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Day of the Tentacle

Day of the Tentacle is a 1993 computer game about a maniacal, mutated tentacle's attempt at taking over the world. A group of three students (Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne) with the aid of a time machine made by Dr Fred Edison, aim to travel back in time to reverse the mutation and save humanity.

 * ''Designed by Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer. Developed by Lucasarts

Purple Tentacle

 * I feel like I could... like I could... like I could... TAKE ON THE WORLD!!
 * The Diminuator will be my crowning success! With it I will be able to shrink the entire human race out of sight! BWAHAHAHAHA!!

Dr Fred

 * Soon we'll all be speaking... Well, English I guess.
 * Get me out of here! I feel like I'm pupating!
 * (After his Chron-O-John's first attempt) Cheap-Mail-Ordered Jewel! I'd knew I should've bought a real diamond.
 * Step one. Find plans. Step two. Save world. Step three. Get out of my house! Let's get cracking.
 * (Answering Bernard's question about whether it is too late to turn off the toxic waste machine) Of course! That's why I'll have to do it...yesterday! To the time machine!
 * He's long gone!

Hoagie

 * We may not live to see yesterday...
 * Bernard, float over here so I can punch you.
 * Great, I'm stuck in colonial times, tentacles are taking over the world, and now the toilet's backing up.
 * Whoah, You're, like, George Washington!!
 * Mr. President? May I offer you an excellent smoke?
 * {referring to a hamster at the door} I think we could bite its head off or whatever.
 * {responding to Betsy Ross} Hey chill! Take your time.

Bernard

 * "Well, you know what they say: "If you want to save the world, you gotta push a few old ladies down the stairs".
 * (Bernard is talking to Dead Cousin Ted, a mummy) "Boy, I haven't seen you since I was here five years ago. You know, I bet you'd really like my friend Hoagie. He's a roadie for a heavy metal band. You could hit him over the head with a bowling ball and it wouldn't faze him. He can pass out standing up and not drop anything". (pause) "The two of you have a lot in common".
 * (Still talking to Dead Cousin Ted) "Boy, I wish I had as little on my mind as you do. No offense intended, of course".
 * (Talking to Dr. Fred), "How about catching Purple Tentacle?"

Laverne

 * "This must be that Woodstock place Mom and Dad always talk about".
 * "Gosh, I hope this isn't like the primitive, dangerous microwave ovens of my century. Those things could really pop a hamster good".

Others
Hoagie: {confused} Question is, which one's stuffed, and which one's the real McCoy? Ned Edison: I assure you that were both real but were neither one of us McCoy's. We are Edison's Ned & Jed. Hoagie: Who's who? Ned: Does it really matter? Even our dear father can't tell us apart. He only knows that one of us is left-handed, while the other is right but that neither of us are following in his tiny, scientific footsteps. Jed: --mmpflr!-- Ned: Hold STILL, Jed! So... I'm almost too freighted to ask...Are you the marble deliveryman...or the model? Hoagie: I'm the model. Should I take my clothes off now? Ned: {responds} No. No, you must definitely should not. We couldn't get your body shape right anyway, unless we cemented 2 slabs of marble together...but then your statue would have a big seam in it... Hoagie: That's okay. It would have one anyway. Ned: Look, don't call us. We'll call you. Hoagie: Dang. Tentacle: Ahem. Purple Tentacle: Ah

Dialogue

 * Bernard: "How's Dr. Fred?"
 * Nurse Edna Edison: "He's doing much better now that he's stopped sleepwalking".
 * Bernard: "How did he stop sleepwalking?"
 * Nurse Edna Edison: "He stopped sleeping".

 * Laverne: "Are you going to use a scalpel?"
 * Tentacle Doctor: "Of course not!.
 * Laverne: "Darn... do you want to use mine?
 * Tentacle Doctor: "Err...no"

 * Bernard: "I'm sure Dr. Fred wouldn't do this if it weren't safe!"
 * Laverne: "After all, he IS a doctor".
 * (Back at his lab)
 * Dr. Fred: It WORKED! I can't believe it! And they said an imitation diamond wasn't good enough!
 * (The imitation diamond inside the Chron-O-John promptly cracks into pieces)
 * Dr. Fred: Uh-oh.

 * (Bernard, Hoagie, and Laverne are trapped inside Dr. Fred's time travel device)
 * Laverne: "This is all your fault, Bernard."
 * Dr. Fred: "Behold, children! The Chron-O-John!"
 * Hoagie: "Doc, can't you just send Bernard?"
 * Dr. Fred: "No, you must all go to increase the odds that one of you will make it there alive".
 * Bernard: "Has anyone ever been hurt in this thing?"
 * Dr. Fred: "Of course not!"
 * (Bernard, Hoagie, and Laverne smile)
 * Dr. Fred: "This is the first time I've ever tried it on people".
 * (Their expressions turn to horror)

 * Dr. Fred: "Leaping labrats!"
 * Bernard: "Dr. Fred!"
 * Dr. Fred: "What have you done this time, you meddling milquetoast? Now Purple Tentacle is free to use his evil mutant powers to take over the world, and ENSLAVE ALL HUMANITY!"
 * Bernard: "Whoops".

 * IRS Agent #1: "Is that a W-390/B Frivolous Spending Report?"
 * IRS Agent #2: "No, it's another 561-AB Negative Attention Statement".

 * IRS Agent #2: "Say, what's the filing date for a BFD-206/ZZ Insufficient Credit Applications Form?"
 * IRS Agent #1: "You have until midnight on the twelfth working day past the first full moon after the end of your fiscal year. However, you can extend the date by filing an RPM-78 Waning Interest Extension anytime before the close of business on the second Tuesday after the first Friday in March. And of course, if you're married, you'd also have to file the K-7209 Statement of Joint Intentions and declare any mutual gift expenditures".
 * IRS Agent #2: "Oh yeah, that's right".

 * IRS Agent #1: "How do you suppose the Dodgers are doing?"
 * IRS Agent #2: "Well, their win/loss ratio is 28 percent below normal... however, the successful slide margin is actually up 3 points since May. I've noticed that they seem to do well with a man on first after a fly ball when the opposing pitcher is left-handed and wearing a green hat".
 * IRS Agent #1: "Fascinating".

 * (Bernard, Hoagie, and Laverne have been fused into a single body by the Chron-O-John)
 * Bernard: "Look behind you, a three-headed monkey!"
 * Purple Tentacle: "The only three-headed monkey here is in FRONT of us".

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Talk:Augustine of Hippo

Quotations attributed to Augustine
I have placed some quotations attributed to Augustine in the article. As yet I have not provided any sourced quotes, and I have moved the text with which this page was started by someone at IP 24.73.194.14 here. Though short introductions to articles are welcome, most pages for people should have a very brief intro, with links to the Wikipedia for more information in the header, and optionally a link in the footer with a  link. A section for external links, and links within the information that is provided about a quotation are also welcome. I move this here simply because it seems a bit long, and I believe that most of this information should either be in the Wikipedia article or in the talk pages for articles about St. Augustine:

 * Aurelius Augustinus [more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo," often simply "Augustine"] (354-430 C.E.): rhetor, Christian Neoplatonist, North African Bishop, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the decisive developments in the western philosophical tradition was the eventually widespread merging of the Greek philosophical tradition and the Judeo-Christian religious and scriptural traditions. Augustine is one of the main figures through and by whom this merging was accomplished. He is, as well, one of the towering figures of medieval philosophy whose authority and thought came to exert a pervasive and enduring influence well into the modern period (e.g. Descartes and especially Malebranche), and even up to the present day, especially among those sympathetic to the religious tradition which he helped to shape (e.g. Plantinga 1992; Adams 1999). But even for those who do not share this sympathy, there is much in Augustine's thought that is worthy of serious philosophical attention. Augustine is not only one of the major sources whereby classical philosophy in general and Neoplatonism in particular enter into the mainstream of early and subsequent medieval philosophy, but there are significant contributions of his own that emerge from his modification of that Greco-Roman inheritance, e.g., his subtle accounts of belief and authority, his account of knowledge and illumination, his emphasis upon the importance and centrality of the will, and his focus upon a new way of conceptualizing the phenomena of human history, just to cite a few of the more conspicuous examples.

There are certainly many more quotations of Augustine that could be added than those that I have so far provided, and I hope that whoever has created this page will find it a good place to seek quotations, and to contribute them. ~ Kalki 20:35, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I have made a correction to an egregious misquotation often attributed to St. Augustine. The original Latin can be found here: The original Latin can be found here, and an Italian translation can be found here. I have left the original mistranslation below the Latin & my translation, so that others may compare it to the original Latin and see just how atrociously bad it is. Anyone who doubts my translation of mathematicus should visit the Persues Project's translation, noting "(Post-Aug.)" listed next to the translation, "astrologer" (so that even my translation is giving more credit to the individual who originally translated it, than he is due). In addition, skeptics should read paragraph 36 of De Genesi ad Litteram, where it becomes explicitly obvious to anyone even mildly educated in Latin that Augustine is not speaking of mathematicians.

Attributed quotes

 * My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 351

 * Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
 * As quoted in Majority of One (1957) by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283

 * Patience is the companion of wisdom.
 * As quoted in Distilled Wisdom: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 270
 * "Patientia comes est sapientiae, non famula concupiscientiae; patientia amica est bonae conscientiae, non inimica innocentiae" (Patience is the companion of wisdom, not the handmaid of lust; the friend of a good conscience, not the enemy of innocence). From Patrologia Latina, Volume 40, p 613 --Hughh (talk) 22:53, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Primary source: De Patientia, chapter 5

 * What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
 * As quoted in Quote, Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory, p. 197

 * Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
 * As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136

 * To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
 * As quoted in The Anchor Book of Latin Quotations: with English translations (1990) by Norbert Guterman, p. 375

 * By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
 * As quoted in Footprints in Time : Fulfilling God's Destiny for Your Life (2007) by Jeff O'Leary, p. 223

 * Woman, compared to other creatures, is the image of God, for she bears dominion over them. But compared unto man, she may not be called the image of God, for she bears not rule and lordship over man, but ought to obey him. The woman shall be subject to man as unto Christ. For woman, has not her example from the body and from the flesh, that so she shall be subject to man, as the flesh is unto the Spirit, because that the flesh in the weakness and mortality of this life lusts and strives against the Spirit, and therefore would not the Holy Ghost give example of subjection to the woman of any such thing.
 * As quoted by John Knox The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (1558)

 * The female defects – greed, hate, and delusion and other defilements – are greater than the male’s…You [women] should have such an intention…Because I wish to be freed from the impurities of the woman’s body, I will acquire the beautiful and fresh body of the man.
 * Saint Augustine as quoted by Dr Bettany Hughes Telegraph
 * Misreading of the context: Dr Hughes is quoting the Buddha, not Augustine.

 * One does not read in the Gospel that the Lord said: "I will send you the Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon." For He willed to make them Christians, not mathematicians.
 * As quoted in Science Teaching : The Role of History and Philosophy of Science (1994) by Michael R. Matthews, p. 195

 * Do not despair: one thief was saved. Do not presume: one thief was damned.
 * Attributed to St. Augustine in The Repentance of Robert Greene, Master of Arts (1592) by Robert Greene.

 * Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
 * As quoted in If God Be For Us : Sermons on the Gifts of the Gospel (1954), by Robert Edward Luccock, p. 38; this may be a variant translation or paraphrase of an expression in his 169th sermon: "He who created you without you will not justify you without you."

 * If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
 * Earliest quotation found in Who Said That?: More than 2,500 Usable Quotes and Illustrations (1995) by George Sweeting. Online sources always attribute the quote to Augustine, but never specify in which of his works it is to be found.
 * A variation on a quote from "Contra Faustum, Book XVII" - For to believe what you please, and not to believe what you please, is to believe yourselves, and not the gospel.

The measure of love...
Who is the author of the quote "The measure of love is to love without measure"? I've seen it attributed to St. Augustine in various places (quotes books and webs), but I don't think Augustine wrote it. I have the same problem. Some people attributed to Saint Francis of Sales, but i'm still looking for.

 * It sound's like a paraphrase from Bernard of Clairvaux's "On Loving God."

Merged with
St. Augustine, 01:31, 20 Sep 2004 Lunaverse. Content was: *Lord, grant me chastity and continence... but not yet.
 * merged by Aphaia 15:10, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have read in Plato and Cicero...
I deleted the quote: "I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.". Augustine never says this in the Confessions. Augustine never read Plato, he read Plotinus.

 * Granted, but there is a passage in the Confessions that is similar to this misquotation (vii.9). I've added an excerpt from it. Grommel 01:42, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

 * It seems to have been a paraphrase from Book VII, ch. 21, in which Augustine recounts what he "did not find" in Plato. Shockley 11:21, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Quotation found
This was in the Unsourced section: "I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me." This is from Confessions x.6, so I removed it from Unsourced and added it in the proper place. Grommel 01:31, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Original sources?
Among others, these two quotations are of interest to me:

 * What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
 * As quoted in Quote, Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory, p. 197

 * Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
 * As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136
 * note added by user hipbone: McAfee Brown thanks "Sr. Joan Delaplane, O.P., for a quotation from Augustine (used to begin chapter 1-0) that has empowered me ever since I heard her use it" in his Acknowledgments, p. 11.

However, citation back to a quote book isn't citation at all, and the second one still doesn't really get much closer to the original. If anyone could help find where these originally came from and the original text, I would appreciate it. It's a common problem with quotes in general.

--192.246.233.75 20:06, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Having searched everywhere for "what does love look like?", I think the quote must be a paraphrase of "what sort of countenance does love have?" from p111 of "The Works of Saint Augustine: v. 1. Sermons on the Old Testament, 20-50".

Travel quote
I do not know of anywhere in the writings of Augustine where he praises travel. The quote "The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page" and all variants should be removed unless it can be found outside of another collections of quotes.

If anything, Augustine has completely opposite sentiments which csn be documented:

"He to whom foreign travel is sweet, loves not his country: if his country is sweet, travel is bitter; if travel is bitter, all the day there is trouble." Exposition on Psalm 86, paragraph 10

"What disasters are suffered by those who travel by land or sea! What man can go out of his own house without being exposed on all hands to unforeseen accidents?" The City of God (Book XXII), chapter 22, paragraph 3

 * These expressions can be interpreted as statements of dim regard for travel, or simple statements of opinions or facts without definite judgment on his part. I am removing the tag as I see no strong reason to dispute the quote, but if you insist upon it one could create a "Disputed" section for it, after the sourced quotes. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:41, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The fact that our earliest source for this quote was published fourteen hundred years after St. Augustine's death is sufficient reason to remove it. - Crosbiesmith (talk) 19:20, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I believe this quotation is from the French work Le Cosmopolite by Charles-Louis Fougeret de Monbron (1750). It is quoted in French by Lord Byron as a motto for his poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Erakis (talk) 22:39, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Link to Le Cosmopolite by Charles-Louis Fougeret de Monbron (1750). -- Mdd (talk) 21:36, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I've removed the claimed quotation.  A translation of the de Monbron quote is here:   - "The universe is a sort of book, whose first page one has read when one has seen only one's own country." - Crosbiesmith (talk) 20:28, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I have placed the quote in the Misattributed section, where it should remain as a long used atttribution — but I remain skeptical of so conclusive a designation — and would have probably have preferred to retain it as simply "Disputed" without somewhat stronger evidence. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:14, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article

 * Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
 * Variant: To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

 * Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

 * Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

 * For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
 * Variant translation(?): Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

 * For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

 * Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

 * Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. (Sermon 169).

 * God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other

 * God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

[Actual quote is: O good and all-powerful God, who care for each of us as though each were the only one, and for all alike with the same tenderness you show to each. (Book 3.11.19)]
 * God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

 * God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

 * He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

 * He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

 * Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

 * I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

 * I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

 * If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

 * If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

 * In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

 * Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The above quote is potentially sourced - Google Books lists it as existing, and is cited in the book Happiness by Randy Alcorn. It is listed with a foot note [92], but Google Books won't show me what the exact source is (bibliography not included in the preview). Link included below. Can anyone verify/validate footnote [92]? "https://books.google.com/books?id=z7iaBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70&lpg=PT70&dq=Indeed,+man+wishes+to+be+happy+even+when+he+so+lives+as+to+make+happiness+impossible.&source=bl&ots=X5rv0QZqfH&sig=pZOYMOyrwMYd57vAkqAXyggZHCk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGuuGNnZHKAhUO_mMKHbOGDM8Q6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=Indeed%2C%20man%20wishes%20to%20be%20happy%20even%20when%20he%20so%20lives%20as%20to%20make%20happiness%20impossible.&f=false"

 * Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

 * My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

 * No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

 * Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

 * Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

 * Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

 * Punishment is justice for the unjust.

 * Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

 * The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

 * The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

This quote is from Confessions Bk. 8.

 * The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

 * The purpose of all wars, is peace.

 * The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

 * There is no possible source of evil except good.

 * This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

 * Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

[The above quote appears to be from a sermon on Psalm 137, the full text of which is available in "A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of East and West, Vol. 24, page 167", which is the sixth of six volumes of Augustine's sermons on the Psalms.] Google book link: https://books.google.com/books?id=vQEOAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

 * To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

 * We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain

 * We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

 * What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

 * Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

 * You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

 * If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you.

Incorrect on women
"Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men." is often attributed to Augustine. Quite a few google book hits Listed on incorrect quotations here. John Vandenberg (talk) 02:46, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * As I can find no published sources prior to 2004, and don't believe I had ever even heard of it before, I would be strongly inclined to label it "Misattributed", but would be willing to place it in the "Disputed" section if anyone has any objections to such an assessment, or within the main article if anyone could come up with a citation to some particular work. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:57, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It does appear to be a brazen fabrication, but I can't tell where it started. Are any of the print sources worth taking seriously enough to offer a rebuttal, or are they the sort of bogus prattle that any reasonable person would deem unreliable anyway? (The pseudonymous "August Stine" is, at least, good for a laugh.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:36, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

The reward of patience is patience
This is widely attributed to Augustine, but I haven't found a specific source in his writings. If this was his saying, it may be his most popularly recognizable quote, it certainly is to me. I heard it well over 20 years ago from a 12-stepper, without attribution to Augustine. She used to end every share with it. Only today, searching for source, did I see the alleged source. --Abd (talk) 15:20, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

There is a work ascribed to Augustine, ''On Patience." While some of it could be restated with the aphorism, nothing was direct. Maybe I missed it.

Talk:Patience has the saying, claiming "anonymous." That was placed there by an IP editor in 2007. --Abd (talk) 01:27, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I added the saying to Patience. --Abd (talk) 17:01, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Body and Soul maxim
"Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow." I've seen this quote attributed to Augustine, but never sourced, and can find now source myself. The earliest reference I can find is from forum posts and email signatures in 2002, but I'm not practiced in researching quotations. A Google Books/Ngram search found no books including the quote, so I'm leaning towards it being entirely made up. Trekkie4christ (talk) 22:00, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Many attributions to Augustine without source given. Also rendered as "We must care for our bodies as though we were going to live forever, but we must care for our souls as if we were going to die tomorrow.". IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 23:20, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Often Misattributed to Augustine of Hippo
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point." - Phyllis McGinley, The Province of the Heart, "The Honor of Being a Woman (1959).

Quotes that do not meet WQ:Q (encyclopedic)

 * The Church Father whose teachings most widely influenced subsequent regulation of sexuality in the Western church was Augustine of Hippo (345-430). Augustine regarded sex as foul and unclean, a uniquely dangerous manifestation of human rebellion against God's designs. Sex was especially pernicious, Augustine felt, because unlike other bodily desires and pleasures it could overwhelm reason and disarm the will to do what was right, while at the same time it could also transmit original sin. Christians therefore had a moral duty to avoid sex so far as possible. Even married Christians, he believed, should strive so far as they possibly could to lead a chaste life, despite any difficulties that this might cause in the marriage.
 * Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, edited by Margaret Schaus, Routledge, (2006), “Sexuality, Regulation of”, p. 752.

Is this new quote actually about Augustine?
There are a couple of problems with this new quote in the "about" section. The quote starts, "By the time of Augustine (354-430 AD), the Roman Empire had become an Empire of lies. It still pretended to uphold the rule of law, to protect the people from the Barbarian invaders, to maintain the social order..."

First, a lesser problem. Because the Counterpunch article was about Chomsky and had lots of quotes from him, and a different author was not given for this specific quote, I initially assumed the author was also Chomsky. But the only place online that I found this quote using Google (including Books) is in a blog named Cassandra's Legacy written by Ugo Bardi, as the post "The Empire of Lies". Curiously, the Counterpunch article does not link to it. I suppose this could be simply inadvertent.

But even if we correct the attribution, a large problem remains: what makes that quote specifically about Augustine other than the mere mention of his name? Excise his name and leave a date, and the point of the quote is unchanged. Oddly, there are other, more substantive parts of that blog post that actually discuss Augustine and would arguably be appropriate in the "about" section. Yet the new quote has only tangential relevance to him, so why put it here? My initial impulse was to just delete it for irrelevance, but I realized it should be discussed. Zgystardst (talk) 23:10, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

 * I've deleted the quote. It's been more than six months with no objections, and I noticed the user who added it has been blocked. Zgystardst (talk) 21:50, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * For the record, this is when the quote was added. https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Augustine_of_Hippo&diff=3024774&oldid=3001097 Zgystardst (talk) 23:57, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Solvitur ambulando
This one seems to be regularly attributed to Augustine. I came here looking to see a discussion of it (likely in Misattributions). But, in a surprise to me, it is mentioned nowhere on the mainpage, nor on the talk page. Anyone have any idea of the actual provenance of "solvitur ambulando" ("it is solved by walking")? Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 00:08, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

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Article creation, 2005
This article has apparently been created by a user who has been banned because of his behavior on the WIkipedia. He apparently continues to make edits from various IPs, including a vandalization of the Main Page here at Wikiquote. The material originally pasted here is available at w:Talk:Cosmotheism if one wishes to peruse it, the article, or their histories. The apparent creator of these edits seems more than a bit obsessed with promoting the "racialist", or racist, and neo-nazi ideas he embraces, and making himself a nuisance to those who do not accept his edits to Wikimedia projects. There are other pages and edits I have strongly suspected that he is responsible for creating here, but this one definitely is in his modus operandi; further information on this persons manner of behaving, and IPs he has used is available at w:User:Paul_Vogel. ~ Moby 21:32, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC) (+ ammendments)

 * I've added an npov tag to the article. Many of the comments are POV. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:46, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Now I skimmed history of this article - since the mid-August there is no substantial edits, just repeating anon(s)' edit and reversion. In my humble opinion it is better for us to protect this page for a while and invite all interested editors to join the discussion how we could treat this article. --Aphaia 17:16, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Discussion/unsourced remarks moved here from article

 * The following item is moved here from article to talk page 18:49, 24 March 2009 by User:Ningauble, see here

For "Modern Cosmotheism"
''This article was apparently created, and has been periodically vandalized by a person banned from editing because of his behavior on the Wikipedia, not merely because of his views. These are samplings of his remarks:''

 * Now, the WHOLE and UNCENSORED TRUTH: Modern Cosmotheism, as it appears today, and being currently promoted chiefly on the internet is widely considered only by Jews, PC-Marxists, Pan-atheists, and by various Perverts, to be a "racist" or a "hateful ideology" which has somehow "appropriated the terminology of pantheism" in order to legitimize itself. The reality is that a small cabal of atheistic Jews, Social-Marxists, Pan-atheists, and Perverts, have quite recently subverted the ancient religion of "pantheism" to reflect only their own PC-Marxist, Atheistic and pseudo-Humanist propaganda and poliitcal dogmatisms.

 * The actual "hate groups" and the actual ones that are cynically creating the "fashion" of "eco-spirituality" are these same peddlers of of the actual "warped ideologies" of Jewish-atheistic Marxism and of and by Jewish-Supremacists and of Zionists and their Pan-atheism and pseudo-Humanism.

 * Not that any such banning and censorship of the free speech rights of any others really matter in any democratic society actually being ruled by these Jewish-Marxist Pan-atheist Supremacists, as what they do support vs what they say, differs.

 * We should inform all of those new to Pantheism that these "majorities" of "Pan-atheists" are in fact quite "hateful" and that these actual Jewish-Supremacist "hate-groups" luckily form a tiny, but loud, minority of Israel-firster or Jewish-firster Zionists in all host Gentile lands.

 * Indeed, don't be deterred from any true or from any actual Classical Pantheism or from Aryan Cosmotheism just because of these few lying and hypocritical and actual "hate-filled" Jewish-controlled "pan-atheists" and slanderous lying hypocrites. Go find out for your own self just who or whom are the real "haters"

''A further sampling of the sort of edits he typically makes can be found here

DECEPTIVE editing practices once again occuring
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 * Technical maintenance is underway. Temporary issues may arise but will be resolved shortly. Read more.

This fits the pattern of previous edit patterns of people involved with this particular subject.

'''NPOV stances are certainly WELCOMED and promoted here — but as anyone of any rational integrity is quite aware such CANNOT be PRESCRIBED in any particular ways and actual BE entirely "NPOV" — though many people do OFTEN seem oblivious to such facts. ' This is NOT Wikipedia where we CREATE most of the statements which are presented, NOR are we free to ALTER them as we might like — we CHOOSE what we wish to add or present of what OTHER people have said AS THEY'' presented or PUBLISHED it.

I have never embraced the "Hide-one's-head-in-sand and pray while predators and parasites prey" mentality and lack of logical cohesion or simple moral lucidity of those would TRY to pretend that effective selection and PRESENTATION of quotations can ever be anything BUT a process involving Points-of-view — preferably HONEST ones, which one can honestly present without largely thoughtless THOUGHT-POLICE and other drones of some bureaucracy CENSORING or FORBIDDING various forms of selection and presentation. I myself have sometimes come into conflict with those who DO tend to embrace and endorse such policies out of habit (or popularity among people who often don't seem to examine circumstances beyond very narrow contexts, which seem convenient for themselves).

I will NOT presume to KNOW who you are, though I have some strong suspicions, but IF you are not currently banned from the Wikimedia projects — as the CREATOR of this article has been EXTENSIVELY at times, you are quite welcome to ADD pro-"Cosmotheism" material here — but NOT to remove or ALTER the long standing and accepted material CRITICAL of this particularly set of doctrines and policies, which I frankly find ludicrous, vapid and pathetically pretentious.

I am once again restoring the material that has existed with little change for many years — and will REPEAT : you are welcome to ADD some material, NOT to remove it or ALTER it in ways that are clearly deceptive about what OTHERS have said. ~ ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:04, 24 February 2012 (UTC) + tweaks

Ok. We will see. Cosmotheist

 * I restored genuine quotes which had been altered by the above vandal-troll, removed a polemical statement from a long-banned user at Wikipedia, but retained new material quoting promoters of the National Alliance white separatist group. I will not refrain from adding that despite its USE, or MISUSE of generally impressive WORDS and some actually profound notions to disguise their racist agenda, my honest assessment of this group is that it attracts only a small number of deluded fanatics who seem much more interested in SEEMING of higher and greater significance than they are, rather in being genuinely honest and fair to any and all in such ways as honor humanity, rather than disgrace it. So it goes... ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:17, 11 August 2013 (UTC) + tweaks

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Cosmotheism

Cosmotheism is a term that has been used in a general sense in ways roughly equivalent to the more commonly used Pantheism, but quotes on this page primarily address the rather obscure ideology or religion based on the heavily ethnocentric and racialist ideas developed by William Luther Pierce which is called "Cosmotheism" by its adherents.

For Racialist "Cosmotheism"

 * Cosmotheism - An all encompassing worldview for White Europeans around the globe.
 * Introductory sentence of Cosmotheism channel at YouTube (a rather unsuccessful channel, no longer active as of February 2012)

 * Cosmotheism is a religion which positively asserts there is an internal meaning and purpose in life and in the cosmos. There is an essential unity, or consciousness that binds all living beings and all of the inorganic cosmos, as one. And what our true identity is this: we are the cosmos, made self-aware and self-conscious by evolution. Our undeniable human purpose, is to know and to complete ourselves as conscious individuals, and also as a self-aware species, and thereby to co-evolve with the cosmos towards total and universal awareness, and towards the ever-higher perfection of consciousness and being.
 * Introductory statement at site of "Cosmotheist Community Church" beneath the "Love Your Race" motto of the National Alliance

Against Racialist "Cosmotheism"

 * Although an older edition of Webster's dictionary defines 'cosmotheism' as synonymous with pantheism, the term has taken on certain connotations in modern usage, owing chiefly to its use by Dr. William Pierce to describe his racially-hierarchical system of thought. Cosmotheism as it appears today, promoted chiefly on the internet, is widely considered to be a racist ideology which has appropriated the terminology of pantheism in order to legitimize itself.
 * article at Encyclopedia4u.com Ultimately derived from a previous article in the Wikipedia on Psuedo-pantheism

A Blemish on the Blossom (2001)

 * "A Blemish on the Blossom: Pantheism and White-Supremacist Hate Groups" (2001) by Esther Hugenholtz

 * There is an increasing number of White Supremacist hate groups who try to leap onto the fashionable bandwagon of eco-spirituality in order to recruit members for their own warped ideology.

 * We cannot cast a magic spell to make the nasties go away. It is even questionable from a democratic point of view whether ‘making them go away’ would be desirable. However, we should be alert and try to ‘ban’ these sort of nazi-characters from our own Internet pages and discussion forums. We should inform those new to Pantheism that the large majority of Pantheism is in fact benevolent and that these hate-groups luckily form a tiny, but loud, minority. Let’s make sure they stay that way.

 * Neo-nazis try to infiltrate all sorts of religions and philosophies in order to recruit. We are not the only victims in their book. Nonetheless, their presence is a blemish on the blossom of Pantheism. But the blossom in itself is still as radiant as ever. Don’t be deterred from Pantheism because of a few hate-filled fringe groups.

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Apathy

Apathy (also called perfunctoriness) is most commonly defined as a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern. It is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, and/or passion. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, spiritual, philosophical or physical life and the general world.

Quotes

 * If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
 * Henri-Frédéric Amiel

 * Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
 * Karel Čapek, "On Relativism" (1925)

 * The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
 * Jane Goodall "The Power of One", Time magazine (August 26, 2002).

 * The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society.
 * Samson Raphael Hirsch Essay "Religion Allied to Progress"

 * Most people are indifferent, unless their self-interest is at stake. Then there are the chronic complainers.
 * Robin Wall Kimmerer,

 * We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have known for thousands of years that to lock a sick person into solitary confinement makes him worse. They have known for thousands of years that a poor man who is frightened of his landlord and of the police is a slave. They have known it. We know it. But do the great enlightened mass of the British people know it? No. It is our task, Ella, yours and mine, to tell them. Because the great men are too great to be bothered. They are already discovering how to colonise Venus and to irrigate the moon. That is what is important for our time. You and I are the boulder-pushers. All our lives, you and I, we’ll put all our energies, all our talents into pushing a great boulder up a mountain. The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.
 * Doris Lessing Paul Tanner, in "Free Women: 1"

 * Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
 * Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms (1764-99)

 * Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment.
 * Henry Melvill, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 344.

 * Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
 * John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867.

 * Yes, we all know that curiosity killed the cat, but indifference kills people, both physically and metaphorically, every single day, when it surrenders to despots, aggressors, and villains.
 * Marco Respinti, "Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai Has Been in Jail for 1,000 Days: An Australian Lawyer Invented a New Way of Supporting Him", Bitter Winter (October 18, 2023)

 * There are few signs in a soul's state more alarming than that of religious indifference, that is, the spirit of thinking all religions equally true — the real meaning of which is, that all religions are equally false.
 * Frederick William Robertson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 344.

 * Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be, as it's going to be (however that vision appears to you), it is impossible to live compliant and complacent anymore in the world as it is.
 * Victoria Safford in "The Small Work in the Great Work" in The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (2004) by Paul Rogat Loeb

 * The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
 * George Bernard Shaw, The Devil's Disciple (1897)

 * He who has never hoped can never despair.
 * George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1906)

 * In any election, only a percentage of the people vote. Those who can't vote because of age or other disqualifications, and those who don't vote because of confusion, apathy, or disgust at a Tweedledum-Tweedledummer choice can hardly be said to have any voice in the passage of the laws which govern them.  Nor can the individuals as yet unborn, who will be ruled by those laws in the future.
 * Linda & Morris Tannehill, Ch. 4, "Government—An Unnecessary Evil", The Market for Liberty (1970), pp. 33–34.

 * The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death.
 * Elie Wiesel, US News & World Report, 27 October 1986

 * Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.
 * "Prof. McDoogle" in National Lampoon's Van Wilder

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Morality

Morality is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are "good" (or right) and those that are "bad" (or wrong).

A

 * By ceaseless efforts to live the good life we maintain our moral sanity.
 * Felix Adler, Life and Destiny (1913)

 * If ... the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant—in this respect almost alone among the philosophers—was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.
 * Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (1978), p. 13

/* A */ Aristotle + Hesiod
 * It is necessary therefore that the person who is to study, with any tolerable chance of profit, the principles of nobleness and justice and politics generally, should have received a good moral training. For our data here are moral judgments, and if a man knows what it is right to do, he does not require a formal reason. And a person that has been thus trained, either possesses these first principles already, or can easily acquire them. As for him who neither possesses nor can acquire them, let him take to heart the words of Hesiod:
 * ''‘ He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things.
 * He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person).
 * But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.’''
 * Aristotle, The Ethics Of Aristotle, Bk. 1, Chapter II

 * No moral system can rest solely on authority.
 * Alfred Jules Ayer, in Humanist Outlook (1968), p. 4.

B

 * Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.
 * When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
 * Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms, 2nd series (1848), ch. 1 Physiology of plunder ("Sophismes économiques", 2ème série (1848), chap. 1 "Physiologie de la spoliation").

 * The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
 * Georges Bataille, in Denis Hollier, On Bataille, "The Dualist Materialism of Georges Bataille," ed. Allan Stoekl (1990). "Du Rapport entre le Divin et le Mal," Critique (Paris, March 1947).

 * Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
 * Henry Ward Beecher, in Life of Thoughts (1858).

 * IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences -- then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

 * Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
 * Robert Bolt, in A Man For All Seasons (1960).

 * All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
 * Napoleon Bonaparte, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 419.

 * Wisdom is purified by morality, and morality is purified by wisdom: where one is, the other is, the moral man has wisdom and the wise man has morality, and the combination of morality of wisdom is called the highest thing in the world.
 * Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, M. Walshe, trans. (1987), Sutta 4 (Sonadanda Sutta), verse 22, p. 131

C

 * "Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
 * Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIII.

 * It is monstrous for one to live in luxury while many are in want.
 * Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor Chapter 2

 * There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
 * Charles Caleb Colton, in Lacon (1820).

 * Whoever desires that his intellect may grow up to soundness, to healthy vigor, must begin with moral discipline. Reading and study are not enough to perfect the power of thought. One thing above all is needful, and that is, the disinterestedness which is the very soul of virtue. To gain truth, which is the great object of the understanding, I must seek it disinterestedly. Here is the first and grand condition of intellectual progress. I must choose to receive the truth, no matter how it bears on myself. I must follow it, no matter where it leads, what interests it opposes, to what persecution or loss it lays me open, from what party it severs me, or to what party it allies. Without this fairness of mind, which is only another phrase for disinterested love of truth, great native powers of understanding are perverted and led astray.
 * William Ellery Channing, “Self-Culture” (1838)

 * As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
 * Arthur C. Clarke clarkefoundation.org

 * To be a person with high morals is to be a person with a liberated soul.
 * Confucius, as paraphrased by Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom, P. Sekirin, trans. (1997)

D

 * It would be deeply depressing if the only way children could get moral values was from religion. Either from scripture, and God knows we don't want them to get it from scripture, I mean, just look at scripture. Or, from being afraid of God, being intimidated by God. Anybody who is good for only those two reasons is not really being good at all. Why not teach children things like the Golden Rule, do as you would be done by, how would you like it if other children did that to you, so why do you do it to them. ... I think it's depressing that anybody should suggest that you actually need God in order to be moral. I would hope that our morals come from a better source than that, and therefore they are genuinely moral rather than based on outmoded scripture, or based on fear.
 * Richard Dawkins BBC, (2008-01-29)

 * To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
 * Simone de Beauvoir,

 * Puritanism and paganism — the repression and the expression of the senses and desires — alternate in mutual reaction in history. Generally religion and puritanism prevail in periods when the laws are feeble and morals must bear the burden of maintaining social order; skepticism and paganism (other factors being equal) progress as the rising power of law and governments permits the decline of the church, the family, and morality without basically endangering the stability of the state.
 * Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History (1968)

 * There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. France, the United States, and some other nations have divorced their governments from all churches, but they have had the help of religion in keeping social order.
 * Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History (1968)

 * We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic — a moral code independent of religion — strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?
 * Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History (1968)

E

 * The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.
 * Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms, D. Scrase and W. Mieder, trans. (Riverside, California: 1994), p. 30

 * The system of morality which Socrates made it the business of his life to teach was raised upon the firm basis of religion. The first principles of virtuous conduct which are common to all mankind are, according to this excellent moralist, laws of God; and the conclusive argument by which he supports this opinion is, that no man departs from these principles with impunity.
 * William Enfield, in The History of Philosophy Vol. I, (1819), p. 185.

 * Socrates taught that true felicity is not to be derived from external possessions, but from wisdom, which consists in the knowledge and practice of virtue; that the cultivation of virtuous manners is necessarily attended with pleasure as well as profit; that the honest man alone is happy; and that it is absurd to attempt to separate things which are in nature so closely united as virtue and interest.
 * William Enfield, in The History of Philosophy Vol. I, (1819), p. 185.

 * The first and most necessary topic in philosophy is that of the use of moral theorems, such as, “We ought not to lie;” the second is that of demonstrations, such as, “What is the origin of our obligation not to lie;” the third gives strength and articulation to the other two, such as, “What is the origin of this is a demonstration.” For what is demonstration? What is consequence? What contradiction? What truth? What falsehood? The third topic, then, is necessary on the account of the second, and the second on the account of the first. But the most necessary, and that whereon we ought to rest, is the first. But we act just on the contrary. For we spend all our time on the third topic, and employ all our diligence about that, and entirely neglect the first. Therefore, at the same time that we lie, we are immediately prepared to show how it is demonstrated that lying is not right.
 * Epictetus, Enchiridion, 51

F

 * It is the dutiful disposition of each person to spread morality outside of himself to the best of his ability and knowledge, i.e., to see to it that everyone has the same disposition he has … It follows from this that the overall end of the moral community as a whole is to produce unanimity concerning matters of morality.
 * Johann Gottlieb Fichte, in The System of Ethics: According to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre (2005), p. 329.

 * Cowardice, caressed by Christianity, creates morality.
 * Bruno Filippi, The Rebel’s Dark Laughter: The Writings of Bruno Filippi (1918)

 * I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: "Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle)." The first Israeli prime minister who declares that he will follow the Old Testament will finally bring peace to the Middle East. First, the Arabs will stop using children as shields. Second, they will stop taking hostages knowing that we will not be intimidated. Third, with their holy sites destroyed, they will stop believing that G-d is on their side. Result: no civilian casualties, no children in the line of fire, no false sense of righteousness, in fact, no war. Zero tolerance for stone throwing, for rockets, for kidnapping will mean that the state has achieved sovereignty. Living by Torah values will make us a light unto the nations who suffer defeat because of a disastrous morality of human invention.
 * Manis Friedman Answer for the question "How Should Jews Treat Their Arab Neighbors?" for the "Moment" magazine.

 * I would like to clarify the answer published in my name in last month’s issue of Moment Magazine. First of all, the opinions published in my name are solely my own, and do not represent the official policy of any Jewish movement or organization. Additionally, my answer, as written, is misleading. It is obvious, I thought, that any neighbor of the Jewish people should be treated, as the Torah commands us, with respect and compassion. Fundamental to the Jewish faith is the concept that every human being was created in the image of G-d, and our sages instruct us to support the non-Jewish poor along with the poor of our own brethren. The sub-question I chose to address instead is: how should we act in time of war, when our neighbors attack us, using their women, children and religious holy places as shields. I attempted to briefly address some of the ethical issues related to forcing the military to withhold fire from certain people and places, at the unbearable cost of widespread bloodshed (on both sides!)—when one’s own family and nation is mercilessly targeted from those very people and places. Furthermore, some of the words I used in my brief comment were irresponsible, and I look forward to further clarifying them in a future issue. I apologize for any misunderstanding my words created.
 * Manis Friedman Clarification of previous statement

 * Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
 * James Anthony Froude, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 419.

 * Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.
 * James Anthony Froude, in the lecture "The Science of History" (5 February 1864); published in Representative Essays (1885) by George Haven Putnam, p. 274; John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton quoted the first sentence of this an address of 1895, and this has often been misattributed to him.

G

 * It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.
 * Emma Goldman, "Victims of Morality", Mother Earth journal, March 1913.

 * I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as human morality, have a connection with primate behavior. This completely changes the perspective, if you start thinking that actually we tap into our biological resources to become moral beings. That gives a completely different view of ourselves than this nasty selfish-gene type view that has been promoted for the last 25 years.
 * Jane Goodall The Bonobo in All of Us, PBS (Jan 1, 2007).

H

 * Our moral traditions, like many other aspects of our culture, developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
 * Friedrich Hayek, The Fatal Conceit (1988), Introduction: Was Socialism a Mistake?

 * So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
 * Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 1.

 * If this truth has once and for all been discarded and men have decided for integral adjustment, if reason has been purged of all morality regardless of cost, and has triumphed over all else, no one may remain outside and look on. The existence of one solitary “unreasonable” man elucidates the shame of the entire nation. His existence testifies to the relativity of the system of radical self-preservation that has been posited as absolute.
 * Max Horkheimer, “The End of Reason,” The Essential Frankfurt School Reader (1982), p. 45

 * There is a principle, supposed to prevail among many, which is utterly incompatible with all virtue or moral sentiment; and as it can proceed from nothing but the most depraved disposition, so in its turn it tends still further to encourage that depravity. This principle is, that all benevolence is mere hypocrisy, friendship a cheat, public spirit a farce, fidelity a snare to procure trust and confidence; and that while all of us, at bottom, pursue only our private interest, we wear these fair disguises, in order to put others off their guard, and expose them the more to our wiles and machinations.
 * David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), Appendix 2

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 * Acting out of expedience turns morality and justice into a hollow mockery.
 * Henrik Ibsen, Dr. Stockmann in An Enemy of the People (Signet:1970), p. 220

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 * This Court does not sit as a Court of morality, to inflict punishment against those who offend against the social law.
 * Sir F. H. Jeune, Evans v. Evans (1899), L. R. Prob. Div. [1899], p. 202; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 178.

 * The ruling powers tell us poor lower-class folks that we have an obligation, a social responsibility to society, to abide by the law, but they don’t have any social responsibility to us to help us meet our needs. It’s pure bourgeoisie class-based morality, a morality that serves the ruling class, not the masses of the oppressed.
 * Kevin Rashid Johnson, Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson (2010)

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 *  Ich soll niemals anders verfahren als so, dass ich auch wollen könne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden.
 * I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
 * Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)

 * There is ... only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
 * Immanuel Kant, Metaphysics of Morals (1797), Ch. 11

 * The main objection to absolute morality is that even if there were absolute moral standards we should have no way of knowing whether we had found them.
 * Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic (1963), cited from the trade paperback edition published by Princeton University Press ISBN 978-0-691-16548-6, (p. 296).

 * Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That's what we need in the world today: people who will stand for right and goodness. It's not enough to know the intricacies of zoology and biology, but we must know the intricacies of law. It is not enough to know that two and two makes four, but we've got to know somehow that it's right to be honest and just with our brothers. It's not enough to know all about our philosophical and mathematical disciplines, but we've got to know the simple disciplines of being honest and loving and just with all humanity. If we don't learn it, we will destroy ourselves by the misuse of our own powers.
 * Martin Luther King, Jr., Rediscovering Lost Values, Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church (28 February 1954).

 * When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men. When we foolishly minimize the internal of our lives and maximize the external, we sign the warrant for our own day of doom.
 * Martin Luther King, Jr., The Radical King, p. 80

 * Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
 * Karl Kraus, "The Riehl Case" in Die Fackel; also in Karl Kraus (1971) by Harry Zohn, p. 47.

 * The lesson we are learning now is that for India to actually release the grain to citizens, she requires the entire system to go against the grain of deeply entrenched state beliefs and practices. After decades of distrust, it’s time to cultivate some moral fibre.
 * Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Flaws of India’s welfare system are visible in our fight against Covid-19 (8 May, 2020), co-written with Arkaja Singh,

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 * Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning, — an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter XIII.

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 * What is it to understand oneself as a moral agent? ... First, I have to understand myself as and to present myself to others as someone with an identity other than the identities of role and office that I assume in each of the roles that I occupy. ... There must therefore be a place in any social order in which the exercise of the powers of moral agency is to be a real possibility. ... These too must be milieus of everyday practice in which the established standards are, when it is appropriate, put to the question, and not just in an abstract and general way. The necessary presupposition of such questioning is some more or less shared conception of what it is to be a good human being that focuses upon qualities which individuals possess or fail to possess qua individuals, independently of their roles, and which are exemplified in part by their capacity or their lack of capacity to stand back from and reconsider their engagement with the established role-structures.
 * Alasdair MacIntyre, "Social Structures and their Threats to Moral Agency," Philosophy, vol. 4, no. 289 (July 1999), p. 315.

 * Whatever is contrary, bonos mores est decorum, the principles of our law prohibit, and the King's Court, as the general censor and guardian of the public manners, is bound to restrain and punish.
 * Lord Mansfield, Jones v. Randall (1774), Lofft. 386; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 177.

 * The reason why no mention is made in our ancient books of uses, is, because men were then of better Consciences than now they are, so as the feoffees did not give occasion to their feoffors to bring subpoenas to compell them to perform the trusts reposed in them.
 * Manwood, J., Brett's Case (1583), 2 Leonard's Rep. 15; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 177.

 * Law, morality, religion, are ... so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests
 * Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

 * Morality is too important to leave to the jurisdiction of community values.
 * Jamie Mayerfeld, Suffering and Moral Responsibility (1999), p. 5

 * The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
 * H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Fourth Series, 1924

 * It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.
 * H. L. Mencken  (1908/1913)

 * Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong.
 * H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), Ch. 30, p. 617.

 * The matter of “right and wrong” was a subject in which he had long been interested. Indeed, it had been a deeply personal concern ever since, early in his career, he had detected a great distinction between morality and honor. “I have never met a thoroughly moral man who was honorable,” he had written in Prejudices, by which he had meant that fervently moral men would employ any means, including dishonorable ones, to achieve their ends.
 * H. L. Mencken, quoted in Mencken: A Life, by Fred Hobson (1994), ISBN 0-8018-5238-2, p. 339

 * We should never doubt that nationalizing the moral life is the first step toward totalitarianism.
 * Kenneth Minogue, The Servile Mind, How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life (2010), Encounter Books, pp. 2-3

 * Though the customs be both good as customs, and suitable to him, yet to conform to custom, merely as custom, does not educate or develop in him any of the qualities which are the distinctive endowment of a human being. The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used. The faculties are called into no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do it, no more than by believing a thing only because others believe it.
 * J. S. Mill, On Liberty (Henry Holt, New York: 1895), Chapter 3, p. 105

 * Dionysus used to laugh at professors who did research into the bad qualities of Ulysses yet knew nothing of their own; at musicians whose flutes were harmonious but not their morals; at orators whose studies led to talking about justice, not to being just.
 * Montaigne, Essays, M. Screech, trans. (1991), Book I, ch. 25, “On Schoolmasters’ Learning,” p. 156

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 * Moral argument tries to appeal to a capacity for impartial motivation which is supposed to be present in all of us. Unfortunately it may be deeply buried, and in some cases it may not be present at all. In any case it has to compete with powerful selfish motives, and other personal motives that may not be so selfish, in its bid for control of our behavior. The difficulty of justifying morality is not that there is only one human motive, but that there are so many.
 * Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (1987), Ch. 7. Right and Wrong

 * The intellectual conscience: … the great majority of people does not consider it contemptible to believe this or that and to live accordingly without first having given themselves an account of the final and most certain reasons pro and con, and without even troubling themselves about such reasons afterward: the most gifted men and noblest women still belong to this “great majority.” But what is goodheartedness, refinement or genius to me, when the person who has these virtues tolerates slack feelings in his faith and judgments and when he does not account the desire for certainty as his inmost craving and deepest distress—as that which separates the higher human beings from the lower.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, § 2, Kauffman trans.

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 * Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity consists then in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor to think well; this is the principle of morality.
 * Pascal, Pensées, #347, W. F. Trotter, trans. (New York: 1958)

 * Each one of us is... called upon to give a judgment upon an immense variety of problems, crucial for our social existence. If that judgment confirms measures and conduct tending to the increased welfare of society, then it may be termed a moral, or, better, a social judgment. It follows, then, that to ensure a judgement's being moral, method and knowledge are essential to its formation. ...[T]he formation of a moral judgment—that is, one which the individual is reasonably certain will tend to social welfare—does not depend solely on the readiness to sacrifice individual gain or comfort, or on the impulse to act unselfishly: it depends in the first place on knowledge and method. The first demand of the state upon the individual is not for self-sacrifice but for self-development. ...[T]he man who gives a vote... in the choice of a representative, after forming a judgement based upon knowledge, is... acting socially, and is fulfilling a higher standard of citizenship.
 * Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science (1900) Introductory, p. 28.

 * There are a precious few whose studies are sound and honest and whose goal is truth and virtue. This is the knowledge of things and the improvement of moral conduct. … As for the others, of whom there is an enormous mass, some seek glory, an insipid, yet gleaming prize. But the majority aims only at the gleam of money, which is not only a rather poor reward, but dirty, and neither equal to the trouble involved, nor worthy of efforts of the mind.
 * Petrarch, “On the Various Academic Titles,” De remediis utriusque fortunae, C. Rawski, trans. (1967), pp. 72-73

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 * The ruling powers tell us poor lower-class folks that we have an obligation, a social responsibility to society, to abide by the law, but they don’t have any social responsibility to us to help us meet our needs. It’s pure bourgeoisie class-based morality, a morality that serves the ruling class, not the masses of the oppressed.
 * Kevin "Rashid" Johnson, Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Kersplebedeb: 2015

 * Morality is the normative guide that assumes the world is sufficient as it is to say what is right and what is wrong. Ethics allows us to accept that the world isn’t as it ought to be and perhaps never will be. ... Morality is quite often perverse because it is accountable to the set of relations that bind a society together. It serves the world as the world is, and is invested in keeping it that way.
 * Omar Ricks, "A Celebration of Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition: Conclusion: Shakur, or, a Primer on the Difference between Morality and Ethics," Feminist Wire, July 16, 2013

 * I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
 * Bertrand Russell, in Why I Am Not a Christian; this has often been misquoted as "The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world".

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 * Morality has always had a difficult time of it; utility and legality even begrudge the fact of its existence.
 * Friedrich Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Athenaeum Fragments,” § 373

 * People who are eccentric enough to be quite seriously virtuous understand each other everywhere, discover each other easily, and form a silent opposition to the ruling immorality that happens to pass for morality.
 * Friedrich Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 414

 * We want none of your Lisson Grove prudery here, young woman. You've got to learn to behave like a duchess.
 * George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act Ii (1913)

 * وَإِنَّمَا الْأُمَمُ الْأَخْلَاقُ مَا بَقِيَتْ / فَإِنْ هُمُ ذَهَبَتْ أَخْلَاقُهُمْ ذَهَبُوا
 * Nations are nothing but morals: If their morals disappear, they disappear.
 * Ahmed Shawqi

 * My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.
 * Michael Shermer, in The Science of Good and Evil.

 * Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance. Once you believe that you have the absolute and final answers to moral questions, why be tolerant of those who refuse to accept your Truth? Religiously based moral systems apply this principle in spades.
 * Shermer (2007), Is Christianity Good for the World?

 * If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
 * John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 62

 * If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
 * Robert Louis Stevenson, in Across the Plains (1892) Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

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 * Only that which prepares the complete and final overthrow of imperialist bestiality is moral, and nothing else.
 * Leon Trotsky, "Moralists and Sycophants Against Marxism" (1939), in Their Morals and Ours, p. 50

 * I always thought dancing improper; but it can't be since I myself am dancing.
 * The Red Cow in P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins, Ch. 5 "The Dancing Cow" (1934)

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 * It is above all the impersonal and economically rationalized (but for this very reason ethically irrational) character of purely commercial relationships that evokes the suspicion, never clearly expressed but all the more strongly felt, of ethical religions. For every purely personal relationship of man to man, of whatever sort and even including complete enslavement, may be subjected to ethical requirements and ethically regulated. This is true because the structures of these relationships depend upon the individual wills of the participants, leaving room in such relations for manifestations of the virtue of charity. But this is not the situation in the realm of economically rationalised relationships, where personal control is exercised in inverse ratio to the degree of rational differentiation of the economic structure.
 * Max Weber, Sociology of Religion (1922), pp. 216-217

 * The ascetic, when he wishes to act within the world ... must become afflicted with a sort of happy closure of the mind regarding any question about the meaning of the world, for he must not worry about such questions. Hence, it is no accident that inner-worldly asceticism reached its most consistent development on the foundation of the Calvinist god's absolute inexplicability, utter remoteness from every human criterion, and unsearchableness as to his motives. Thus, the inner-worldly ascetic is the recognized "man of a vocation," who neither inquires about nor finds it necessary to inquire about the meaning of his actual practice of a vocation within the whole world, the total framework of which is not his responsibility but his god's.
 * Max Weber, Economy and Society (1922), as edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich (University of California Press: 1968), pp. 547-548

 * Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
 * H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914), p. 299

 * Germs have no morals whatsoever in their instinctual drive to defeat other germs.
 * David Woodard, Breed the Unmentioned (1985)

Bible

 * The Bible on Wikisource.

 * Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
 * Book of Isaiah 5:20.

 * You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.
 * Luke 16:15

 * Bad company ruins good morals.
 * Paul of Tarsus, in 1 Corinthians 15:33.

 * He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
 * Solomon, Proverbs 17:15

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. ?.
 * Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.
 * Arthur J. Balfour, Foundations of Belief.

 * No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments.
 * Book of Common Prayer, Shorter Catechism.

 * Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XIII, Stanza 7.

 * The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
 * Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter XXIII.

 * The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
 * Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects. Calvinism.

 * Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
 * Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects. Divus Cæsar.

 * Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home. Lichfield and Uttoxeter.

 * Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
 * Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds (1913), Book IV, Chapter X.

 * We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
 * Macaulay, On Moore's Life of Lord Byron (1830).

 * I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages, And two in fifty scarce agree On what is pure morality.
 * Moore, Morality.

Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)

 * For what end shall we be connected with men, of whom this is the character and conduct?… Is it, that we may see our wives and daughters the victims of legal prostitution; soberly dishonoured; speciously polluted; the outcasts of delicacy and virtue, and the lothing of God and man?
 * Timothy Dwight, The Duty of Americans, at the Present Crisis (1798), p. 20–21. Dwight, president of Yale, preached this sermon on July 4, 1798, at New Haven, Connecticut. In 1798, much of the anti-French feeling was directed at the Jeffersonians, who were the champions in America of the French Revolution. In the congressional elections that year, the Jeffersonians lost heavily as the Federalists won control of both the House and the Senate. In this sermon, Dwight warned that a victory for the Jeffersonians meant lustful moral depravity. Saul K. Padover, Jefferson (1942), p. 251–52.

 * Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
 * John F. Kennedy, remarks in Bonn, West Germany, at the signing of a charter establishing the German Peace Corps, June 24, 1963. The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 503. This remark may have been inspired by the passage from Dante Alighieri's La Comedia Divina, trans. Geoffrey L. Bickersteth, "Inferno", canto 3, lines 35–42 (1972): by those disbodied wretches who were loth when living, to be either blamed or praised. … … … … … … Fear to lose beauty caused the heavens to expel these caitiffs; nor, lest to the damned they then gave cause to boast, receives them the deep hell.  A more modern-sounding translation: "They are mixed with that repulsive choir of angels … undecided in neutrality. Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them for fear the wicked there might glory over them".—Dante's Inferno, trans. Mark Musa, p. 21 (1971).

 * I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
 * Robert F. Kennedy, "Day of Affirmation", address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966. Congressional Record, June 6, 1966, vol. 112, p. 12430.

 * Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
 * Attributed to Napoleon I; reported in Maturin M. Ballou, Treasury of Thought (1899), p. 407. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989). A handwritten note in Congressional Research Service files says that the War Department Library had searched many times without success for a different version: "Morale is to material as is the ratio of three to one".

 * Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
 * Albert Schweitzer, "Civilization and Ethics", Preface, The Philosophy of Civilization, trans. C. T. Campion, part 2 (1949, reissued 1981), p. 79.

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Heinrich Schenker

Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868, Wisniowczyki Ukraine – 13 January 1935, Vienna) was a music theorist, best known for his approach to musical analysis, now usually called Schenkerian analysis.

Quotes

 * It is improper, to expressly pursue the Urlinie in performance and to single out its tones...for the purpose of communicating the Urlinie to the listener." Rather, "for the performer, the Urlinie provides, first of all, a sense of direction. It serves a somewhat equivalent function to that which a road map serves for a mountain climber.
 * Das Meisterwerk I, p. 196. Translated by Kalib, vol. 2, p. 147. Quoted in Burkhart, Charles (1983). "Schenker's Theory of Levels and Musical Performance", Aspects of Schenkerian Theory, Beach David, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press.

 * Music was destined to reach its culmination in the likeness of itself.
 * Free Composition, § 251, p. 93.

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Nico

Nico (16 October 1938  – 18 July 1988), born Christa Päffgen, was a German fashion model, actress, singer, and composer.

Quotes

 * I would say the time has not yet come. I rebel against the present, whenever it is, because I have not seen any change, other than oppositions grow stronger. I would be a communist if it was more anarchist. Otherwise, I see only everything as an absurdity, so I can laugh and cry. I have lived in a continuation, from birth and growing towards death in a chain that cannot end. I don't see this decade then that decade. The same things happen in different guises. I am bohemian but at one time you would call me a hippie or a punk. I remain a bohemian whatever you call me. So maybe I am locked in the fifties. But I have never desired to grow up from my world as a child, which is when things are most clear and utopian. They are clear because you are at the center and you see all around you. When you get older you lose your sight … I lost something of my childishness when people around me start dying. Four of my family died within a year.
 * On the decade which she fit in best, as quoted in Life and Lies of an Icon (1995) by Richard Witts.

 * I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
 * As quoted in ''Up-tight: the Velvet Underground story (2002) by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga.

 * You could say it like was like a fairy tale at the time; Andy would be the good fairy, and Jim would play the giant, Brian would be the witch, Paul McCartney would be the frog who turns into a prince, no, it would have to be the other way round. Well, it didn't seem like a fairy tale at the time. It was a lot of hassle. But I learned a lot of things, and I began to compose my own songs.
 * Describing her tumultuous experiences of 1967, as quoted in Life and Lies of an Icon (1995) by Richard Witts.

 * I think he was the first man I met who was not afraid of me in some way. We were very similar, like brother and sister. Our spirits are similar. We were the same height and the same age, almost … He was well read and he introduced me to William Blake and also the English Romantic poets who came after him. Jim liked Shelley. I preferred Coleridge. In fact, he is my favoured poet of all time. Did you know they were all drug addicts? Coleridge was addicted to opium. It is better to be addicted to opium than to be addicted to money.
 * On her "soul brother" Jim Morrison, as quoted in Life and Lies of an Icon (1995) by Richard Witts.

 * Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.
 * In 1968, as quoted in Life and Lies of an Icon (1995) by Richard Witts.

 * I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.
 * Her response when asked about her sense of rhythm in songwriting, as quoted in Life and Lies of an Icon (1995) by Richard Witts.

Afraid

 * Cease to know or to tell Or to see or to be your own Have someone else's will as your own Have someone else's will as your own.

 * You are beautiful and you are alone.

 * Often the adolescent plague Reward your grace Confuse your hunger capture the fake...

 * Banish the faceless reward your grace Banish the faceless reward your grace.

Roses in the Snow

 * He came your way And when he had to go There were roses growing in the snow Silently you'll go to the shadow of your soul And you know that it was like this before we had to go You will never see these lights Glowing in your nights Until you feel this way.

 * With every moon it is as though you're getting closer to your soul And then you go alone and with no fear Then you will know That it was like this before we had to go And you will find that you were blind Until you saw these lights glowing in your nights.

 * You will never see these lights Glowing in your nights If you don't know And there are roses growing in the snow.

Quotes about Nico

 * John Cale did a really interesting version of Heartbreak Hotel, in a minor key. It's incredibly suicidal. I mean you could never believe that that song could turn out to be such a downer as that... Nico did Deutschland Über Alles, which was very good... and she did The End by The Doors, which is the one they put on the album... Nico doing The End was so chilling, it really was. It was incredible. She invests it with so many levels of meaning I didn't hear in the Doors' one. She underplays it... there's just the harmonium, me playing synthesizer— almost doubling the harmonium part— and her singing... which is just like a rich, kind of non-specific miasma of sound...
 * Brian Eno, Creem (1974)

 * "Of course, it's her own sexuality that she's denying", he continued. Did I know that she'd been raped as a teenager in Berlin? I didn't. Nico was working as a temp for the U.S. Air Force. A black American Sergeant had raped not only her, but other girls under his employ. She'd kept quiet about it, but he was found out and court-marshalled.  She had to testify for the prosecution at his trial.  He was sentenced to death and shot.  Nico was 15. "Not only does she have to carry the horror of the rape but the secret guilt of somehow being complicit, by her testimony, in his execution.  Sex for Nico....is irrevocably associated with punishment."
 * James Young in Songs They Don't Play On the Radio

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