait, I wanna ask you a question! Hey! Dr. Bruner, who is he?
 * Dr. Bruner: Raymond is your brother.

 * Charlie: He's not crazy, he's not retarded but he's here.
 * Dr. Bruner: He's an autistic savant. People like him used to be called idiot savants. There's certain deficiencies, certain abilities that impairs him.
 * Charlie: So he's retarded.
 * Dr. Bruner: Autistic. There's certain routines, rituals that he follows.
 * Charlie: Rituals, I like that.
 * Dr. Bruner: The way he eats, sleeps, walks, talks, uses the bathroom. It's all he has to protect himself. Any break from this routine leaves him terrified.

 * Susanna: You use me, you use Raymond, you use everybody.
 * Charlie: Using Raymond? Hey, Raymond, am I using you? Am I using you, Raymond?
 * Raymond: [absentmindedly] Yeah.
 * Charlie: Shut up! He's answering a question from a half hour ago!

 * Raymond: Gotta get my boxer shorts at K-Mart.
 * Charlie: [pulls over and gets out of the car] I'm going out of my mind! Outta my mind! WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHERE YOU BUY UNDERWEAR?! WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?! UNDERWEAR IS UNDERWEAR! IT IS UNDERWEAR WHEREVER YOU BUY IT! IN CINCINNATI OR WHEREVER!!
 * Raymond: K-Mart.
 * Charlie: You know what I think, Ray? I think this autism is a bunch of shit! Because you can't tell me that you're not in there somewhere!
 * Raymond: Boxer shorts. K-Mart.

 * Charlie: I'll see you soon.
 * Raymond: Yeah. One for bad, two for good.
 * Charlie: Bet two for good.
 * Raymond: Yeah. Course three minutes to Wapner.
 * Charlie: You'll make it.
 * Raymond: Yeah.

 * Dr. Bruner: Wouldn't you be more comfortable in your K-mart clothes, Raymond?
 * Charlie: Tell him, Raymond.
 * Raymond: K-mart sucks.
 * Dr. Bruner: Oh, I see.

 * Doctor: Raymond, do you know what autistic is?
 * Raymond: Yeah.
 * Doctor: You know that word?
 * Raymond: Yeah.
 * Doctor: Are you autistic?
 * Raymond: I don't think so. No. Definitely not.

 * Charlie: Hey Raymond, remember today when the doctor was asking you those questions? How'd you know the answers?
 * Raymond: [while brushing his teeth at the same time, Charlie can't make out what he said] I see it.
 * Charlie: What? Stop that for a second.
 * Raymond: I see it.
 * Charlie: Raymond! [Grabs tooth brush from him] When I say stop it, why don't you stop it? Why do you always have to act like an idiot?
 * [Raymond begins to laugh]
 * Charlie: You think that's funny?
 * Raymond: Yeah funny Rain Man, funny teeth.
 * Charlie: What'd you say? Funny teeth? What?
 * Raymond: I didn't say funny teeth, funny Rain Man.
 * Charlie: You? You're the Rain Man?

 * Charlie: Who took this picture?
 * Raymond: D-A-D.
 * Charlie: And you lived with us?
 * Raymond: Yeah, 10962 Beachcrest Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
 * Charlie: When did you leave?
 * Raymond: January 12, 1965. Very snowy that day. 7.2 inches of snow that day.
 * Charlie: Just after Mom died.
 * Raymond: Yeah Mom died January 5, 1965.
 * Charlie: You remember that day. Was I there? Where was I?
 * Raymond: You were in the window. You waved to me, "Bye bye Rain Man", "Bye bye."

 * Dr. Bruner: Raymond's unable to make decisions.
 * Charlie: You're wrong.
 * Dr. Bruner: He can't decide for himself.
 * Charlie: He's capable of a lot more than you know!

 * Dr. Bruner: Tomorrow morning, you'll meet Dr. Marston, who's in charge of Raymond's psychiatric evaluation.
 * Charlie: Yeah, I know.
 * Dr. Bruner: I gave him boxes of files on Raymond, boxes.
 * Charlie: Well, good luck.
 * Dr. Bruner: Look, this isn't a close call, son, it's a formality. Your brother's a very disabled individual.
 * Charlie: You trying to tell me that Marston's gonna rule against me? Is that why you called me up here?
 * Dr. Bruner: No, I'm telling you it's always been a lost cause, Charlie.
 * Charlie: Then what is this about? Why did you call me?
 * Dr. Bruner: Let me tell you something: your father put me in charge of all the money, all right?
 * Charlie: Yeah.
 * Dr. Bruner: And it doesn't matter whether or not you win custody of Raymond.
 * Charlie: Mm-hm.
 * Dr. Bruner: I won't have to pay you a dime. It's at my discretion, not the court's.
 * Charlie: What, so you can't lose?
 * Dr. Bruner: I can lose; I can lose Raymond. I happen to care about your brother's life and the treatment he receives. I made a commitment to your father some 20 years ago, and I'm not willing to gamble with that.
 * Charlie: [Dr. Bruner hands Charlie a check] What is this?
 * Dr. Bruner: It's a very big check.
 * Charlie: $250,000.
 * Dr. Bruner: And no strings attached. You just walk away., Charlie. You know, this isn't about you and me, it's not about winning or losing.
 * Charlie: When I asked you a week ago, 'Why didn't anyone tell me I had a brother?', you didn't have an answer, I don't know. It's funny, I just realized I'm not pissed off anymore that my father cut me out of his will. You were his friend, you probably knew that he tried to contact me a few times over the years. I never called him back, I was a prick; and if he was my son, didn't return my calls, I'd have written him out, fuck him. But it's not about the money any more. It's about... you know, I... just don't understand why didn't he tell me I had a brother? Why didn't you tell me I had a brother? Why didn't anyone ever tell me I had a brother? I mean... because it'd have been nice to know him for more than just these past six days.
 * [Charlie hands the check back to Dr. Bruner and walks away]

 * Charlie: Listen... Ray, I don't know if I'm gonna have a chance to talk to you again because, you see, these... Dr. Bruner really likes you a lot and he's probably gonna take you back. You know?
 * Raymond: Yeah.
 * Charlie: What I said about being on the road with you I meant. Connecting. I like having you for my brother.
 * Raymond: I'm an excellent driver.
 * Charlie: [smiling] Yes, you are. I like having you for my big brother.
 * Raymond: Charlie. Charlie. Main man.

Cast

 * Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt
 * Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt
 * Valeria Golino - Susanna
 * Jerry Molen - Dr. Gerald Bruner
 * Ralph Seymour - Lenny
 * Michael D. Roberts - Vern
 * Bonnie Hunt - Sally Dibbs
 * Beth Grant - Mother at Farm House
 * Lucinda Jenney - Iris
 * Barry Levinson - Doctor

title: Rain Man


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User:Alxndr

 * Wikipedia user page
 * Oberwiki, a wiki for Oberlin College
 * 会说一点儿中文

title: User:Alxndr


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Talk:V for Vendetta (film)

Latin?
Is there a reason the whole "Who are you?" bit is translated into Latin?

What was written on the mirror in the movie. I know it was in French...

 * No, not French. It was Latin and it says "Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici". Translated as "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe." 70.228.88.95 18:42, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

"Remember remember, the fifth of november, the gunpowder treason and plot, I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot"

"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

 * alternate paraphrase :

Behold! In front of you is a condemned, bound to follow the roles of a victim and a villain. A mere costume is my face presently! It represents the once existing People's voice, now disappeared and buried for eternity. However, this voice is now resurrected and is ready to vanquish the so called superiors operating our very society. The only choice is vengeance, and to accomplish my very feat, I shall recruit only those who are righteous and determined, for we surely will be able to uphold our suppressors. Nonetheless, I believe I have uttered too much. So, let me simply finish by saying that it's my very good honor to meet you, and you may call me V.

~ * Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle are celebrated with a nice holiday. I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, think, and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillence coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now High Chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.~

~ Fear became the ultimate tool of this government.~

~ No. What you have are bullets and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer standing, because if I am, you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.~

~ Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

~ Evey, please. . .there is a face beneath this mask, but it's not me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath them.~

~ * Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician [Sutler]. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He's completely single-minded and has no regard for the political process. The more power he attains, the more obvious his zealotry and the more aggressive his supporters become. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of national security. At first, it's believed to be a search for biological weapons and is pursued without regard to its cost. However, the true goal of this project is power; complete and total hegemonic domination. The project, however, ends violently. But the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of the victims. Imagine a virus, the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if the ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider [Creedy]. Here is a man seemingly without a conscience for whom the ends always justify the means, and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country, but rather the country itself. Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Fueled by the media, fear and panic spread quickly, fracturing and dividing the country until at last the true goal comes into view. Before the St. Mary's crisis, no one would have predicted the results of the election that year, no one. But not long after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some believed it was the work of God Himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members [Prothero & others] that made them all obscenely rich. A year later, several extremists are tried, found guilty and executed while a memorial is built to canonize their victims. But the end result, the true genius of the plan, was the fear. Fear became the ultimate tool of this government, and through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history.~

~ It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence.~

~ Because he was right. This country needs more than a building right now. It needs hope.~

~ Everyone remembers what happened that night and what it meant for this country. But I will always remember the man and what he meant to me.~

The Adam Sutler speech is :

 * Mr. Heyer** Chancellor I know no one seems to want to discuss this, but If we're to be prepared for any eventuality then It can't be ignored any longer.

The red report In front of you has been vetted by several demolitions specialists, now it concludes that the most logical delivery system for the terrorist to use would be an air-born attack. A separate report has been filed suggesting a train dispite the fact that the tunnels surrounding Parliament have been sealed shut.

[Sutler]If I am sure of anything inspector Finch It Is that this government will not survive If It Is to be subject to your FEELINGS.
 * Adam Sutler** Who filed that report? [Heyer] Chief inspector Finch. [Sutler] Do you have any evidence to support this conclusion Mr. Finch? **Finch** No sir, just a feeling.

[Still Sutler] Mr. Dascombe, what we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. this message must be read In every Newspaper, heard on every Radio, seen on every Television. This message must resound throughout the entire interlink!!! I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion.

I want every man woman and child to understand how close we are to chaos! I want EVERYONE to remember WHY THEY NEED US!

\\\\So there you go, hope you found it useful cuz it took like 2 hours. hehe./////

''Character name for Mr. Heyer added. ~Ender (3/4/07)''

Also, does anyone know the quotation about V's identity being more than just his skin? It went something like, "I am no more the skin than the muscles below it..."? If you could complete the exact quotation that would be great.

I think it goes something along the lines of: "There is a face beneath this mask, but I am no more that face than the muscles below it, nor the bones below that."

You almost got it right. He says "There is a face beneath this mask, but It's not me, I'm no more that face then the muscles beneath It, or the bones beneath them." but i have a DVD compatible laptop so i just copied it while listening to it.

 * He says, "Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an Idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof"** -Added by different User - corrected by yet another User

 * "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

 * "It means that I like God do not play with Dice and do not believe in coincidence."

Reviews
Is Wikiquote really the right forum for movie reviews? If movie review quotations are interesting in and of themselves, they could go on a page about the reviewer, but it seems like a page on a movie should just include interesting quotes from the movie -- not stuff about the movie, like reviews. Description of the movie would belong on Wikipedia. Catamorphism 04:31, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Quotes from reviews are encouraged on pages for movies, as both appropriate and useful indications of various views about their worth, as are reviews of books, and published or broadcast quotes about people by other people on their particular pages. ~ Kalki 06:59, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

V's "V" Speech
'Voilà!

in View, a humble Vaudevillian Veteran, cast Vicariously as both Victim and Villain by the Vicissitudes of Fate. This Visage, no mere Veneer of Vanity, is a Vestige of the Vox populi, now Vacant, Vanished. However, this Valorous Visitation of a bygone Vexation stands Vivified, and has Vowed to Vanquish these Venal and Virulent Vermin Vanguarding Vice and Vouchsafing the Violently Vicious and Voracious Violation of Volition!

The only Verdict is Vengeance-- a Vendetta, held as a Votive-- not in Vain, for the Value and Veracity of such shall one day Vindicate the Vigilant and the Virtuous. [ Chuckling]

Verily, this Vichyssoise of Verbiage Veers most Verbose, so let me simply add that it's my Very good honor to meet you, and you may call me V.''

 * {_ Veni, Vidi, Vici, Crème de la Crème Version _}*  ~ T-Mac 2 The Rack 17:37, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikiquote:

''Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.''

IMDb:

''Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.''

V is English, so his speech would use english spelling

 * I (a different user) have watched/listened to the movie while reading these speeches on this site and the speech from Wikiquote is correct.

MinervaMoon 05:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

>>I just pulled up V's speech on youtube and the wikiquote version is the one he speaks in the movie. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OB6EsUP4tU)

'Ryan Chapman's Translation:'

''Look! In view, a low-status veteran performer, cast in substitute as both victim and villain, by an unwelcome change of circumstance. This face, not merely covered in pride, is a remnant of the population's voice, which is now gone, vanished. However; this brave, supernatural being, once quietly worried and annoyed, now stands enlivened and has promised to thoroughly defeat these corrupt, harmful, vermin group of immoral and wicked people who give and grant to the violently cruel and food devouring violators of (the people's) will.''

''The only outcome is a blood-for-blood retribution, in fulfillment of a vow; not without results. To uphold (the people's) values and the accuracy of them, shall one day clear the watchful and the righteous of the blame upon them. In truth, this thick soup of lengthy and technical speech suddenly changes direction and now appears to have had used more words than are necessary.''

So let me simply add that it is my very good honour to meet you and you may simply call me V.

'Personally I have always like this one.'

 * Behold! In view a humble vaudevillian theatre veteran, chosen on behalf of others as both a victim and a villian by a change of fate. This mask, no mere layer of vanity, it’s evidence of a voice of the people, which was gone and missing; the mask is now a necessary voice of truth that respects what they once fought against. However, this voice is back standing strong and promises to get rid of corrupt evil and deal with the greedy decisions that have violated us. The only way is retribution, a fight, symbolizing a wish, not lacking substance, for the value and truth that will one day justify the alert and moral people. In fact, this lengthy speech is just a strong introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

 * UKPhoenix79 06:17, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Had a go at translating this speech.

 * Here you see me. A humble old stage performer, shown as both a victim and a villain, to which is differed by the circumstance in which you see me. This appearance, is no ornament (mask) of conceit or vanity, is a shadow of the people's voices, now empty, gone; this appearance will deliver the necessary truth that will respect what they once fought against. However, this voice from a past, stands anew and has vowed to destroy these corrupt and infectious vermin who guards the evil and condones the violent and the violation of choice. The only verdict is vengeance; a blood feud, a fight, that is held as a vow not merely in appearance, but a fight for the value and truthfulness that one day will show the right and just. Yes, this rich overabundance of words turns most a wordy face-to-face an introduction, so let me simply say that it is an honor to meet you and you may call me V.

 * 01:12, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Here is another translation:

Look! Standing before you, a humble, experienced stage performer, shown in abscence as both a victim and a villain by the circumstance in which you see me. This appearance, no simple ornament of vanity, is a shadow of the people's voices, now empty, gone, as the once vital voice of truth will now respect what they once fought against. However, this proud visit of a voice from the past stands renewed, and has vowed to destroy these corrupt and infectious vermin who guard the evil and condone the violent and the violation of choice. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a vow, not without purpose, because the value and truthfulness of it shall one day vindicate the right and just. Yes, this overabundance of words turns most wordy face-to-face an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

~My Attempt at Translating,or rather Summarisingthe V Speech.

 * ~Look at me! A lowly, experienced stage performer, cast as both a victim and a villain by circumstances beyond his control (Which of the two is more determined by the light in which you see me.)

This strange face is no ornament, nor a declaration of conceit or vanity; It is a shadow, a mere whisper of the people's voices, now lost and silent. The people who now worship what they once fought so hard against.

However, this voice from the past stands anew and has promised to destroy these corrupt, greedy, spineless men who guard the evil, condone the violent, and repeatedly stifle the right to personal choice.

The only right decision is a vow of vengeance that is held not merely in appearance, but as a true war that if pursued to the end one day will free those who stand firm and stay true to virtuous actions even in the event that all is lost.

Well… I’ve gone on far more than was necessary so let me simply say that it is an honor to meet you and you may call me V.~

About V's speech, the thing that make it amazing is the use of the letter "V" in most words. Of course it could sound better if you use other phrases, but then it dosn't be the same

I realise just now the original Wikiquote version, which is the correct one has been replaced by the IMDb version. I listened to the speech many times and I can guarantee the "vis-à-vis" isn't in the movie. I am going to revert it back to the original version and please be reminded in the future the IMDb one is incorrect --Cheungie 04:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm french and i can say that this speech is actually the best alliteration in V that anyone can read or listen in french or in english and after several listenings (more than 13, i've stopped to coount after this figure, the wikiquote speech is the good one). Mickaëlthefrog

Yea I remember quite well that the wikiquote is correct... he never uses the word verisimilitude (as much as i love that word) but instead V uses the word vicissitude.... IMDb is wrong... and wikipedia is the jumpoff lolz

 * 07/26/2007 begin user satyen119's comments::

I noticed when the movie was first released in theaters that there were two versions of the speech floating around. I can attest that the first time I saw the movie in a theater, they showed the long (IMDB) version. Very eloquent and impressive. I went online, found some bootlegged video clips, and memorized the speech. A month later when I saw it again in the theater, the speech had been shortened as you see above (Wikiquote). No verisimilitude, no vis-a-vis, etc. The original version was much more poetic than the final version that made it to DVD -- the meter was more fluent, there were exactly 55 V-words in 5 sentences, etc. My guess is that the Wachowski brothers (or someone) realized a little too late that they had gotten a bit carried away with the alliteration and numerology in the speech, at the expense of proper diction and grammar. Specifically, the usage of vis-a-vis in the original speech is improper. If you are going to use vis-a-vis in a sentence, it needs to be an adverb or a noun (less common). They are using it as a kind of prepositional phrase to mean "in the place of" or "compared to". This is not the correct usage. My guess is that the brothers got wise to this (and perhaps other errors) and re-cut the speech, then re-released the new version. But I can definitely say that the first time I saw the movie in a U.S. theater, they had the longer, original (and grammatically incorrect) speech.

Here is my own paraphrased version: "Here I am, a character cast by destiny as both good and evil in this story. What you see before you -- this mask and costume -- is not the product of my vanity. It is a symbol and echo of the people's voice -- a voice which can no longer be heard, due to the inversion of power and authority in our society -- those with "authority" now champion the very causes and movements which they are supposed to prevent.  But this ghost from our shared past now stands before you, positively reanimated, and I vow to rectify these evil encroachments on our freedom.  There is only one solution in my eyes -- a pure and unforgiving crusade of retribution against these men.  Only that will bring true justice to the victims.  But I digress. Admittedly, this silly vocabulary soup I've doused you in has veered off course from my original intention, which was to simply introduce myself to you.  It is an honor to meet you ; my name is V."
 * end user satyen119's comments::

OKAY this is what it means people....
 * Hello, in front of you stands a man that was tortured and tested upon. Apparently fate thought I was bad guy or something. I basically represent the population of the people that no longer speak. Therefore i speak for them.

As an English guy I don't understand why the speech needs translating, he is after all speaking English.

Of course the individual who states translations are unnecessay is, strictly speaking, correct. However, the attempts to re-phrase the monologue reflect the common, although not universal, difficulty in grasping the meaning of a speech that uses a number of fairly unfamiliar words, occasionally employed to convey meanings a small measure from their traditional contexts, and sometimes stacked together and delivered, although with great precision and enunciation, very rapidly. Moreover, much of the meaning contained in the speech simply cannot be understood without viewing most or all of the film, yet the speech is delivered very near the beginning. The speech, therefore, cannot be fully understood unless reviewed in retrospect, either by again watching the movie or by a venue like this. Therefore, these "translations" are perfectly justified, and here is my re-phrasing attempt:

"Introducing...an ordinary man shaped by suffering and random circumstances into an extra-ordinary, necessarily brutal character on a national stage. My mask is a message, not a mystery, intended to remind everyone that there was a heroic time when it was the right of the people to control the government, not the other way around. And that time is coming again; I am the voice of the people reborn in the form of this historical anti-hero, and I promise to lead the fight to stop the cirminals and fascists who have ruthlessly stripped you of every traditional freedom. I can make this promise with perfect sincerity because the people who oppress you are the same who tortured and mutilated me, and their destruction is the key to us both achieving both our greatest goals - my revenge and the restoration of your rightful freedom. And that is, at length, who I am."SFKeepay (talk) 07:24, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia says "A typical vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill."

I would suggest a more apt translation for "vaudevillian veteran" in this context would be "survivor of multiple, seemingly unrelated battles, all towards a common purpose". This is also mirrored in the deep feeling DCI Finch gets after he visits Larkhill. V has spent 20 years planning the events of the film, killing all but 3 Larkhill staff, making explosives, clearing tunnels and laying track. He's not been on a street corner performing for pocket change. ABlackRhino (talk) 02:23, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

 * Your suggestion is clearly superior. All these years on, I would, in fact, heavily revise my interpretation in its entirety, with your edit being the first. That is, if I find the time.
 * Thank you. 99.100.178.199 03:50, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Doctor Faustus?
I am not questioning the lack of "Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici" from Goethe's Faust, I could not find the phrase in that work either. I am wondering where this statement is in Christopher Marlowe's The Tragicall History of D. Faustus? (Assuming it is there as claimed,) I have not been able to locate the quote thus far, and would appreciate confirmation or a scene/line citation if someone should stumble across it.
 * Here is a link to Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. I've done a word search on the text and couldn't find the Latin phrase or its English translation.  - InvisibleSun 13:47, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Translation: By the power of truth I while living have conqured the universe.....

That is because in Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Dr Faustus, it is spelled differently. I believe it is spelled "Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici".

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 * Regardless, it's not in there. I would trust Wikipedia, especially since I don't recall reading it in the play.  Is Faustus himself supposed to have said it?  66.251.24.218 00:01, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Its not in The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Faustus is written by Christopher Marlowe. The quote V mentioned in the book was from Goethes Faust which are 2 seperate works. Please refer to that text to find it.

The Glass Menagerie
Is it possible that Evey's father may have been paraphrasing Tennessee Williams?

"yes, i have tricks in my pocket, i have things up my sleeve. but i am the opposite of a stage magician. he gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. i give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." - tom, the glass menagerie, tennessee williams

"my father once told me that artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use it to hide the truth." - evey, v for vendetta

thanks for any input. tiejaz.

 * I don't think that's a paraphrase. The quotations share only a few words, and they don't describe the same logical relationship.  Of course, it's a matter of opinion.  66.251.24.218 00:01, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

James Madison?
Currently (November 11, 2007), the article reads,

 * People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. (paraphrase of James Madison)

I don't believe Madison said anything of the like. The closest thing I could find was something misattributed to Thomas Jefferson:

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

So there's really no hard source beyond Alan Moore's "People should not fear their governments; governments should fear their people." 66.251.24.218 00:01, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Pictures
Are those pictures necessary? They don't really add anything to the page and don't seem to exist for any reason. Half of them are arbitrary pop culture references and the other half is just repeating what's already in the quotes. Soooo... 71.252.138.143 08:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

 * Are they violating a rule? If not, I rather like them. I think every quote page should stylized this way. 69.127.171.56 05:27, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Why is this considered a commenting field?

Genre
"2006 epic comedy-drama adventure film" Erm, are you sure about the "comedy" part? 77.234.195.118 12:36, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

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Patton

Patton can refer to:

 * George S. Patton, an American general
 * Patton (film), a 1970 film about the general

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A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)

A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 film about the life of Sir Thomas More, and his refusal to bend to the will of King Henry VIII.

 * Directed by Fred Zinnemann. The screenplay was written by Robert Bolt, adapted from his play.

Sir Thomas More

 * I am commanded by the king to be brief, and since I am the king's obedient subject, brief I will be. I die His Majesty's good servant, but God's first.

 * [About his decision to not give away his daughter Meg to William Roper] See here Will. Two years ago you were a loyal Churchman. Now you have fallen in with the Lutherans on account of being persuaded by their logic. I can only hope that when your head stops spinning it is affixed as God intended.

 * It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Wales?

 * Well, as a spaniel is to water so is a man to his own self. I will not give in because I oppose it—I do- not my pride, not my spleen, nor any of my appetites, but I do– I!

 * When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their own public duties they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

 * What is an oath then but words we say to God?

 * Since the Court has determined to condemn me, God knoweth how, I will now discharge my mind concerning the indictment and the King's title. The indictment is grounded in an act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the law of God, and his Holy Church, the Supreme Government of which no temporal person may by any law presume to take upon him. This was granted by the mouth of our Saviour, Christ himself, to Saint Peter and the Bishops of Rome whilst He lived and was personally present here on earth. It is, therefore, insufficient in law to charge any Christian to obey it. And more to this, the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta and in the king's own coronation oath. — [Cromwell: Now we plainly see you are malicious!] — Not so. I am the king's true subject, and I pray for him and all the realm. I do none harm. I say none harm. I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, then in good faith, I long not to live. Nevertheless, it is not for the Supremacy that you have sought my blood, but because I would not bend to the marriage!!

Cromwell

 * I know a man who wants to change his woman.

 * If the King destroys a man, that's proof to the King that it must have been a bad man.

King Henry VIII

 * I have no wife! Catherine is not my Queen! No priest can make her so!

Narrator

 * [last lines of film] Thomas More's head stood on Traitor's Gate for a month until his daughter Meg claimed it in order to give her father a proper funeral. Thomas Cromwell was beheaded five years after More was. Archbishop Cranmer was burned at the stake. The Duke of Norfolk was slated for execution but the King died of syphilis the night before the order was scheduled to be signed. Richard Rich became Lord Chancellor of England and died in his bed.

Dialogue

 * Sir Thomas More: You threaten like a dockside bully.
 * Thomas Cromwell: How should I threaten?
 * More: Like a minister of state, with justice.
 * Cromwell: Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.
 * More: Then I am not threatened.

 * Alice More: Arrest him!
 * More: Why, what has he done?
 * Margaret More: He's bad!
 * More: There is no law against that.
 * Will Roper: There is! God's law!
 * More: Then God can arrest him.
 * Alice: While you talk, he's gone!
 * More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
 * Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
 * More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
 * Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
 * More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast– man's laws, not God's– and if you cut them down—and you're just the man to do it—do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake.

 * Alice: What's this? You crossed him.
 * More: Somewhat.
 * Alice: Why?
 * More: I couldn't find the other way.
 * Alice: You're too nice altogether, Thomas!
 * More: Woman, mind your house!
 * Alice: I am minding my house!

 * Cromwell: Yet how can this be? Because this silence betokened, nay, this silence was, not silence at all, but most eloquent denial!
 * More: Not so. Not so, Master Secretary. The maxim is "Qui tacet consentire"; the maxim of the law is "Silence gives consent". If, therefore, you wish to construe what my silence betokened, you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.
 * Cromwell: Is that in fact what the world construes from it? Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it?
 * More: The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law.

 * The Duke of Norfolk: Oh confound all this. I'm not a scholar, I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not but– dammit, Thomas, look at these names! Why can't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship!
 * More: And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?

 * More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher, perhaps a great one.
 * Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it?
 * More: You, your pupils, your friends, God. Not a bad public, that.

 * King Henry VIII: Oh, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas! Does a man need a Pope to tell him where he's sinned? It was a sin. God's punished me. I have no son. Son after son she's borne me– all dead at birth or dead within the month. Never saw the hand of God so clear in anything. It's my bounden duty to put away the Queen and all the popes back to Peter shall not come between me and my duty! How is it that you cannot see? Everyone else does.
 * More: Then why does your Grace need my poor support?
 * King: Because you're honest... and what is more to the purpose, you're known to be honest. There are those like Norfolk who follow me because I wear the crown, those like Master Cromwell who follow me because they are jackals with sharp teeth and I'm their tiger, there's a mass that follows me because it follows anything that moves. And then there's you.
 * More: I am sick to think how much I must displease your Grace.
 * King: No, Thomas, I respect your sincerity. But respect—man, that's water in the desert.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 film about a British colonel who, after settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
 * Directed by David Lean. Written by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, based on Pierre Boulle's novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï.

It spans a whole new world of entertainment!

Col. Nicholson

 * I tell you, gentlemen, we have a problem on our hands. Thanks to the Japanese, we now command a rabble. There's no order, no discipline. Our task is to rebuild the battalion. It isn't going to be easy, but fortunately, we have the means at hand, the bridge...We can teach these barbarians a lesson in Western methods and efficiency that will put them to shame. We'll show them what the British soldier is capable of doing...It's going to be a proper bridge. Now here again, I know the men. It's essential that they should take a pride in their job.
 * [To Clipton, after Clipton questions the bridge's construction] One day the war will be over. And I hope that the people that use this bridge in years to come will remember how it was built and who built it. Not a gang of slaves, but soldiers, British soldiers, Clipton, even in captivity.
 * [To Saito, after the bridge is finished] I've been thinking. Tomorrow it will be 28 years to the day that I've been in the service. 28 years in peace and war. I don't suppose I've been at home more than ten months in all that time. Still, it's been a good life. I love India. I wouldn't have had it any other way. But there are times when suddenly you realise you're nearer the end than the beginning. And you wonder, you ask yourself, what the sum total of your life represents, what difference your being there at any time made to anything, or if it made any difference at all really. Particularly in comparison with other men's careers. I don't know whether that kind of thinking is very healthy, but I must admit I've had some thoughts on those lines from time to time. But tonight—tonight!
 * [on feeling down] It is quite understandable. It's a very natural reaction. But one day, in a week, a month, a year, on that day when God willing, we all return to our homes again, you're going to feel very proud of what you have achieved here in the face of great adversity. What you have done, should be, and I think will be, an example to all our countrymen, soldier and civilian alike. You have survived with honour, that and more: here in the wilderness, you have turned defeat into victory. I congratulate you. Well done.
 * What have I done?

Cmdr. Shears

 * Here lies Corporal Herbert Thompson, serial number 01234567, valiant member of the King's own, and Queen's own, or something, who died of beriberi in the year of our Lord 1943. For the greater glory of...[pause] what did he die for?...I don't mock the grave or the man. May he rest in peace. He found little enough of it while he was alive.
 * Mostly Aussies, some Lime, some British, Indians, Burmese, Siamese...They died, of malaria, dysentery, beriberi, gangrene. Other causes of death: famine, overwork, bullet wounds, snake bites, Saito. And then there were some who just got tired of living.
 * [watching the British prisoners walk into the camp] We're going to be a busy pair of gravediggers.

Col. Saito

 * [speaking to Nicholson for the first time] I am Colonel Saito. [to the British prisoners] In the name of His Imperial Majesty, I welcome you. I am the commanding officer of this camp, which is Camp 16 along the great railroad which will soon connect Bangkok with Rangoon. You British prisoners have been chosen to build a bridge across the River Kwai. It will be pleasant work, requiring skill, and officers will work as well as men. The Japanese Army cannot have idle mouths to feed. If you work hard, you will be treated well, but if you do not work hard, you will be punished! A word to you about escape: there is no barbed wire, no stockade, no watch tower. They are not necessary. We are an island in the jungle. Escape is impossible. You would die. Today you rest. Tomorrow you will begin. Let me remind you of General Yamashita's motto: be happy in your work. Dismissed!
 * Attention, English prisoners! Notice I do not say "English soldiers". From the moment you surrendered, you ceased to be soldiers. You will finish the bridge by the twelfth day of May. You will work under the direction of a Japanese engineer, Lieutenant Miura. Time is short. All men will work. Your officers will work beside you. This is only just. For it is they who betray you by surrender. Your shame is their dishonour. It is they who told you: 'Better to live like a coolie than die like a hero.' It is they who brought you here, not I. Therefore, they will join you in useful labour. That is all.
 * [after Nicholson objects to the above speech by trying to point out what the Geneva Convention specifies] You speak to me of code? What code?! The Coward's Code! What do you know of the Soldier's Code? Of Bushido? Nothing! You are unworthy of command!
 * I hate the British! You are defeated, but you have no shame. You are stubborn, but have no pride. You endure, but you have no courage. I hate the British!

Maj. Clipton

 * The fact is, what we're doing could be construed as, forgive me sir, collaboration with the enemy. Perhaps even as treasonable activity...Must we work so well? Must we build them a better bridge than they could have built for themselves?
 * Is this your soldier's code? Murdering unarmed men?

Dialogue

 * Saito: Do you know what will happen to me if the bridge is not built on time?
 * Nicholson: I haven't the foggiest.
 * Saito: I'll have to kill myself. What would you do if you were me?
 * Nicholson: I suppose if I were you, I'd have to kill myself. Cheers! [He drinks the glass of Scotch]

 * Warden: You'll go on without me. That's an order. You're in command now, Shears.
 * Shears: I won't obey that order. You make me sick with your heroics. There's a stench of death about ya. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L pills. They go well together, don't they? And with you, it's just one thing or the other: 'Destroy a bridge or destroy yourself.' This is just a game, this war. You and that Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind. Crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman. How to die by the rules when the only important thing is how to live like a human being. I'm not going to leave you here to die, Warden, because I don't care about your bridge and I don't care about your rules. If we go on, we go on together.

Cast

 * Alec Guinness - Col.Nicloson
 * William Holden - Cmdr. Shears
 * Jack Hawkins - Maj. Warden
 * Sessue Hayakawa - Col. Saito
 * James Donald - Maj. Clipton
 * Geoffrey Horne - Lt. Joyce
 * Ann Sears - Nurse at Siamese hospital
 * Heihachiro Okawa - Capt. Kanematsu
 * Keiichiro Katsumoto - Lt. Miura

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Bubsy

Bubsy was a cartoon bobcat character in a platform game much like the 2-D games of the early nineties similar to Mario and Sonic. Bubsy wears his white trademark Exclamation! shirt but no pants or shoes. The enemies and objectives of Bubsy Bobcat tended to vary from game to game, but Bubsy's comedic "purrsonality" remained basically the same.

Bubsy TV special

 * Hey, what could possibly go wrong?

Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
Released [US:May 12th, 1993]

Stage intros

 * What could possibly go wrong? ~Cheesewheels of Doom

 * Did I mention I don't like heights? ~Forbidden Plummet

 * More like a bridge too short. ~A Bridge Too Fur

 * Hey, whatever blows your hair back! ~Fair Conditioning

 * Hey, I thought I saw Elvis back there! ~Night of the Bobcat

 * Shouldn't that be 'fearless'? Uh-oh... ~Our Furless Leader

 * Well, it worked for Clint. ~The Good, The Bad and the Woolies

 * Go ahead, make my day! ~A Fistful of Yarn

 * My contract does not mention pain! ~Dances with Woolies

 * Hey, I didn't write this stuff!!! ~Beavery Careful

 * Next time, I get a stunt-cat! ~Rock around the Croc

 * Is there a veterinarian in the audience? ~Claws for Alarm

 * That's it! I'm outta here! You can't make me. ~Eye of the Bobcat

 * What, and give up show business? ~No Time to Paws

 * Somebody dial 911!!! ~Lethal Woolie

 * Whoah, are you still playing this thing?! ~A Farewell to Woolies

Bubsy II
Released [US:October 14, 1994]

 * Nothing can stop me now!

 * A penguin saved is a penguin earned.

 * Do you believe in miracles!?

 * I win! I win!

 * I like it!

 * Surely you jest?

 * Pilot's license? What for?

 * Who wrote this stuff?

 * Another swine mess...

 * Remember: I am a trained purr-fessional.

 * Aw, nuts!

 * Is there a doctor in the house!?

 * Is the writers' strike over yet?

 * Go for Baroque!

 * Ooh, I think I Baroque something!

 * That's it!

 * Keep it up, JUST KEEP IT UP!

 * Haha!

 * I'll be back!

 * I am not!

 * Oh, yeah!

 * I think so.

 * Bye-bye...

 * Alright!

 * Aaauugh...

 * The hamhocks strike back!

 * This is definitely contagious.

 * That's a neat trick.

 * Keep this under wrap.

Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales
Released [US:December 9, 1994]

 * Oh sure, let's all torch the Bubster. ~Go Ask Alice!, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer and Alice Doesn't Live Around Here Anymore.; Alice in Wonderland

 * Pilot's license? What for? ~Out on a Limb, Highly Stung and Jungle Furvor; Jack and the Beanstalk

 * Keep it up! Just keep it up! ~Rushing Roulette, Desert Storm and Bubsy and the Beast; Ali Baba & the 40 Thieves

 * Who do I look like? Flipper? ~Run Silent; Run Deep, Bubble Trouble and Reservoir Cats; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

 * Nothing can stop me now! ~Sugar and Spice, Rock Around the Choc and Cat on a Hot Chocolate Roof; Hansel & Gretel

Bubsy 3D
Released [US: November 25th, 1996]
 * I knew I should've taken that left turn at Uranus!
 * Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie!
 * Grab all the atoms you see!
 * It's gonna be a bumpy ride.
 * Just like Mom used to make!
 * Lucky thing I'm a cartoon.
 * I’m higher than two New York skyscrapers!
 * Now, what would a platform game be without platforms hmm. I wonder if there's any extra lives up there?
 * Oh look! An arrow! Aren't these game designers wonderful?
 * Ooh, ooh! This is my FAVORITE part!
 * So, you wanna be a video game star?
 * Tag, you're it!
 * Call the number on my bracelet!
 * This would've KILLED Arnold!
 * (Unintelligible) What buttons did you press?
 * WAKE UP!!!!
 * Woolie Bully!
 * YOWZA!!!

Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back
Released [US: February 16th, 2018]
 * Aaagghhh!!!
 * Air control to the maximum.
 * And... pounce!
 * Bobcat in your face!
 * Bubsy's on a pouncing spree!
 * Can I get a stunt cat?
 * Double pounce!
 * How am I gliding? Hehe.  I have no idea.
 * I like it!
 * I only regret I have but nine lives to give.
 * I win!
 * If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.
 * I'm gonna knit the biggest sweater ever!
 * Is there a veterinarian in the house?
 * Is water still my kryptonite?
 * M.C. Bubster the pounce master in the game yeh!
 * My old enemy: gravity!
 * No idea how I'm doing this but I like it!
 * Not flying?  Oh yes I am!
 * One woolie out, and a lot more to go!
 * Pain is not in my contract!
 * Pilot's license? What for?
 * Pounce Pounce Baby
 * Pouncing really makes me hungry. Is it taco Tuesday yet?
 * Remember when falling used to kill me?
 * Stttrrrike one!
 * Take that, you cotton-gobbling monster!
 * This is amazing! I love this new ability!
 * This makes so much sense! Why didn't I think of this before?
 * Told you I was dead.
 * We need a plan of attack. My plan: attack!
 * What could possibly go wrong?
 * What's wrong with this?  Everything!
 * What? Nuclear Annihilation? The reason the world will end is alien induced yarnball degradation!  Mark my words!
 * When is this going to be over?
 * Woolies! HA!  You're 24 years too late to catch me.
 * World hunger... Nuclear proliferation... Reality TV... None of those horrors compare to... Yarn ball deprivation!
 * YAHOO!! (After defeating first boss)
 * You have some unfinished business with the Woolies? Well get in line pal, I've been waiting to settle this score since 1993.

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I want to thank you for your many contributions to Mystery Science Theater 3000, but also to ask that you carefully read its organization and formatting guidelines. It would really help avoid unnecessary re-editing if frequent contributors like yourself could follow the guidelines more precisely. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have about where all this style specification came from, and why. Thank you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I noticed that you are still adding quotes that are not properly formatted. I ask again that you review the guidelines if you plan to add substantial amounts of quotes. Please also read "Adding memorable quotes", "Manos transcriptions", and "Limit?" on Talk:Mystery Science Theater 3000 for a better understanding why we need to be more discriminating about which quotes we add, and how many per episode. MST3K is one of the (if not the) largest Wikiquote article, and it regularly suffers from potentially copyright-violating excessive quoting of episodes. Please help us avoid this problem by weeding out quotes that aren't especially well conveyed in Wikiquote's format whenever you consider adding quotes, too. Thank you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:57, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Summerstime~enwikiquote

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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Summerstime. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Summerstime~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Reminiscent~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Reminiscent. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Reminiscent~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:55, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Lilai

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