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Thomas Sowell

 (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and political commentator. He taught economics at, the , and since 1980 at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is currently Senior Fellow.

Sowell writes from a libertarian conservative perspective, advocating supply-side economics. He has written more than thirty books (a number of which have been reprinted in revised editions). In 2002 he was awarded the.

1980s–1990s

 * What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.
 * During a discussion in Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" television series in 1980.

 * Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
 * The Thomas Sowell Reader, New York: NY, Basic Books (2011) p. 144, Forbes magazine, "The survival of the left" (Sept. 8, 1997)

 * Too many Republicans treat English as a second language, with Beltway lingo being their native tongue.
 * Syndicated column, retrieved from The Tuscaloosa News, December 13, 1996.

 * The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
 * "The Survival of the Left", Forbes (Sep 8, 1997)

 * If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
 * Creators Syndicate November 28, 1998.

(1980; 1996)

 * Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
 * Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

 * Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.
 * Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

 * Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.
 * Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

 * Knowledge may be enjoyed as a speculative diversion, but it is needed for decision making.
 * Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

 * It is unnecessary to attempt any general rule as to where the overall balance lies in comparing the respective costs of knowledge in larger and smaller decision-making units. What is important is to understand that (1) the respective cost advantages of the large and small units differ according to the kind of knowledge involved (general versus specific), that (2) most decisions involve mixtures of the two kinds of knowledge, so that the net advantages of the larger and smaller units vary with the kind of decision, and (3) the effectiveness of hierarchical subordination varies with the extent to which the subordinate unit has knowledge advantages over the higher unit.
 * Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

 * While decisions are constrained by the kinds of organizations and the kinds of knowledge involved, the Impetus for decisions comes from the internal preferences and external incentives facing those who actually make the decisions.
 * Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

 * Key indicators require some specified time span during which they are to be tabulated for purposes of reward or penalty. The time span can vary enormously according to the process and the indicator.
 * Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

 * Before attempting to determine the effect of institutions, it is necessary to consider the inherent circumstances, constraints, and impelling forces at work in the environment within which the institutional mechanisms function.
 * Ch. 2 : Decision-Making Processes

 * The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.
 * Ch. 3 : Economic Trade-Offs

 * Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
 * Ch. 5 : Political Trade-Offs

A Conflict of Visions (1987)
Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (1987)

 * We will do almost anything for our visions, except think about them. The purpose of this book is to think about them.
 * p. xiv

 * Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
 * Ch. 1 : The Role of Vision

Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)
Thomas Sowell, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)

 * Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
 * Bogeyman Economics

 * One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.
 * Cutting the Budget

 * The case for the political left looks more plausible on the surface but is harder to keep believing in as you become more experienced.
 * Left versus Right

 * Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom.
 * Police Shootings

 * The key feature of Communist propaganda has been the depiction of people who are more productive as mere exploiters of others.
 * Twentieth Century Limited

(1993)

 * In short, it is not merely that Johnny can't read, or even that Johnny can't think. Johnny doesn't know what thinking is, because thinking is so often confused with feeling in many public schools. [emphasis in the original]
 * Ch. 1 : Decline, Deception, and Dogmas (p.4 Education)
 * A reference to .

Is Reality Optional? (1993)
Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional? (1993)

 * Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
 * Social Deterioration

 * The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
 * Student Loans

 * Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
 * Will Property Rights Return?

 * Envy plus rhetoric equals 'social justice'.
 * Random Thoughts

Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

 * History shows that degeneracy can be turned around because it has been done in the past. But the real question today is: Will we turn it around-or is what we are doing likely to make matters worse?
 * Barbarians inside the Gates?

 * Random Thoughts (Creators Syndicate, various dates)
 * Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain. (27 December 2002)

 * When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

 * I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

 * People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

 * Those who believe that "basic necessities" should belong to people as a matter of right ignore the implication -- that people are to work only for amenities, frivolities, and ego. Will that mean more work or less work? And if less, where are all those "basic necessities" coming from that the government is supposed to hand out?

 * Many of the dangerous things that drivers do are not likely to save them even 10 seconds. When you bet your life against 10 seconds, that is giving bigger odds than you are ever likely to get in Las Vegas.

 * Most problems do not get solved. They get superseded by other concerns.

 * People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

 * Maturity is not a matter of age. You have matured when you are no longer concerned with showing how clever you are, and give your full attention to getting the job done right. Many never reach that stage, no matter how old they get.

 * One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

 * Letters from teachers continue to confirm the incompetence which they deny. A teacher in Montana says that my criticisms of teachers are "nieve." No, that wasn't a typographical error. He spelled it that way twice.

 * If I could offer one piece of advice to young people thinking about their future, it would be this: Don't preconceive. Find out what the opportunities are.

 * Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

 * If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

 * Time was when people used to brag about how old they were -- and I am old enough to remember it.

2000s

 * It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Know-it-alls in the school system do not lose one dime or one hour's sleep if their bright ideas turn out to be all wrong, or even disastrous, for the child.
 * Wake up, Parents, Jewish World Review, 18 August 2000.

 * The greatness of a free-market economy is that it does not depend upon the wisdom of those who happen to be on top at the moment.
 * “Rise and fall of a business,” Monterey Herald, December 30, 2000

 * People who think that they are being "exploited" should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: "Good riddance"?
 * Random thoughts, Jewish World Review, April 29, 2002

 * To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have cost without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more to produce if they were produced by enterprises operating without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.
 * , South Florida Sun Sentinel, December 26, 2003

 * Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
 * Random Thoughts, Feb 25, 2004

 * Walter Williams figured out some years ago that the amount of money needed to move the poor out of poverty would be trivial compared to the amount of money that's spent on these damn programs that are supposed to help the poor but usually don't. But the poor are being used as human shields in the political battle. You put the poor up in front of you as you march across the battlefield and enemy troops won't fire, so you can expand your power, and raise taxes, and so forth.
 * "Live" with Thomas Sowell, The American Enterprise, September 2004.

 * I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.
 * "Live" with Thomas Sowell, The American Enterprise, September 2004.

 * Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.
 * "Live" with Thomas Sowell, The American Enterprise, September 2004.

 * It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.
 * Random Thoughts, Townhall, December 2004.

 * Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.
 * Ending Slavery, 8 February 2005.

 * Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
 * Random Thoughts, Oct. 17, 2005

 * Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
 * Random Thoughts, Oct. 17, 2005

 * When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.
 * Don’t Get Weak, National Review, May 1, 2007.

 * Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
 * Random Thoughts, May 01, 2007

 * Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.
 * Random Thoughts, May 01, 2007

 * One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.
 * Random Thoughts, Sep 03, 2007

 * Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.
 * Random Thoughts, Sep 03, 2007

 * "'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible."
 * National Review, March 15, 2007.

 * In a world where young blacks, especially, are bombarded with claims that they are being unfairly targeted by police, and where a general attitude of belligerence is being promoted literally in word and song, it is hard not to wonder whether some people's responses to policemen do not have something to do with the policemen's responses to them. Neither the police nor people in any other occupation always do what is right but automatic belligerence is not the answer.
 * "Driving While Black" (31 October 2007), Jewish World Review.

 * As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican and Democratic Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election. In recent times, each election year has seen each party's nominee selected - or at least subject to veto - by its most extreme wing and then forced to try to move back to the center before the general election. This can only undermine the public's confidence in the integrity of the candidates of both parties.
 * "Bipartisan Primary Blues", National Review (25 March 2008).

 * Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
 * Random Thoughts, 26 August 2008.

 * Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
 * Random Thoughts, 26 August 2008.

 * When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.
 * Random Thoughts, 26 August 2008.

 * To find anything comparable to crowds' euphoric reactions to Obama, you would have to go back to old newsreels of German crowds in the 1930s, with their adulation of their fuehrer, Adolf Hitler. With hindsight, we can look back on those people with pity, knowing now how many of them would be led to their deaths by the man they idolized.
 * Idols of Crowds, Sep 16, 2008.

 * “Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise — whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team — is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.”
 * Real Clear Politics Nov 2008

 * Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.
 * "Out of Context", Jewish World Review, 2 June 2009.

 * The average black student at MIT is in the bottom 10% of MIT students in math. But he is in the top 90% of all American students in math. Something like one fourth of all the black students going to MIT do not graduate. You're talking about a pool of people whom you are artificially turning into failures by mismatching them with the school.
 * Thomas Sowell (on affirmative action), Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World (at 27m46s), 25 January 2021.

Basic Economics (2000)
Thomas Sowell, A Personal Odyssey (2000), (4th ed., 2010)

A Personal Odyssey (2000)
Thomas Sowell, A Personal Odyssey (2000)

 * In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them. One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.
 * Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy

The Quest for Cosmic Justice (2001)
Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice (2001)
 * In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise.
 * p.10, Simon and Schuster

Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)
Thomas Sowell, ''Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays'' (2006)

 * It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.
 * Random Thought

 * It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer "universal health care."
 * Random Thought

2010s

 * Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice."
 * The Thomas Sowell Reader (2011), p.399, Basic Books

Thomas Sowell: [laughing] Oh, yeah! You might say the road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees!
 * Peter Robinson: Our intellectual-in-chief, Barack Obama, got his BA from Columbia, his JD from Harvard, he taught for a number of years at the University of Chicago Law School. May I suppose that Tom Sowell is duly impressed?
 * Uncommon Knowledge - Thomas Sowell on the second edition of Intellectuals and Society (37:03), May 8, 2012

 * The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
 * Big Lies in Politics, 22 May 2012.

 * "Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off."
 * Economic 'Plan'?" September 11, 2012.

 * What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people—like themselves—need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.
 * "Socialist or Fascist?", Jewish World Review (June 12, 2012)
 * NOTE: "Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe."

 * If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
 * Wimps Versus Barbarians, May 21, 2013

 * In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one—Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after seven years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning to another glib egomaniac to be his successor.
 * "Conservatives Against Trump" (21 January 2016), National Review

 * What was special about America was not that it had slavery, which existed all over the world, but that Americans were among the very few peoples who began to question the morality of holding human beings in bondage. That was not yet a majority view among Americans in the 18th century, but it was not even a serious minority view.
 * "The Scapegoat for Strife in the Black Community" (7 July 2015), National Review

 * If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.
 * "Supreme Hypocrisy", 29 March 2016

 * Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.
 * "Socialism for the Uninformed", 31 May 2016

Intellectuals and Society (2010)

 * Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society (2010)

 * Some intellectuals’ downplaying of objective reality and enduring criteria extends beyond social, scientific, or economic phenomena into art, music, and philosophy. The one over-riding consistency across all these disparate venues is the self-exaltation of the intellectuals. Unlike great cultural achievements of the past, such as magnificent cathedrals, which were intended to inspire kings and peasants alike, the hallmark of self-consciously “modern” art and music is its inaccessibility to the masses and often even its deliberate offensiveness to, or mockery of, the masses. Just as a physical body can continue to live, despite containing a certain amount of microorganisms whose prevalence would destroy it, so a society can survive a certain amount of forces of disintegration within it. But that is very different from saying that there is no limit to the amount, audacity and ferocity of those disintegrative forces which a society can survive, without at least the will to resist.
 * Ch. 22 : The Influence of Intellectuals

Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (2011)

 * Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?
 * p.397

 * Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice'.
 * p.44

Controversial Essays (2013)

 * The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.
 * p.59, Hoover Press

Discriminations and Disparities (2018)

 * Thomas Sowell, Discriminations and Disparities (2018)

 * Neither in nature nor among human beings are either equal or randomly distributed outcomes automatic. On the contrary, grossly unequal distributions of outcomes are common, both in nature and among people, in circumstances where neither genes nor discrimination are involved... The idea that it would be a level playing field, if it were not for either genes or discrimination, is a preconception in defiance of both logic and facts.
 * p. 17.

Quotes about Sowell

 * I must take the occasion to apologize for a major omission from my article, my failure to give credit to Professor Thomas Sowell for two excellent discussions on Marxian economics which I have only recently come across. While he does not deal explicitly with the transformation problem, his discussion of Marxian value theory, which is documented with exquisite care, comes to conclusions very similar to my own on the tautological nature of the value theory and on the nature of Marx' interests in the subject. Though he does sometimes speak of value theory as a first approximation [3,1967, p. 66] he makes it clear that Marx always considered the deviations between prices and values to be systematic [3, 1967, pp. 65-6]. I recommend these pieces unhesitatingly as models of Marxian scholarship.
 * William J. Baumol, "The Fundamental Marxian Theorem: A Reply to Samuelson: Comment", Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Mar., 1974)

 * Sowell is an economist by training and should not be expected to know much about American foreign policy, as it’s beyond his area of expertise. I do find it a little rich, however, that Sowell has written a book complaining about what happens when intellectuals leave their knowledge reservation to opine about events of the day — and then proceeds to commit that precise sin during his book promotion. There are two possibilities here. Either Sowell has no capacity for irony, or he’s cleverly trying to add data points to support his argument.
 * Daniel Drezner, Intellectual says really stupid thing to prove point about intellectuals: film at 11 (2010)

 * If there was any justice in the intellectual world, Thomas Sowell would be awarded the Nobel Prize for his brilliant interdisciplinary studies on the connections between race, culture and economics around the globe.
 * Richard Ebeling, Comment in "Lewis Lehrman on Deficits, Debt and Debasement"(2010)

 * Thomas Sowell is a gifted applied economist with much of importance to say about the larger issues in social policy and government regulation of economic affairs. [...] Sowell, however, has two failings. First, he has no heart for the plight of the poor, so his work in this area is illuminating for the false ideas he debunks, but does not contribute in any way to dealing with the problem of poverty. Second, he is a thorough-going right-wing ideologue, who is often cogent in his critique of liberal ideas, but is blind to similar, indeed often parallel, problems with conservative ideas. This book suffers especially from the second of these weaknesses. [...]Sowell has no understanding of information economics. He follows Hayek on the distributed nature of information, but he never confronts the literature that deals with the transformation of private information into public information. The importance of public information, central for instance to Durkheim and Aumann, is completely ignored in his treatment of government regulation.
 * Herbert Gintis, Review of Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society (2012), "Sowell is a Biased, Opinionated, Klutzy Intellectual"

 * For many years the term Austrian school in the United States was synonymous with Mises’s disciples. The first outstanding pupils to find themselves highly respected were Murray N. Rothbard and Israel M. Kirzner. In the 1970s and 1980s the group greatly expanded, with the present most representative work probably being done by Thomas Sowell.
 * Friedrich Hayek, unfinished essay for the New Palgrave dictionary of economics, published in addendum of Chapter 1 of The fortunes of liberalism: essays on Austrian economics and the ideal of freedom (2012).

 * Professor Sowell is one of the rare minds who, after they have ascended from the infinite variety of concrete facts to a general view accounting for the structure of the complex world, find their way back to the wealth of particulars from which they started and in which ordinary people, other than economic theorists, are alone interested. Although his exposition of economic theory is impeccable and contains many original contributions, the strength of the book, its impressiveness and liveliness, is due to his always having before his eyes the concrete phenomena. Simple and vivid illustrations make us aware of the practical implications of his theoretical insights. [...] What I mean by the heading I have given to this review is that if I should now be asked by persons capable of exact thinking but ignorant of technical economics (and there must be hundreds of thousands of them who have great influence on policy) what single modern work would give them the best introduction to the present knowledge needed to judge the wisdom or folly of current policies, I would without hesitation refer them to Professor Sowell’s book.
 * Friedrich Hayek, in "The Best Book on General Economics in Many a Year, Knowledge and Decision By Thomas Sowell: Reviewed by F. A. Hayek" Reason, Vol. 13, No. 8 (December 1981).

 * All in all, Sowell offers a number of intriguing ideas in the book, but he leaves too many of them only partly developed and defended. One final example: Sowell claims that those of us who favor free markets are more empirically inclined and have less ego invested in our views than those who advocate central planning and heavy government intervention generally. That is my impression too, and it is one of the most interesting and important ideas in his book. Unfortunately, he gives no evidence for that comparison. The book would have been a great forum in which to do so, but on this idea and too many others, he leaves his readers unsatisfied.
 * David Henderson, Review of Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell, Regulation (2010)

 * Sowell likes history, but he likes it on Post-it notes. He also prefers to revisit stale arguments rather than intervene in current controversies. In a book about intellectuals and society, he manages to ignore the health-care and financial crises. Instead, he argues that intellectuals have misunderstood Herbert Hoover. Wouldn't VLII help us with the current economic crisis, to find out which ideas "worked"?
 * Russell Jacoby, "Why Intellectuals Are All Bad", The Chronicle of Higher Education (2010)

 * Instead of addressing any concrete issues, Mr. Sowell simply repeats the bluster that intellectuals play rhetorical tricks and avoid arguments. As usual, he provides no details. If teaching consists of repetition, Mr. Sowell is a master. As to the single specific point in Sowell's note—that he in fact offers criticism of contemporary intellectuals, for instance, of myself: Dream on. Sowell cites me in two sentences—that is all—and he cites me in error. In Sowell country, a passing mention or mismention constitutes criticism.
 * Russell Jacoby, Russell Jacoby responds The Chronicle of Higher Education (2010)

 * I have a very high likelihood of finding amusement in the things that Thomas Sowell says. It's not what he says so much as the fact that he's saying it. ... Thomas Sowell is very well known for his critique of intellectuals who make claims about society. That's all well and good - he even has some good points in the critique. But I just can't bring myself to take Sowell completely seriously when he puts on his public intellectual hat, precisely because he is so widely identified as an anti-public-intellectual. ... A lot of this is just meant to be in fun - the point of Intellectuals and Society was a good point. Unfortunately, it's often people who complain the loudest about the misbehavior of others that are successful in taking the spotlight off themselves.
 * Daniel Kuehn, "Don't let Thomas Sowell know Thomas Sowell said that!" (2012)

 * Thomas Sowell, an eighty-seven-year-old African American economist, has written more than thirty mind-expanding books. These include his Culture trilogy which (among other things) anticipated Jared Diamond’s ideas in Guns, Germs, and Steel and explains the ubiquity of anti-Semitism; A Conflict of Visions, which identifies the rival theories of the human condition underlying left-wing and right-wing political ideologies; The Quest for Cosmic Justice, which compares this quixotic pursuit with the quest for human justice; Intellectuals and Society, an uncomfortable exposé of the follies of all-star intellectuals; and Late-Talking Children, which anticipated Simon Baron-Cohen’s work on the extreme male brain. Sowell is a libertarian conservative, which makes him taboo in mainstream intellectual circles, but even those who disagree are well advised to grasp his facts and arguments.
 * Steven Pinker, quoted in "Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker", The Times Literary Supplement (February 19, 2018); on the question "Which author (living or dead) do you think is most underrated?"

 * Sowell is misled, I believe, by his own basic strategy of taking familiar controversies about the market as the model for understanding a wide range of fundamental political disagreements. To begin with, the central virtues of competitive markets are not a matter of dispute among most of the theorists whom Sowell discusses. Rawls and Dworkin, for example, make clear their respect for the efficiency of markets as mechanisms for gathering information and allocating resources. What they question is the importance to be given to this kind of efficiency, as compared to other values such as equity and individual autonomy, when we are justifying economic and legal systems. The controversy is thus a moral one that cannot be avoided simply by “leaving it to the process” (i.e., to the market), since to do that would be already to decide the matter. The market is not a neutral means for deciding all social questions, and those who have doubts about its proper role need not claim that they can “do better” than the market in the sense of producing a more efficient outcome. Sowell’s strategy is also misleading in a further way: it overlooks important differences between competitive markets and other processes that he mentions, such as the common law, constitutional government, and the processes through which traditions and languages evolve. Three distinctive features of the market are important here. First, the ideal of the perfectly competitive market is a precise theoretical notion. No actual social institution can be identified with this ideal—since any such institution involves particular legal forms of property and contract, particular imperfections in knowledge, and particular limitations on freedom of entry into the market. But it is frequently quite clear which conditions move a system closer to perfect competition and which ones disrupt it. Second, market institutions (even actual, imperfect ones) produce their outcomes mechanically: prices and employment levels emerge as the result of competition, leaving little need for interpretation. Third, the efficiency of these outcomes is supposed to be a product of the process itself, not something with which any of the participants need be consciously concerned: agents in the perfectly competitive market are assumed to be assiduous pursuers of their own interests, but there is no need for anyone at any stage even to address the question of what would be best from a social point of view.
 * T. M. Scanlon, "Down from Liberalism", The New York Review of Books (April 28, 1988)

 * As I said in my review, “Sowell maintains that his purpose in A Conflict of Visions is not to argue for one of the visions he describes but rather to understand the nature of enduring differences in political outlook.” On the other hand, as I also said, it is quite clear where his sympathies lie, and I do not think that any careful reader could fail to conclude from this book that Sowell takes a concern with “results” rather than with “process” to be a fault. An adherent of what he calls the unconstrained vision would not describe that vision in the terms Sowell employs.
 * T. M. Scanlon, ‘Down from Liberalism’: An Exchange, The New York Review of Books (September 29, 1988)

 * Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions is, on the whole, a very stimulating book and it argues a very important point, namely, that the political struggles which will shape our future social and political order are not only, and maybe not even primarily, driven by identifiable interests and by rent-seeking activities that use politics as a pure machinery for the redistribution of material wealth. Sowell rightly reminds us of the genuine power of ideas and visions in the political arena.
 * Viktor Vanberg, "Review of A Conflict of Visions", Cato Journal (1987)

 * Perhaps Sowell’s joylessness stems from the fact that his main idea is the hatred of ideas. It is one thing to be an intellectual and love ideas: why else spend so much time reading and thinking about them? When I come across a bad idea, I disagree with it and, as I am doing here, I try to expose its silliness. But I value bad ideas well enough to take them seriously. I write about Thomas Sowell because I recognize in him a fellow intellectual. But it is by no means clear that Sowell recognizes himself as one. He does from time to time note the existence of “conservative and neo-conservative intellectuals” who offer “an alternative vision” to the dominant ideology and whose influence “no longer negligible” in the media. But then Sowell goes on to write as if the only talking heads on television belong to Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky. Safely back to his thesis that intellectuals are always loathsome meddlers who hate capitalism, rationalize evil, and get everything wrong, he is free to quote Eric Hoffer, Paul Johnson, and all like-thinking writers who trod this ground before him.
 * Alan Wolfe, "The Joyless Mind", The New Republic (February 9, 2010)

 * I'd say Tom is an empiricist, and by that I mean Tom looks at evidence, and then he makes a diagnosis, and then he offers a therapy for the perceived problem, and then he offers a prognosis, and he's not interested as much, if at all, on how people interpret that or what are the ramifications in contemporary political terms of his argument.
 * Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World (at 36m32s), 25 January 2021.

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Colleen McCullough

Colleen McCullough AO (1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) is an internationally acclaimed Australian author. She was born in Wellington in central west New South Wales.

Quotes

 * There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. Dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. … Or so says the legend.
 * Epigraph, The Thorn Birds (1977)

 * I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
 * Justine, in The Thorn Birds (1977)

 * The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
 * As quoted in Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers (1992) by Amber Coverdale Sumrall

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Larry Kudlow

Lawrence Alan Kudlow (born April 19, 1947) is an American conservative economic commentator, journalist and broadcaster. In March 2018, he was appointed Director of the National Economic Council by US President Donald Trump.

Quotes

 * The shock therapy of decisive war against Iraq will elevate the stock market by a couple-thousand points. We will know that our businesses will stay open, that our families will be safe, and that our future will be unlimited. The world will be righted in this life-and-death struggle to preserve our values and our civilization. But to do all this, we must act.
 * National Review Online June 26, 2002.

 * Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.
 * Kudlow's Money Politics blog, January 14, 2005.

 * I think the housing boom is a tremendous plus.
 * Speaking as a guest on MSNBC's Hardball, August 9, 2005.

 * If stocks are optimistic, then so am I.
 * Kudlow's Money Politics blog, September 4, 2007.

 * Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!
 * Kudlow's Money Politics blog, September 14, 2007. (known as the "Kudlow Creed" on the Kudlow & Company show)

 * There ain't no recession.
 * The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.
 * Article entitled "The Recession Debate Is Over" published in National Review magazine, December 5, 2007.

 * What matters most for all Americans is economic growth. As Arthur Laffer frequently reminds us: Tax something more, get less of it. Tax something less, get more of it.
 * “Trump Readies a Speech To Focus on Growth And Need for Tax Cuts” The New York Sun (August 6, 2016)

 * We have contained this. I won't say airtight but pretty close to airtight.
 * regarding coronavirus
 * , quoted in

 * There is no second wave coming. It’s just hot spots. They send in CDC teams, we’ve got the testing procedures, we’ve got the diagnostics, we’ve got the PPE. And so I really think it’s a pretty good situation.
 * Quoted in

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Mean Girls (2004 film)

Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film about a girl who is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for the ex-boyfriend of the alpha Plastic. It is followed by 2024 musical remake Mean Girls.
 * Directed by Mark Waters. Written by Tina Fey, based on the book Queen Bees & Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman.

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Cady Heron

 * [voice-over] In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.
 * [voice-over] Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George's life definitely didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you.

Gretchen Wieners

 * Why should Caesar get to stomp around like a giant, while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? What's so great about Caesar? Hm? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar. Brutus is just as smart as Caesar. People totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar. And when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody, huh? Because that's not what Rome is about. We should totally just stab Caesar!
 * See also: The beginning of Youtube Video "Gretchen Weiners and Caesar" (09.06.2010) by user "666vaporeon".

Janis

 * Where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial because you got everybody there. You got your Freshmen, ROTC Guys, Preps, JV Jocks, Asian Nerds, Cool Asians, Varsity Jocks, Unfriendly Black Hotties, Girls Who Eat Their Feelings, Girls Who Don't Eat Anything, Desperate Wannabes, Burnouts, Sexually Active Band Geeks, The Greatest People You Will Ever Meet, and The Worst. Beware of The Plastics.
 * This is Damian: he's almost too gay to function.

Dialogue

 * Janis: That one there, that's Karen Smith. She is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet. Damian sat next to her in English last year.
 * Damian: She asked me how to spell "orange."
 * [Cady snickers]
 * Janis: And that little one? That's Gretchen Wieners.
 * Damian: She's totally rich because her dad invented Toaster Strudel.
 * Janis: Gretchen Wieners knows everybody's business. She knows everything about everyone.
 * Damian: That's why her hair is so big. It's full of secrets.
 * Janis: And evil takes a human form in Regina George. Don't be fooled, because she may seem like your typical selfish, back-stabbing, slut-faced ho-bag. But in reality, she is so much more than that.
 * Damian: She's the queen bee. The star. Those other two are just her little workers.
 * Janis: Regina George... How do I even begin to explain Regina George?
 * Emma Gerber: Regina George is flawless.
 * Lea Edwards: She has two Fendi purses and a silver Lexus.
 * Mathlete Tim Pak: I hear her hair's insured for $10,000.
 * Amber D'Alessio: I hear she does car commercials... in Japan.
 * Kristen Hadley: Her favorite movie is Varsity Blues.
 * Short girl: One time, she met John Stamos on a plane.
 * Jessica Lopez: And he told her she was pretty.
 * Bethany Byrd: One time, she punched me in the face. It was awesome!

 * Damian: [about Regina] She always looks fierce. She always wins Spring Fling Queen.
 * Janis: Who cares?
 * Damian: I care. Every year, the seniors throw this dance for the underclassmen called The Spring Fling. And whomsoever is elected Spring Fling King and Queen automatically becomes head of the Student Activities Committee. And since I am an active member of the Student Activities Committee, I would say, yeah, I care.
 * Janis: Wow, Damian, you've truly out-gayed yourself.

 * Regina: You're, like, really pretty!
 * Cady: Thank you!
 * Regina: So you agree?
 * Cady: What?
 * Regina: You think you're really pretty.

 * Gretchen: Well, I mean, you wouldn't buy a skirt without asking your friends first if it looks good on you.
 * Cady: I wouldn't?
 * Gretchen: Right. Oh, and it's the same with guys. Like, you may think you like someone, but you could be wrong.

 * Karen: Hold on. [presses a button on her phone] Oh, my God. She's so annoying.
 * Gretchen: Who is?
 * Karen: Who's this?
 * Gretchen: Gretchen.
 * Karen: Right. Hold on. [presses another button; to Regina] Oh, my God, she's so annoying.
 * Regina: I know! Just get rid of her.
 * Karen: [to Gretchen] Okay. What is it?
 * Gretchen: Regina says everyone hates you because you're such a slut.
 * Karen: She said that?
 * Gretchen: You didn't hear it from me.
 * Cady: Little harsh, Gretch.
 * Gretchen: Whatever, she has a right to know.
 * Karen: [to Regina] I can't go out. [fake cough] I'm sick.
 * Regina: [sarcastically] Boo, you whore. [hangs up; Karen gapes in shock]

 * Cady: [voice-over] The weird thing about hanging out with Regina was that I could hate her, and at the same time, I still wanted her to like me.
 * Regina: OK. You have really good eyebrows.
 * Cady: Thanks.
 * Regina: [pushing Gretchen] Move.
 * Cady: [voice-over] Same with Gretchen. The meaner Regina was to her, the more Gretchen tried to win Regina back. She knew it was better to be in The Plastics, hating life, than to not be in at all. Because being with The Plastics was like being famous. People looked at you all the time, and everybody just knew stuff about you.
 * Short girl: That new girl moved here from Africa.
 * Bethany Byrd: I saw Cady Heron wearing army pants and flip-flops, so I bought army pants and flip-flops.
 * Jason: That Cady girl is hot. She might even be hotter than Regina George.
 * Mr. Duvall: I hear Regina George is dating Aaron Samuels again. The two were seen canoodling at Chris Eisel's Halloween party. They've been inseparable ever since.

 * Cady: [voice-over] I was a woman possessed. I spent about 80 percent of my time talking about Regina. And the other 20 percent of the time, I was praying for someone else to bring her up so I could talk about her more. [out loud] She's not even that good-looking if you really look at her.
 * Janis: I don't know. Now that's she's getting fatter, she's got pretty big jugs.
 * Cady: [voice-over] I could hear people getting bored with me. But I couldn't stop. It just kept coming up like word vomit. [out loud] I have this theory that if you cut all her hair off, she'd look like a British man.
 * Janis: Yeah, I know. You told me that one before.

 * [After being dumped by Aaron, Regina is crying and holding hands with Gretchen and Karen in her bedroom]
 * Karen: Did he say why?
 * Regina: [sniffling] Somebody told him about Shane Oman.
 * Gretchen: Who?
 * Regina: He said some guy on the baseball team.
 * Karen: Baseball team?
 * Regina: I gave him everything. I was half a virgin when I met him.
 * Karen: You wanna do something fun? You wanna go to Taco Bell?
 * Regina: I can't go to Taco Bell, I'm on an all-carb diet! God, Karen, you are so stupid! [stomps off]
 * Gretchen: Regina, wait! Talk to me! [goes after Regina]
 * Regina: Nobody understands me.
 * Gretchen: I understand you.
 * Cady: You're not stupid, Karen.
 * Karen: No. I am, actually. I'm failing almost everything.
 * Cady: Well, there must be something you're good at.
 * Karen: I can put my whole fist in my mouth. Wanna see?
 * Cady: No. That's OK. Anything else?
 * Karen: I'm kind of psychic. I have a fifth sense.
 * Cady: What do you mean?
 * Karen: It's like I have ESPN or something. My breasts can always tell when it's gonna rain.
 * Cady: Really? That's amazing.
 * Karen: Well, they can tell when it's raining.

 * Shane Oman: Why are you eating a Kalteen bar?
 * Regina: I'm starving.
 * Shane Oman: Man, I hate those things. Coach Carr makes us eat those when we want to move up a weight class.
 * Regina: What?
 * Shane Oman: They make you gain weight like crazy.
 * ''[Regina is horrified and enraged, realizing Cady had duped her]
 * Regina: MOTHERF- !!!!!
 * [she spits out the bite of the bar that she was chewing, and then...]
 * Regina : [screaming in rage] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * [Regina screams for nonstop without taking a breath, to the point where Shane nervously backs up, and then runs away. She doesn't stop screaming, even after he's gone.]

 * Cady: [after humiliating Regina] Regina, wait! I didn't mean for that to happen!
 * Regina: To find out that everyone hates me? I don't care!
 * Cady: Regina, please! Regina, stop!
 * Regina: [turns to Cady and walks toward her] No! Do you know what everyone says about you? They say that you're a home-schooled jungle freak, who's a less hot version of me! Yeah! So don't try to act so innocent! You can take that fake apology and shove it right up your hairy— [gets hit by a bus]
 * Cady: [voice-over] And that's how Regina George died. No, I'm totally kidding. But she did get hurt. Some girls say they saw her head go all the way around. But that's just a rumor. Some people swear they saw me push her in front of the bus. That was an even worse rumor.

 * [deleted scene; Cady is frowned upon]
 * Cady: [voice-over] I couldn't apologize to Ms. Norbury without getting blamed for the whole burn book. And then, she said it. The worst thing you could hear from any adult.
 * Sharon Norbury: [alarmed] Your parents have been eaten by cannibals!
 * Cady: [voice-over] Okay, the second worst.
 * Sharon Norbury: I'm really disappointed in you, Cady.

 * Cady: So are we still in a fight?
 * Janis: Are you still an asshole?
 * Cady: I don't think so.
 * Janis: Well, then I guess we're OK.

Taglines

 * Welcome to Girl World.
 * This summer, be part of the in-crowd.
 * Only the strong survive!
 * Watch your back: They're your friends.
 * Beware of the plastics.

About Mean Girls

 * Interestingly, American Pie failed to spawn a new trend of feel-good teen comedies, largely because they're just not believable. The best teens can get are compromise movies like 2004's Mean Girls, a comedy about the nasty popular girls in a high school, whose happy resolution only comes after a violent accident.
 * Mark Ames, Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005), p. 232
 * Will teenage audiences walk out of "Mean Girls" determined to break with the culture of cliques, gossip and rules for popularity? Not a chance. That's built into high school, I think. But they may find it interesting that the geeks are more fun than the queen bees, that teachers have feelings, and that you'll be happier as yourself than as anybody else. I guess the message is, you have to live every day as if you might suddenly be hit by a school bus.
 * Roger Ebert, in his 30 March 2004 review of Mean Girls. He rated the movie 3 stars out of a possible 4.

Cast

 * Lindsay Lohan – Cady Heron
 * Rachel McAdams – Regina George
 * Tina Fey – Ms. Norbury
 * Tim Meadows – Mr. Duvall
 * Amy Poehler – Mrs. George
 * Ana Gasteyer – Cady's mom
 * Lacey Chabert – Gretchen Wieners
 * Lizzy Caplan – Janis Ian
 * Daniel Franzese – Damian
 * Neil Flynn – Cady's dad
 * Jonathan Bennett – Aaron Samuels
 * Amanda Seyfried – Karen Smith

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The Searchers

The Searchers is a 1956 film about a Civil War veteran who sets out with his nephew on a quest to rescue his niece from Indians.
 * Directed by John Ford. Written by Frank Nugent.

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Ethan Edwards

 * Our turnin' back don't mean nothin', not in the long run. She's alive, she's safe for a while. They'll keep her and raise her as one of their own til, until she's of an age to... Injun will chase a thing till he thinks he's chased it enough. Then, he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end, I promise you. We'll find 'em. Just as sure as a turnin' of the earth.
 * I figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I gave mine to the Confederate States of America.
 * Well, Reverend, that tears it! From now on, you stay out of this. All of ya. I don't want you with me. I don't need ya for what I got to do.
 * Let's go home, Debbie.
 * [repeated line] That'll be the day !

Mrs. Jorgensen

 * It just so happens we be Texicans. Texican is nothin' but a human man way out on a limb, this year and next. Maybe for a hundred more. But I don't think it'll be forever. Some day, this country's gonna be a fine good place to be. Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come.

Dialogue

 * Ethan Edwards: Well, Reverend, looks like you've got yourself surrounded.
 * Reverend Clayton: Yeah, and I figure on getting myself unsurrounded.

 * Reverend Clayton: I say we do it my way. That's an order!
 * Ethan: Yessir. But if you're wrong don't ever give me another.

 * Reverend Clayton: You wanna quit Ethan?
 * Ethan: That'll be the day.

 * Cavalry soldier: It's hard to believe they're white.
 * Ethan: They ain't white, not anymore. They're Comanche.

 * Ethan: What you saw wasn't Lucy... What you saw was a buck wearin' Lucy's dress. I found Lucy back in the canyon. Wrapped her in my coat, buried her with my own hands, I thought it best to keep it from ya.
 * Brad Jorgensen: Did they...? Was she...?
 * Ethan: What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture? Spell it out? Don't ever ask me! Long as you live, don't ever ask me more.

 * Reverend Clayton: Well, the prodigal brother. Ain't seen you since the surrender. Come to think of it, I didn't see you at the surrender.
 * Ethan: I don't believe in surrenders.

 * Brad: There's only one way you can stop me from looking for Lucy, mister, and that's kill me!
 * Ethan: Alright, but I'm giving the orders, hear. I'm giving the orders or we're splitting up right here and now!
 * Martin Pawley: Well sure Ethan. The only real reason were here ain't it - is to find Debbie and Lucy?
 * Ethan: If they're still alive.

 * [Brad Jorgenson takes a small boulder and attempts to crush the skull of a dead Comanche warrior]
 * Reverend Clayton: Jorgenson!
 * Ethan: Why don't you finish the job?
 * [Ethan shoots out the eyes of the Comanche warrior]
 * Reverend Clayton: What good did that do ya?
 * Ethan: By what you preach... none. But, what that Comanch believes - ain't got no eyes... can't enter the spirit land... has to wander forever between the winds. You get it Reverend.

 * Martin: You know, Laurie, I was just thinking that maybe it's about time you and me started going steady, huh?
 * Laurie Jorgensen: Why Martin Pawley, you and me been going steady since we was three years old!
 * Martin: We have?
 * Laurie: 'Bout time you found out about it.

 * Laurie: [Martin is preparing to join a raid against the Indians and rescue Debbie] You're not goin', not this time.
 * Martin: Are you crazy?
 * Laurie: It's too late. She's a woman grown now.
 * Martin: But I gotta go, Laurie, I gotta fetch her home.
 * Laurie: Fetch what home? The leavings a Comanche buck sold time and again to the highest bidder, with savage brats of her own?
 * Martin: [upset] Laurie, shut your mouth.
 * Laurie: Do you know what Ethan will do if he has a chance? He'll put a bullet in her brain.
 * [pause]
 * Laurie: I tell you, Martha would want him to.
 * Martin: Only if I'm dead.

 * Martin: [speaking to Debbie for the first time in five years] Debbie... Debbie, Debbie, don't you remember? I'm Martin, I'm Martin, your brother, remember? Debbie, remember back.
 * [pause]
 * Martin: Do you remember how I used to let you ride my horse? And tell you stories?
 * [desperate]
 * Martin: Oh don't you remember me, Debbie?
 * Debbie Edwards: [sad] I remember, from always. At first I prayed to you to come and get me, take me home. You didn't come.
 * Martin: But I've come now, Debbie.
 * Debbie: These are my people... Go. Go, Martin, please!

Quotes about The Searchers

 * Another speaker, Amanda Milius, is the daughter of John Milius, who was the screenwriter for the first two Dirty Harry films and Apocalypse Now. She grew up in L.A. and wound up in the Trump administration. She argued that America needs to get back to making self-confident movies like The Searchers, the 1956 John Ford Western. This was an unapologetic movie, she asserted, about how Americans tamed the West and how Christian values got brought to “savage, undeveloped land.” This is about as dumb a reading of The Searchers as it’s possible to imagine. The movie is actually the modern analogue to the Oresteia, by Aeschylus. The complex lead figure, played by John Wayne, is rendered barbaric and racist while fighting on behalf of westward pioneers. By the end, he is unfit to live in civilized society. But we don’t exactly live in an age that acknowledges nuance. Milius distorts the movie into a brave manifesto of anti-woke truths—and that sort of distortion has a lot of buyers among this crowd.
 * David Brooks, as quoted in The Terrifying Future of the American Right (18 November 2021), The Atlantic

Taglines

 * He had to find her... he had to find her...
 * The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest ...and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!

Cast

 * John Wayne - Ethan Edwards
 * Jeffrey Hunter - Martin Pawley
 * Vera Miles - Laurie Jorgensen
 * Ward Bond - Reverend Clayton
 * Natalie Wood - Debbie Edwards (older)

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Jimmy Durante

James Francis Durante (10 February 1893 – 29 January 1980) American pianist, actor, comedian, composer, and singer; usually known as Jimmy Durante, also nicknamed "The Schnozzola", and "The Schnoz", in reference to his large nose.

Quotes

 * Inka dinka doo, a dinka dee, A dinka doo. Oh, what a tune for crooning. Inka dinka doo, a dinka dee A dinka doo. It's got the whole world spooning.
 * "Inka Dinka Doo" (1933) written with Fred Ryan and Harry Donnelly.

 * Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.
 * As quoted in Low Man On A Totem Pole (1941) by Harry Allen Smith, p. 185
 * Variant: Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?

 * That's the conditions that prevail!
 * As quoted in Current Biography : Who's News and Why (1946) by Anna Rothe, p. 168

 * I'm mortified!
 * As quoted in Current Biography : Who's News and Why (1946) by Anna Rothe, p. 168

 * Surrounded by assassins!
 * As quoted in Current Biography : Who's News and Why (1946) by Anna Rothe, p. 168

 * UMBRIAGO!
 * Mentioned as one of Durante's aquaintences, usually introduced in a boisterous manner, as quoted in Current Biography : Who's News and Why (1946) by Anna Rothe, p. 168

 * Everybody wants ta get inta da act!
 * As quoted in Billboard (23 April 1949), p. 126

 * I don't know where it's going, but I'm sticking with it!
 * Said after joining chorus girls in a conga line onstage, as quoted in "Tips on Tables" by Robert W. Dana (30 March 1951)

 * I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.
 * In reference to being teased at school as a child for his looks, as quoted in Schnozzola : The Story of Jimmy Durante (1951) by Gene Fowler

 * Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
 * Famous sign-off line to all his radio and TV shows, the meaning of which he never publicly revealed, leading to much speculation and many theories. Only after his death did it become public knowledge that it was reference to his first wife, Jeanne Olson, who died in 1943, and that Calabash was a private name between them for Calabasas, California, where she spent much of the final years of her life.

 * Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
 * As quoted in Informationweek issues 699-702 (1998), p. 497

Misattributed

 * Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.
 * As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 409
 * Variants:
 * Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down.
 * As quoted in A Quote for Every Day (2011) edited by Peter A. LaPorta, p. 41
 * Be nice to people goin' up, because you're going to meet them all comin' down.
 * Be nice to 'em goin' up, because you're going to meet them all comin' down.
 * Originally by Wilson Mizner.

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Teen Titans (TV series)

Teen Titans (2003–2006) is a television animated series based on the eponymous comic books from DC Comics.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5

Repeated quotes

 * Robin: Titans, GO!

 * Raven: Azarath Metrion Zinthos!

 * Cyborg: Boo-yah!

Related

 * Teen Titans Go!
 * DC Super Hero Girls (TV series)

Main

 * Scott Menville as Robin
 * Hynden Walch as Princess Koriand'r/Starfire
 * Khary Payton as Cyborg
 * Greg Cipes as Beast Boy
 * Tara Strong as Raven

Supporting

 * Terra (Season 2 & 5; 7 episodes)
 * Princess Komand'r/Blackfire (Seasons 1 & 3; 2 episodes)
 * Terra (Seasons 2 & 5)
 * Trigon (Seasons 3 & 4; 6 episodes)
 * Titans East
 * Aqualad (Seasons 1, 2, 3 & 5)
 * Bumblebee (Seasons 3 & 5)
 * Speedy (Seasons 2, 3 & 5)
 * Mas Y Menos
 * Kole (Season 5; 2 episodes)
 * Galfore (Season 3; "Betrothed")
 * Hotspot
 * Brotherhood of Evil (Season 5)
 * The Brain
 * Madame Rouge
 * Misour Mallah
 * General Immortus
 * Doom Patrol (Season 5 premiere)
 * Mento
 * Elasti-Girl
 * Negative Man
 * Robotman

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Rudolf Hess

Walter Richard Rudolf Hess [Heß in German] (26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace at the Nuremberg Trials. He was still serving his life sentence at the time of his suicide in 1987.

Quotes

 * The party is Hitler, Hitler is Germany, and Germany is Hitler! Sieg heil!
 * At Nuremberg (1934)

 * You take an oath to a man whom you know follows the laws of providence, which he obeys independently of the influence of earthly powers, who leads the German people rightly, and who will guide Germany's fate. Through your oath you bind yourselves to a man who — that is our faith — was sent to us by higher powers. Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts!
 * "The Oath to Adolf Hitler" (1934)

 * Our nation has the good fortune today to be led largely by front soldiers, by front soldiers who carried the virtues of the front to the leadership of the state. The rebuilding of the Reich was guided by the spirit of the front. It was the spirit of the front that created National Socialism. In the face of looming death at the front, ideas of social standing and class collapsed. At the front, the sharing of common joys and common sorrows led to a previously unknown camaraderie between citizens. At the front, everyone could see that the common fate towered above the individual fate.
 * Speech to the Gau Party Rally in East Prussia (8 July 1934)

 * The units of the Waffen-SS, consisting of National Socialists, are more suitable than other armed units for the specific tasks to be solved in the Occupied Eastern Territories due to their intensive National Socialist training in regard to questions of race and nationality.
 * "Induction of men fit for military service" (21 February 1940).
 * Presented at Nuremberg trials as Document PS-3245 (GB-267)

 * My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.
 * Statement of 10 June 1941, as quoted in Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace (1982) by Ilse Hess (his wife).

 * I was permitted to work for many years of my life under the greatest son whom my people has brought forth in its thousand year history. Even if I could, I would not want to erase this period of time from my existence. I am happy to know that I have done my duty, to my people, my duty as a German, as a National Socialist, as a loyal follower of my Führer. I do not regret anything. If I were to begin all over again, I would act just as I have acted, even if I knew that in the end I should meet a fiery death at the stake. No matter what human beings may do, I shall some day stand before the judgment seat of the Eternal. I shall answer to Him, and I know He will judge me innocent.
 * Last statement by Heß to the International Military Tribunal in Nüremberg (31 August 1946)

 * Bravo, Streicher!
 * Rudolf Hess yells this out from his cell when Streicher refused to get dressed for his execution (16 October 1946).

 * Thanks to the directors for addressing this message to my home. Written several minutes before my death.
 * Suicide note, found in his pocket. (17 August 1987)

Prisoner #7: Rudolph Hess (1974)

 * Quotations of Hess from Prisoner #7: Rudolph Hess, The Loneliest Man In The World by Lt. Col. Eugene K. Bird ISBN 0670578312

 * People don't forget, do they?

 * I have been reading about the problems of youth. You know, with all the criticism that was levelled at von Schirach and his Hitler Jugend, it is forgotten that he did a fantastic thing with Germany's young. He kept them busy, he kept them out of trouble. In those years we did not have to concern ourselves with the worry of youths taking drugs, getting involved in crime, and sexual permissiveness. We did not have burning of national flags and draft cards. We had a healthy youth with healthy minds, all pulling together to build a nation. That is what we need today. We need to get them back on the right track.
 * When his Prison Director replied with: "But surely, you were doing all this for a different purpose. You were building a super-race for war, for conquests. Today youth is rebelling because we made a mess of the world." Hess retorted: "Maybe, but they won't make a better world with drugs."

About Rudolf Hess

 * Among the higher leadership [in the Nazi Party], while there is still a certain unity, personalities are beginning to play a constantly greater part. Hitler is perhaps more powerful than before, but he becomes more and more a figure separated from actualities. He depends a great deal on Hess, who is really his confidential man now and whom it is likely he may make Foreign Minister. Goering and Goebbels still remain good comrades of Hitler and are undoubtedly attached to him, but the difference between Goering and Goebbels are becoming more evident. Goering is more moderate, while Goebbels, sensing the feeling of the masses and being above all an opportunist is becoming more radical. If It would come to a show-down between the radical and moderate elements, Goering would, however, undoubtedly be likely to be on the radical side as the one having the more chances. [...] If this Government remains in power for another year and carries on in the same measure in this direction, it will go far towards making Germany a danger to world peace for years to come. This is a very disjointed and incoherent letter. I am dictating it under pressure as I wish to catch the courier pouch. What I do want to say really is that for the present this country is headed in directions which can only carry ruin to it and will create a situation here dangerous to world peace. With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere. Others are exalted and in a frame of mind that knows no reason. The majority are woefully ignorant and unprepared for the tasks which they have to carry through every day. Those men in the party and in responsible positions who are really worth-while, and there are quite a number of these, are powerless because they have to follow the orders of superiors who are suffering from the abnormal psychology prevailing in the country.
 * George S. Messersmith, U.S. Consul General at Berlin to the Under Secretary of State, William Phillips, letter dated 26 June 1933

 * A few attempts have been made to argue that a Nazi victory over the Soviet Union might not have been wholly disadvantageous to the Western powers, and that therefore a second phase of appeasement after 1941 might have been preferable to continued war. Some British Tories, notably the late Alan Clark, have suggested that the British Empire might have been spared ignominious bankruptcy, decline and fall, had a separate peace been made along the lines Rudolf Hess seems to have envisaged and Hitler repeatedly mused about in his evening monologues; in a similar vein, some American conservatives argue that the Cold War might have been avoided had Roosevelt kept the United States out of the shooting war in Europe. On the whole, however, most writers have tended to take the view that a Nazi victory would have been a worse outcome than that of 1945. Even if a victorious Third Reich had opted for peace with Britain and America - which cannot be regarded as very probable - the price would have been horrendously high for the millions of people left under Nazi rule. All nine million of the Jews of Europe might have been murdered, rather than the nearly six million who actually were, to say nothing of the vast human suffering that would have been inflicted on other ethnic groups by the implementation of the Generalplan Ost, which envisaged deporting around fifty million East Europeans to Siberia.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), p. 470

 * I saw Hess's pendulum and he used it. I never paid any attention to his strange ideas. He was quiet and bothered nobody. I knew a great surgeon who believed in a similar pendulum, using it the same way Hess did. Apparently, it's a common superstition.
 * Hermann Goering to Leon Goldensohn, 27 May 1946, about Hess using a pendulum that he would swing in order to decide whether or not a letter sent to him was from an enemy or an ally.

 * Hess was slightly off balance for as long as I can recall. Why the Fuhrer kept him on as head of the party was a mystery to most people, but to me I always felt it was Hitler's loyalty to his old friends. I remember Hess had a bright idea once in treating me for some neuralgia that I had at the time. It was in 1936 or so. Anyway, one day lots of pots and pans arrived of all different sizes. I didn't know what they were for. One was for soaking my arm, another my forearm, another size for my leg, my thing, and so on. I called him up and asked him what he had sent me so many pots for - did he think I wanted to start an aquarium? But Hess explained that I told him I had neuralgia and that this was the treatment for it. I thanked him over the telephone and laughed for days.
 * Hermann Goering to Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946)

 * The zealot Hess, before succumbing to wanderlust [flew to Scotland in May 1941], was the engineer tending the party machinery, passing orders and propaganda down to the Leadership Corps, supervising every aspect of party activities, and maintaining the organization as a loyal and ready instrument of power.
 * Robert H. Jackson on July 26, 1946
 * A number three man who was merely an innocent middleman transmitting Hitler's orders without even reading them, like a postman or delivery boy.
 * Robert H. Jackson mocking Hess's defense (26 July 1946).

 * Reflecting upon the whole of the story, I am glad not to be responsible for the way in which Hess has been and is being treated. Whatever may be the moral guilt of a German who stood near to Hitler, Hess had, in my view, atoned for this by his completely devoted and frantic deed of lunatic benevolence. He came to us of his own free will, and, though without authority, had something of the quality of an envoy. He was a medical and not a criminal case, and should be so regarded.
 * Winston Churchill, in The Grand Alliance (1950), p. 55.

 * I was suspicious for several reasons... after all, Hess who had been held in Spandau for almost 30 years was by then 93-years-old and fragile. I doubted he had the strength to kill himself with a cord which was not attached at both ends to anything.
 * Lt. Col. Eugene K. Bird on the death of Hess, to a Deutsche Presse-Agentur reporter, as quoted in "Former governor of Spandau Prison dies in Berlin" in Expatica (7 November 2005)

Undated

 * I often found him warm and humourous.
 * Lt. Col. Eugene K. Bird

 * I was the only man he trusted.
 * Lt. Col. Eugene K. Bird

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I moved the above text from the original article, as it is inappropriate for the article proper, and is almost certainly unnecessary, as one cannot copyright facts or insubstantial collections of facts. But it's here, nonetheless. — Jeff Q 06:02, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I just put it there as a guard against the Wikipolice who scream "copyright violation" every time they find similar text elsewhere on the web. 11 Sept 05.

I removed the Eliot Porter quote as it is not accurate. In Wildness is the Preservation of the World was the title of a Porter photo book with text from Henry David Thoreau who is also the author of the quote in the title. I added a Porter quote which is very similar. Don Roberts Who the hell is Eva perfectheart Hartell??

Photography is...

 * "Godnificent...something magnificent that was influenced by God" -- Eva perfectheart Hartell
 * "the art of frozen time... the ability to store emotion and feelings within a frame" -- Meshack Otieno
 * "an austere and blazing poetry of the real" -- Ansel Adams
 * "the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision" -- Sebastian Smee
 * "the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century" -- Sir John Rothenstein
 * "my meditation" -- Czar Anthony Lopez
 * [A camera] "has interesting ideas of its own" -- John Szarkowski.
 * "The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you’re supposed to look through it. It's a window." -- John Szarkowski.
 * “Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.” -- Minor White

On creativity

 * “Which of the photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.” -- Imogen Cunningham

 * “I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.” -- Alfred Stieglitz

 * “Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.” -- Garry Winogrand

 * “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” -- Henri Cartier-Bresson

 * “There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.” -- Robert Heinecken

 * “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.” -- Lewis Hine

 * “Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” -- Yousuf Karsh

 * “Photography is truth.” -- Jean-Luc Godard

 * “There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” -- Ernst Haas

 * “When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.” -- Alfred Eisenstaedt

 * “It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.” -- Robert Frank

 * “The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer” --- Gordon Parks

 * “Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.” --- Walker Evans

 * “At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.” -- Wynne Bullock

 * “I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.” -- W. Eugene Smith

 * “Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.” -- Berenice Abbott

 * “It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” -- Paul Strand

 * “Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” -- Sally Mann

 * "If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff" -- Jim Richardson

From the history of photography

 * "No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." Minor White

 * "I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster." Ansel Adams

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User:Morning star

Aiming to add quotes from:
 * Amin al-Husayni
 * Giorgio Almirante
 * Alain de Benoist
 * Louis-Ferdinand Celine
 * Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
 * Gabriele D'Annunzio
 * Walter Darre
 * Leon Degrelle
 * Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
 * Dietrich Eckart
 * Julius Evola
 * Rene Guenon
 * Knut Hamsun
 * Karl Haushofer
 * Sven Hedin
 * Martin Heidegger
 * Rudolf Hess
 * Ernst Juenger
 * Gustave Le Bon
 * Johann von Leers
 * Lanz von Liebenfels
 * Guido von List
 * James H. Madole
 * Joseph de Maistre
 * Charles Manson
 * James Mason
 * Yukio Mishima
 * Michael Moynihan
 * Nakano Seigo
 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Revilo P. Oliver
 * Vilfredo Pareto
 * William Dudley Pelley
 * Ezra Pound
 * Otto Ernst Remer
 * Alfred Rosenberg
 * Hans Rudel
 * Savitri Devi
 * Miguel Serrano
 * Otto Skorzeny
 * Georges Sorel
 * Oswald Spengler
 * Heinrich von Treitschke
 * Richard Wagner
 * Otto Weininger
 * Karl Maria Wiligut
 * Henry Williamson
 * Francis Parker Yockey

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Talk:Arthur Schopenhauer

10.2.05 One that's often attributed is "The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped" Is this attribution correct?

7.3.2005 I've heard it as well, although I can't say where it is to be found. Perhaps, in the "Parega und Par..." thing that he wrote at end of his life?

 * "Gegen das Ende des Lebens nun gar geht es wie gegen das Ende eines Maskenballs, wann die Larven abgenommen werden. Man sieht jetzt, wer diejenigen, mit denen man während seines Lebenslaufes in Berührung gekommen war, eigentlich gewesen sind. Denn die Charaktere haben sich an den Tag gelegt, die Taten haben ihre Früchte getragen, die Leistungen ihre gerechte Würdigung erhalten, und alle Trugbilder sind zerfallen. Zu diesem allen nämlich war Zeit erfordert."
 * "Towards the end of life, much the same happens as at the end of a masked ball when the masks are removed. We now see who those really were with whom we had come in contact during the course of our life. Characters have revealed themselves, deeds have borne fruit, achievements have been justly appreciated, and all illusions have crumbled away. But for all this time was necessary." (Parerga and Paralipomena, Volume I, Chapter VI, "On the Different Periods of Life," Oxford University Press, ISBN 0 19 824508 4

Collected Works

 * With this philosopher, we could almost scan in his whole oevre as containing worthwhile quotations.64.12.116.136 15:46, 18 December 2005 (UTC)Lestrade
 * All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Unsourced
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 * From every sentence deep, original and sublime thoughts arise, and the whole is pervaded by a high and holy and earnest spirit....In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. They are destined sooner or later to become the faith of the people.
 * Comment on the Upanishads, some of Hinduism's sacred scriptures.

 * Have these gentlemen of the scalpel and crucible no notion at all then that they are first and foremost men and chemists only secondly? How can you sleep soundly, knowing you have harmless animals under lock and key, in order to starve them slowly to death? Don't you wake up screaming, in the night?
 * Statement about the use of animals in experiments.

 * I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and death ... This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

 * I was very fond of them, if only they would have had me.
 * His confession on women.

 * If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

 * In the West, where our skin has turned White, we have ceased to recognise our kinship with animals.

 * Life is so short, questionable and evanescent that it is not worth the trouble of major effort.

 * Life nowadays goes at a gallop; and the way in which this affects literature is to make it extremely superficial and slovenly.

 * Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

 * The less a man is forced to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

 * The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general and when only its most significant features are emphasised, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail, it has the characteristics of a comedy.

 * There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

 * Ultimately, death must triumph, for by birth it has already become our lot and it plays with its prey only for a while before swallowing it up. However, we continue our life with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible — just as we blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst. This is from The World as Will and Representation, translated by EFJ Payne, Vol 1, p.311. Dover Publications, 1969.

 * There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.

 * There is no Kantian-Fichtean philosophy: there is Kantian philosophy and there is Fichtean humbug.

 * We find ourselves like a hollow glass globe, from whose vacancy a voice speaks.

 * We have to regard art as the greater enhancement, the more perfect development of all this; for essentially it achieves just the same thing as is achieved by the visible world itself, only with greater concentration, perfection, intention and intelligence; and therefore, in the full sense of the word, it may be called the flower of life.

 * We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

 * What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams ... and we search in vain for their original ... Much would have been gained if through timely advice and instruction young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

 * When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.
 * A long paragraph elaborating on the idea follows, with various translation variants.
 * Possible source: On Reading and Books, an essay of his own writing

 * Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

 * Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then you cannot do better than to give him Hegel to read. For these monstrous accumulations of words that annul and contradict one another drive the mind into tormenting itself with vain attempts to think anything whatever in connection with them, until finally it collapses from sheer exhaustion. Thus any ability to think is so thoroughly destroyed that the young man will ultimately mistake empty and hollow verbiage for real thought. A guardian fearing that his ward might become too intelligent for his schemes might prevent this misfortune by innocently suggesting the reading of Hegel.

 * Man has made Earth a hell for animals.

 * The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Quotes about Schopenhauer (unsourced)

 * ...fourmish her in Spinner's housery at the earthbest schoppinhour...
 * James Joyce

Obit anus abit onus - amplification
Two points PJTraill 20:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) "anus" can also mean "arsehole" (when written - "a" is long for "arsehole" and short for "old woman") - should this be mentioned? How intentional is the ambiguity?
 * 2) I found by googling some suggestions that he wrote this on a (copy of) her death certificate. It seems worth giving the exact circumstances, to avoid misunderstandings.

Disputed
A review of the controversy may be found at https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/stages.pdf where Jeffrey Shallit discusses the confusion.

source for man/earth/hell/animals
I don't understand the organization of the main page so am not sure where to put this and would appreciate help. Here is a source for the quote glossed "man has made earth a hell for animals" in the unsourced section above, with an actual translation.

"Die Menschen sind die Teufel der Erde und die Tiere die geplagten Seelen"

Parerga and Paralipomena

English version here "One might say with truth, Mankind are the devils of the earth, and the animals the souls they torment." 184.147.117.34 17:37, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

on Politeness
I came across the following quotation and verified it from https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/counsels/chapter3.html and  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10715?msg=welcome_stranger  However the indexing systems, used in both these, do not seem to accord with that used in this article and so I will leave it to someone with more expertise than I to add rather than risk messing things up.

"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."

from Counsels and Maxims, Chapter 3, SECTION 36 - Politeness.

Paraphrase of Einstein
I removed an alleged quote which is a paraphrase of Einstein in his Glaubensbekenntnis. It cannot be found in any of his works in this form. If someone insists on this quote she or he can easily prove that it is an original quote of Schopenhauer by saying where in his works it can be found.

The quote can still be found on this page, not as original quote, but two instances where Einstein used this paraphrase.

I think it's not good that it's the quote under the top photo in the Quotes section.

I've replaced it with a quote about compassion. (I used the original form, though it's better known in a simplified version.)

The Einstein paraphrase is still shown under "attributed", and I think that's enough. Chriswaterguy (talk) 00:56, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

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Issues: intro doesn't have date of birth, no division into sourced/attributed, dialogue-format quotations in people pages, attributed quotations not alphasorted. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:46, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

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 * I had very big boobs but at a young age, and it kept me from a lot of things in the church. I couldn't sing solos because supposedly the men were disgusted when I would get up there.
 * Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! Ditzy is not editing yourself.
 * You've done a great job decorating the White House.
 * To U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gale Ann Norton
 * I want to be a diva, like "people-totally-respect-my-music" diva, not diva like "carry-my-diet-Coke-around".
 * Growing up I was always the blonde that everybody made fun of, and I just played into that, because that was how I got the guys. That's how I charmed people.
 * I laugh a lot. It burns lots of calories.
 * I'm not anorexic, I'm from Texas! Are there anorexics in Texas?
 * Musically, my dream is to do what Norah Jones did. I can't play the piano, but to sit next to it and just sing.
 * My whole life I've played the role of the blonde. It's always worked for me. It's a good thing...but it can also be a bad thing if you get labeled as the "blonde" all the time.
 * Lea: Jessica, you want try these Buffalo wings? Jessica: Buffalo?! I don't eat buffalo!
 * People feel they have to cover up who they are to be loved. But success comes from being real.

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 * The press loves to make a star and then tear them apart. They did that with Jessica Simpson a few years back, they just suddenly tore her down. I hate that part of it.
 * Taryn Manning

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The actor
Which Python played the projectionist in ? The projectionist's voice appears in Part V of the film where the Crimson Permanet Assurance building goes to the Very Big Corporation of America and then a skyscraper falls on the building. The projectionist apologizes for the interference of the secondary feature. Thank you. --68.37.116.234 19:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

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Bowling for Soup

Bowling for Soup (often typeset as ¡Bowling for Soup! and abbreviated as BFS) is an American rock band originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1994. The band consists of Jaret Reddick (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Burney (guitar, backing vocals), Rob Felicetti (bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar), and Gary Wiseman (drums, percussion, backing vocals)

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Jaret
 * If I was a cat, and someone threw me off the roof to see if I would land on my feet, I would flip twice and land on my back. Just to piss them off.

That's our new song, its called "Army of Freshmen blew my dad. - The Granada Theater, Lawrence KS on Get Happy Tour 2007

UK Tour London Astoria (2005)

 * Jaret: This is the dirtiest bra I've ever seen and there's a long black pubic hair in it.

 * Jaret: Who brought a giant inflatable cock? It looks like a happy train.

 * Jaret: You go on bar crawls to get pissed, we go on them because we know that we wont get laid in bar A so we go to bar B.

Get Happy Tour Hammersmith Palaise (2007)

 * Upon seeing a sign in the audience.
 * Dude, that's got to be the coolest sign I've ever seen at a Bowling for Soup concert; 'Jaret has a big wiener' damn, that's funny and true!

 * Shout if you love Bowling for Soup!
 * Whole audience shouts
 * Yeah! Shout if you hate Bowling For Soup!
 * A small group of people shouts out
 * You know what? You're shit, but thanks for the money

 * Cool, a topless woman floating towards me.

 * Wow, would you look at that, naked Steve.

Get Happy TourBrighton Centre (2007)

 * Jaret: Hey, that guys got a g-string caught in his dreadlocks''
 * Eric: Over time it will form into a dreadlock

 * (Crowd Chants) : B F S, B F S, B F S
 * (Jaret chants back) P E Nis, P E Nis

 * Jaret: Everybody look at this, there's a condom floating around and a bunch of guys trying to get it, because they think the penis is still in there... oh wait-oh somebody just-OH he almost got the penis! Keep the penis afloat!!

From the Army Concert Tour at McCain auditorium

 * Jaret: Let's give it up for Everclear, for being so awesome.
 * Jaret: This next song is dedicated to the armed forces. It's called Hooray for Beer.
 *  Jaret: Can we turn off Eric's mike in between songs?
 * Jaret: How many handsome guys in the crowd? [Only a few shouts reply.] Wow, we need to start up a support group for low self esteem. 'Hi, I'm Jaret. I have low self esteem.'
 * Chris: I know this is a PG show, but that shit was funny.

Drunk Enough to Dance (2002)

 * She likes the Godsmack and I like Agent Orange. She'll never know that I'm the best that she'll never have Does a mullet make a man?
 * Girl All the Bad Guys Want

Sorry for Partyin' (2009)

 * Talk is cheap but I can't afford it"
 * I Gotchoo

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