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Brave New World

 Brave New World (1932) is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society.

Chapter 1

 * The World State's motto: COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

 * One egg, one embryo, one adult—normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.
 * An explanation of how the Bokanovsky process works

 * Bokanovsky's process is one of the major instruments of social stability!
 * A reference to the importance that the World State attaches to human cloning.

 * "Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!" The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm. "You really know where you are. For the first time in history." He quoted the planetary motto. "Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved."
 * Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC) for Central London

 * Hot tunnels alternated with cool tunnels. Coolness was wedded to discomfort in the form of hard X-rays. By the time they were decanted the embryos had a horror of cold. They were predestined to emigrate to the tropics, to be miners and acetate silk spinners and steel workers. Later on their minds would be made to endorse the judgment of their bodies. "We condition them to thrive on heat," concluded Mr. Foster. "Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it."

 * On Rack 10 rows of next generation's chemical workers were being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar, chlorine. The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane engineers was just passing the eleven hundred metre mark on Rack 3. A special mechanism kept their containers in constant rotation. "To improve their sense of balance," Mr. Foster explained. "Doing repairs on the outside of a rocket in mid-air is a ticklish job. We slacken off the circulation when they're right way up, so that they're half starved, and double the flow of surrogate when they're upside down. They learn to associate topsy-turvydom with well-being; in fact, they're only truly happy when they're standing on their heads.

 * "You can't really do any useful intellectual conditioning till the foetuses have lost their tails.

Chapter 2

 * Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks - already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

 * At the end of the room a loud speaker projected from the wall. The Director walked up to it and pressed a switch. "… all wear green," said a soft but very distinct voice, beginning in the middle of a sentence, "and Delta Children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta." There was a pause; then the voice began again. "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able …" The Director pushed back the switch. The voice was silent. Only its thin ghost continued to mutter from beneath the eighty pillows. "They'll have that repeated forty or fifty times more before they wake; then again on Thursday, and again on Saturday. A hundred and twenty times three times a week for thirty months. After which they go on to a more advanced lesson."

 * Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too—all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides—made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!
 * The Director

Chapter 3

 * And home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion. What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group! Maniacally, the mother brooded over her children (her children) … brooded over them like a cat over its kittens; but a cat that could talk, a cat that could say, "My baby, my baby," over and over again. "My baby, and his mouth. My little baby sleeps …" "Yes," said Mustapha Mond, nodding his head, "you may well shudder."

 * Every one belongs to every one else.
 * Government slogan encouraging sociability and sexual promiscuity.

 * It's such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man.

 * Mother, father, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder these poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty–they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?

 * "Stability," said the Controller, "stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability."
 * Refers to mass use of soma to create "stable" citizens who conform to societal norms.

 * Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended, There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment.

 * Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well-being. (The embryo is hungry; day in, day out, the blood-surrogate pump unceasingly turns its eight hundred revolutions a minute. The decanted infant howls; at once a nurse appears with a bottle of external secretion. Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation. Shorten that interval, break down all those old unnecessary barriers.

 * "Fortunate boys!" said the Controller. "No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy - to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all." "Ford's in his flivver," murmured the D.H.C. "All's well with the world."

 * "They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle–thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate. That's why he's so stunted."
 * Rumor as explained by Fanny Crowne as to why Alpha-Plus Bernard Marx looked and acted odd.

 * "Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole."
 * Mustapha Mond

 * One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

 * (CH3)C6H2(NO2)3 + Hg(CNO)2 = well, what? An enormous hole in the ground, a pile of masonry, some bits of flesh and mucus, a foot, with the boot still on it, flying through the air and landing, flop, in the middle of the geraniums–the scarlet ones; such a splendid show that summer!

 * I do love having new Clothes.
 * A message promoting consumerism.

 * "Liberalism, of course, was dead of anthrax, but all the same you couldn't do things by force."

 * "Government's an affair of sitting, not hitting. You rule with the brains and the buttocks, never with the fists."

 * Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches.
 * A government slogan encouraging people to throw away old possessions and buy new ones, thus theoretically keeping the global economy strong.

 * All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
 * About soma

 * One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.
 * Slogan encouraging people not to dwell on gloomy thoughts, but to obliterate them with the fictional narcotic, soma.

 * A gramme is better than a damn.
 * Slogan encouraging use of the fictional narcotic soma.

 * "Suffer little children," said the Controller.

Chapter 4

 * "Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced."
 * Helmholtz Watson

Chapter 5

 * Everyone works for every one else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons. Every one works for everyone else. We can't do without any one...

 * Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted! Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted? Skies are blue inside of you The weather's always fine; For There ain't no Bottle in all the world Like that dear little Bottle of mine.
 * Lyrics of a popular computer-generated song referring to how babies are artificially gestated.

 * Feel how the Greater Being comes! Rejoice and, in rejoicings, die! Melt in the music of the drums! For I am you and you are I.
 * Third Solidarity Hymn

 * Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release.

Chapter 6

 * "I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
 * Bernard Marx

 * A gramme in time saves nine.
 * Slogan encouraging use of soma

 * "It makes me feel as though..." he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, "as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body."
 * Bernard Marx to Lenina Crowne, about an oncoming storm

 * How is it that I can't, or rather—because I know quite well why I can't—what would it be like if I could, if I were free—not enslaved by my conditioning.
 * Bernard Marx speaking to Lenina Crowne

 * "Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?" "I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays." He laughed, "Yes, 'Everybody's happy nowadays.' We begin giving the children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way." "I don't know what you mean," she repeated.

 * "Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day."

 * "When the individual feels, the community reels," Lenina pronounced. "Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?" "Bernard!"
 * A slogan discouraging individualism in favor of the community as a whole.

 * "Adults intellectually and during working hours," he went on. "Infants where feeling and desire are concerned." "Our Ford loved infants." Ignoring the interruption. "It suddenly struck me the other day," continued Bernard, "that it might be possible to be an adult all the time."

 * "I only said it was lovely here because … well, because progress is lovely, isn't it?"
 * Lenina

 * Lenina shook her head. "Was and will make me ill," she quoted, "I take a gramme and only am."
 * The past and future make me sick but a gram of soma makes it okay.

Chapter 7

 * Cleanliness is next to fordliness.
 * The second hypnopædic lesson in elementary hygiene.

 * Civilization is sterilization.

Chapter 8

 * "O brave new world," he repeated. "O brave new world that has such people in it. Let's start at once."
 * John quotes Shakespeare's The Tempest when hearing of the technologies and customs of civilization. A more extensive quotation reads "How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!"

Chapter 11

 * Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.
 * Lenina Crowne (singing)

Chapter 12

 * One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Chapter 13

 * "For those milk paps that through the window bars bore at men's eyes...." The singing, thundering, magical words made her seem doubly dangerous, doubly alluring. Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason tunneling through resolution. "The strongest oaths are straw to the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious or else..."
 * As Lenina tries to seduce the Savage.

 * A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away. (Related to "an apple a day keeps the doctor away")
 * A Hypnopædic message on the necessity of doctoral visits.

 * "O thou weed, who are so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet that the sense aches at thee. Was this most goodly book made to write 'whore' upon? Heaven stops the nose at it …"
 * Quoting Othello

Chapter 14

 * And those childish rhymes how magically strange and mysterious!

 * "But, Linda!" The Savage spoke imploringly, "Don't you know me?" He had tried so hard, had done his very best; why wouldn't she allow him to forget? He squeezed her limp hand almost with violence, as though he would force her to come back from this dream of ignoble pleasures, from these base and hateful memories -- back into the present, back into reality; the appalling present, the awful reality -- but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which made them so fearful. "Don't you know me Linda?"
 * Oh, God, God, God..." the Savage kept repeating to himself. In the chaos of grief and remorse that filled his mind it was the one articulate word. "God!" he whispered it aloud. "God..."

Chapter 15

 * High, low, from a multitude of separate throats, only two voices squeaked or growled. Repeated indefinitely, as though by a train of mirrors, two faces, one a hairless and freckled moon haloed in orange, the other a thin, beaked bird-mask, stubbly with two days' beard, turned angrily towards him. Their words and, in his ribs, the sharp nudging of elbows, broke through his unawareness. He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw–knew it, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness. Twins, twins. … Like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of Linda's death. Maggots again, but larger, full grown, they now crawled across his grief and his repentance. He halted and, with bewildered and horrified eyes, stared round him at the khaki mob, in the midst of which, overtopping it by a full head, he stood. "How many goodly creatures are there here!" The singing words mocked him derisively. "How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world …"

 * The Savage stood looking on. "O brave new world, O brave new world …" In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tone. They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision! Fiendishly laughing, they had insisted on the low squalor, the nauseous ugliness of the nightmare. Now, suddenly, they trumpeted a call to arms. "O brave new world!" Miranda was proclaiming the possibility of loveliness, the possibility of transforming even the nightmare into something fine and noble. "O brave new world!" It was a challenge, a command.

Chapter 16

 * "So you don't much like civilization, Mr. Savage,"
 * Mustapha Mond

 * The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma.(p.220)
 * Mustapha Mond, the World Controller of Western Europe

 * "One would think he was going to have his throat cut," said the Controller, as the door closed. "Whereas, if he had the smallest sense, he'd understand that his punishment is really a reward. He's being sent to an island. That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson."

 * The Savage shook his head. "It all seems to me quite horrible." "Of course it does. Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."

 * Happiness is a hard master–particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.
 * The Controller

 * Well, duty's duty. One can't consult one's own preference. I'm interested in truth, I like science. But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent. It has given us the stablest equilibrium in history. China's was hopelessly insecure by comparison; even the primitive matriarchies weren't steadier than we are. Thanks, I repeat, to science. But we can't allow science to undo its own good work. That's why we so carefully limit the scope of its researches–that's why I almost got sent to an island. We don't allow it to deal with any but the most immediate problems of the moment. All other enquiries are most sedulously discouraged.
 * The Controller

 * It's curious," he went on after a little pause, "to read what people in the time of Our Ford used to write about scientific progress. They seemed to have imagined that it could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. Still, in spite of everything, unrestricted scientific research was still permitted. People still went on talking about truth and beauty as though they were the sovereign goods. Right up to the time of the Nine Years' War. That made them change their tune all right. What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? That was when science first began to be controlled–after the Nine Years' War. People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then. Anything for a quiet life. We've gone on controlling ever since. It hasn't been very good for truth, of course. But it's been very good for happiness. One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too."
 * The Controller

Chapter 17

 * "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct..."

 * "We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters. We are God's property. Is it not our happiness thus to view the matter? Is it any happiness or any comfort, to consider that we are our own? It may be thought so by the young and prosperous. These may think it a great thing to have everything, as they suppose, their own way–to depend on no one–to have to think of nothing out of sight, to be without the irksomeness of continual acknowledgment, continual prayer, continual reference of what they do to the will of another. But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man–that it is an unnatural state–will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end."
 * Mustapha Mond, reading from Cardinal Newman's book

 * "My dear young friend," said Mustapha Mond, "civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise. Where there are wars], where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended–there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. But there aren't any wars nowadays. The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving any one too much. There's no such thing as a divided allegiance; you're so conditioned that you can't help doing what you ought to do. And what you ought to do is on the whole so pleasant, so many of the natural impulses are allowed free play, that there really aren't any temptations to resist. And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears–that's what soma is."

 * "Exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death and danger dare, even for an eggshell. Isn't there something in that?" he asked, looking up at Mustapha Mond. "Quite apart from God–though of course God would be a reason for it. Isn't there something in living dangerously?" "There's a great deal in it," the Controller replied. "Men and women must have their adrenals stimulated from time to time." "What?" questioned the Savage, uncomprehending. "It's one of the conditions of perfect health. That's why we've made the V.P.S. treatments compulsory." "V.P.S.?" "Violent Passion Surrogate. Regularly once a month. We flood the whole system with adrenalin. It's the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconveniences." "But I like the inconveniences." "We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably." "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." "In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy." "All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."

Chapter 18

 * "In spite of their sadness- because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another- the three young men were happy"

 * He was digging in his garden–digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Death–and he drove in his spade once, and again, and yet again. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. A convincing thunder rumbled through the words.

 * He planted his foot on his spade and stamped it fiercely into the tough ground. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. Thunder again; words that proclaimed themselves true–truer somehow than truth itself. And yet that same Gloucester had called them ever-gentle gods. Besides, thy best of rest is sleep and that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st thy death which is no more. No more than sleep. Sleep. Perchance to dream. His spade struck against a stone; he stooped to pick it up. For in that sleep of death, what dreams? …

Quotes about Brave New World

 * A dystopia fast becoming more likely than 1984. Also more fun, but creepy. Thought provoking and on college reading lists.
 * David Brin "SF Reads", Davidbrin.com.

 * Brave New World has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness. For sure, Huxley was writing a satirical piece of fiction, not scientific prophecy. Hence to treat his masterpiece as ill-conceived futurology rather than a work of great literature might seem to miss the point. Yet the knee-jerk response of "It's Brave New World!" to any blueprint for chemically-driven happiness has delayed research into paradise-engineering for all sentient life.
 * David Pearce, "Brave New World? A Defense Of Paradise-Engineering" (2000)

 * In the happy days of Queen Victoria men used to write Utopias to suggest the likelihood of even greater happiness in the future. In the unhappy days in which it is our lot to live, Utopias are written in order to make us still more unhappy. Mr. Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, has shown his usual masterly skill in producing this result upon the reader, for he has undertaken to make us sad by the contemplation of a world without sadness.
 * Bertrand Russell, Review of Brave New World in the New Leader 11th March 1932. Reprinted in Donald Watt, Aldous Huxley, the critical heritage. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1975.

 * ... it is not simply that achievement causes happiness, but happiness may also cause achievement. If this is the case then we have good reason to reject Huxley’s dilemma. If we develop an appropriate technological means to increase average positive affect then we should boost average achievement. In a slogan: to be successful, be happy. So, given this arrow of causality, there is no reason to suppose that bio-happiness would force us to choose between happiness and achievement. Huxley offers us a false dichotomy.
 * Mark A. Walker, "In Praise of Bio-Happiness" (2006)

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Hugo Ball

Hugo Ball (22 February 1886 – 14 September 1927) was a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists; he founded in Zürich the 'Cabaret Voltaire'. He wrote also the 1916 Dada Manifesto. Circa 1917-18 he left Dada; in the Summer of 1920 he returned to the Catholic religion.

Quotes of Hugo Ball

 * chronologically arranged, after the date of Hugo Ball's quotes

before 1916

 * The war [World War 1.] is founded on a glaring mistake, men have been confused with machines.
 * Quote from 'Life and Work', in Hugo Ball on Wikipedia
 * his remark after witnessing the invasion of Belgium by the German armies, in the start of World War 1. in 1914

 * It is a mistake to believe in my presence.. .If I take a seat at a party, I can see, even from afar, that only a ghost is sitting there.
 * Quote from his text 'Flucht aus der Zeit', September 1915, p. 44; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism Issue 6 Autumn 2007', p. 10
 * It was in 1915, shortly before Hugo Ball left Berlin for Zurich

1916

 * Our cabaret 'Cabaret Voltaire' is a gesture.. .Every word that is spoken and sung here says at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.
 * Ball's diary entry, 1916; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 3

 * We were all there when Janco arrived with his masks, and everyone immediately put one on. Then something strange happened. Not only did the mask immediately call for a costume; it also demanded a quite definite, passionate gesture, bordering on madness. Although we could not have imagined it five minutes earlier we were walking around with most bizarre movements, festooned and draped with impossible objects, each one of us trying to outdo the other in inventiveness.. .What fascinated us all about the masks is that they represent not human characters and passions, but..  ..passions that are larger than life. The horror of our time [World War 1., a. o.], the paralyzing background of events, is made visible.
 * Ball's diary entry, 24 May 1916; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 4

 * I have invented [c. 1915-1916] a new series of verses, verses without words, or sound poems, in which the balancing of the vowels is gauged and distributed according to the value of the initial line.. .With these sound poems we should renounce language, devastated and made impossible by journalism. We should withdraw into the innermost alchemy of the word, and even surrender the word, thus conserving for poetry its most sacred domain. We should refuse to make poems second-hand; we should stop taking over words (not to mention sentences) which we did not invent entirely anew for our own use. We should no longer be content to achieve poetic effects which, in the final analysis, are but echoes of inspiration..
 * as quoted by Carol Rumens in her article 'Poem of the week: 'Gadji beri bimba' by Hugo Ball' in 'The Guardian', Monday 31 August 2009

 * In these phonetic poems we the Dadaist artists totally renounce the language that journalism has abused and corrupted. We must return to the innermost alchemy of the word, we must even give up the word too, to keep for poetry its last and holiest refuge.
 * as cited by Steve McCaffery, in The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly; publ. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012, p. 16

 * We have now driven the plasticity of the word to the point where it can barely be surpassed.. .We have loaded the word with strengths and energies that have allowed us rediscover the evangelical concept of the 'word' (logos) as a magical complex image.
 * Quote of Hugo Ball, in Flucht aus der Zeit / Flight out of Time, 18 June 1916; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism Issue 6 Autumn 2007', p. 6 2008

 * I have examined myself carefully. I could never bid chaos welcome, blow up bridges, and do away with ideas. I am not an anarchist.
 * Ball's dairy on Dada, in Flucht aus der Zeit / Flight out of Time, 'Introduction'; University of California Press (1996)

Dada Manifesto (1916)

 * Quotes from: Dada Manifesto 1916, Hugo Balls - which he read at the first public by Dada soirée, Zurich, July 14, 1916 in Cabaret Voltaire

 * Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary. It is terribly simple. In French it means 'hobby horse'. In German it means 'good-bye', 'Get off my back', 'Be seeing you sometime'. In Romanian: 'Yes, indeed, you are right, that's it. But of course, yes, definitely, right'. And so forth.

 * An International word. Just a word, and the word a movement. Very easy to understand. Quite terribly simple. To make of it an artistic tendency must mean that one is anticipating complications. Dada psychology, dada Germany cum indigestion and fog paroxysm, dada literature, dada bourgeoisie, and yourselves, honoured poets.. .Dada world war without end, dada revolution without beginning, dada, you friends and also—poets, esteemed sirs, manufacturers, and evangelists. Dada Tzara, dada Huelsenbeck, dada m'dada, dada m'dada dada mhm, dada dera dada, dada Hue, dada Tza.

 * How does one achieve eternal bliss? By saying dada. How does one become famous? By saying dada. With a noble gesture and delicate propriety. Till one goes crazy. Till one loses consciousness. How can one get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated? By saying dada..

 * I shall be reading poems that are meant to dispense with conventional language, no less, and to have done with it. Dada Johann Fuchsgang Goethe. Dada Stendhal. Dada Dalai Lama, Buddha, Bible, and Nietzsche. Dada m'dada. Dada mhm dada da. It's a question of connections, and of loosening them up a bit to start with. I don't want words that other people have invented..

 * It will serve to show how articulated language comes into being. I let the vowels fool around. I let the vowels quite simply occur, as a cat meows . . . Words emerge, shoulders of words, legs, arms, hands of words. Au, oi, uh. One shouldn't let too many words out. A line of poetry is a chance to get rid of all the filth that clings to this accursed language.. .Dada is the heart of words.

 * Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness.. .The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.

Gadji beri bimba (c. 1916)

 * Quotes from: Gadji beri bimba (c. 1916), Hugo Ball; as quoted from 'Gadji Beri Bimba', in Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary, ed. John Elderfield, trans. Ann Raimes; Viking Press, New York 1974, p. 70

 * gadji beri bimba glandridi laula lonni cadori gadjama gramma berida bimbala glandri galassassa laulitalomini gadji beri bin blassa glassala laula lonni cadorsu sassala bim gadjama tuffm i zimzalla binban gligla wowolimai bin beri ban o katalominai rhinozerossola hopsamen laulitalomini hoooo gadjama rhinozerossola hopsamen bluku terullala blaulala loooo

 * zimzim urullala zimzim urullala zimzim zanzibar zimzalla zam elifantolim brussala bulomen brussala bulomen tromtata velo da bang band affalo purzamai affalo purzamai lengado tor gadjama bimbalo glandridi glassala zingtata pimpalo ögrögöööö viola laxato viola zimbrabim viola uli paluji malooo
 * tuffm im zimbrabim negramai bumbalo negramai bumbalo tuffm i zim gadjama bimbala oo beri gadjama gaga di gadjama affalo pinx gaga di bumbalo bumbalo gadjamen gaga di bling blong gaga blung
 * In 1916 at the 'Cabaret Voltaire', Ball presented six poems, which he described as 'Verse ohne Worte' (Poems without words) or 'Lautgedichte'(Sound poems); 'Gadji beri bimba' was one of them.

after 1916

 * I am beginning to understand why renunciation has become sovereign in Germany, why an agony paralyses the spirits; why the few heads still living fall prey, partly to a fruitless aestheticism, partly to a fatal belief in evolution. Whether we will or not, we succumb to an overpowering system of profanation that is difficult to escape because there is barely any possibility of spiritual and material existence outside of it.
 * Quote of Ball, 28 April 1918, in Flucht aus der Zeit, p. 219, note 42; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism Issue 6 Autumn 2007', p. 12

 * All these poets are ascetics, monks and priests. They despise the flesh and all ballast. This world holds no enchantment for them.. .Poetry for them is the ultimate expression of the essence of things and thus is hymn and worship. Their poetry is one of divine names, of mysterious seals, and of spiritual extracts.
 * Quote of Ball, 21 July 1920, in Flucht aus der Zeit, p. 266; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism Issue 6 Autumn 2007', p. 15, note 15
 * while reading a book of mystic writers, Ball noted this remark

 * That is the meaning of the coming of Christ.. ..that the word becomes flesh and man is saved from abstraction.
 * Quote of Ball in his Byzantinisches Christentum (Byzantine Christianity), 1923, p. 107; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism Issue 6 Autumn 2007', p. 6, note 16

 * It is true that for us art is not an end in itself, we have lost too many of our illusions for that. Art is for us an occasion for social criticism, and for real understanding of the age we live in.. .Dada was not a school of artists, but an alarm signal against declining values, routine and speculations, a desperate appeal, on behalf of all forms of art, for a creative basis on which to build a new and universal consciousness of art.
 * quoted by Richard Kostelanetz and Joseph Darby (eds.) in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music; Schirmer, New York, 1996 ISBN 0028645812

Quotes about Hugo Ball

 * For Ball, Dada represented the culmination of his revolt against external authority, and at the same time a means of breaking through the surface appearance to the realms of the spirit beyond. But Dada turned against him and threatened to destroy him.
 * Quote of Rex William Last, in German Dadaist literature: Kurt Schwitters, Hugo Ball, Hans Arp; Twayne Publishers, New York, 1973; as quoted in 'Hugo Ball - Critical Essays' at the bottom

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Bahá'u'lláh

Bahá'u'lláh (ba-haa-ol-laa بهاءالله Arabic for "Glory of God") (12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892), born Mírzá Husayn-`Alí (Persian:میرزا حسین علی), was the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, and father of `Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'u'lláh authored many religious works, most notably the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the Book of Certitude.
 * See also: Bahá'í Faith, and the Báb

Quotes

 * ...a true seeker...should be content with little, and be freed from all inordinate desire. He should treasure the companionship of those that have renounced the world, and regard avoidance of boastful and worldly people a precious benefit. At the dawn of every day he should commune with God, and with all his soul persevere in the quest of his Beloved. He should consume every wayward thought with the flame of His loving mention, and, with the swiftness of lightning, pass by all else save Him.
 * Kitab-i-Iqan

 * Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
 * Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh

 * It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.
 * Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh

 * O YE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MINDS TO KNOW AND EARS TO HEAR! The first call of the Beloved is this: O mystic nightingale! Abide not but in the rose-garden of the spirit. O messenger of the Solomon of love! Seek thou no shelter except in the Sheba of the well-beloved, and O immortal phoenix! dwell not save on the mount of faithfulness. Therein is thy habitation, if on the wings of thy soul thou soarest to the realm of the infinite and seekest to attain thy goal.
 * The Hidden Words

 * Say, O brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
 * The Hidden Words

 * Hear no evil, and see no evil, abase not thyself, neither sigh and weep. Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great; and wish not the abasement of anyone, that thine own abasement be not exposed.
 * The Hidden Words

 * It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.
 * Kitáb-i-`Ahd (Book of the Covenant)

 * If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure.
 * Lawh-i-Maqsúd (Tablet of Maqsúd)

Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

 * Online text

 * The Divine Messengers have been sent down, and their Books were revealed, for the purpose of promoting the knowledge of God, and of furthering unity and fellowship amongst men. But now behold, how they have made the Law of God a cause and pretext for perversity and hatred. How pitiful, how regrettable, that most men are cleaving fast to, and have busied themselves with, the things they possess, and are unaware of, and shut out as by a veil from, the things God possesseth!

 * Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

 * Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer to the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility.

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas

 * Rejoice not in the things ye possess; tonight they are yours, tomorrow others will possess them.

 * ...for each day there is a new problem and for every problem an expedient solution.

 * O peoples of the earth! God, the Eternal Truth, is My witness that streams of fresh and soft- flowing waters have gushed from the rocks through the sweetness of the words uttered by your Lord, the Unconstrained; and still ye slumber. Cast away that which ye possess, and, on the wings of detachment, soar beyond all created things. Thus biddeth you the Lord of creation, the movement of Whose Pen bath revolutionized the soul of mankind.

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

 * Online text

 * God's purpose in sending His Prophets unto men is twofold. The first is to liberate the children of men from the darkness of ignorance, and guide them to the light of true understanding. The second is to ensure the peace and tranquillity of mankind, and provide all the means by which they can be established.

 * If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.

 * The purpose underlying the revelation of every heavenly Book, nay, of every divinely-revealed verse, is to endue all men with righteousness and understanding, so that peace and tranquillity may be firmly established amongst them. Whatsoever instilleth assurance into the hearts of men, whatsoever exalteth their station or promoteth their contentment, is acceptable in the sight of God.

 * Every created thing in the whole universe is but a door leading into His knowledge, a sign of His sovereignty, a revelation of His names, a symbol of His majesty, a token of His power, a means of admittance into His straight Path...

 * The time must come when the imperative necessity for the holding of a vast, an all-embracing assemblage of men will be universally realized. The rulers and kings of the earth must needs attend it, and, participating in its deliberations, must consider such ways and means as will lay the foundations of the world's Great Peace amongst men. Such a peace demandeth that the Great Powers should resolve, for the sake of the tranquillity of the peoples of the earth, to be fully reconciled among themselves. Should any king take up arms against another, all should unitedly arise and prevent him. If this be done, the nations of the world will no longer require any armaments, except for the purpose of preserving the security of their realms and of maintaining internal order within their territories.

 * It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

 * Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch.

 * How puny and insignificant is the evanescent drop when compared with the waves and billows of God's limitless and everlasting Ocean, and how utterly contemptible must every contingent and perishable thing appear when brought face to face with the uncreated, the unspeakable glory of the Eternal!

 * Man is the supreme Talisman. Lack of a proper education hath, however, deprived him of that which he doth inherently possess. Through a word proceeding out of the mouth of God he was called into being; by one word more he was guided to recognize the Source of his education; by yet another word his station and destiny were safeguarded. The Great Being saith: Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit therefrom.

The Seven Valleys Of Bahá’u’lláh

 * The Seven Valleys And the Four Valleys (1991 edition)

 * This station is the dying from self and the living in God, the being poor in self and rich in the Desired One. Poverty as here referred to signifieth being poor in the things of the created world, rich in the things of God's world. For when the true lover and devoted friend reacheth to the presence of the Beloved, the sparkling beauty of the Loved One and the fire of the lover's heart will kindle a blaze and burn away all veils and wrappings. Yea, all he hath, from heart to skin, will be set aflame, so that nothing will remain save the Friend.
 * The Valley of True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness

 * He who hath attained this station is sanctified from all that pertaineth to the world. Wherefore, if those who have come to the sea of His presence are found to possess none of the limited things of this perishable world, whether it be outer wealth or personal opinions, it mattereth not. For whatever the creatures have is limited by their own limits, and whatever the True One hath is sanctified therefrom; this utterance must be deeply pondered that its purport may be clear. “Verily the righteous shall drink of a winecup tempered at the camphor fountain.” If the interpretation of “camphor” become known, the true intention will be evident. This state is that poverty of which it is said, “Poverty is My glory.” And of inward and outward poverty there is many a stage and many a meaning which I have not thought pertinent to mention here; hence I have reserved these for another time, dependent on what God may desire and fate may seal.
 * The Valley of True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness

 * This is the plane whereon the vestiges of all things (Kullu Shay') Borda do mundo (4942486361).jpg the Divine Face riseth out of the darkness]] are destroyed in the traveler, and on the horizon of eternity the Divine Face riseth out of the darkness, and the meaning of “All on the earth shall pass away, but the face of thy Lord….” is made manifest.

 * O Brother! Not every sea hath pearls; not every branch will flower, nor will the nightingale sing thereon. Then, ere the nightingale of the mystic paradise repair to the garden of God, and the rays of the heavenly morning return to the Sun of Truth—make thou an effort, that haply in this dustheap of the mortal world thou mayest catch a fragrance from the everlasting garden, and live forever in the shadow of the peoples of this city. And when thou hast attained this highest station and come to this mightiest plane, then shalt thou gaze on the Beloved, and forget all else.

 * In this Valley, the wayfarer leaveth behind him the stages of the “oneness of Being and Manifestation” and reacheth a oneness that is sanctified above these two stations. Ecstasy alone can encompass this theme, not utterance nor argument; and whosoever hath dwelt at this stage of the journey, or caught a breath from this garden land, knoweth whereof We speak.

 * These journeys have no visible ending in the world of time, but the severed wayfarer—if invisible confirmation descend upon him and the Guardian of the Cause assist him—may cross these seven stages in seven steps, nay rather in seven breaths, nay rather in a single breath, if God will and desire it. And this is of “His grace on such of His servants as He pleaseth.”

 * They who soar in the heaven of singleness and reach to the sea of the Absolute, reckon this city—which is the station of life in God—as the furthermost state of mystic knowers, and the farthest homeland of the lovers. But to this evanescent One of the mystic ocean, this station is the first gate of the heart's citadel, that is, man's first entrance to the city of the heart; and the heart is endowed with four stages, which would be recounted should a kindred soul be found

Quotes about Bahá'u'lláh

 * We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá'u'lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.
 * Leo Tolstoy, as quoted in Leo Tolstoy and the Baháʼı́ Faith (1985) by Luigi Stendardo, pg 40

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Talk:Human sexual activity

I'm not sure, I've some quotes regarding chastity and am considering placing them here? Would that be acceptable, does anyone think?
 * Here would probably be an appropriate place, but if you have a large number of them you could also start a page on Chastity if you like. —Kalki 02:48, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Deleted a quote about menstruation. Monthly period doesn't equal sex.

This "The Ethical Slut"-crap should be deleted. If anyone wants it, give it its own damn page.

I agree, but not cause I'm offended by the content, because they're not really quotes. They're justifications for an ideology, (which is very much what the whole book is, the authors would probably agree). Quotes are short little things that make you think or put words or ideas together in a unique way that sort of gels a concept. Most of those The Ethical Slut quotes don't do that. They're just not very interesting as quotes. I trimmed them down a bit.

Cleanup
I've done some major format cleanup of this article. Among other things, I've moved all the Ethical Slut quotes to The Ethical Slut, which was a stub article until now. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be better to organize the "Attributed" section by author than by the first letter of the quote? El Camino6 19:11, 03 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I just organized the sourced section by author, but the alphabetizing of unsourced quotes was adopted early for many pages, as a way to avoid duplications; various attributions sometimes exist for the same quote. ~ Kalki 01:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to.

A-C

 * A hooker is like a really good date, only cheaper and without the 3 hours of bullshit before the sex. ~ Richard Kohut

 * A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. ~ Honore de Balzac

 * A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are. ~ Victor Lownes

 * A woman makes a guy come, it's standard. A guy makes a woman come, it's talent. ~ Dante Hicks

 * An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~ Mae West

 * Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 * Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. ~ Karl Kraus

 * Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. ~ Aldous Huxley

 * Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. ~ Bertrand Russell

D-H

 * Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life. ~ Dorothy Parker

 * Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. ~ Oscar Wilde

 * Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a national emergency. ~ Margo St. James

 * Fuckin' is good for you, Jack. Gettin some pussy beats having a war. ~ Richard Pryor

 * Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

 * Great lovers are made, not born. ~ Variant of “Christians are made, not born” (Latin: fiunt non nascuntur Christiani, by Tertullian, , xviii, in the year 197).

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 * I found the fountain of youth and it was between a woman's legs. ~ Thomas Geraghty

 * I consider sex a misdemeanor; the more I miss, de meaner I get. ~ Mae West

 * I do all my best work in bed. ~ Mae West

 * I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do. ~ Art Buchwald

 * I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time. ~ Mae West

 * I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ~ Mae West

 * I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love. ~ Joan Crawford

 * I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting — people using each other for pleasure. ~ Joseph Scheidler, Pro-Life Action League

 * If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had if only they persevere. ~ P. D. James

 * If they laid all the coeds from Yale end to end...I wouldn't be surprised. ~ Dorothy Parker

 * In America sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it is a fact. ~ Marlene Dietrich

 * Is it not life? Is it not the thing? ~ Lord Byron

 * It doesn't matter if you fuck someone or get fucked - the main thing is to have sex. ~ Bulgarian proverb

 * It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. ~ Emma Goldman

 * It is not sex that gives us pleasure, but the lover. ~ Marge Piercy

 * It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ~ Voltaire

 * It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency. ~ Emma Goldman

 * It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. ~ George Burns

 * It's just that it's been my experience in having sex with some straight men that the sex is over when he gets off. And I don't accept that. I want to have an orgasm. ...Not right now! This is the Isaac Stern Auditorium!... No. I want to have one. I will put a chalk board over the bed. One... one. ~ Margaret Cho

 * It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men. ~ Mae West

 * It's not true that the more sex that you have, the more it interferes with your work. I find that the more sex you have, the better work you do. ~ H. G. Wells

 * I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin. ~ George Burns

 * I've been in more laps than a napkin. ~ Mae West

 * I get more ass than a toilet seat. ~ The Deer Hunter

J-L

 * Joan is as good as my lady in the dark. ~ English proverb (17th Century)

 * Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you’re going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. ~Butch Hancock

 * Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. ~ H. L. Mencken

 * Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get "lucky" and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell. ~ Edna Buchanan

 * Lord, grant me chastity and continence... but not yet. ~ St. Augustine

 * Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. ~ Harlan Ellison

 * Love and sex are the things that give life some value, some zest. Miserable as flesh and blood is, it is still the best you can get. ~ Unknown

 * Love and sex can go together, and sex and unlove can go together, and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad. ~ Andy Warhol

 * Love is just a system for getting someone to call you "darling" after sex. ~ Julian Barnes

 * Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin, it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ~ S. J. Perelman

 * Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. ~ Woody Allen

 * Love is the name, sex is the game, forget the name and play the game! ~ Unknown

M-R

 * Men ought to be more conscious of their bodies as an object of delight. ~ Germaine Greer

 * Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies. ~ Ninon de Lenclos

 * Never have sex for a relationship and never have a relationship for sex; let the two seperate paths intertwine as they may. ~ Anonymous

 * No sex is better than bad sex. ~ Germaine Greer

 * Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. ~ Margaret Atwood

 * Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ~ Remy de Gourmont

 * One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss. ~ Mary Gordon

 * Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance. ~ Pepper Schwartz

 * People are supposed to fuck. It is our main purpose in life, and all those other activities—playing the trumpet, vacuuming carpets, reading mystery novels, eating chocolate mousse—are just ways of passing the time until you can fuck again. ~ Cynthia Heimel

 * Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. ~ Richard Feynman

 * [ Planned Parenthood ] is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns. ~ Pat Robertson, Christian Coalition

 * Men always pay for sex. The only question is how much and in what currency. John Pritchard

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 * Sex, is a thing that everyone has on their mind, whether they like it or not. ~ Unknown

 * Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. ~ William J. Brennan Jr.

 * Sex? Aah fucking hippie crap! ~ Johnny Rotten

 * Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. ~ Woody Allen

 * Sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered — and still do — which is the more important. ~ Hermione Gingold

 * Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing; between 5 it's fantastic ... ~ Woody Allen

 * Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest. ~ Jimmy Swaggart

 * Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. ~ Peter Ustinov

 * Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope. ~ Sallie Tisdale

 * Sex is a slot machine. ~ John Dos Passos

 * Sex is an emotion in motion. ~ Mae West

 * "Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ~ Marquis De Sade

 * Sex is hardly ever just about sex. ~ Shirley MacLane

 * Sex is like air: it's no big deal unless you're not getting any. -Unknown

 * Sex is like the game of bridge: if you don't have a good partner, you need a good hand. ~ Woody Allen

 * Sex is like money; only too much is enough. ~ John Updike

 * Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. ~ Andy Warhol

 * Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant. ~ Henry Miller

 * Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. ~ Quentin Crisp

 * Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love. ~ D. H. Lawrence

 * Sex stops when you pull up your pants, love never lets you go. ~ Kingsley Amis

 * Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ~ John Barrymore

 * Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love — that's not so bad either. ~ Mae West

 * Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. ~ Woody Allen

 * Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

 * Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

 * Sex without pain is like food without taste. ~ Marquis de Sade

 * Sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning. ~ Paul Goodman

 * Satisfying sex is like a game of chess. Its hard to win, but the feeling afterwards is the greatest thing known to man ~ Unknown

 * Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it. ~ W. C. Fields

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 * There are two things that rise in the morning and one is the sun. ~ Thomas Geraghty

 * Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: "There's a naked person outside!" ~ Mike Nichols

 * The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life. ~ Bertrand Russell

 * The difference between love and sex is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Dan Rather

 * The difference between men and women, as regards to sex, is like the relationship between the candlestick and the candleholder—the candleholder is always there. - Mark Twain

 * The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~ Anais Nin

 * The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

 * The only thing more fun than sex is spending someone else's money. ~ George F. Will

 * The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. ~ Dr. Alfred Kinsey

 * The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. ~ George Bernard Shaw

 * The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ~ Lord Chesterfield

 * The prerequisite for making love is liking someone enormously. ~ Helen Gurley Brown

 * The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right. ~ Woody Allen

 * The purpose of sex is to create a baby. ~ Marshall Brain

 * The safeword is the word you use in S/M sex that means "stop"; ... it's something innocuous, like "red", "blue", "tree", "table", whatever, so I said to my friend Bucky, who was teaching me about safewords, "But Bucky, what happens if you forget the safeword? Red, blue, green, yellow, onomatopoeia, front-loading dishwasher, what?!" She said, "Maggie, you say 'I forgot the safeword, you idiot!'" ~ Maggie Cassella

 * The sex relation is not personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation. ~ George Bernard Shaw

 * The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ~ Havelock Ellis

 * There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. ~ Pierre Trudeau

 * To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

U-Z

 * Very few lasting relationships are made in bed. Fantasies may begin and end there; true love does not. ~ Dr. Harold Bessell

 * We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ~ Alexander Comfort

 * What about love? It's defective!  It's always breaking in half.  What about sex?  It's defective!  It's never built to really last.
 * Jim Steinman, "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back"
 * sung by Meat Loaf, from Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993)

 * When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ~ Mae West

 * When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room, either. ~ Dr. William H. Masters

 * When in Rome, do the Romans.
 * Mr. Tucker (Edward Platt) in The Rebel Set, 1959

 * When women go wrong, men go right after them. ~ Mae West

 * You have to be brave in this culture to say, "This turns me on." ~ Rufus Wainwright

 * You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe—but not love him. ~ Mae West

 * You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. ~ Mary McCarthy

 * Your general subject love is minimal, it's sex for profit. ~ Chuck D

 * Sex contains all, bodies, souls
 * Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results,
 * promulgations,
 * Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal
 * mystery, the seminal milk,
 * All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the
 * passions, loves, beauties,
 * delights of the earth.
 * Walt Whitman

 * The path of true love isn't smooth,
 * the ruffled feathers sex can soothe,
 * soon ruffle again—for couples never
 * spend all their lives in bed together.
 * Gavin Ewart

Betty Paige
Is the quotation from Bettie Page or Betty Paige and if the latter who was she?--Johnsoniensis (talk) 05:53, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

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John Edwards

Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.

Quotes

 * I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs. I think he would be appalled, actually.
 * An interview with the website Beliefnet.com. Reported also by Boston Globe, March 5, 2007.

 * And we have so much work to do in America, because all across America, there are walls ... There's a wall around Washington, D.C. The American people are, today, on the outside of that wall. And on the inside are the big corporations and the lobbyists who are working to protect a system that takes care of them. ... There is another wall that divides us. It's the moral shame of 37 million of our own people who wake up in poverty every single day This is not OK. And for eight long, long years, this wall has gotten taller And there's also a wall that's divided our image in the world. The America as the beacon of hope is behind that wall. And all the world sees now is a bully. They see Iraq, Guantanamo, secret prison and government that argues that water boarding is not torture. This is not OK. That wall has to come down for the sake of our ideals and our security. We can change this. We can change it. Yes we can. If we stand together, we can change it. ... This is not going to be easy. It's going to be the fight of our lives. But we're ready, because we know that this election is about something bigger than the tired old hateful politics of the past. This election is about taking down these walls that divide us, so that we can see what's possible -- what's possible, that one America that we can build together.
 * Endorsement of Senator Barack Obama on May 14, 2008.

 * Let me be clear: Under no circumstances can Iran be allowed to have nuclear weapons. ... To ensure that Iran never gets nuclear weapons, we need to keep all options on the table. Let me reiterate--all options must remain on the table.
 * Comments (via satellite) at the Seventh Annual Herzliya Conference in Israel.

Quotes about

 * I am proud that at my side will be a running mate whose life is the story of the American dream and who's worked every day to make that dream real for all Americans – Senator John Edwards of North Carolina. And his wonderful wife Elizabeth and their family. This son of a mill worker is ready to lead – and next January, Americans will be proud to have a fighter for the middle class to succeed Dick Cheney as Vice President of the United States.
 * John Kerry, Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Boston Online, 29 July 2004

 * as John Edwards has said, "It's time for us to be patriotic about something besides war."
 * Jen Sorensen Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)

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Talk:Henry V

i started this page, and i believe it is henry the iv, not v, but i don't think i can fix that. can whoever fix it? -sasha-

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User talk:Sasha~enwikiquote

Electronic games
Question: I started the section on Garrett, the guy from the Thief video game series. but i also have some quotes from the video game itself, as in from mission movies. they're not really said by anyone. well, they are, but there are about 20 quotes and 10 'authors', and i'd rather put them all on one page if possible, but there isn't a video game section, so i don't really know where to put them. example:
 * "Reliance upon others Is weakness for the strong But strength for the weak." -Chronicle of the Metal Age

 * I have started a slot for "Electronic Games" on the List of categories page that might be an appropriate place to list any Video games which have any interesting or amusing quotes. I personally would recommend not starting seperate pages for characters within such games. The one that you created could be moved to a page entitled "Thief", or "Thief (game)" if that is the actual title of the game in question, and seperate sections could then be added for the different characters. —Kalki 06:28, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I can see what you mean, but he's the main character in the game, and really the only one worth quoting. but that could be different for other games. as for moving, i have no idea how to, but that would be fine by me. i could do thief under electrionic games, then sections in it for garrett and misc, i guess. -sasha-

 * If Thief is the name of the Game or Game series you want to create a page for I can move the Garret page to either Thief, Thief (game) or Thief (games), whichever you think would be the best. — Kalki 19:41, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I see you just created a page Thief -if you have no objections you can transfer the quotes from Garrett to there, I can delete Garrett sometime later. — Kalki 19:48, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * fine by me. will do. -sasha-

Getting an admin's attention
sorry but i don't know how else to get an admin's attention. i've tried other ways but i'm hoping at least this method works. what am i supposed to do if i come accross a page that doesn't seem to belong (ie, no quotes, just rubbish, etc.)? examples would be Edgar Rice Burroughs and Peter M. Senge (recently created). then there is the "Latin proverbs/" page that isn't part of the other Latin proverbs... those are just a few that i've noticed recently. -sasha, 20050320 @ 0307 UTC

You could always leave a message on an admin's talk page for immediate attention—we won't bite (usually)—or the Village Pump (where sometimes, I admit, it might get overlooked fror a while).

About your questions— there is no official policy or recommendations that have been developed here yet. There are a number of options that people have used:

Some have marked them for deletion with  tags, which can be appropriate when an article page is clearly vandalism, or a page for a non famous person; marked them  with  "votes for deletion" which might be more appropriate when it seems possible that there could be a legitimate case made for retaining a page; or marked them with  notices.

I think a page with quotes but no further info or links is what clearly qualifies as a stub on Wikiquote, and a page with info and/or links, and no quotes, or no significant info at all, as a sub-stub.

If I have some time available and encounter a page like Edgar Rice Burroughs, I prefer to seek out legitimate quotes, doing a google search for Edgar Rice Burroughs quotes for a "quick fix" of quotes available, sort through them, organize them, and then go to the Wikipedia article for legitimate summary info for the header, (and sometimes for a few quotes, and external links as well). It is obvious that I wouldn't normally like encountering too many of these stub or sub-stub pages. They can easily take anywhere from 15 minutes, to several hours to work on (with the distractions that can easily arise as you trace down information, quotes, and consider the options available).

I would recommend doing a google search in the case of someone unfamiliar, and in the case of Peter M. Senge, who I was not familiar with, it seems his fame is legitimately established as an author and lecturer, and significant quotes by him could prbably be sought. I might have some time to do a bit of searching for quotes by him today, and I might not. I will put him on my list of things to attend to soon though. As I have noted elsewhere, I generally prefer to develop a potentially legitimate page, rather than delete it. ~ Kalki

 * About the "Latin proverbs" someone else had recently pointed out that problem, and I will probably deal with it by merging any significant quotes to the correct page, and deleting the incorrect page today. ~ Kalki 18:03, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I was cleaning up some articles, and I noticed your addition to the Peter Senge article. I've added some structure, moved it to this new title to correspond with the Wikipedia article, and removed it from the speedy-deletion list. ("Peter M. Senge" now redirects there, so there won't be any problem finding him.)

 * As far as getting admins' attention, Kalki has been carrying most of the maintenance burden solo for a while now, but we've just added three admins. We're busily trying to catch up on the backlog, so hopefully we will be able to respond more quickly to notes posted on Village Pump or on our Talk pages. — Jeff Q (talk) 04:43, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sasha, do you mind me to diswikify your link to "Latin proverbs/" ? It was created again by an anon and have a link to your user talk ... --Aphaia 19:45, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Um, not sure what you mean, but if you meant remove the link from my user talk, i'll do it. if it's something else, go for it. -sasha, 20050604 @ 0150 UTC

Night Watch
Hi. Please see Talk:Night Watch ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:31, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Hugh Hewitt
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List of television shows

This is a list of television shows quoted (or soon to be quoted) in Wikiquote. The main section includes existing articles, indicated by blue links. The second section is a list of shows, indicated by red links, that do not yet have articles, but have been requested by Wikiquote users. See the Notes section below for more information.

Due to the size of this page, the main listing has been split into the following sections:
 * List of television shows (A–H)
 * List of television shows (I–P)
 * List of television shows (Q–Z)

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The Net (1995 film)

The Net is a 1995 film about Angela Bennett a systems analyst who telecommutes to work. Her interpersonal relationships are completely online and on the phone, limiting interactions with neighbors, and her mother is institutionalized with Alzheimer's disease. Her identity is stolen and she must get her identity back from a group known only as the Praetorians.
 * Directed by Irwin Winkler. Written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris.

Her driver's license. Her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED. (taglines)

Angela Bennett

 * Just think about it. Our whole world is sitting there on a computer. It's in the computer, everything: your, your DMV records, your, your social security, your credit cards, your medical records. It's all right there. Everyone is stored in there. It's like this little electronic shadow on each and everyone of us, just, just begging for someone to screw with, and you know what? They've done it to me, and you know what? They're gonna do it to you.
 * Such a nightmare! It's like I'm not even me anymore!

Jack Devlin

 * What were you trying to do? Save the world?
 * If you'll excuse me, it's, it's time to make the world safe for democracy.

Others

 * Ruth Marx: Give us the disk and we'll give you your life back.
 * IceMan: [in a chat room] No one leaves the house anymore. No one has sex. The Net is ultimate condom.

Dialogue

 * Jack Devlin: Computers are your life, aren't they?
 * Angela Bennett: Yes. The perfect hiding place.

 * Jack Devlin: God, we're pathetic, aren't we?
 * Angela Bennett: Excuse me?
 * Jack Devlin: Well, we're here. We're sitting on the most perfect beach in the world, and all we can think about is-...
 * Angela Bennett: Where I can hook up my modem?
 * Jack Devlin: Yeah, exactly.

 * Jack Devlin: [shoves Angela over] Get away from the computer. What did think you were trying to do? Save the world?
 * Angela Bennett: No. Not the world. Just myself.
 * Jack Devlin: Ah, I'm afraid it's too late for that. The offer's been withdrawn.
 * Angela Bennett: Um, you might wanna look at the screen, because everything on that disk was just sent to the FBI. Everything.
 * Jack Devlin: So?
 * Angela Bennett: So... proof that the Gatekeeper program has a back door.
 * Jack Devlin: [convinced] My, my.
 * Angela Bennett: Proof that Bergstrom and Dale's murder were orchestrated by Gregg.

Taglines

 * Her driver's license. Her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED.
 * Escape is impossible when you’re caught in the net.

Cast

 * Sandra Bullock — Angela Bennett
 * Jeremy Northam — Jack Devlin
 * Dennis Miller — Dr. Alan Champion
 * Diane Baker — Mrs. Bennett
 * Wendy Gazelle — Ruth Marx
 * Ken Howard — Michael Bergstrom

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