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Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg (also Rozalia Luxenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. She was, successively, a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

Quotes

 * The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.
 * Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy (1904)

 * The Russo-Japanese War now gives to all an awareness that even war and peace in Europe – its destiny – isn’t decided between the four walls of the European concert, but outside it, in the gigantic maelstrom of world and colonial politics. And its in this that the real meaning of the current war resides for social-democracy, even if we set aside its immediate effect: the collapse of Russian absolutism. This war brings the gaze of the international proletariat back to the great political and economic connectedness of the world, and violently dissipates in our ranks the particularism, the pettiness of ideas that form in any period of political calm. The war completely rends all the veils which the bourgeois world – this world of economic, political and social fetishism – constantly wraps us in. The war destroys the appearance which leads us to believe in peaceful social evolution; in the omnipotence and the untouchability of bourgeois legality; in national exclusivism; in the stability of political conditions; in the conscious direction of politics by these “statesmen” or parties; in the significance capable of shaking up the world of the squabbles in bourgeois parliaments; in parliamentarism as the so-called center of social existence. War unleashes – at the same time as the reactionary forces of the capitalist world – the generating forces of social revolution which ferment in its depths.
 * "In the Storm" in Le Socialiste as translated by Mitch Abidor (1 - 8 May 1904)

 * From the moment when the workers of our country and of Russia began to struggle bravely against the Czarist Government and the capitalist exploiters, we notice more and more often that the priests, in their sermons, come out against the workers who are struggling. It is with extraordinary vigour that the clergy fight against the socialists and try by all means to belittle them in the eyes of the workers. The believers who go to church on Sundays and festivals are compelled, more and more often, to listen to a violent political speech, a real indictment of Socialism, instead of hearing a sermon and obtaining religious consolation there. Instead of comforting the people, who are full of cares and wearied by their hard lives, who go to church with faith in Christianity, the priests fulminate against the workers who are on strike, and against the opponents of the government; further, they exhort them to bear poverty and oppression with humility and patience. They turn the church and the pulpit into a place of political propaganda.
 * Socialism and the Churches (1905)

 * Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
 * The Junius Pamphlet (1915)

 * I suppose I must be out of sorts to feel everything so deeply. Sometimes, however, it seems to me that i am not really a human being at all, but like a bird or a beast in human form. I feel so much more at home even in a scrap of garden like the one here, and still more in the meadows when the grass is humming with bees than - at one of the our party congresses.
 * Prison Letter, (May 12, 1917), Rosa Luxemburg Speaks

 * Public control is indispensably necessary. Otherwise the exchange of experiences remains only with the closed circle of the officials of the new regime. Corruption becomes inevitable. (Lenin’s words, Bulletin No.29) Socialism in life demands a complete spiritual transformation in the masses degraded by centuries of bourgeois rule. Social instincts in place of egotistical ones, mass initiative in place of inertia, idealism which conquers all suffering, etc., etc. No one knows this better, describes it more penetratingly; repeats it more stubbornly than Lenin. But he is completely mistaken in the means he employs. Decree, dictatorial force of the factory overseer, draconian penalties, rule by terror – all these things are but palliatives. The only way to a rebirth is the school of public life itself, the most unlimited, the broadest democracy and public opinion. It is rule by terror which demoralizes.
 * "The Problem with Dictatorship" in The Russian Revolution as translated by Bertram Wolfe (1918)

 * The proletarian revolution ought now, by a little ray of kindness, to illuminate the gloomy life of prisoners, shorten Draconian sentences, abolish barbarous punishments - the use of manacles and whippings - improve, as far as possible, the medical attention, the food allowance, and the conditions of labor. That is a duty of honor.
 * Against Capital Punishment (1918), Rosa Luxemburg Speaks

 * Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. The essence of political freedom depends not on the fanatics of 'justice', but rather on all the invigorating, beneficial, and detergent effects of dissenters. If 'freedom' becomes 'privilege', the workings of political freedom are broken.
 * Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung (1920) p. 109
 * This contains probably her most famous statement: Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden, translated as "Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters." Literally: Freedom is always the freedom of those who think differently.

 * The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight... That's exactly what is laudable about it, that's exactly why this colossal piece of culture, within the modern workers' movement, is epoch-defining: that the great masses of the working people first forge from their own consciousness, from their own belief, and even from their own understanding the weapons of their own liberation.
 * "The Politics of Mass Strikes and Unions"; Collected Works 2

 * The leadership has failed. Even so, the leadership can and must be recreated from the masses and out of the masses. The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. The masses were on the heights; they have developed this 'defeat' into one of the historical defeats which are the pride and strength of international socialism. And that is why the future victory will bloom from this 'defeat'. 'Order reigns in Berlin!' You stupid henchmen! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!
 * "Order reigns in Berlin", Last written words. Collected Works 4

 * Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.
 * As quoted in Quote Junkie : Political Edition (2008) by Hagopian Institute

Reform or Revolution (1899)

 * The production relations of capitalist society approach more and more the production relations of socialist society. But on the other hand, its political and juridical relations established between capitalist society and socialist society a steadily rising wall. This wall is not overthrown, but is on the contrary strengthened and consolidated by the development of social reforms and the course of democracy. Only the hammer blow of revolution, that is to day, the conquest of political power by the proletariat can break down this wall.
 * Ch. 7
 * In the history of bourgeois society, legislative reform served to strengthen progressively the rising class till the latter was sufficiently strong to seize political power, to suppress the existing juridical system and to construct itself a new one.
 * Ch.8
 * Legislative reform and revolution are not different methods of historic development that can be picked out at the pleasure from the counter of history, just as one chooses hot or cold sausages. Legislative reform and revolution are different factors in the development of class society. They condition and complement each other, and are at the same time reciprocally exclusive, as are the north and south poles, the bourgeoisie and proletariat.
 * Ch. 8
 * Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution. In the history of classes, revolution is the act of political creation, while legislation is the political expression of the life of a society that has already come into being. Work for reform does not contain its own force independent from revolution. During every historic period, work for reforms is carried on only in the direction given to it by the impetus of the last revolution and continues as long as the impulsion from the last revolution continues to make itself felt. Or, to put it more concretely, in each historic period work for reforms is carried on only in the framework of the social form created by the last revolution. Here is the kernel of the problem.
 * Ch. 8
 * In the army, capitalist development leads to the extension of obligatory military service to the reduction of the time of service and consequently to a material approach to a popular militia. But all of this takes place under the form of modern militarism in which the domination of the people by the militarist State and the class character of the State manifest themselves most clearly.
 * Ch.8
 * If democracy has become superfluous or annoying to the bourgeoisie, it is on the contrary necessary and indispensable to the working class. It is necessary to the working class because it creates the political forms (autonomous administration, electoral rights, etc.) which will serve the proletariat as fulcrums in its task of transforming bourgeois society. Democracy is indispensable to the working class because only through the exercise of its democratic rights, in the struggle for democracy, can the proletariat become aware of its class interests and its historic task.
 * Ch.8
 * Without the collapse of capitalism the expropriation of the capitalist class is impossible.
 * Ch. 9
 * Ch. 9

The Junius Pamphlet (1915)

 * The scene has thoroughly changed. The six weeks' march to Paris has come world drama. Mass murder has become a monotonous task, and yet the final solution is not one step nearer. Capitalist rule is caught in its own trap, and cannot ban the spirit that it has Gone is the first mad delirium. Gone are the patriotic street demonstrations, the chase after suspicious-looking automobiles; the false telegrams, the cholera-poisoned wells. Gone the mad stories of Russian students who hurl bombs from every bridge of Berlin, or French men flying over Nuremberg; gone the excesses of spy-hunting populace, the singing through, the coffee shops with their patriotic songs; gone the violent mobs, ready to denounce, ready to persecute women, ready to whip themselves into a delirious frenzy over every wild rumor; gone the atmosphere of ritual murder, the Kishinev air that left the policeman at the corner as the only remaining representative of human dignity.
 * Ch.1

 * Violated, dishonored, wading in blood, dripping filth – there stands bourgeois society. This is it [in reality]. Not all spic and span and moral, with pretense to culture, philosophy, ethics, order, peace, and the rule of law – but the ravening beast, the witches’ sabbath of anarchy, a plague to culture and humanity. Thus it reveals itself in its true, its naked form.
 * Ch. 1

 * Shamed, dishonored, wading in blood and dripping with filth, thus capitalist society stands. Not as we usually see it, playing the roles of peace and righteousness, of order, of philosophy, of ethics - as a roaring beast, as an orgy of anarchy, as a pestilential breath, devastating culture and humanity - so it appears in all its hideous nakedness.
 * Ch. 1, Rosa Luxemburg Speaks (1970), trns: Mary-Alice Waters

 * Friedrich Engels once said: “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” What does “regression into barbarism” mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization.
 * Ch.1

Peace Utopias (1911)

 * First published as Friedensutopien in Leipziger Volkszeitung (6 & 8 May 1911) Copyleft: Luxemburg Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2004.

 * What is our task in the question of peace? It does not consist merely in vigorously demonstrating at all times the love of peace of the Social Democrats; but first and foremost our task is to make clear to the masses of people the nature of militarism and sharply and clearly to bring out the differences in principle between the standpoint of the Social Democrats and that of the bourgeois peace enthusiasts.

 * Die Friedensfreunde aus bürgerlichen Kreisen glauben, das sich Weltfriede und Abrüstung im Rahmen der heutigen Gesellschaftsordnung verwirklichen lassen, wir aber, die wir auf dem Boden der materialistischen Geschichtsauffassung und des wissenschaftlichen Sozialismus stehen, sind der Überzeugung, das der Militarismus erst mit dem kapitalistischen Klassenstaate zusammen aus der Welt geschafft werden kann.
 * The friends of peace in bourgeois circles believe that world peace and disarmament can be realised within the frame-work of the present social order, whereas we, who base ourselves on the materialistic conception of history and on scientific socialism, are convinced that militarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state.

 * Militarism in both its forms — as war and as armed peace — is a legitimate child, a logical result of capitalism, which can only be overcome with the destruction of capitalism, and that hence whoever honestly desires world peace and liberation from the tremendous burden of armaments must also desire Socialism. Only in this way can real Social Democratic enlightenment and recruiting be carried on in connection with the armaments debate.

 * The Utopianism of the standpoint which expects an era of peace and retrenchment of militarism in the present social order is plainly revealed in the fact that it is having recourse to project making. For it is typical of Utopian strivings that, in order to demonstrate their practicability, they hatch "practical" recipes with the greatest possible details. To this also belongs the project of the "United States of Europe" as a basis for the limitation of international militarism.

 * Plausible as the idea of the United States of Europe as a peace arrangement may seem to some at first glance, it has on closer examination not the least thing in common with the method of thought and the standpoint of social democracy . . . At the present stage of development of the world market and of world economy, the conception of Europe as an isolated economic unit is a sterile concoction of the brain. Europe no more forms a special unit within world economy than does Asia or America.

 * The times when the centre of gravity of political development and the crystallising agent of capitalist contradictions lay on the European continent, are long gone by. To-day Europe is only a link in the tangled chain of international connections and contradictions.

The Russian Revolution (1918)

 * As translated by Bertram Wolfe (1940)

 * As the entire middle class, the bourgeois and petty bourgeois intelligentsia, boycotted the Soviet government for months after the October Revolution and crippled the railroad, post and telegraph, and educational and administrative apparatus, and, in this fashion, opposed the workers government, naturally all measures of pressure were exerted against it. These included the deprivation of political rights, of economic means of existence, etc., in order to break their resistance with an iron fist. It was precisely in this way that the socialist dictatorship expressed itself, for it cannot shrink from any use of force to secure or prevent certain measures involving the interests of the whole.

 * The Leninist agrarian reform has created a new and powerful layer of popular enemies of socialism on the countryside, enemies whose resistance will be much more dangerous and stubborn than that of the noble large landowners.
 * Chapter Two

 * One is immediately struck with the obstinacy and rigid consistency with which Lenin and his comrades stuck to this slogan, a slogan which is in sharp contradiction to their otherwise outspoken centralism in politics as well as to the attitude they have assumed towards other democratic principles. Wile they showed a quite cool contempt for the Constituent Assembly, universal suffrage, freedom of press and assemblage, in short for the whole apparatus of basic democratic liberties of the people which, taken all together, constituted the "right of self-determination" inside Russia, they treated the right of self-determination of peoples as a jewel of democratic policy for the sake of which all practical considerations of real criticism had to be stilled.
 * Chapter Three, "Nationalities Question"

 * Every right of suffrage, like any political right in general, is not to be measured by some sort of abstract scheme of “justice,” or in terms of any other bourgeois-democratic phrases, but by the social and economic relationships for which it is designed. The right of suffrage worked out by the Soviet government is calculated for the transition period from the bourgeois-capitalist to the socialist form of society, that is, it is calculated for the period of the proletarian dictatorship. But, according to the interpretation of this dictatorship which Lenin and Trotsky represent, the right to vote is granted only to those who live by their own labor and is denied to everyone else.
 * Chapter Five, "The Question of Suffrage"

 * It makes no sense to regard the right of suffrage as a utopian product of fantasy, cut loose from social reality. And it is for this reason that it is not a serious instrument of the proletarian dictatorship. It is an anachronism, an anticipation of the juridical situation which is proper on the basis of an already completed socialist economy, but is not in the transition period of the proletarian dictatorship.
 * Chapter Five, "The Question of Suffrage"

 * The socialist system of society should only be, and can only be, an historical product, born out of the school of its own experiences, born in the course of its realization, as a result of the developments of living history, which – just like organic nature of which, in the last analysis, it forms a part – has the fine habit of always producing along with any real social need the means to its satisfaction, along with the task simultaneously the solution. However, if such is the case, then it is clear that socialism by its very nature cannot be decreed or introduced by ukase. It has as its prerequisite a number of measures of force – against property, etc. The negative, the tearing down, can be decreed; the building up, the positive, cannot. New Territory. A thousand problems. Only experience is capable of correcting and opening new ways.
 * Chapter Six, "The Problem of Dictatorship"

 * The Bolsheviks themselves will not want, with hand on heart, to deny that, step by step, they have to feel out the ground, try out, experiment, test now one way now another, and that a good many of their measures do not represent priceless pearls of wisdom. Thus it must and will be with all of us when we get to the same point–even if the same difficult circumstances may not prevail everywhere.
 * Chapter Six, "The Problem of Dictatorship"

 * Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of “justice” but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when “freedom” becomes a special privilege.
 * Chapter Six, "The Problem of Dictatorship"

 * When all this is eliminated, what really remains? In place of the representative bodies created by general, popular elections, Lenin and Trotsky have laid down the soviets as the only true representation of political life in the land as a whole, life in the soviets must also become more and more crippled.Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Among them, in reality only a dozen outstanding heads do the leading and an elite of the working class is invited from time to time to meetings where they are to applaud the speeches of the leaders, and to approve proposed resolutions unanimously – at bottom, then, a clique affair – a dictatorship, to be sure, not the dictatorship of the proletariat but only the dictatorship of a handful of politicians, that is a dictatorship in the bourgeois sense, in the sense of the rule of the Jacobins (the postponement of the Soviet Congress from three-month periods to six-month periods!)
 * Chapter Six, "The Problem of Dictatorship"
 * Variant translation: Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
 * As quoted by Paul Froelich (1940)

Leninism or Marxism? (1904)

 * One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward, written by Lenin, an outstanding member of the Iskra group, is a methodical exposition of the ideas of the ultra-centralist tendency in the Russian movement. The viewpoint presented with incomparable vigor and logic in this book, is that of pitiless centralism.
 * Lenin's thesis is that the party Central Committee should have the privilege of naming all the local committees of the party. It should have the right to appoint the effective organs of all local bodies from Geneva to Liege, from Tomsk to Irkutsk. It should also have the right to impose on all of them its own ready-made rules of party conduct. It should have the right to rule without appeal on such questions as the dissolution and reconstitution of local organizations. This way, the Central Committee could determine, to suit itself, the composition of the highest party organs. The Central Committee would be the only thinking element in the party. All other groupings would be its executive limbs.
 * For Lenin, the difference between the Social Democracy and is reduced to the observation that in place of a handful of conspirators we have a class-conscious proletariat. He forgets that this difference implies a complete revision of our ideas on organization and, therefore, an entirely different conception of centralism and the relations existing between the party and the struggle itself.
 * Social Democratic centralism cannot be based on the mechanical subordination and blind obedience of the party membership to the leading party center. [...] The Social Democratic movement cannot allow the erection of an air-tight partition between the class-conscious nucleus of the proletariat already in the party and its immediate popular environment, the nonparty sections of the proletariat.
 * The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.
 * But what has been the experience of the Russian socialist movement up to now? The most important and fruitful changes in its tactical policy during the last ten years have not been the inventions of several leaders and even less so of any central organizational organs. They have always been the spontaneous product of the movement in ferment.
 * Granting, as Lenin wants, such absolute powers of a negative character to the top organ of the party, we strengthen, to a dangerous extent, the conservatism inherent in such an organ.
 * In the present situation, such an experiment would be doubly dangerous to the Russian Social Democracy. It stands on the eve of decisive battles against tsarism. It is about to enter, or has already entered, on a period of intensified creative activity, during which it will broaden (as is usual in a revolutionary period) its sphere of influence and will advance spontaneously by leaps and bounds. To attempt to bind the initiative of the party at this moment, to surround it with a network of barbed wire, is to render it incapable of accomplishing the tremendous task of the hour.
 * If we assume the viewpoint claimed as his own by Lenin and we fear the influence of intellectuals in the proletarian movement, we can conceive of no greater danger to the Russian party than Lenin's plan of organization. Nothing will more surely enslave a young labor movement to an intellectual elite hungry for power than this bureaucratic straightjacket, which will immobilize the movement and turn it into an automaton manipulated by a Central Committee. On the other hand there is no more effective guarantee against opportunist intrigue and personal ambition than the independent revolutionary action of the proletariat, as a result of which the workers acquire the sense of political responsibility and self-reliance.
 * But here is the "ego" of the Russian revolutionary again! Pirouetting on its head, it once more proclaims itself to be the all-powerful director of history — this time with the title of His Excellency the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party of Russia.
 * Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee.

Quotes about Luxemburg

 * The international disputes which united and divided Luxemburg, Lenin, Lukács, Gramsci, Bordiga or Trotsky on these issues represent the last great strategic debate in the European workers’ movement. Since then, there has been little significant theoretical development of the political problems of revolutionary strategy in metropolitan capitalism that has had any direct contact with the masses. The structural divorce between original Marxist theory and the main organizations of the working class in Europe has yet to be historically resolved. The May-June revolt in France, the upheaval in Portugal, the approaching dénouement in Spain, presage the end of this long divorce, but have not accomplished it. The classical debates, therefore, still remain in many respects the most advanced limit of reference we possess today. It is thus not mere archaism to recall the strategic confrontations which occurred four or five decades ago. To reappropriate them, on the contrary, is a step towards a Marxist discussion that has the—necessarily modest—hope of assuming an ‘initial shape’ of correct theory today. Régis Debray has spoken, in a famous paragraph, of the constant difficulty of being contemporary with our present. In Europe at least, we have yet to be sufficiently contemporary with our past.
 * Perry Anderson, "The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci", New Left Review (1976)

 * While she was speaking I realized why she was considered one of the greatest speakers and teachers of the movement. Her simplicity, her enthusiasm, and deep sincerity, together with her wit, combined to produce a profound effect upon her audience. She was extraordinarily endowed intellectually. While still a very young girl, a university student, she had impressed authorities on political economy with her precocious writings on this subject. She had an exceptionally keen critical mind, and at an age when most girls are interested in little except clothes, romantic novels, and dancing, she was already a regular and highly-respected contributor to the scientific Marxian journals. Rosa Luxemburg belonged to that generation of famous women who had to struggle against almost insurmountable obstacles to gain opportunities which the men of her day accepted as a matter of course. For a woman to acquire intellectual recognition at that time demanded an authentic thirst for knowledge, much tenacity and an iron will. Rosa Luxemburg had all of these qualities to an exceptional degree. But there was also a softer side to her nature. When, after her tragic death, some of her letters to her intimate friends were published, they were a revelation to the public-particularly perhaps to that section of it which read the conservative press, which usually referred to her as "the Red Fury." Those letters were poetic in the truest sense of the word. The intense political activity and scientific work of Rosa Luxemburg expressed but one aspect of her mind and personality.
 * Angelica Balabanoff My Life As a Rebel (1938)

 * In retrospect, Jean Jaurès and Rosa Luxemburg seem to me the only delegates who, like Adler, realized fully the inevitability of the World War and the horrors it entailed.
 * Angelica Balabanoff My Life As a Rebel (1938)

 * I remembered at this time the brilliant critical analysis of the German Social Democracy which Rosa Luxemburg had written in gaol in 1914, after her arrest for anti-militarist activity. The pamphlet had been signed by the pseudonym "Junius" and it was a confirmation of prophecies I had heard her make at a German Congress in Hanover many years before when she had engaged in a brilliant polemical duel with the German Revisionist, Edward Bernstein. Even then she had foreseen the development of that pernicious opportunism which was to result in the tragedies of the post-war years.
 * Angelica Balabanoff My Life As a Rebel (1938)

 * The Eastern-European born revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Emma Goldman, the most famous examples, marched onto the pages of radical history and represented a new kind of Jewish woman, at odds with the balebuste of old.
 * Carole B. Balin, To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia (2000)

 * The articulation of universalism with the sense of Jewish identity took varying forms depending on the different revolutionary currents: for internationalists such as Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Karl Radek and Rosa Luxemburg, the assimilation of a Jewish revolutionary into the concrete universal party, the dissolution of the 'little difference' into the status of equality of the militant, anticipated the society for which they fought; they did not consider the little difference' as called on to crystallize one day in terms of national identity. Were they blind? Blinkered, certainly, in the sense that they underestimated the national dimension of the Jewish problem in Eastern Europe.
 * Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg, Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism (2016)

 * no one would claim that the revolt of a few hundred insurgents in the Warsaw ghetto in April 1943 influenced the course of the war in any way. The immense importance of this event was in another dimension: a symbol, as is often said, the manifestation par excellence of the will to attest by struggle 'despite everything' - the famous trotz alledem of Heinrich Heine, found also from the pens of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, and again in the famous song of Wolf Biermann. It embodied the will and capacity of human resistance in the face of adversity, despite the extreme disproportion of forces.
 * Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg, Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism (2016)

 * As the second decades of the new millennium nears completion we are beginning to truly understand what Rosa Luxemburg meant when she said: Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to Socialism or regression into Barbarism.
 * CounterPunch, The Failed Venezuelan Coup and the Decline of US Hegemony, Peter Bolton, (27 June 2019)

 * Franz Mehring, the biographer of Marx, did not exaggerate when he called Rosa Luxemburg the best brain after Marx. But she did not contribute her brain alone to the working-class movement; she gave everything she had — her heart, her passion, her strong will, her very life.
 * Tony Cliff, in his Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg, Ideas in Action (1972) by Paul Frölich, p. ix

 * A passion for truth made Rosa Luxemburg recoil from any dogmatic thought. In a period when Stalinism has largely turned Marxism into a dogma, spreading desolation in the field of ideas, Rosa Luxemburg's writings are invigorating and life-giving. Nothing was more intolerable to her than bowing down to "infallible authorities". As a real disciple of Marx she was able to think and act independently of her master.
 * Tony Cliff, in his Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg, Ideas in Action (1972) by Paul Frölich, p. x

 * During a period when so many who consider themselves Marxists sap Marxism of its deep humanistic content, no one can do more to release us from the chains of lifeless mechanistic materialism than Rosa Luxemburg. For Marx communism (or socialism) was "real humanism", "a society in which the full and free development of every individual is the ruling principle".
 * Tony Cliff, in his Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg, Ideas in Action (1972) by Paul Frölich, p. x

 * Rosa Luxemburg, brave woman Socialist of Germany, who was later brutally murdered by the militarists, sounded the alarm against a World War in 1913. She called upon the workers to make May Day a mighty demonstration for peace and socialism. “Workers of the world, Unite!” became the insistent cry on May Day. Every vital issue was pressed, more and more militant slogans raised in each country and internationally.
 * Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, "May 1st: The Sun of Tomorrow" (May 6, 1941)

 * The most interesting women in modern European history appear in the ranks of radical political movements. It is difficult to find conservative or traditional counterparts equal to Louise Michel, Emma Goldman, and Rosa Luxemburg. Even Isadora Duncan, creator of modern dance, flirted with communism. More thoughtful and articulate and certainly as politically active as any of these women is the lesser known Spanish anarchist, Federica Montseny. On asking what attracted these women to radical politics, one discovers in each a commitment to feminism. No person, not even Emma Goldman, explored this necessary relationship between feminist and socialist principles more provocatively than did Federica Montseny.
 * Shirley Fredricks in European Women on the Left edited by Jane Slaughter and Robert Korn (1981)

 * The only way that inviolability has maintained its force overtime has been through the forces of organized violence standing between that concept of property and everybody else. That is it...the forces of organized violence, while very much tied to military uniforms, weapons, industrialized killing in that way, what Rosa Luxemburg called organized murder
 * Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Interview with Truthout (2022)

 * Her writing is distinguished by a knowledge of art, history, and literature, her speech made vivid by strength and immediacy of feeling. Her criticism of party writing is amazing. “I think that with every new article,” she advises her comrades back in Poland, putting out The Workers’ Cause, “one should experience the subject matter through and through, get emotionally involved, every single time, every single day. Only then will the old, familiar truths, expressed in words new and bright, go from the writer’s heart to the reader’s heart… The goal I set for myself is never to forget to reach deep into my own self, to be enthusiastic, inspired every time I put pen to paper.” Because she never failed to “reach deep into her own self,” Luxemburg’s sense of the revolution remained remarkably whole and alive to the touch. She never lost sight of what she was fighting for, what socialism meant to her, what price she was willing to pay for it. Her position was often lonely but always independent. She thrived on the independence. Then suddenly it turned to isolation.
 * Vivian Gornick "Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Revolution" (1987)

 * This was Luxemburg’s single most important insight: The revolutionaries must remain human throughout their struggle. Otherwise, what kind of revolution would these angry, repressed people make? Whom would it serve? And how would life be better afterwards? These thoughts never left her. They are there, year after year, in her letters to Leo, in the reasons she gives for wanting them to be close and to love each other freely. Out of these thoughts comes her opposition to war, her criticism of Lenin, her description of why she reads Tolstoy instead of Marx in prison. In Rosa Luxemburg, the line between emotion and intelligence remained strong and direct. All her life it was the task of her intellect to explain what her gut told her was true.
 * Vivian Gornick "Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Revolution" (1987)

 * this sequence has that title coming from a poem by Bertolt Brecht, the great German playwright and poet, a revolutionary playwright and poet, I should add, who wrote a poem in which he said, “What kind of times are these, when it seems almost a crime to talk about trees, because it means keeping silent about so many evil deeds.” And so, I called the whole sequence “What Kind of Times Are These.” And in it, I was just playing with the sense of what it was like—what it is like to be alive in this country in the 1990s—the encroaching power of the capitalist economy, the denial of any kind of counterbalancing past, the wiping out of history, and also the need to find happiness and pleasure in the midst of such dark times, and how that can carry you through to be aware, as open-eyed as you can of what is going on in your time, and at the same time, as Rosa Luxemburg advised, to seize every beautiful cloud and every joyful moment. And so, this little sequence of poems came out of that kind of musing.
 * Adrienne Rich Interview with Democracy Now (1997)

 * Luxemburg was "a reluctant feminist" who was "galled in a most personal form" by the Woman Question" but, "just as she had learned to live with an underlying anti-Semitism in the party so she learned to live with male chauvinism." (Does this have a familiar ring?) In particular, she lived with it in the figure of August Bebel, a self-proclaimed feminist who wrote of her "wretched female's squirts of poison," and Viktor Adler, who called her "the poisonous bitch... clever as a monkey" However, when she was arrested in 1915 it was on the eve of organizing an international women's antiwar conference with Clara Zetkin. Of their relationship Raya Dunayevskaya says: "Far from Luxemburg having no interest in the so-called Woman Question, and far from Zetkin having no interest outside of that question, both of them ... were determined to build a women's liberation movement that concentrated not only on organizing women workers but on having them develop as leaders, as decision-makers, and as independent Marxist revolutionaries." In fact, from 1902 on Luxemburg had been writing and speaking on the emancipation of women and on woman suffrage; in 1911 she wrote to her friend Louise Kautsky, "Are you coming for the women's conference? Just imagine, I have become a feminist!" She debated Bebel and Kautsky over the "Woman Question," and broke with Kautsky in 1911, yet, in her short and brutally ended life, feminism and proletarian revolution never became integrated. Dunayevskaya is critical of Luxemburg but also impatient with present-day feminists who want to write her off. In Luxemburg, Dunayevskaya portrays a brilliant, brave, and independent woman, passionately internationalist and antiwar, a believer in the people's "spontaneity" in the cause of freedom; a woman who saw herself as Mary's philosophical heir, who refused the efforts of her lover and other men to discourage her from full participation in "making history because she was a woman.
 * Adrienne Rich Arts of the Possible (2001)

 * Rosa was saved from personal, inner disaster during the great betrayals of the First World War by several, all rather tough-minded, characteristics. She had a tenacious orthodoxy: she was perfectly confident of the sufficiency of Marxism as an answer, though she was more humane about it than Lenin. She had a warm, purely human love of people — physically, their smell and touch and comradeship. And a kind of Jewish indomitable guts, that ultimate unkillability which comes only from grandparents in yamulke and horsehair wig.
 * Kenneth Rexroth, in his essay "Simone Weil", in The Nation (12 January 1957)

 * Rosa Luxemburg, as we have seen, neglects the rise in real wages which takes place as capitalism develops, and denies the internal inducement to invest provided by technical progress, two factors which help to rescue capitalism from the difficulties which it creates for itself. She is left with only one influence (economic imperialism) to account for continuous capital accumulation, so that her analysis is incomplete. All the same, few would deny that the extension of capitalism into new territories was the mainspring of what an academic economist has called the 'vast secular boom' of the last two hundred years, and many academic economists account for the uneasy condition of capitalism in the twentieth century largely by the 'closing of the frontier' all over the world. But the academic economists are being wise after the event. For all its confusions and exaggerations, this book shows more prescience than any orthodox contemporary could claim.
 * Joan Robinson, introduction to The Accumulation of Capital (1951)

 * Like the women civil rights activists, Jewish radicals have historically had a range of responses to Jewish identity. Emma Goldman, for example, balanced the universalism of her anarchist philosophy with an appreciation for Jewish culture and a clear commitment to speaking out against anti-Semitism. Revolutionary socialist leader Rosa Luxemburg, on the other hand, was hostile to any attempts to link her politics to her Jewish identity and was particularly critical of the Jewish socialist Bund.
 * Debra L. Schultz Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement (2002)

 * "La mujer," one of the articles that Luisa Capetillo published in 1912 in Cultura obrera, was later included in the anthology, Voces de liberación (Voices of Liberation), published in 1921 by Lux Editorial from Argentina. Printed for the purpose of gathering the libertarian voices of the most progressive women in the world, the book contains short essays by Rosa Luxembourg, Clara Zetkin, Emma Goldman, Louise Michel, and various Latin American women including Margarita Ortega, a Mexican revolutionary, María López from Buenos Aires, and Rosalina Gutiérrez from Montevideo. The editorial note introducing the authors states, "These voices of liberation are a call to women by their own compañeras to think more and act together with men in the struggle for human emancipation."
 * Norma Valle-Ferrer, Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist

 * On 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered in Berlin by the right-wing paramilitary Freikorps who were acting on the orders of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany; SPD). Luxemburg and Liebknecht had played an important part in the German Revolution of 1918–1919.
 * Working Class History (2020)

 * With a will, determination, selflessness and devotion for which words are too weak, she consecrated her whole life and her whole being to Socialism. She gave herself completely to the cause of Socialism, not only in her tragic death, but throughout her whole life, daily and hourly, through the struggles of many years ... She was the sharp sword, the living flame of revolution.
 * Clara Zetkin, her closest friend, as quoted in Rosa Luxemburg, Ideas in Action (1972) by Paul Frölich, p. x

 * Rarely was heard on her lips the phrase, “I cannot”; more frequently were heard the words, “I must.”
 * Clara Zetkin, as quoted in Rosa Luxemburg, marxists.org, September 1919.

 * Rosa Luxemburg is an outstanding example of a type of mind that is often met with in the history of Marxism and appears to be specially attracted by the Marxist outlook. It is characterized by slavish submission to authority, together with a belief that in that submission the values of scientific thought can be preserved. No doctrine was so well suited as Marxism to satisfy both these attitudes, or to provide a mystification combining extreme dogmatism with the cult of “scientific” thinking, in which the disciple could find mental and spiritual peace. Marxism thus played the part of a religion for the intelligentsia, which did not prevent some of them, like Rosa Luxemburg herself, from trying to improve the deposit of faith by reverting to first principles, thus strengthening their own belief that they were independent of dogma.
 * Polish historian and philosopher Leszek Kołakowski, Main Currents of Marxism: Volume II: The Golden Age, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978, pp. 94-5

Misattributed

 * Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

As is often the case, this quote appears to be something Luxemburg could have said or written, but searches for a source have been unsuccessful. While Luxemburg often used metaphors of breaking or shattering chains, this, apparently, is not one of them.

German language

 * Rosa Luxemburg Internet Archive on Marxists.org, also available in English, see above.
 * Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag).
 * Short biography
 * Zur Russischen Revolution (On the Russian Revolution), 1922
 * Das Leben von Rosa Luxemburg (The life of Rosa Luxemburg).

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Hi. If you could translate a couple of quotes from this interview, for example, and put them in the Rajinikanth, it would be nice and would also keep the page from being deleted. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 5 July 2005 01:56 (UTC)

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I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy is a sitcom originally broadcast from 1951 to 1957 and remains in syndication. It stars comedienne Lucille Ball, her (then) husband Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley.

The Girls Want To Go To The Nightclub [1.1]

 * Ethel: Sing something.
 * Ricky: I couldn't.
 * Lucy: Let's neck.
 * Ricky: Wait a minute, I'll sing.

 * [Lucy and Ethel can't find dates.]
 * Ethel: We can always call the zoo and order a couple of dancing bears.

 * Fred: Yeah with all that champagne, even Ethel might look good.

 * Lucy: We must know two men who are single and attractive. [Lucy and Ethel pause to think] Two men who are single. [pause] Two men. [pause] A boy and a dog.
 * Ethel: Maybe we should settle for Little Boy Blue and Peter Cottontail.

 * Lucy: Ethel and I are going dancing at the Copa.
 * Ricky: I hope one of you knows how to lead.

 * Ethel: I think a tuxedo is the best looking thing a man can wear.
 * Fred: Unless he's wearing boxing trunks.

 * Ricky: Everybody knows you can get around a lady with a little sweet talk.
 * Fred: That's alright for Lucy, but it's a little longer trip around Ethel.

 * [Fred talking to Ricky about his anniversary]
 * Fred: I'd like you to join me in commemoration of an eighteen year-old tragedy.

 * Lucy: [to Ethel about her marriage] Ever since we said "I do," there are so many things we don't.

 * [Lucy and Ethel are washing dishes]
 * Ethel: Here, you missed something on this one.
 * Lucy: That's the design.
 * Ethel: It is?
 * Lucy: Sure, can't you see. Flowers against a background of (scratches plate with nail) gravy.

Be a Pal [1.2]

 * Ricky: That's the reason I married you - because you're so different than anyone I've known in Cuba.
 * Lucy: Who'd you know in Cuba?

 [Lucy joins Ricky's poker game]
 * Lucy: [looks at cards] My, this is a problem.
 * Ricky: Honey, please, you're holding up the game.
 * Lucy: Well, I can't decide whether to throw away my two queens or my three kings.

 * Ethel: [explaining poker to Lucy] It's a lot like hearts, only you bet, and there isn't any old maid.

 * Ethel: [reading from 'Dr. Humphries' book] If he hunts, take up hunting. If he fishes, take up fishing. If he golfs, take up golfing.
 * Lucy: Ricky plays poker. I'll have to take up poking.

 * Ethel: [reading from Dr. Humphries' book] Often, after the first years of marriage, the husband seems to lose interest in the wife. He reads the paper at the breakfast table, he doesn't answer when you talk to him. In short, he doesn't even know you're alive.
 * Lucy: I wonder where Dr. Humphries ever met Ricky.

The Quiz Show [1.5]

 * Announcer: (during the credits) The part of Harold was played by Mr. John Emery. Freddie Fillmore was played by Mr. Frank Nelson.

The Séance [1.7]

 * Lucy: Mr. Maryweather, I'd like to present Madame Ethel Mertzola. She's going to be our medium tonight. She's psychopathic!

 * Fred: Presenting Raya, the medium. Well done, Medium Raya.

 * Ethel: I shall now contact Tilly! [in a monotone voice] Ethel to Tilly, Ethel to Tilly. Come in, Tilly. Over.

 * [Lucy accidentally sneezes]
 * Mr. Maryweather: Tilly! Tilly, is that you?
 * Lucy: Yes, it's me Tilly.
 * Mr. Maryweather: But Tilly, that sneeze. Are you sick?
 * Lucy: Sick? I'm dead!
 * Mr. Maryweather: Oh, that's right.

 * [Lucy gets too close to the fireplace]
 * Lucy: Ow!
 * Mr. Maryweather: What's the matter?
 * Lucy: I burned myself. It's awfully hot here.
 * Mr. Maryweather: Oh, that's where you are! Oh Tilly, I'm so disappointed in you.

 * Ethel: My trance is wearing off, I think you better hang up now.

 * Lucy: Ethel, you underestimate your transmitter!

Lucy Hires a Maid [2.23]

 * Lucy: What's your name?
 * Mrs. Porter: Mrs. Porter.
 * Lucy: And what do I call you?
 * Mrs. Porter: Mrs. Porter.

Dialogue

 * Lucy: Do you poop out at parties? Are you unpopular?
 * Lucy: [later, after getting drunk from drinking a potent "health" tonic] Well, I'm your Vitameatavegamin girl! Are you tired, run down, listless? Do you pop out at parties? Are you un-poopular? Well, are you?

 * Lucy: [whenever Ricky stages a new show] Can I be in the show?
 * Ricky: No!

 * Betty Ramsey: I've loved parties ever since I was a little girl, how about you, Ethel?
 * Ethel: I haven't been to a party since I was a little girl.

 * Lucy: [after buying a pair of hostess pants for Ethel's birthday gift] Well, now, wait a minute, Ethel, look. You get yourself a little black, off-the-shoulder blouse, and a big crushy belt, and little ballet slippers, and you're all set!
 * Ethel: What for, Halloween?

 * Lucy: I have an idea!
 * Ethel: How can you stand there in the middle of this mess and utter those four horrible words: "I've got an idea?"

 * Lucy: I saw them last month in Harper's Bazaar.
 * Ethel: Well they're certainly bizarre!

 * Lucy: Once you get to know Ethel, you'll find she's more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
 * Ethel: Monkeys that seldom get invited out of their barrels, that is.

 * Lucy: We're in the egg business together, so half of those eggs belong to Ethel. Isn't that right dear?
 * Ethel: Yes, the shells.

 * Lucy: It's my mad money.
 * Ricky: There's over $200 here.
 * Lucy: Well, I get awfully mad.

 * Ethel: [referring to Ava Gardner in a restaurant] She's just people Fred, remember? Just like you and me.
 * Fred: She may be people, but she's not like you and me.

 * Lucy: You were just up here and said it sounded great.
 * Ethel: Well, I'm down here now and it sounds lousy!

 * Ethel: [referring to hamburgers] At least we put meat in ours.
 * Lucy: And just what are you insinuating we put in ours?
 * Ethel: I'm not saying, but you can bet on it in the afternoon and eat it at night!

 * Ethel: Thanks for the present!
 * Lucy: YOU'RE WELCOME!!!!!!!

 * Fred: Possession is over nine-tenths of the law!
 * Lucy: Yeah, and I'm possessed!

 * Lucy: "Butter? What do you want butter for?
 * Ricky: I wanted to put some on my bread.
 * Lucy: Butter? On bread? I'll never get used to your crazy Cuban dishes.

 * Ricky: [reading to Ethel from a script Lucy wrote] Is there something wrong with your lover?
 * Lucy: LIVER!
 * Ethel: [later on, to Ricky] I think you go out to meet your liver.
 * Lucy: LOVER!

 * Ricky: What do you know about rice?
 * Fred: Well, I had it thrown at me on one of the darkest days of my life.

 * Ricky: How do spell "s'perience"?
 * Lucy: E-x-p...
 * Ricky: E-x? You're kidding?

 * Ethel: Fred, I got a confession to make. Remember when we got married and I said I was 18? I was 19.
 * Fred: Well I got a confession to make too. You were 24.

 * Employment agent: What did you have in mind?
 * Lucy: What kind of jobs do you have open?
 * Agent: Well what do you do?
 * Lucy: What kind of jobs do you have open?
 * Agent: Well what do you do?
 * Lucy: What kind of jobs do you have open?
 * Agent: You go first this time.
 * Lucy': Alright, what do you do?
 * Agent: What kind of jobs do you have... Oh. Cut it out.

 * George Reeves (known for originating Superman on TV): [after being harassed by Lucy] How long have you been married?
 * Ricky: 15 years.
 * George: And they call me Superman!

 * Lucy's doctor: (from Jamestown) Hello, Mr. Ricardo. I'm the man who brought your wife into the world!
 * Ricky: I don't know whether to thank you or punch you in the nose!

 * (Ethel wants a new lamp.)
 * Fred: What do you need a new lamp for? Abe Lincoln read by candlelight.
 * Ethel: Don't drag your boyhood friends into this, Fred.

 * ''(Choosing a bet)
 * Fred: What about ten dollars?
 * Ethel: What's the matter with twenty dollars?
 * Ricky: Well what's the matter with thirty dollars?
 * Lucy: Well what's the matter with fifty dollars?
 * Fred: What was the matter with ten dollars?

 * Lucy: Ricky!
 * Ethel: Fred!
 * Lucy: We're revolting!
 * Ricky: No more than usual.

 * [Lucy pulls the emergency brake twice in one day on a train, she then pulls it again]
 * Train conductor: Thanks to you I've just won five dollars from the engineer.

 * Ethel: I wanted a toaster!
 * Lucy: Well Fred told me that but I couldn't believe you could be that dull!
 * Ethel: Listen, I'd look better wearing a toaster than I would those checkerboard britches!

 * Lucy: Marion, stop cackling. I've been waiting ten years for you to lay that egg.

 * Ethel: Oh just wait until Mickey Richardson hears about this!

 * Ethel: Ethel to Tillie, Ethel to Tillie, come in Tillie. Over.
 * Fred: Well done, Medium Raya.

 * Lucy: Oh no you don't. Not even for the love of sweet charity am I going to box three rounds with a kangaroo.

 * Fred: I'm surprised she's got time to make pralines she's so busy making signs.

 * Lucy: I wonder if this bed stops in Chicago.

 * Lucy: (to a vaudeville clown teaching her an act) Martha
 * Vaudeville clown: Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch I crept up on the killer.

 * Lucy: ''[to Ethel] Happy Birthday, and I hope you live another seventy-five years!

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Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island (1964-1967) was an American TV sitcom, which aired on CBS about seven men and women who are stranded on an uncharted island following a torrential storm. The first season was filmed in black-and-white; later seasons were in color.

Beginning

 * Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship. The mate was a mighty sailin' man, the Skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day, for a three-hour tour, a three-hour tour… The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Minnow would be lost; the Minnow would be lost. The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle, with Gilligan, the Skipper too, the Millionaire, and his Wife, the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann (first season: "and the rest, are"), here on Gilligan's Isle.

Ending

 * Now this is the tale of the castaways, they're here for a long, long time. They'll have to make the best of things, it's an uphill climb. The first mate and his skipper too, will do their very best, to make the others comfortable, in their tropic island nest. No phones, no lights, no motor cars, not a single luxury; like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be. So join us here each week my friends, you're sure to get a smile, from seven stranded Castaways, here on Gilligan's Isle.

Two on a Raft [1.01]

 * Ginger: I learned a little Hawaiian when I was singing in a club in Waikiki. Wahine wiki huki luki nu. And every word of it comes from the bottom of my heart.
 * Gilligan: Gee, that's real nice, Ginger. What does it mean?
 * Ginger: "This bar is off limits to all military personnel."

 * Gilligan: You know, Skipper. I'm very happy to be here. I'm so happy, I could kiss the ground. [kisses the sand, then spits it out] This island tastes terrible.

Home Sweet Hut [1.02]

 * Mary Ann: I used to be a Girl Scout, and they teach you a lot!
 * Ginger: I used to go with a Boy Scout, and they teach you a lot, too.

 * Mr. Howell: Oh, Shut up, will you Gilligan!
 * Skipper: You can't tell Gilligan to shut up! I'll tell him when to shut up!
 * Gilligan: Thanks skipper. Now folks...
 * Skipper: Shut up, Gilligan!

Voodoo Something to Me [1.03]

 * Ginger: If we had to get marooned on an island, why didn't we pick Manhattan?

 * Skipper: Think of it, ever since we got to this island, we've had nothing but bad luck. One disaster after another. What do you think caused it?
 * Gilligan: I thought we all agreed it was me.

Goodbye Island [1.08]

 * Professor: Well, that glue is permanent! There's nothing on the island to dissolve it. Why do you know what it would take? It would take a polyester derivative of an organic hydroxide molecule.
 * Mr. Howell: Watch your language! You're in the presence of a lady!

The Big Gold Strike [1.09]

 * Gilligan: [after the raft sinks in the lagoon, and the castaways make it back to shore] Hey Skipper? We sank anyway without the gold.
 * Skipper: Oh, I'm afraid this is all my fault, folks. Why, I didn't think one bag of gold would sink us.
 * Mrs. Howell: Two bags.
 * Mr. Howell: Three bags.
 * Ginger: Four bags.
 * Professor: Five bags.
 * Mary Ann: Six bags.
 * Gilligan: [after they all look at him, he scoffs] That's a switch. Usually I'm one left holding the bag.

Waiting for Watubi [1.10]

 * Professor: [Gilligan & The Professor are digging a hole to bury the statue of Kona] There. That should be deep enough.
 * Gilligan: Make it a little deeper, Professor. I want to put him down so deep he'll get the bends.
 * Professor: Gilligan, that statue is not getting out of this hole.
 * Gilligan: Please make it a little deeper.
 * [the professor digs for a bit more, then puts the statue in the hole]
 * [the Skipper comes along and falls into the hole. He sees what's in the hole with him, jumps out and runs away]
 * Skipper: Aaah! Kona!
 * Gilligan: Hey Skipper! Watch out for that... [sharp cracking sound] ...tree.

 * Skipper: [a flash happens outside the hut] Fire! Fire!
 * [In comes Gilligan dressed as Watubi with Mary Ann and Ginger as his assistants]
 * Skipper: Watubi! I didn't think you were gonna make it!
 * Gilligan: Neither did I. [Ginger and Mary Ann nudge him, goes into character] Watubi here to lift Curse of Kona!
 * [Smacks the Skipper on his stomach with his wand]

Angel on the Island [1.11]

 * Skipper: What did you think of my Mark Anthony?
 * Parrot: Terrible! Terrible! Terrible!
 * Gilligan: Don't mind him, Skipper. He just says what he's taught.
 * Skipper: And who's been teaching him?
 * Gilligan: I don't know.
 * Parrot: Gilligan! Gilligan! Gilligan!
 * Gilligan: Blabberbeak!

Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk [1.12]

 * Ginger: I want Cary Grant for Christmas but I doubt Santa can fit that in my stocking.

X Marks the Spot [1.18]

 * Ginger: If we had been doing these exercises all along, we'd be in good shape.
 * Mary Ann: I don't see how you can exercise anyway in that dress. It's so tight. I'm surprised it doesn't cut off your circulation.
 * Ginger: Honey, in Hollywood the tighter the dress, the more the girl circulates.

St. Gilligan and the Dragon [1.20]

 * Mr. Howell: Sorry we're late, we were used to having our breakfast served in bed by a butler after he's had his breakfast served in bed.

Big Man on a Little Stick [1.21]

 * Ginger: Where's Mary Ann?
 * Duke Williams: Baby, we don't need a cheering section.
 * Ginger: I do, I'm an actress.

 * Duke Williams: [looking at Mary Ann and Ginger] I like 'em little, and I like 'em big. Man, this is smorgasbord time!

The Matchmaker [1.25]

 * Skipper: [after Gilligan has spilled soup on him for a second time] Why me, Professor? Why always me?

 * Skipper: This is your moment of truth, little buddy. Please don't spill the soup on the Howells.
 * Gilligan: Be of good cheer, Skipper. For I will... [picks up the tray of soup bowls] ...not spill the soup.

Music Hath Charms [1.26]

 * Mrs. Howell: [seeing Gilligan playing a drum] Oh, Gilligan, I am hungry for music!
 * Gilligan: [pausing] Would you like a drumstick?

New Neighbor Sam [1.27]

 * Sam, the Parrot: Sam wants a cracker. Sam wants a cracker.
 * Skipper: Gilligan, your parrot would like another cracker.
 * Gilligan: I've already given him fifteen crackers.
 * Skipper: Gilligan?
 * [Gilligan reluctantly gets out of his hammock, goes over and tosses another cracker in Sam's cage, then goes to get back in his hammock]
 * Skipper: Gilligan, as soon as you get back in your hammock, he's gonna want another cracker. Why don't you give him the whole box so we can both get some sleep.
 * [Gilligan nods, then goes back and throws the rest of the crackers in the box into Sam's cage, then returns to his hammock]
 * Skipper: There. That oughta do it.
 * Gilligan: Yeah. Couldn't imagine what he'd want now.
 * [Puts his hat over his face]
 * Sam, the Parrot: Sam wants a drink of water. Sam wants...

They're Off and Running [1.28]

 * Professor: Well, we all go through this sort of thing once in a while, Skipper. We don't appreciate what we've got until we lose it.

Physical Fatness [1.32]

 * Skipper: There's a table in this Navy manual that tells me how much I should weigh.
 * Gilligan: Maybe it's under "tonnage".

 * Mr. Howell: Gilligan, my boy, I've prepared a dish to titillate even your unsophisticated palate. Behold, la spécialité de la maison.
 * Gilligan: What is it? It smells like fish stew.
 * Mr. Howell: Fish stew? It's a world-famous French recipe -- bouillabaisse.
 * Gilligan: It sure smells like fish stew!
 * Mr. Howell: No, no, no, no, no, it's not fish stew; it's bouillabaisse!
 * Gilligan: What does bouillabaisse mean in English?
 * Mr. Howell: Errr -- fish stew.

My Fair Gilligan [1.35]

 * Gilligan: [At the end of the dream sequence, Gilligan took off his crown, placed it in front of his feet and is shown stomping on it to destroy it] I don't wanna be king! I don't wanna be king! I don't wanna be king!

A Nose by Any Other Name [1.36]

 * Gilligan: [Up in the coconut tree, mocking the Skipper as he looks for coconuts] Gilligan, do this. Gilligan, do that. Gilligan, go here. Gilligan, go there. Gilligan get this, Gilligan get that. Boy I'd have a life of leisure if only my name weren't Gilligan. The Skipper wants me to get six more? Maybe I won't get him six! [Dejected] Okay I'll get him six. [Looks off to his left] Oh, there's six. [Starts reaching for it] C'mon baby. [Starts slipping] Uh-oh. [Falls out of tree] HELLLLLP! [Thud]

Gilligan's Mother-in-Law [2.01]

 * Skipper: [comes out in a grass skirt for the party with the natives] Well, Gilligan... How do I look?
 * Gilligan: Like a bowl of soggy shredded wheat.
 * Skipper: Well, Gilligan... Since we're passing around the comments... I've seen whisk brooms that look better than you.
 * Gilligan: Ha ha.

 * [Native Warrior says something unintelligible to Gilligan]
 * Gilligan: What's he saying, Professor?
 * [Native Warrior calls to Professor]
 * Professor: Oh, he just said you first have to pass the Best Man Test.
 * Gilligan: Best Man Test? What's that?
 * [Native Warrior holds up six fingers and mimes blowing a small dart]
 * Professor: Poison darts at six paces!
 * Gilligan: [stands up in boat] Poison darts at six paces?
 * [leaps overboard, swims ashore, and runs away]

Beauty Is as Beauty Does [2.02]

 * Gilligan: [while judging the beauty contest] Mr. Howell, are you trying to influence me?
 * Mr. Howell: Oh, no, cherish the thought.

The Little Dictator [2.03]

 * [dream sequence: Gilligan is the ruler of a small country. The Skipper is Secretary of the Navy]
 * Gilligan: How's my Navy holding up?
 * Skipper: Well since you brought it up sir, why don't you come to the window and see for yourself?
 * Rodriguez: Again?
 * [Gilligan looks out of window. Stock footage of burning sinking ship rolls]
 * Rodriguez: Propaganda! Vicious Propaganda!
 * Gilligan: Are you doing something about that?
 * Skipper: Yes sir, we are! We're teaching our sailors how to SWIM!
 * Gilligan: Good!
 * Skipper: And the people on shore are learning mouth-to-mouth resuscitation - without becoming emotionally involved!
 * Rodriguez: How can you do that?
 * Skipper: It ain't easy!

Smile, You're on Mars Camera [2.04]

 * Skipper: There's a space up there, there's a space down there and THERE'S A SPACE BETWEEN YOUR EARS!

 * Professor: [Skipper and The Professor are cleaning up the feathers] Skipper, aren't you being a little hard on poor Gilligan?
 * Skipper: Absolutely not, Professor. All of this is his fault with those feathers. I'm just making the punishment fit the crime. What time is it?
 * Professor: [Looks at his watch] Yeah, it's 3 o'clock.
 * Skipper: [Yells back to the hut] Gilligan! Gilligan! It's time again!
 * [the door to the hut opens slowly, and Gilligan shuffles out, with the feathers still on his body, then makes a 90 degree turn, and stops]
 * Gilligan: [Flapping his arms] Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
 * [Then turns and shuffles back into the hut as the door slowly closes behind him]

The Sweepstakes [2.05]

 * Gilligan: [regarding the lost ticket] Let's see... it couldn't be in that tin box buried down at the base of that big palm tree by the lagoon.
 * Ginger: I didn't know there was a tin box buried under that tree!
 * Gilligan: There isn't. That's why it couldn't be there.

Quick Before It Sinks [2.06]

 * Professor: [Sees Gilligan coming back with a lobster trap and the stick the Professor was using] Gilligan, where did you find that stick?
 * Gilligan: Oh this old stick? I've been using it to tie my lobster trap from.
 * Professor: Oh really? Well that old stick just happens to be the same stick I had been using to measure the water in the lagoon.
 * Gilligan: [Gulps] I've been putting it out deeper to catch bigger lobsters.
 * Professor: Well, that explains it. The island isn't sinking after all.

 * Skipper: Just look at that mess, Gilligan.
 * Gilligan: It won't take long to clean it up with all three of us.
 * Skipper: "All three of us?"
 * Professor: "All three of us?"
 * Gilligan: Yeah, all three of us. Me, myself, and I.

Castaways Pictures Presents [2.07]

 * Professor: Well, it must be their old abandoned Yacht, and this is silent picture equipment.
 * Mrs. Howell: I just love those old silent pictures and those marvelous silent picture stars. Oh, look, darling. There's 'Theda Bara' And there's Little 'Mary Pickford' and 'Rudolph Valentino'.

 * Mr. Howell: I'd walk out on that picture even on an airplane.

Nyet, Nyet, Not Yet [2.09]

 * Mr. Howell: [to the Russian cosmonauts] Gentlemen. I am Thurston Howell III and this of course is my wife, Mrs. Thurston Howell III.
 * Mrs. Howell: Charmed.
 * Igor: Capitalist! Exploiter!
 * Mr. Howell: Capitalist. Exploiter. I was wrong Lovey. They're very friendly!

 * Igor: We invite them to celebration, drink toast, get them drunk.
 * Ivan: Igor! Good idea! We got plenty vodka in capsule.
 * Igor: Sure! Two Russian men can drink more than four American men.
 * Ivan: Is only three men.
 * Igor: Is four! Is sailor, is teacher, is rich capitalist, is-... Ah, you are right Ivan. Is three men... and one Gilligan!

Hi Fi Gilligan [2.10]

 * [the cave the castaways sought shelter in just minutes before has been destroyed by a lightning strike]
 * Professor: It's completely destroyed!
 * Skipper: [to Gilligan] Little buddy, we came out here to save you, and you saved us!

Don't Bug the Mosquitoes [2.12]

 * Professor: The Mosquitoes left us a note.
 * Mr. Howell: They can write?
 * Professor: Apparently...

 * Gilligan: You're right, that was a real rotten thing they did. They leave us an album and they didn't even autograph it.

Gilligan Gets Bugged [2.13]

 * Gilligan: You know I never play with a submarine in the bathtub. You gotta watch out where you sit.

Mine Hero [2.14]

 * Gilligan: Dumb old mine! I'm going to give it a good, swift kick!
 * Skipper: Gilligan, don't!
 * [steps between Gilligan and the mine. Gilligan ends up kicking him]
 * Skipper: Oh, my shins!

 * [Ginger tries to distract Gilligan by flirting with him while taking his four-leaf clover medallion off his neck]
 * Ginger: Oh well. I guess I don't have what it takes.
 * Gilligan: [Holding up the medallion] You also don't have what you took, either.
 * Ginger: [Shocked, she opens her pocketbook to see it's not in there] Oh Gilligan! You're impossible!

Erika Tiffany-Smith to the Rescue [2.15]

 * Mary Ann: Mister Howell, I don't even think she saw me.
 * Mr. Howell: Well of course not, she has something in her eye - a man.

 * Skipper: I've got a problem. I've got a real problem. You're a girl, right?
 * Ginger: Well, if you're not sure about that, you have got a problem.

 Announcer tells her the US Navy cant decipher her log book
 * Erika: I dont know why its written in plain English translated from Hungarian"

Announcer tells her the US NAvy must have the exact latitute and longitude

You've Been Disconnected [2.17]

 * [Gilligan & Skipper are collecting natural gas. Ginger arrives and finds Gilligan on the ground, out cold]
 * Ginger: What happened to Gilligan?
 * Skipper: Oh, I told him there was gas in the bottle, but he didn't believe me, so he uncorked the bottle and took a big sniff...
 * [the Skipper duplicates these actions, then gets a really goofy expression on his face and starts dancing]

The Postman Cometh [2.18]

 * Skipper: I guess it will be a long time before you'll eat another mushroom.
 * Mary Ann: You can say that again.
 * Skipper: I guess it will be a long time... [laughs]
 * Gilligan: Don't worry about mushrooms anymore, I got a book that tells all about them.
 * Skipper: You do?
 * Gilligan: Huh huh. Yeah, and it's called, "'How to Tell A Mushroom From a Toadstool'" by the late Dr. Morton Kepstone.
 * Skipper' Grumby, Mary Ann Summers: Late?
 * Gilligan: Late?

 * Skipper: [During Mary Ann's dream after she thinks she ate some poisonous mushrooms] We've got to prepare for an operation. Where can we find a kitchen table?
 * Professor: Now just a minute, doctor. We've got to scrub up. Now nurse, where do we go to scrub up?
 * Ginger: Walk this way, gentlemen.
 * [Ginger walks sexily across the room to the sinks]
 * Skipper: We'll try and walk that way ma'am. but I don't think we'll make it.

Seer Gilligan [2.19]

 * Gilligan: I can't see how you are going to figure out how I read minds by asking me what happened as a kid.
 * Ginger: Well, I think I can. Did your father ever beat you?
 * Gilligan: Yes
 * Ginger: He did?
 * Gilligan: All the time.
 * Ginger: And your mother let him?
 * Gilligan: She used to beat me too.
 * Ginger: Oh, you poor thing.
 * Gilligan: How else could I learn to play checkers?

Gilligan's Living Doll [2.21]

 * Skipper: A robot? Oh, for goodness' sake, that's just what we needed: a tin fugitive from The Wizard of Oz.

 * Professor: [hears the radio] Wait a minute! Quiet! The announcement, quiet! Quiet!
 * Radio Announcer: And now they are activating the robot's receptor spools to see if they can find out how it got to Hawaii. The next voice you hear will be that of the robot.
 * Robot: [mechanically] I have been on a deserted island. The putt breaks to the right.
 * Mr. Howell: Well, it was a lucky shot!
 * Robot: [mechanically] Sweep back and forth, back and forth. I was stranded. This is the way we wash our clothes.
 * Radio Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, the scientists from the laboratory are checking to see exactly what went wrong. Perhaps now we can learn the reason the recorded messages are all scrambled... A WHAT?... Ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, a RABBIT'S FOOT was just found in the robot!
 * [all turn and stare at Gilligan]
 * Radio Announcer: It demagnetized the entire receptor spools. There is now no chance of finding out where the robot has been, who reprogrammed it, or how it got to Hawaii. For that matter, how the rabbit's foot got in there in the first place!
 * All: GILLIGAN?
 * Gilligan: I just thought it'd bring us some luck, ya know?

Forward March [2.22]

 * Mr. Howell: We are dealing with a super mentality, an enemy with an intelligence far superior to ours.
 * Professor: Mr. Howell, I shall have to contest your theory.
 * Mr. Howell: You contest your commanding general? A man who studied under Robert E. Lee and George Custer?
 * Skipper: You would pick two losers.

Operation: Steam Heat [2.25]

 * Ginger: That's not the way to blow up a volcano. I was in a movie once and that's not what they did.

Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up? [2.26]

 * Mary Ann: Where's Gilligan?
 * Ginger: We forgot about Gilligan.
 * Skipper: Oh, the last time I saw Gilligan, he was collecting feathers for some ridiculous idea that he had.
 * Mary Ann: Skipper, look.
 * [they see Gilligan on the roof of a hut with wings he made from feathers]
 * Skipper: Gilligan, come down here right now.
 * Gilligan: Skipper, I've been watching the birds fly. It's real easy.
 * Skipper: Gilligan, come down here right now.
 * Gilligan: Okay, here I come.
 * [he flaps his wings and floats in the air]
 * Skipper: Gilligan, you can't fly. It's impossible.
 * Gilligan: I can't?
 * Skipper: No!
 * Gilligan: Oh. Mmm.
 * [stops flapping his wings and falls to the ground]
 * Skipper: Gilligan! Gilligan, little buddy! Are you all right?
 * Gilligan: Why did you have to say that? Impossible? Why did you have to say that?

 * Mrs. Howell: Oh, let him go, Thurston. What's the difference?
 * Skipper: That's right, Mr. Howell. What's the difference? He can't spend any more of your money even if he is rescued.
 * Mr. Howell: Well, he can't, can he? He's wearing my pants and my wallets in the back pocket!

Ghost-a-Go-Go [2.27]

 * Gilligan: And another thing, the Skipper told me to tell everybody else, including you, to bring your, um, bare essentials.
 * Ginger: We'd be happy to.
 * Mary Ann: Me too.
 * Gilligan: Oh, okay. I'll keep my eyes closed.

The Friendly Physician [2.29]

 * [the Skipper and Gilligan are in Dr. Balinkov's dining room and a dog comes up and meows]
 * Gilligan: Skipper... I know we've been shipwrecked a long time, but doesn't a dog go woof woof?
 * Skipper: [Nervously] I-I think so...
 * [the Skipper pets the dog]
 * Skipper: Nice dog... uh cat.

 * Mary Ann: [kisses Dr. Balinkoff] That's for seeing our fire.
 * Ginger: [also kisses him] That's for coming to our rescue.
 * Mary Ann: [kisses him again] That's for taking us off the island.
 * [Ginger gives him a long passionate kiss on the lips]
 * Dr. Boris Balinkoff: What was that for?
 * Ginger: That's for being a man!

Mr. and Mrs. ??? [2.31]

 * Skipper: [the Skipper is greeting the wedding party, and Gilligan is best man] Ah... The best man.
 * Gilligan: At least I'm best man at something.
 * Skipper: Gilligan, you couldn't be best man in an all girls school.

Meet the Meteor [2.32]

 * Professor: Now gentlemen, on the one hand there may be nothing to worry about.
 * Gilligan: Good!
 * Professor: But on the other hand...
 * Gilligan: I knew it, it's always the other hand that gets in trouble!
 * Mr. Howell: " I have one regret. that I won't live to be one hundred years old."
 * Mrs. Howell: "Oh, but you will dear. You' be that on Saturday."

 * Professor: Why, you ladies certainly look as beautiful as ever tonight.
 * Mary Ann: Ha, ha. Professor, I bet you say that to all the girls.
 * Ginger: Mary Ann, we are... all the girls.

Gilligan Goes Gung Ho [3.15]

 * Gilligan: Skipper, it's against the law to lock somebody up without telling them what they did.
 * Skipper: (smiles) Just a moment, Gilligan. [humming] Let's see here. Is that it? Yeah. It says here in the Criminal Law, Section 7, Paragraph 14, 'Let it be known that any man who interferes with or causes in any way a rescue to be fouled up, goes to jail for as long as the Skipper says.'
 * Gilligan: There's no law like that in that book.
 * Skipper: There is, now!

Cast

 * Bob Denver - Gilligan
 * Alan Hale Jr. - Captain Jonas Grumby ("The Skipper")
 * Jim Backus - Thurston Howell III
 * Natalie Schafer - "Lovey" Wentworth-Howell
 * Tina Louise - Ginger Grant
 * Russell Johnson - Professor Roy Hinkley, Ph.D. ("The Professor")
 * Dawn Wells - Mary Ann Summers

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--Aphaia 5 July 2005 02:41 (UTC)

Thank you for José Raúl Capablanca. I have enhanced the introduction a bit, and added a link. Great job on the page! ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 14:45, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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Fullmetal Alchemist

Fullmetal Alchemist may refer to:
 * Fullmetal Alchemist (manga), a manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa
 * Fullmetal Alchemist (anime), an anime adaptation of the manga series that ran from 2003-2004
 * Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (anime), the second anime adaptation of the manga series
 * Fullmetal Alchemist (film), a live-action adaptation of the manga series

Alphonse Elric (Introduction, episodes 2-41): Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only truth.

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Thanks for your work on The Price is Right. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 5 July 2005 05:02 (UTC)

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User:214.13.4.151

 * I was going to invite others to look at my analysis anyways, but Aphaia has suggested this:

 * "I would like you to consider if it is a good idea to invite other editors to read through over 100K talk. In my opinion, it is a sort of burden and shut out most of editors. And I suspect who is now interested in this issue. --Aphaia 5 July 2005 05:10 (UTC)", and I shall do as asked.

 * You are invited 214---165, to look at my analysis at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion#Analysis_and_proposed_solutions and see if all the problems are identified, and if not, add one or two. Also, please notice that you can post your proposed solutions below. Afterwards, we can briefly discuss and then vote on different ideas. Don't worry: I addressed all concerns, but if you don't believe me, check it out. Sorry for the length, but many people had many problems.

 * In conclusion, I have done all the research: Read my analysis, debate it, vote on it, and accept the vote -even if it goes against you; All will be well. Take my word for it. Have a nice day. --GordonWattsDotCom 5 July 2005 05:31 (UTC)

 * Oops! I made a mistake: I am new to Wiki; Voting may not be possible for nonregistered users. Aphaia corrected me, and referred me to Voting. I do not know if a vote is binding or not, and I do not know if you can vote as an unregistered user, but I would myself suggest you register like most of us; That would certainly help improve your chances of voting. Please do not accept my word as authoritative on the issue; I am not an admin nor a sysop. Please ask them for the details if you have questions. All else stands though; You are invited to debate and contribute as the community sees fit.--GordonWattsDotCom 5 July 2005 05:47 (UTC)

Terri Schiavo needs your help...
Hey, 214,

I am trying to drum up support for a Featured Article Candadicy for Terri Schiavo: She is getting whipped into shape, and the support is growing for a feature of her article, but I would like your support too.

The page on which we discuss such things is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Terri_Schiavo

Here's a post I sent to Wikipedia's top dude, FYI:

Anyhow, I hate to bother the top brass, but the Schiavo article is a Featured Article Candidate, and, while some of the critics have good points about image copyright concerns, most of the other criticisms are unfounded (e.g., length of article must be long to "do justice," etc.), I think the article is stable and very well-written.

Slightly over half of the "votes" are against it being a "Featured Article," but I've whipped the article in shape -with help from many other editors, including Mark (aka →Raul654), the Fac editor. Please honor our combined hard work & team-effort, and use your "god-like" powers, just once more, before you give them up. Thank you.--GordonWattsDotCom 10:10, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks in advance, 214, for your feedback and efforts.--GordonWattsDotCom 11:24, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

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User:214.13.4.165

 * I was going to invite others to look at my analysis anyways, but Aphaia has suggested this:

 * "I would like you to consider if it is a good idea to invite other editors to read through over 100K talk. In my opinion, it is a sort of burden and shut out most of editors. And I suspect who is now interested in this issue. --Aphaia 5 July 2005 05:10 (UTC)", and I shall do as asked.

 * You are invited 214---165, to look at my analysis at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion#Analysis_and_proposed_solutions and see if all the problems are identified, and if not, add one or two. Also, please notice that you can post your proposed solutions below. Afterwards, we can briefly discuss and then vote on different ideas. Don't worry: I addressed all concerns, but if you don't believe me, check it out. Sorry for the length, but many people had many problems.

 * In conclusion, I have done all the research: Read my analysis, debate it, vote on it, and accept the vote -even if it goes against you; All will be well. Take my word for it. Have a nice day. --GordonWattsDotCom 5 July 2005 05:31 (UTC)

 * Oops! I made a mistake: I am new to Wiki; Voting may not be possible for nonregistered users. Aphaia corrected me, and referred me to Voting. I do not know if a vote is binding or not, and I do not know if you can vote as an unregistered user, but I would myself suggest you register like most of us; That would certainly help improve your chances of voting. Please do not accept my word as authoritative on the issue; I am not an admin nor a sysop. Please ask them for the details if you have questions. All else stands though; You are invited to debate and contribute as the community sees fit.--GordonWattsDotCom 5 July 2005 05:46 (UTC)

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User talk:Prot~enwikiquote

 * I was going to invite others to look at my analysis anyways, but Aphaia has suggested this:

 * "I would like you to consider if it is a good idea to invite other editors to read through over 100K talk. In my opinion, it is a sort of burden and shut out most of editors. And I suspect who is now interested in this issue. --Aphaia 5 July 2005 05:10 (UTC)", and I shall do as asked.

 * You are invited by me, Moshe, to look at my analysis at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion#Analysis_and_proposed_solutions and see if all the problems are identified, and if not, add one or two. Also, please notice that you can post your proposed solutions below. Afterwards, we can briefly discuss and then vote on different ideas. Don't worry: I addressed all concerns, but if you don't believe me, check it out. Sorry for the length, but many people had many problems.

 * In conclusion, I have done all the research: Read my analysis, debate it, vote on it, and accept the vote -even if it goes against you; All will be well. Take my word for it. Have a nice day.--GordonWattsDotCom 5 July 2005 05:53 (UTC)

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User:4.233.128.129

 * I was going to invite others to look at my analysis anyways, but Aphaia has suggested this:

 * "I would like you to consider if it is a good idea to invite other editors to read through over 100K talk. In my opinion, it is a sort of burden and shut out most of editors. And I suspect who is now interested in this issue. --Aphaia 5 July 2005 05:10 (UTC)", and I shall do as asked.

 * You are invited by me, 4.233.128.129, to look at my analysis at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion#Analysis_and_proposed_solutions and see if all the problems are identified, and if not, add one or two. Also, please notice that you can post your proposed solutions below. Afterwards, we can briefly discuss and then vote on different ideas. Don't worry: I addressed all concerns, but if you don't believe me, check it out. Sorry for the length, but many people had many problems.

 * In conclusion, I have done all the research: Read my analysis, debate it, vote on it (except that you are not a registered user, and may not be able to vote!), and accept the vote -even if it goes against you; All will be well. Take my word for it. Have a nice day.--GordonWattsDotCom 5 July 2005 05:58 (UTC)

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User talk:4.233.128.129

 * I was going to invite others to look at my analysis anyways, but Aphaia has suggested this:

 * "I would like you to consider if it is a good idea to invite other editors to read through over 100K talk. In my opinion, it is a sort of burden and shut out most of editors. And I suspect who is now interested in this issue. --Aphaia 5 July 2005 05:10 (UTC)", and I shall do as asked.

 * You are invited by me, 4.233.128.129, to look at my analysis at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion#Analysis_and_proposed_solutions and see if all the problems are identified, and if not, add one or two. Also, please notice that you can post your proposed solutions below. Afterwards, we can briefly discuss and then vote on different ideas. Don't worry: I addressed all concerns, but if you don't believe me, check it out. Sorry for the length, but many people had many problems.

 * In conclusion, I have done all the research: Read my analysis, debate it, vote on it (except that you are not a registered user, and may not be able to vote!), and accept the vote -even if it goes against you; All will be well. Take my word for it. Have a nice day.--GordonWattsDotCom 5 July 2005 05:58 (UTC)

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