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Starship Troopers (film)

Starship Troopers is a 1997 film that tells the story of an interplanetary war between Earth and colonies of large insect-like aliens known as Bugs in the twenty-third century. It focuses on the experiences of Juan "Johnny" Rico, one of four friends who sign up to the military one year before Earth declares war on the aliens.

 * Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Written by Edward Neumeier. Based on the original novel by Robert A. Heinlein.

A new kind of enemy. A new kind of war. (taglines)

Johnny Rico

 * [addressing a reporter] Let me tell you something: I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say "Kill 'em all!"
 * [eulogizing Dizzy Flores] Somebody asked me if I knew the difference between a citizen and a civilian. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But more than that, she was a citizen of the Federation.

Lieutenant Jean Rasczak

 * [to Rico at a party] Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.
 * [to Rico after he destroys a Flame Bug] I need a corporal. You're it until you're dead or I find somebody better.
 * Listen up! I expect the best and I give the best. [opens pod and pulls out a beer keg] Here's the beer. [everybody cheers. opens another pod with sports gear and music equipment] Here's the entertainment. [throws football] Have fun. That's an order.
 * Hold here! Hold what you got!

Carl Jenkins

 * [to Rico and Carmen after the Brain Bug is finally captured] We've got one of their Brains now. Pretty soon we'll know how they think. One day it will all be over. And everyone will forget that this was the moment. This was when it turned. It wasn't the mighty fleet, it wasn't some fancy new weapon. [they see the now-Private Zim being carried by the soldiers] It was a drill instructor named Zim, who captured a Brain.

Others

 * Dizzy Flores: Mobile Infantry and Fleet don't mix.
 * Sky Marshall Diennes: [addressing the UCF Federal Council as it agrees to declare war against the Bugs] We must meet this threat with our valor, our blood, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and always!

Dialogue

 * Jean Rasczak: All right, let's sum up. This year in history, we talked about the failure of democracy, how the social scientists of the 21st Century brought our world to the brink of chaos. We talked about the veterans, how they took control and imposed the stability that has lasted for generations since. We talked about the rights and privileges between those who served in the armed forces and those who haven't, therefore called citizens and civilians. [to a student] You. Why are only citizens allowed to vote?
 * Student: It's a reward. Something the Federation gives you for doing federal service.
 * Rasczak: No. Something given has no basis in value. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

 * Dizzy Flores: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything.
 * Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that. [to Carmen] You.
 * Carmen Ibanez: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.
 * Rasczak: Correct. Naked force has resolved more issues throughout world history than any other factor. The contrary opinion that violence never solves anything is wishful thinking at its worst.

 * Ace Levy: Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight, anyway? All you gotta do is press a button. Sir.
 * Career Sergeant Zim: Put your hand on that wall, trooper. [Ace hesitates] PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL! [Zim throws a knife and hits Ace's hand, pinning it to the wall] The enemy cannot push a button... if you disable his hand. Medic!

 * John Rico: Hey, Kitten! What's going on?!
 * Kitten: War! We're going to war!

 * [After witnessing Dizzy trying to get Rico to dance with her after the day's action but he refuses and she dances with Watkins instead]
 * Lt Jean Rasczak: [taps him on the shoulder. Rico stands up] Rico, you once asked me for advice. You want some now?
 * Cpl. John Rico: Yes, sir!
 * Soldier: [to Rasczak] Lieutenant, HQ's on the com. [Rasczak nods in acknowledgement and the soldier leaves]
 * Rasczak: Never pass up a good thing!

 * Col. Carl Jenkins: You don't approve. Well, too bad! We're in this for the species, boys and girls. It's simple numbers: they have more. And every day, I have to make decisions that send hundreds of people like you to their deaths!
 * Cpl. John Rico: Didn't they tell you, Colonel? That's what the mobile infantry's good for.

 * Newsreel Announcer: We have the ships. We have the weapons. We need soldiers. Soldiers like Lieutenant Stack Lumbreiser.
 * Lt. Stack Lumbreiser: [aboard a warship] We're over the target area now, Captain.
 * Newsreel Announcer: And Captain Carmen Ibanez.
 * Capt. Carmen Ibanez: This is the Captain speaking. All personnel prepare to drop.
 * Newsreel Announcer: Soldiers like Private Ace Levy and Lieutenant John Rico.
 * Lt. John Rico: [to soldiers as they prepare to board dropships] Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?!
 * Newsreel Announcer: We need you all. Service guarantees citizenship.

About Starship Troopers (film)

 * When Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers originally hit cinemas in 1997, the reviews were scathing. The Los Angeles Times’ Kenneth Turan argued that the Dutch director of Robocop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct had delivered a space flick “rigorously one-dimensional and free from even the pretense of intelligence”, even suggesting that the film-maker had preserved the “fascist utopianism” of the 1959 Robert A Heinlein novel that it had been based on. “Troopers takes us to a militaristic future where video bulletins encourage young people to ‘Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world’,” wrote Turan. “Schools teach that ‘violence is the supreme authority’ and nothing solves problems with the efficacy of ‘naked force.’” The Washington Post described Verhoeven’s tone as “so inconsistent that it’s impossible to decide whether he’s sending up the Third Reich or in love with it”.
 * Ben Child, “Nazis in space: how Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers brilliantly skewered fascism”, The Guardian, (12 Nov 2022)

 * “It’s a very rightwing book,” the director told Empire magazine. “And with the movie, we tried, and I think at least partially succeeded, in commenting on that at the same time. It would be ‘Eat your cake and have it.’ All the way through we were fighting with the fascism, the ultra-militarism. All the way through I wanted the audience to be asking, ‘Are these people crazy?’
 * Ben Child, “Nazis in space: how Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers brilliantly skewered fascism”, The Guardian, (12 Nov 2022)

 * These days Starship Troopers sits easily alongside Verhoeven’s other sci-fi cult classics, Robocop and Total Recall, in a fabulous pantheon of futuristic, satirical silliness. Yes, these movies are violent, bloody, over-the-top and often hammily acted, but the director is very much in on the joke. Only an outsider like Verhoeven could have made films that overtly criticised the knuckleheaded excesses of 1980s and 90s American action cinema, yet somehow did a better job of delivering the era’s trademark trashy bombast than Hollywood itself.
 * Ben Child, “Nazis in space: how Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers brilliantly skewered fascism”, The Guardian, (12 Nov 2022)

 * Like his RoboCop, Verhoeven uses television clips and fake advertisements to take shots at society. But where RoboCop uses these moments to skewer Cold War politics and the American automotive industry, the ones in Troopers are more pointed. They are satirical extremes of military propaganda, showing happy citizens (not civilians), shots of children joyfully holding guns, all while pushing for enrollment into Federal Service. The ads dovetail into the depiction of a Nazi-like regime that is embraced and is working. The allusion to Nazism is so prevalent and over the top - from costuming to the use of a Nazi Eagle like symbol - that it clearly is satire to show the dangers of extremist policies, which somehow blew right past the critics of the day. Militarism is another victim of Verhoeven's critical eye. There is no plan for the Federation forces. They are told to go in and kill anything with more than two legs, and when that invariably goes sideways they simply bring in more soldiers. The graphic scenes of the dead are an unwavering display of the horrors of war, a visual representation of the dangers of unchecked policy. The real kicker comes at the end. Whereas other films would have the main characters learn about the dark side of their leadership, even opting to fight against it, Starship Troopers' protagonists instead become part of the system, a vicious circle where they are now the stars in the propaganda.
 * Lloyd Farley, “'Starship Troopers' Review: Paul Verhoeven's Classic Is Satire at Its Best”, Collider, (Nov 7, 2022)

 * When Starship Troopers was released, critics panned it as a simplistic B-movie. Former film critic Janet Maslin called it “raunchiness tailor-made for teen-age boys” in the New York Times. It’s not a totally unfair description of a movie in which most scenes involve characters being sprayed with lime-green alien guts.
 * Ezra Marcus, “Is Starship Troopers, a fascist satire, coming true?”, Interview Magazine, (November 8, 2017)

 * It’s hard not to draw a parallel with America’s 17-years-and-counting of engagement in the Middle East. What comes after the war? More war. This is a surprisingly radical message for a big budget ($100 million) studio film. “I don’t think that will be done again, a movie like that,” Verhoeven admits over the phone. “It’s so surprising that this was made. I don’t think anyone nowadays would dare to make a movie like that.”
 * Ezra Marcus, “Is Starship Troopers, a fascist satire, coming true?”, Interview Magazine, (November 8, 2017)

 * Heinlein’s book has been seen to suggest that “the best societies would be run by military dictatorships.” However, Verhoeven described Starship Troopers as “a movie about fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism.”
 * Darren Mooney, “Over 20 Years Later, the World Has Finally Caught Up with Starship Troopers”, The Escapist, (February 16, 2020)

 * In The New York Times, Janet Maslin complained that the film was nothing more than “crazed, lurid spectacle.” Roger Ebert described it as “totalitarian.” Reading those initial reviews, it seems as though Starship Troopers fell victim to Poe’s Law, the inevitability that at a certain point it becomes impossible to distinguish between an extreme example of a thing and a parody of that thing. Was Starship Troopers fascist propaganda or a parody of fascist propaganda? History has been somewhat kinder to Starship Troopers, as demonstrated by a slew of retrospective pieces that enthusiastically recognized it as “one of the most misunderstood movies ever” and a piece of social commentary that was “way ahead of its time.”
 * Darren Mooney, “Over 20 Years Later, the World Has Finally Caught Up with Starship Troopers”, The Escapist, (February 16, 2020)

 * The layers that were there—especially with the most political movie, "Starship Troopers." It's never that we thought, We're going to do a representation of the United States as a metaphor. On the other hand, many elements of the movie came from American life ... it was all based on things that were vaguely there in American life. Especially in Texas and stuff like that ... but we never set out to do that. We needed something to put our point of view also there, you know? We don't think this is so great in anyway, this kind of, "let's go to war, let's kill."
 * Paul Verhoeven in "Paul Verhoeven, ‘Tricked’ Director, On The ‘RoboCop’ And ‘Total Recall’ Remakes", Mike Ryan, Huffington Post, 4/23/2014.

 * If I tell the world that a right-wing, fascist way of doing things doesn't work, no one will listen to me. So I'm going to make a perfect fascist world: everyone is beautiful, everything is shiny, everything has big guns and fancy ships, but it's only good for killing fucking bugs!
 * Paul Verhoeven as quoted by Michael Ironside "Michael Ironside and Kristin Chenoweth". The Adam Carolla Show. 2014-11-13.

 * VERHOEVEN: We were making some statements underneath the movie. The peripheral layer is interwoven with the main narrative. It’s very much visible in the newsreels, which are all based on German fascism. I felt that this was talking about upcoming fascism, of course. Even the Germans, I would say 80 to 90 percent of the Germans, when all this happened, didn’t think that it was happening. You see all the newsreels from the streets of Berlin—they’re all of very happy looking guys or girls. They were not aware of the threats, the diabolical deaths underlining the politics of the government. At that point I did not feel, in all honesty, that this was really something of a possibility in the United States. Otherwise we would’ve been prophets.
 * Paul Verhoeven as quoted by Ezra Marcus in “Is Starship Troopers, a fascist satire, coming true?”, Interview Magazine, (November 8, 2017)

 * VERHOEVEN: We were paraphrasing elements of Riefenstahl movies. Everybody seemed to be sculptures—I wanted these people to be like proto-Nazis, proto-Aryans. Their faces are kind of sculptures. So I thought to choose actors who would have streamlined faces, and certainly Johnny Rico has that. I think that was a necessity to make it believable to myself, the exaggeration. There’s no question, the bugs are fantasy and comic book-y! So if you use those kinds of elements, then you should be careful not to make your caricature around them completely real because they clash! If you have a caricature enemy you can’t have a very realistic protagonist. I think it was necessary to make them two comic book figures, that was the idea.
 * Paul Verhoeven as quoted by Ezra Marcus in “Is Starship Troopers, a fascist satire, coming true?”, Interview Magazine, (November 8, 2017)

 * VERHOEVEN: It was too difficult; I think they’ve never seen a movie, a really big Star Wars kind of movie with this message. I don’t think they were ready to accept the fact that the film was political. You can see that it was political 15-20 years later, with all that’s happened. People have started to realize that a dominant layer of the movie was political. I thought it was very audacious what we did, but it didn’t pay off very well.
 * Paul Verhoeven as quoted by Ezra Marcus in “Is Starship Troopers, a fascist satire, coming true?”, Interview Magazine, (November 8, 2017)

“20 Years Ago, Starship Troopers Showed Us What Happens When Fascism Wins” (November 7, 2022)
Kenneth Lowe, “20 Years Ago, Starship Troopers Showed Us What Happens When Fascism Wins”, Paste, (November 7, 2022)
 * Starship Troopers has the most rock-dumb and dirt-simple plot of any science fiction feature in recent memory: Humanity is at war with gigantic creepy-crawlies from outer space, and a crew of determined youngsters must do battle with them.
 * But try this: Watch Starship Troopers through the lens of somebody in the world in which it’s set. Imagine you’re watching this as a denizen of this legitimately scary society. As Republican candidates for president in 2016 went on about possibly repealing birthright citizenship—a legal precedent established centuries ago that stands unquestioned in nearly every country in the New World—this a movie from 20 years ago paints a perfect picture of what a society without it would look like. The film’s newsreels and secondary characters repeat that “Service Guarantees Citizenship,” meaning that if you voluntarily enlist in the military, you are granted citizenship. Nowhere in this sunny propaganda film of an action movie is there any mention of what not being a citizen means. This is a world where the fascists have already won. All society is geared around and idealizes the military. In the film’s opening scenes, when Johnny and friends are finishing high school, we’re given glimpses into what this is doing to society. Their teachers are disfigured and unhinged war veterans. Michael Ironside plays an amputee who fills his students’ heads with war propaganda, flatly telling them that violence is the solution to political disputes, and maybe you should ask Hiroshima how being a peacenik works out, huh?
 * All fascism is about Us vs. Them at base. The most insidious regimes encourage this enmity not just toward other states, but toward other citizens. It’s in the film’s second reel, when the young cadets all head off to boot camp, that we get a few more details about who is the Us and who is the Them. Some of Johnny’s fellow recruits want to do things like have children or start businesses—but the government regulates all those things and only citizens are allowed, or at least fast-tracked to permission. If you aren’t out there sacrificing your limbs for the military’s dumb wars, you don’t deserve any of society’s other benefits. One of the cadets gives a little shrug—perhaps the same one you did when they imposed the indoor smoking ban in your state. That’s just the way it is now.
 * Even 20 years later, very few films’ endings have ever made me so completely question everything preceding them. It didn’t dawn on me the third or even the fifth time I saw this film that the ending is showing us that this has been, as I said before, a propaganda film from the opening shots. Are we seeing a movie that’s actually a dramatization of Johnny’s rise, starring some pampered actor and some disingenuous representation of the bugs? Is this the To Hell and Back of the Starship Troopers universe, with Johnny Rico playing himself, just as Audie Murphy did? I wasn’t old enough to “get” Starship Troopers when I first saw it. I found the violence shocking and off-putting as a teen. It wasn’t until later that the realization of why it’s such an ugly movie caught up with me. As a child, Verhoeven lived next to a Nazi military base in the Netherlands that became a target of allied bombings. The violence in his science fiction films is always brutal, but it’s the sickening sense of the characters being enveloped in a callous world over which they have no control that draws a line under the bullets and blood.
 * It’s in Starship Troopers that Verhoeven does his job too well, essentially throwing a desperate warning at the audience that says, “The right action movie director can even make fascism look just this cool, guys.”

Taglines

 * Genocide doesn't compare to this.
 * Prepare for Battle
 * The paratroopers of the future are here... and their enemies aren't HUMAN
 * When you battle 6 trillion enemies that will eat you alive, there are only two rules... EVERYONE FIGHTS. NO ONE QUITS.
 * The only good bug is a dead bug
 * Mankind just became an endangered species
 * Forget the insecticide, bring on the nukes!
 * You can't step on these ones
 * In every age there is a cause worth fighting for, but in the future the greatest threat to our survival will not be man at all. Now the youth of tomorrow must travel across the stars to face an enemy more devastating than any ever imagined.
 * They came to our planet, they destroyed our cities. But on November 7, they'll learn, they messed with the wrong species.
 * This Fall, TriStar Pictures takes you to the front lines of the next frontier.

Cast

 * Casper Van Dien — Pvt/Cpl/Sgt/2nd Lt Johnny Rico
 * Dina Meyer — Pvt/Cpl Dizzy Flores
 * Denise Richards — LT/CAPT Carmen Ibanez
 * Jake Busey — Private Ace Levy
 * Neil Patrick Harris — Colonel Carl Jenkins
 * Clancy Brown — Career Sergeant Zim
 * Seth Gilliam — Private Sugar Watkins
 * Patrick Muldoon — LT Zander Barcalow
 * Michael Ironside — Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
 * Marshall Bell — General Owen
 * Lenore Kasdorf — Mrs. Rico

title: Starship Troopers (film)


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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (14 June 1811 – 1 July 1896) was an American abolitionist and writer, most famous as the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Quotes

 * What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
 * "The Cathedral" in The Atlantic Monthly (1846).

 * How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace. Christians in whom these dispositions are once firmly fixed, go on calmly as the sleeping infant borne in the arms of its mother. Christ reminds them of every duty in its time and place—reproves them for every error—counsels them in every difficulty, excites them to every needful activity. In spiritual, as in temporal matters, they take no thought for the morrow—for they know that Christ will be as accessible tomorrow as to-day, and that time imposes no barrier on his love. Their hope and trust rest solely on what he is willing and able to do for them; on nothing that they suppose themselves able and willing to do for him.
 * How To Live On Christ; From Harriet Beecher Stowe's Introduction to Christopher Dean’s Religion as it Should Be, or, The Remarkable Experience and Triumphant Death of Ann Thane Peck

 * I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother I was oppressed and broken-hearted, with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity — because as a lover of my country I trembled at the coming day of wrath. It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed — who cannot speak for themselves.
 * On Uncle Tom's Cabin in a letter to Lord Denman (20 January 1853).

 * The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.
 * Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (1853).

 * A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.
 * Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854).

 * He was called a good fellow, — only a little lumpish, — and as he was brave and faithful, he rose in time to be a shipmaster. But when came the business of making money, the aptitude for accumulating, George found himself distanced by many a one with not half his general powers. What shall a man do with a sublime tier of moral faculties, when the most profitable business out of his port is the slave-trade? So it was in Newport in those days. George's first voyage was on a slaver, and he wished himself dead many a time before it was over, — and ever after would talk like a man beside himself, if the subject was named. He declared that the gold made in it was distilled from human blood, from mothers' tears, from the agonies and dying groans of gasping, suffocating men and women, and that it would sear and blister the soul of him that touched it; in short, he talked as whole-souled, unpractical fellows are apt to talk about what respectable people sometimes do. Nobody had ever instructed him that a slaveship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely. packed heathens are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. So, though George was acknowledged to be a good fellow, and honest as the noon-mark on the kitchen floor, he let slip so many chances of making money as seriously to compromise his reputation among thriving folks. He was wastefully generous — insisted on treating every poor dog that came in his way, in any foreign port, as a brother — absolutely refused to be party in cheating or deceiving the heathen on any shore, or in skin of any color — and also took pains, as far as in him lay, to spoil any bargains which any of his subordinates founded on the ignorance or weakness of his fellow-men. So he made voyage after voyage, and gained only his wages and the reputation among his employers of an incorruptibly honest fellow.
 * The Minister's Wooing (1859) Ch. 1 Pre-Railroad Times.

 * Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
 * The Minister's Wooing (1859) Ch. 21 The Bruised Flax-Flower

 * Not only was he ignorant, but he had not even those conditions within himself which made knowledge possible. All that there was developed of him, at present, was a fund of energy, self-esteem, hope, courage, and daring, the love of action, life, and adventure; his life was in the outward and present, not in the inward and reflective; he was a true ten-year old boy, in its healthiest and most animal perfection. What she was, the small pearl with the golden hair, with her frail and high-strung organization, her sensitive nerves, her half-spiritual fibres, her ponderings, and marvels, and dreams, her power of love, and yearning for self-devotion, our readers may, perhaps, have seen. But if ever two children, or two grown people, thus organized, are thrown into intimate relations, it follows, from the very laws of their being, that one must hurt the other, simply by being itself; one must always hunger for what the other has not to give.
 * The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862) Online scans at the Making of America project.

 * That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.
 * The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862).

 * In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
 * The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862).

 * The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
 * The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862).

 * One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
 * "Dress, or Who Makes the Fashions" in The Atlantic Monthly (1864).

 * Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
 * "The Lady Who Does Her Own Work" in The Atlantic Monthly (1864).

 * The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.
 * Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 2.

 * "Well, mother, people have different names for different things. I hear a great deal about Ellery Davenport's tact and knowledge of the world, and all that; but he does a great deal of what I call lying, — so there! Now there are some folks who lie blunderingly, and unskilfully, but I 'll say for Ellery Davenport that he can lie as innocently and sweetly and prettily as a French woman, and I can't say any more. And if a woman does n't want to believe him, she just must n't listen to him, that 's all. I always believe him when he is around, but when he 's away and I think him over, I know just what he is, and see just what an old fool he has made of me." These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
 * Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 25.

 * People have wondered where the seat of original sin is; I think it 's in the stomach. A man eats too much and neglects exercise, and the Devil has him all his own way, and the little imps, with their long black fingers, play on his nerves like a piano. Never overwork either body or mind, boys. All the work that a man can do that can be rested by one night's sleep is good for him, but fatigue that goes into the next day is always bad.
 * Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 39 Last Days In Cloud-Land

 * When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, — and so, boys, go, and God bless you!"
 * Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 39 (p. 507) Sometimes paraphrased: "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." and "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn".

 * When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.
 * "Hymn".

 * Women are the real architects of society.
 * Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (Full text online)

 * I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
 * Introduction to an 1879 edition.

 * "Lor bless ye, yes! These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right. Now, they say," said Haley, assuming a candid and confidential air, "that this kind o' trade is hardening to the feelings; but I never found it so. Fact is, I never could do things up the way some fellers manage the business. I've seen 'em as would pull a woman's child out of her arms, and set him up to sell, and she screechin' like mad all the time; — very bad policy — damages the article — makes 'em quite unfit for service sometimes. I knew a real handsome gal once, in Orleans, as was entirely ruined by this sort o' handling. The fellow that was trading for her didn't want her baby; and she was one of your real high sort, when her blood was up. I tell you, she squeezed up her child in her arms, and talked, and went on real awful. It kinder makes my blood run cold to think of 't; and when they carried off the child, and locked her up, she jest went ravin' mad, and died in a week. Clear waste, sir, of a thousand dollars, just for want of management, — there's where 't is. It's always best to do the humane thing, sir; that's been my experience." And the trader leaned back in his chair, and folded his arm, with an air of virtuous decision, apparently considering himself a second Wilberforce.
 * Ch. 1 In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity

 * "It don't look well, now, for a feller to be praisin' himself; but I say it jest because it's the truth. I believe I'm reckoned to bring in about the finest droves of niggers that is brought in, — at least, I've been told so; if I have once, I reckon I have a hundred times, — all in good case, — fat and likely, and I lose as few as any man in the business. And I lays it all to my management, sir; and humanity, sir, I may say, is the great pillar of my management."
 * Ch. 1.

 * "Now, I've been laughed at for my notions, sir, and I've been talked to. They an't pop'lar, and they an't common; but I stuck to 'em, sir; I've stuck to 'em, and realized well on 'em; yes, sir, they have paid their passage, I may say," and the trader laughed at his joke. There was something so piquant and original in these elucidations of humanity, that Mr. Shelby could not help laughing in company. Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.
 * Ch. 1.

 * Whoever visits some estates there, and witnesses the good-humored indulgence of some masters and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be tempted to dream the oft-fabled poetic legend of a patriarchal institution, and all that; but over and above the scene there broods a portentous shadow — the shadow of law. So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to a master — so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil — so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
 * Ch. 1.

 * Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
 * Ch. 7.

 * Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.
 * Ch 10 The Property Is Carried Off

 * So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
 * Ch 13 The Quaker Settlement

 * The horrid cruelties and outrages that once and a while find their way into the papers — such cases as Prue's, for example — what do they come from? In many cases, it is a gradual hardening process on both sides — the owner growing more and more cruel, as the servant more and more callous. Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
 * Ch. 20 Topsy

 * Life passes, with us all, a day at a time; so it passed with our friend Tom, till two years were gone. Though parted from all his soul held dear, and though often yearning for what lay beyond, still was he never positively and consciously miserable; for, so well is the harp of human feeling strung, that nothing but a crash that breaks every string can wholly mar its harmony; and, on looking back to seasons which in review appear to us as those of deprivation and trial, we can remember that each hour, as it glided, brought its diversions and alleviations, so that, though not happy wholly, we were not, either, wholly miserable.
 * Ch. 22 "The Grass Withereth — the Flower Fadeth".

 * Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
 * Ch. 28 Reunion

 * Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
 * Ch. 28.

 * We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances. The child who has lost a father has still the protection of friends, and of the law; he is something, and can do something, — has acknowledged rights and position; the slave has none. The law regards him, in every respect, as devoid of rights as a bale of merchandise. The only possible acknowledgment of any of the longings and wants of a human and immortal creature, which are given to him, comes to him through the sovereign and irresponsible will of his master; and when that master is stricken down, nothing remains. The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all; so that he feels that there are ten chances of his finding an abusive and tyrannical master, to one of his finding a considerate and kind one. Therefore is it that the wail over a kind master is loud and long, as well it may be.
 * Ch. 29 The Unprotected

 * O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!" There is no speech nor language where this voice is not heard; but the bold, bad man heard it not. He woke with an oath and a curse. What to him was the gold and purple, the daily miracle of morning!
 * Ch 36 Emmeline and Cassy

 * Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die than to live? The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish and horror, finds in the very terror of his doom a strong stimulant and tonic. There is a vivid excitement, a thrill and fervor, which may carry through any crisis of suffering that is the birth-hour of eternal glory and rest. But to live, — to wear on, day after day, of mean, bitter, low, harassing servitude, every nerve dampened and depressed, every power of feeling gradually smothered, — this long and wasting heart-martyrdom, this slow, daily bleeding away of the inward life, drop by drop, hour after hour, — this is the true searching test of what there may be in man or woman.
 * Ch. 38 The Victory

 * By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
 * Ch. 38.

 * No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
 * Ch. 39 The Stratagem

 * Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, — roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
 * Ch. 40.

 * The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
 * Ch. 40 The Martyr

Concluding Remarks

 * That the tragical fate of Tom, also, has too many times had its parallel, there are living witnesses, all over our land, to testify. Let it be remembered that in all southern states it is a principle of jurisprudence that no person of colored lineage can testify in a suit against a white, and it will be easy to see that such a case may occur, wherever there is a man whose passions outweigh his interests, and a slave who has manhood or principle enough to resist his will. There is, actually, nothing to protect the slave's life, but the character of the master. Facts too shocking to be contemplated occasionally force their way to the public ear, and the comment that one often hears made on them is more shocking than the thing itself. It is said, "Very likely such cases may now and then occur, but they are no sample of general practice." If the laws of New England were so arranged that a master could now and then torture an apprentice to death, would it be received with equal composure? Would it be said, "These cases are rare, and no samples of general practice"? This injustice is an inherent one in the slave system, — it cannot exist without it.

 * The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South. Such instances save us from utter despair of our kind. But, she asks any person, who knows the world, are such characters common, anywhere? For many years of her life, the author avoided all reading upon or allusion to the subject of slavery, considering it as too painful to be inquired into, and one which advancing light and civilization would certainly live down. But, since the legislative act of 1850, when she heard, with perfect surprise and consternation, Christian and humane people actually recommending the remanding escaped fugitives into slavery, as a duty binding on good citizens, — when she heard, on all hands, from kind, compassionate and estimable people, in the free states of the North, deliberations and discussions as to what Christian duty could be on this head, — she could only think, These men and Christians cannot know what slavery is; if they did, such a question could never be open for discussion. And from this arose a desire to exhibit it in a living dramatic reality. She has endeavored to show it fairly, in its best and its worst phases. In its best aspect, she has, perhaps, been successful; but, oh! who shall say what yet remains untold in that valley and shadow of death, that lies the other side?

 * Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? Can anybody fall to make the inference what the practical result will be? If there is, as we admit, a public sentiment among you, men of honor, justice and humanity, is there not also another kind of public sentiment among the ruffian, the brutal and debased? And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest? Are the honorable, the just, the high-minded and compassionate, the majority anywhere in this world?

 * Do you say that the people of the free state have nothing to do with it, and can do nothing? Would to God this were true! But it is not true. The people of the free states have defended, encouraged, and participated; and are more guilty for it, before God, than the South, in that they have not the apology of education or custom. If the mothers of the free states had all felt as they should, in times past, the sons of the free states would not have been the holders, and, proverbially, the hardest masters of slaves; the sons of the free states would not have connived at the extension of slavery, in our national body; the sons of the free states would not, as they do, trade the souls and bodies of men as an equivalent to money, in their mercantile dealings. There are multitudes of slaves temporarily owned, and sold again, by merchants in northern cities; and shall the whole guilt or obloquy of slavery fall only on the South? Northern men, northern mothers, northern Christians, have something more to do than denounce their brethren at the South; they have to look to the evil among themselves.

 * What can any individual do? Of that, every individual can judge. There is one thing that every individual can do, — they can see to it that they feel right. An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race. See, then, to your sympathies in this matter! Are they in harmony with the sympathies of Christ? or are they swayed and perverted by the sophistries of worldly policy?

 * To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.

 * A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved, — but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God!
 * Final lines.

Household Papers and Stories (1864)

 * Human nature is above all things — lazy.
 * Ch. 6.

 * To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
 * Ch. 10.

 * In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second, Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea — by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.
 * Ch. 10.

 * All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
 * Part 2, Ch. 2.

 * True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
 * Part 2, Ch. 4.

 * Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...
 * Part 2, Ch. 4.

 * Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
 * Part 2, Ch. 4.

 * A woman's health is her capital.
 * Part 2, Ch. 5.

Little Foxes (1865)

 * Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
 * Ch. 1.

 * The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
 * Ch. 3.

 * I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred — that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
 * Ch. 3.

 * The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of folly and inanity.
 * Ch. 4.

 * A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
 * Ch. 4.

 * Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education — if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon — all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.
 * Ch. 5.

 * Harriet lived in Connecticut and influenced antislavery in her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Harriet was a optimist who expressed her feelings by writing. Harriet was listed as one of the people who started the civil war. She started it from one of her books (It was the most influencial book in all of American History) However, Harriet was a very successful person and never stood down.

Attributed

 * Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true
 * "Life's Mystery", reported in Charlotte Fiske Rogé, The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song (1832), p. 544.

 * Between the mysteries of death and life Thou standest, loving, guiding,— not explaining; We ask, and Thou art silent,— yet we gaze, And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining; No crushing fate, no stony destiny! Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.
 * "Life's Mystery", reported in Charlotte Fiske Rogé, The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song (1832), p. 544.

 * Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh, When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee; Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight, Dawns the sweet consciousness, — I am with Thee.
 * Reported in James Freeman Clarke, Book of Worship for the Congregation and the Home (1852), p. 431.

Quotes about Stowe

 * I feel that woman should in the very Capitol of the nation, lift her voice against that abominable measure. It is not enough that H. B. Stowe should write.
 * Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words edited by Lynn Sherr (1995)

 * The publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1851 was a crucial event in the history of antislavery. In a long essay on the life and work of Stowe, the Black civil-rights leader of post-Reconstruction times, Mary Church Terrell, wrote: "In estimating the value of Uncle Tom's Cabin it is not too much to say that the work of no writer of modern times has excited more general and more profound interest than did this masterpiece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In recounting the incidents and in stating the reasons which led to the emancipation of the slave, it would be difficult to exaggerate the role played by this remarkable book."
 * Bettina Aptheker Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982)

 * Abolitionist writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson said of its author: "To have written at once the most powerful and contemporaneous fiction, and the most efficient antislavery tract is a double triumph in literature and philosophy to which this country has heretofore seen no parallel."
 * Bettina Aptheker Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982)

 * Uncle Tom's Cabin is a very bad novel, having, in its self-righteous, virtuous sentimentality, much in common with Little Women. Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty. Uncle Tom's Cabin-like its multitudinous, hard-boiled descendants-is a catalogue of violence. This is explained by the nature of Mrs. Stowe's subject matter, her laudable determination to flinch from nothing in presenting the complete picture; an explanation which falters only if we pause to ask whether or not her picture is indeed complete; and what constriction or failure of perception forced her to so depend on the description of brutality-unmotivated, senseless-and to leave unanswered and unnoticed the only important question: what it was, after all, that moved her people to such deeds. But this, let us say, was beyond Mrs. Stowe's powers; she was not so much a novelist as an impassioned pamphleteer; her book was not intended to do anything more than prove that slavery was wrong; was, in fact, perfectly horrible. This makes material for a pamphlet but it is hardly enough for a novel; and the only question left to ask is why we are bound still within the same constriction. How is it that we are so loath to make a further journey than that made by Mrs. Stowe, to discover and reveal something a little closer to the truth?...Bigger (from Native Son by Richard Wright) is Uncle Tom's descendant, flesh of his flesh, so exactly opposite a portrait that, when the books are placed together, it seems that the contemporary Negro novelist and the dead New England woman are locked together in a deadly, timeless battle; the one uttering merciless exhortations, the other shouting curses.
 * James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son (1955)

 * Harriet Beecher, whose glowing pen/Corroded the chains of fettered men.
 * Frances Harper in Poems (1998)

 * Biographies of eminent women designed to appeal to literate women readers became a popular genre in the 19th century in England and in other European countries.In the United States this genre is represented by a two-volume History of Women by Lydia Maria Child...Another example of the genre is a selection of biographies by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical and Legendary Sources which uses the Old and the New Testament as its source.
 * Gerda Lerner The Creation of Feminist Consciousness (1993)

 * So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!
 * Abraham Lincoln, on meeting Stowe in 1862.

 * Why is it that Harriet Beecher Stowe has had such success throughout the wide world? Because her work reaches the sense of right in the universal human heart.
 * Lucretia Mott, "Put Woman on a Par With Man" (October 1853)

 * As our President said, we have in our army such minds as Spencer, and Mill, and I would add Buckle, and many others; and they are diffusing light, intelligence and civilization, and advocating the right. We have women also. We have Frances P. Cobbe; whose name I speak with pride and rejoicing; and in the literary world we have Charlotte Bronte, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and many others, who are consecrating their talents to the great cause of womanhood, and freedom, and right.
 * Lucretia Mott, "The Mind and Powers of Woman" (May 10, 1860)

 * The pure and worthy Mrs. Stowe is one we all are proud to know As mother, wife, and authoress— Thank God, I am content with less!
 * Dorothy Parker in "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature" from Sunset Gun (1927)

 * "Uncle Tom's Cabin" came from the heart rather than the head. It was an outburst of deep feeling, a cry in the darkness. The writer no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
 * Charles Stowe in The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1889).

 * Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.
 * Anna Garlin Spencer in Woman's Share in Social Culture (1913) Ch. 3.

 * The realm of fiction yet remains undisturbed by the Afro-Americans as a positive factor in a permanent way. This is much to be regretted, because he occupies so large a position, as a negative force. With slavery for a subject, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe gave America its strongest work of fiction, but the Afro-American there represented, though true in its delineation to the life it represented, does not represent the Afro-American of to-day. Our best literary friends have failed to do it, so ineradicable is prejudice; it is not in their power to understand that the Afro-American is a man with all the attributes of manhood. They have viewed us with a white man’s glasses so long, seeing only the ignorant and humble side, there seems no other perspective for them. Thus it is that to the world at large the conviction is widespread that we are a menial, servile, happy-go-lucky race, given to petty thievery or humble, forgiving and submissive, as was “Uncle Tom.” The literature of the day has so portrayed us. The greatest [claim] to literary merit of the new corps of Southern writers is their skill in portraying the plantation and servant side of race character by the aid of negro dialect.
 * Ida B. Wells, "The Afro-American in Literature" (1892)

 * The novel has enormous power. Uncle Tom's Cabin may be a tearjerker, but it succeeds. Many readers find their eyes filling up as Eliza climbs up the Ohio riverbank, or George Shelby pledges to do "what one man can" to fight slavery. Stowe wanted to convince people that slavery was wrong, to engage their emotions. Her overheated style accomplishes that, perhaps better than more controlled writing would have been able to.
 * Baron's Booknotes (1985).

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:41, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Obvious Discrete
This is page is (at the time) an exact duplicate of User:Obvious Discrete, and the quotes appear to be attributable to the user only (with no claim to notability). —LrdChaos 20:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 Deletes; 2 Keeps, one from vote-forger User:Obvious Discrete, one from probable sockpuppet of same; no other dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:41, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos 20:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with LrdChaos. ~ UDScott 20:41, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, "no claim to notability." ?! What is a claim but an opinion. We all know opinions are like... and everybody has them!  You yourself "claim" to be a "Lord" of "Chaos", but do you rule under a feudal society of peasants and slaves and create chaos amongst them? No, but do I question your "notability" to question my "notability". <-- That's a rhetorical question... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Obvious Discrete (talk • contribs) 20:52, 24 April 2006  (UTC)
 * Keep, why does one need to be notable in order for their quotes to belong here? and to that notion, who are we to chose who is notable and who is not?  i thorougly enjoyed reading Obvious Discrete's quotes rather than your "notable" opinions - Commander Andersen —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 159.53.110.144 (talk • contribs) 20:59, 24 April 2006  (UTC)
 * Based on style, timing, and sole contribution as VfD, this is likely a sockpuppet of Obvious Discrete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete : Personal quotes on the User's page are fine... not in the articles; Wikiquote clearly adheres to the guidelines for Wikipedia on the matter of vanity pages. ~ Harry Tuttle 07:38, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Self-admitted vanity page, based on above unsigned vote from the putative subject. I have already removed its entry in List of people by name and a vanity quote from Beauty. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:08, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, I change my vote. It's funny how those who choose to label others as notable are anything but notable themselves. The irony is amusing. I vote to keep this page because not only did the quotes ammuse me, but to disagree with you peons is pleasure enough. There is as much mention in the votes to keep this page of "self-admitted vanity" as you so proclaim as there is testosterone in your body Mr. Tuttle. Jeff Q (talk) 07:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Obvious Discrete (talk • contribs) 13:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. The above "vote" is from, not Jeff. —LrdChaos 14:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Per Blocking policy, I have blocked User:Obvious Discrete indefinitely for impersonating another user. I have also struck the entire content of their forged vote under my name. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * The vote was vandalized (Jeff's text changed and the struck-through portion restored) by . —LrdChaos 19:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete We don't accept personal quotes. It is our policy. --Aphaia 10:54, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 23:26, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Jonathan davies
This appears to be a vanity page; there's no assertion of notability, and the quotes themselves don't appear to have any real value except a few people who might know the individual. —LrdChaos 18:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:26, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos 18:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless person identified properly, evidence provided of notability, and major cleanup done, including sourcing the quotes. There is a WP article on Welsh rugby player Jonathan Davies, but this article doesn't make clear if this is who is meant. In fact, this article doesn't make anything clear. It looks like an attempt to mock someone, whether it be the rugby player or just some ordinary person who is being insulted. If someone identifies this very quickly as WP's Davies, we should clean it up ASAP, especially removing the POV statements and unsourced "interpretations". If not, we might blank it as an attempt to demean an unnotable individual. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with above. ~ UDScott 20:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete : Personal quotes on the User's page are fine... not in the articles; Wikiquote clearly adheres to the guidelines for Wikipedia on the matter of vanity pages. ~ Harry Tuttle 07:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. The user at the same IP as the one that created the article recently added this: "Jonathan Davies is a student at Gleneagle Secondary school. Jon was born on September 6 1991." I believe this clears up the subject of the article. —LrdChaos 16:39, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 23:24, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Sim Zhi Min
Not notable. ~ UDScott 12:07, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:24, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, according to thie person's wikipedia article (which appears to pretty much be nonsense), it is a 13-year old student, and it is doubtful that he is notable enough to have a page here (or on wp). ~ UDScott 12:07, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. No assertion of notability, and much of the WP article (which I've just nominated for deletion over there) seems like excessive vanity or a hoax of some kind. —LrdChaos 14:35, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this obvious vanity page. Wikipedia has already speedy-deleted it. This demonstrates the need to complete work on our own speedy-deletion policy update, which largely follows current WP practice. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:55, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete : Personal quotes on the User's page are fine... not in the articles; Wikiquote clearly adheres to the guidelines for Wikipedia on the matter of vanity pages. ~ Harry Tuttle 07:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'll suggest its contributor to move it to his/her user page, if wants. --Aphaia 11:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 23:23, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Trinity
No quotes. ~ UDScott 11:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (3 Deletes; no dissent; no quotes added, obviating other considerations). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:23, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless valid quotes are added. ~ UDScott 11:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless valid quotes are added. If so, I would recommend moving this to The Trinity or Holy Trinity to allow other uses of this term/name. (I am not an expert on this matter, so I welcome suggestions on this.) There are certainly plenty of sourceable quotes out there on this subject (and not just from The Bible); the question is whether anyone wants to find and add them. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete now since
 * as Jeff Q said, the current lemma is questionable; it would be better to change to "The Trinity" or (the) "Holy Trinity" - perhaps the former would be more NPOV.
 * there is only one sentence - as far as I know, it is an dictionary-type definition, not quote. Essjay - he is a theologitian, AFAIK - will be able to help us.
 * I strongly say: any improvement is welcome - there are abundance of good quotations. The possible problem is if we accept the quotes which are related to this theme but don't content this concept as is - no bibrical text contains this term as we know well. And there are many Church Fathers' text arguing this theme but not using this word. --Aphaia 10:51, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

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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 Darlinton. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Darlinton~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 23:20, 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) 05:46, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Darlinton~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Keebler

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! -- Robert 01:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
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title: User talk:Keebler


text:
User talk:Kevinwparker

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! -- Robert 01:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
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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 Kevinwparker. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Kevinwparker~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 23:26, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Kevinwparker