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Lech Wałęsa

 Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician, trade union organizer, philanthropist and human rights activist, who became the first democratically elected President of Poland (1990–1995) after the fall of the People's Republic of Poland. He is well known for his unintentionally humorous remarks.

Quotes

 * You can’t change the facts with your lies, allegations and counterfeits
 * Being accused of being an agent for the Soviet era communist police, quoted on New Europe (February 18, 2016), "Poland’s former president accused of being a communist spy"

 * Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
 * Interview with Oriana Fallaci (22 & 23 February 1981)

 * Na zmęczeniu, goryczy, uczuciu bezsilności nie można budować.
 * It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
 * Walesa, Lech. Speech. "Nobel Lecture". 1983 Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance (11 December 1983)

 * Aresztowano mnie wiele razy. Za pierwszym razem, w grudniu 1970 roku, podpisałem 3 albo 4 dokumenty. Podpisałbym prawdopodobnie wtedy wszystko, oprócz zgody na zdradę Boga i Ojczyzny, by wyjść i móc walczyć. Nigdy mnie nie złamano i nigdy nie zdradziłem ideałów ani kolegów.
 * I was arrested many times. The first time, in December 1970, I signed 3 or 4 documents. Most probably I'd sign anything then, except consent for the betrayal of God and Fatherland, to get out and be able to fight. I have never been broken and I have never betrayed the ideals or my comrades.
 * A note to the Polish Press Agency issued on 4th June 1992 after the publication of a list of Communist collaborators compiled by Antoni Macierewicz.
 * Przerwana premiera, an interview by Jerzy Kłosiński and Jan Strękowski with Jan Olszewski, Warsaw 1992

 * Można powiedzieć, że byłem gdzieś niezręczny, może nawet kogoś wsypałem, ale nie to, że byłem agentem. Nie to, że chciałem kogoś zdradzić (...) Przysięgam i niech mnie szlag trafi, jeśli kłamię.
 * One could say I was goofy somewhere, and maybe even outed someone, but not that I was an agent. Not that I wanted to betray anybody. (...) I swear, and damn me if I lie.
 * From the IV Copernican Debate at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, after Gazeta.pl and TVN24

 * I am convinced that Germany has drawn conclusions [from World War II] and Europe has drawn conclusions as well. And I can say an unpopular thing. If once again Germany should risk destabilizing Europe, then there would be no division of Germany — it would simply be blown off the map of Europe. With the kind of technology that exists, with the kind of experiences we have had, there can be no other way — and the Germans know it.
 * Jarosław Kurski: Lech Wałęsa: democrat or dictator?, Westview Press, 1993, ISBN 0813317886 p. 59 and p. 166:

 * If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.
 * Wenn Deutschland noch einmal Europa destabilisiert dann wird Deutschland nicht mehr geteilt, sondern von der Landkarte gefegt werden. Ost und West haben die notwendige Technik, um dieses Verdikt auch vollstrecken zu können. Wenn Deutschland wieder anfängt, bleibt keine andere Lösung. - From the report of the German magazine DER SPIEGEL 15/1990 about an interview of Wałęsa by Dutch weekly Elsevier of 7 April 1990, which was partially reprinted, with an additional Pancho caricature, by French Le Monde

 * Dobrze się stało, że źle się stało.
 * It is good that it came out that bad.
 * Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009, ISBN 978-83-245-8733-9

 * Dodatnie i ujemne plusy.
 * Positive pluses and negative pluses.
 * Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009, ISBN 978-83-245-8733-9

 * Dokonałem zwrotu o 360 stopni.
 * I turned around by 360 degrees.
 * Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009, ISBN 978-83-245-8733-9

 * I am for, and even against.
 * Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009, ISBN 978-83-245-8733-9

Quotes about

 * The weakness of the Eastern European regimes was demonstrated anew in Poland, both by the activities of underground Solidarity and by the serious strikes that began in April 1988. The government had grudgingly sought to widen its support by negotiating with other elements, but it wished to exclude Solidarity. The Catholic Church, however, refused to create a co-operative Christian labour movement as the government wanted, preferring to leave the more intransigent Solidarity as the key body for negotiations. The Communists were opposed to trade union pluralism, but, as a sign of movement on the government’s part, the amnesty of 1986 had freed political prisoners. The 1988 strikes discouraged the Party leadership and demonstrated its failure to find a solution to Poland’s problems. Combined with Gorbachev’s renunciation of intervention on behalf of Communism, this failure encouraged the leadership to move toward yielding its monopoly of power. On 30 November 1988, there was a televised debate between Lech Walesa and Alfred Miodowicz, the head of the official trade union federation and a member of the Politburo. This was a highly significant step as the television served as a means of controlling the dissemination of opinion. On 6 February 1989, Round Table talks between government and the technically illegal opposition began, with the Church, an institution of great prestige in Poland, playing an important mediatory role. Under an agreement, signed on 5 April 1989, reached against a background of widespread strikes, elections were held in Poland on 4 June. Only 35 per cent of the seats in the lower house, the Sejm, were awarded on the basis of the free vote, the remainder going to the Communists and their allies, but all of these seats were won by Solidarity. This expression of the public will was a dramatic blow to the old order. Communist cohesion collapsed, not least with the Communist Party being abandoned by its hitherto pliant allies. Strikes and other protests meanwhile continued. The new government was headed by Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a member of Solidarity and a Catholic intellectual. He became the first non-Communist Prime Minister behind the Iron Curtain. There was, however, to be a major division between those who endorsed the ‘Round Table’ political settlement of 1989 as a way to avoid bloodshed, and those who criticised it as, allegedly, a compromise providing subsequent cover for ex-Communists to pillage the state.
 * Jeremy Black, The Cold War: A Military History (2015)

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Anne Hathaway

 Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born 12 November 1982) is an American actress.

Quotes

 * I was hanging out the other night with a bunch of friends I've known forever. They were saying, "Look at you. You've grown into a swan." I looked at them and said, "My awkward phase lasted about three years longer than all of yours combined." I related to the physical and emotional awkwardness Mia goes through. She has incredibly low self-esteem. A lot of my life was spent having the same thing, but I'm getting over that now.
 * As quoted in "Anne Hathaway : Royal Role" by Jeffrey Epstein in E! Online (20 July 2001)

 * Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.
 * As quoted in Teenpeople.com (May 2002)

 * We've all done things we shouldn't, it's just I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it, so I'm not a saint. … I wasted time doing self-destructive things but it didn't work. I found out you can only dance on so many tabletops. I got that all out of my system and now I'm healthy and I'm grounded.
 * As quoted in "Anne Hathaway : I'm Not a Saint" in People (20 February 2007)

 * Before I met him, I wasted so much time. I was just annoying and narcissistic and smelled bad. He’s protective without being possessive, passionate without needing to show his temper.
 * On her boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, as quoted in "Anne Hathaway : I'm Not a Saint" in People (20 February 2007)

 * My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.
 * As quoted in "Anne Hathaway: 'I'd Rather Be Strong Than Skinny'" in People (8 March 2007)

 * I have a lot more respect for it as a business. I understand fashion a lot more. Style, for me, is something I still can't get right.
 * About Fashion industry, "Prada Star Hathaway Doesn't Like It Haute". Chicago Tribune. (December 18, 2008).

 * When I was younger I thought about becoming a nun for a while. You know how it is when you're growing up and you're going to be a lot of different things, but I actually wanted to be an actress before I wanted to be a nun. The nun was more of a side-bar thing.
 * "Anne Hathaway wanted to be a nun". The Independent. (August 25, 2011).

 * It's easier to think about the way I'm least daring. When I meet people for the first time, I'm friendly but shy. I'm much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes. I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around! I am getting more daring now—I'll wear my mom jeans in public that haven't been tailored 'just so' yet, just because they feel good. For a long time I was afraid of the harsh things people would say about me, but I might as well be happy.
 * "Kiss & Make Up With Anne Hathaway: We Dare You". Harper's Bazaar. (October 9, 2014).

 * I did work at Christie’s for a couple of weeks, getting ready for The Devil Wears Prada, getting people coffee and doing whatever they needed around the office. It was amazing. I got to see some wonderful art and everybody was really nice. It was great.
 * "Anne Hathaway Was an Intern After She Got Famous: Find Out Whyu". Entertainment Tonight. (September 22, 2015).

 * I’m always hyper-aware of how not to be a you-know-what. So to actually let it go and to lean into all the ridiculous fame nonsense that I’ve been trying to side-step for all of these years just felt really, really fun. It just felt great and to play someone who had such an enormous ego and someone who takes herself so seriously, and is so insufferable, came very naturally to me.
 * "'Ocean's 8' Cast Says Female Heist Story Is Not a "Message Film"". The Hollywood Reporter. (June 8, 2018).

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Fred Rogers

Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003), also known as Mister Rogers, was an American television host, author, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001.

Quotes

 * Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been 'You are an important person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions.' Maybe I'm going on too long, but I just feel that anything that allows a person to be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is important.
 * U.S. District Court testimony September 1979.

 * When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."
 *

 * This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end the program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you; and I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health.
 * Testimony before U.S. Senate committee, May 1, 1969. Featured in Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor (television documentary), 2003.

 * You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.
 * Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor (television documentary), 2003.

 * Yes, when I was here the first word of the alma mater was 'Men…Men of Dartmouth, give a rouse…' Well, now the first word is 'Dear.' Some things change for the better.
 * Commencement Address at Dartmouth College June 9th, 2002

 * Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.
 * Commencement Address at Dartmouth College June 9th, 2002

 * Well, what is essential about you? And who are those who have helped you become the person that you are? Anyone who has ever graduated from a college, anyone who has ever been able to sustain a good work, has had at least one person and often many who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.
 * Commencement Address at Dartmouth College June 9th, 2002 and Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001

 * When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.
 * Source Commencement Address at Dartmouth College June 9th, 2002

 * I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does; so in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
 * Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001

 * Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.
 * Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001

 * It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.
 * Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001

 * It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential.  That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.
 * Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001

 * Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren't perfect.
 * Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Thoughts For All Ages

 * If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
 * Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Thoughts For All Ages

 * As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has—or ever will have—something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.
 * Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Thoughts For All Ages

 * Fame is a four letter word and like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or life, or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
 * When introduced to the TV Hall of Fame

 * Both Joanne and I can recall many times when we wish we'd said or done something different.  But we didn't, and we've learned not to feel too guilty about that.  What gives me my good feelings is that we always cared and always tried to do our best.
 * Foreword of Many Ways to Say I Love You

 * Children are to be respected and I respect them deeply. They've taught me an awful lot.
 * Interviewed by Joan Rivers on The Tonight Show (1983)

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Vico C

Vico C (born September 8, 1971), a Puerto Rican musician who was one of the founders of reggaeton and later became a Christian rapper.

Quotes

 * "Bueno, si mi pueblo perece, por falta de conocimiento. Aqui le va una aspirina
 * Fool, if you be cancer, I be the cure.
 * The first sentence is from the Book of Hosea, 4:6.

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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), commonly called Boileau, was a French poet and critic.

Quotes

 * Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'âme des dévots ?
 * Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout?
 * Le Lutrin (1683) I, 12

 * Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise, Abime tout plutôt ; c'est l'esprit de l'Église.
 * To support Thy rights, heaven-condoned, Destroy all else; that is the spirit of the Church.
 * Le Lutrin (1683) I, 185

 * Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
 * Épitres (1701) I, 61

 * Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.
 * Trouble rides behind and gallops with him.
 * Épitres (1701) V, 44

 * Le temps fuit, et nous traîne avec soi : Le moment où je parle est déjà loin de moi.
 * Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
 * Épitres (1701) III, 47

 * Tenez, voilà, dit-elle, à chacun une écaille. Des sottises d'autrui nous vivons au palais : Messieurs, l'huître était bonne. Adieu. Vivez en paix.
 * "There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell; We thrive at Westminster on fools like you. 'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,—adieu."
 * Epître ii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); translation by Alexander Pope, Verbatim from Boileau.

 * Rien n'est beau que le vrai : le vrai seul est aimable.
 * Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
 * Epistle 9

 *  Le pénible fardeau de n'avoir rien à faire.
 * The terrible burden of having nothing to do.
 * Epistle 11

The Art of Poetry (1674)

 * L'Art Poétique

 * Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.
 * That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
 * Canto I, l. 61

 * Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.
 * Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.
 * Canto I, l. 64

 * Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix légère Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au sévère.
 * Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
 * Canto I, l. 75
 * Variant: Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
 * As translated by John Dryden

 * Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
 * Whatever is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
 * Canto I, l. 153

 * Hâtez-vous lentement ; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage.
 * Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, Put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
 * Canto I, l. 171

 * La vérité n'a point cet air impétueux.
 * Truth has not such an urgent air.
 * Canto I, l. 198

 * Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
 * A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
 * Variant A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
 * Canto I, l. 232

 * Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable.
 * At times truth may not seem probable.
 * Canto III, l. 48

 * Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit et ses mœurs.
 * Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
 * Canto III, l. 374

 * Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.
 * A fop sometimes gives important advice.
 * Canto IV, l. 50

Satires (1716)

 * Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom ; J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.
 * I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue.
 * Satire I, l. 51

 * Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire.
 * He (Molière) pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
 * Satire I, l. 94

 * N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce, En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse : Tous les hommes sont fous, et, malgré tous leurs soins, Ne diffèrent entre eux que du plus ou du moins.
 * In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.
 * Satire 4, l. 37

 * Le plus sage est celui qui ne pense point l'être.
 * The wisest man is he who is certain he is not.
 * Satire 4

 * Le plus fou souvent est le plus satisfait.
 * Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.
 * Satire 4, l. 128

 * La vertu, d'un cœur noble est la marque certaine.
 * Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
 * Satire 5, l. 42

 * Si vous êtes sorti de ces héros fameux, Montrez-nous cette ardeur qu'on vit briller en eux.
 * If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
 * Satire 5, l. 43

 * De tous les animaux qui s'élèvent dans l'air, Qui marchent sur la terre, ou nagent dans la mer, De Paris au Pérou, du Japon jusqu'à Rome, Le plus sot animal, à mon avis, c'est l'homme.
 * Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.
 * Satire 8, l. 1

 * L'or même à la laideur donne un teint de beauté : Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvreté.
 * Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
 * Satire 8, l. 209

 * La satire, en leçons, en nouveautés fertile, Sait seule assaisonner le plaisant et l'utile, Et, d'un vers qu'elle épure aux rayons du bons sens, Détromper les esprits des erreurs de leur temps.
 * But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
 * Satire 9

 * L'honneur est comme une ile escarpée et sans bords ; On n'y peut plus rentrer dès qu'on en est dehors.
 * Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
 * Satire 10, l. 167

 * Et le Mien et le Tien, deux frères pointilleux, Par son ordre amenant les procès et la guerre, En tous lieux de ce pas vont partager la terre ; En tous lieux, sous les noms de bon droit et de tort, Vont chez elle établir le seul droit du plus fort.
 * Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.
 * Satire 11, l. 141

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, more famous as Molière (15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673) was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire.

Quotes

 * Tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat.
 * Pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.
 * L'Étourdi (1655), Act III, sc. v

 * On ne meurt qu'une fois; et c'est pour si longtemps!
 * We die only once, and for such a long time!
 * Le Dépit Amoureux (1656), Act V, sc. iii

 * Je fais toujours bien le premier vers: mais j'ai peine à faire les autres.
 * I always make the first verse well, but I have trouble making the others.
 * Les Précieuses Ridicules (1659), Act I, sc. xi

 * Le monde, chère Agnès, est une étrange chose.
 * The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
 * L'École des Femmes (1662), Act II, sc. v

 * Une femme d'esprit est un diable en intrigue.
 * A woman of wit is a devil of intrigue.
 * L'École des Femmes (1662), Act III, sc. iii

 * Il y a fagots et fagots.
 * There are bundles and bundles.
 * Le Médecin malgré lui (1666), Act i, scene 6. In this context, a fagot is a bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together.

 * Nous avons changé tout cela.
 * We have changed all that.
 * Le Médecin malgré lui (1666), Act ii, scene 6

 * Ah que je— Vous l'avez voulu, vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin, vous l'avez voulu, cela vous sied fort bien, et vous voilà ajusté comme il faut, vous avez justement ce que vous méritez.
 * Ah that I— You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This suits you very nicely, and you are served right; you have precisely what you deserve.
 * Georges Dandin (1668), Act I, sc. vii

 * Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?
 * What the devil was he doing in that galley?
 * Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671), Act II, sc. vi

 * Ah! Il n'y a plus d'enfants!
 * Ah, there are no longer any children!
 * Le Malade Imaginaire (1673), Act II, sc. xi

 * Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies.
 * Almost all men die of their remedies, not of their diseases.
 * Le Malade Imaginaire (1673), Act III, sc. iii

 * Quare Opium facit dormire: … Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva.
 * Why Opium produces sleep: … Because there is in it a dormitive power.
 * Le Malade Imaginaire (1673), Act III, sc. iii

Tartuffe (1664)

 * Main article: Tartuffe

 * Si l’emploi de la comédie est de corriger les vices des hommes, je ne vois pas par quelle raison il y en aura de privilégiés. Celui-ci est, dans l’État, d’une conséquence bien plus dangereuse que tous les autres ; et nous avons vu que le théâtre a une grande vertu pour la correction. Les plus beaux traits d’une sérieuse morale sont moins puissants, le plus souvent, que ceux de la satire ; et rien ne reprend mieux la plupart des hommes que la peinture de leurs défauts. C’est une grande atteinte aux vices que de les exposer à la risée de tout le monde. On souffre aisément des répréhensions ; mais on ne souffre point la raillerie. On veut bien être méchant, mais on ne veut point être ridicule.
 * If the purpose of comedy be to chastise human weaknesses I see no reason why any class of people should be exempt. This particular failing is one of the most damaging of all in its public consequences and we have seen that the theatre is a great medium of correction. The finest passages of a serious moral treatise are all too often less effective than those of a satire and for the majority of people there is no better form of reproof than depicting their faults to them: the most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
 * Preface, as translated by John Wood in The Misanthrope and Other Plays (Penguin, 1959), p. 101
 * Variant translation: People do not mind being wicked; but they object to being made ridiculous.

 * Vous êtes un sot en trois lettres, mon fils.
 * You are a fool in three letters, my son.
 * Act I, sc. i

 * Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart.
 * There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
 * Act I, sc. i

Sont toujours sur autrui les premiers à médire.'' Are always the first to attack their neighbors.'''
 * ''Ceux de qui la conduite offre le plus à rire
 * '''Those whose conduct gives room for talk
 * Act I, sc. i

 * À votre nez, mon frère, elle se rit de vous.
 * In your face, my brother, she is laughing at you.
 * Act I, sc. v
 * Variant translation:
 * She is laughing in your face, my brother.

 * Une femme a toujours une vengeance prête.
 * A woman always has her revenge ready.
 * Act II, sc. ii

Par de pareils objets les âmes sont blessées.'' Souls are wounded by such things.
 * ''Couvrez ce sein que je ne saurais voir.
 * Cover that bosom that I must not see:
 * Act III, sc. ii

 * Pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins homme.
 * Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
 * Act III, sc. iii

Et ce n'est pas pécher que pécher en silence.'' To sin in private is not a sin.
 * ''Le scandale du monde est ce qui fait l'offense,
 * To create a public scandal is what's wicked;
 * Act IV, sc. v

 * Je l'ai vu, dis-je, de mes propres yeux vu.
 * I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes.
 * Act V, sc. iii

Le Misanthrope (1666)

Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.'' To esteem everything is to esteem nothing.'''
 * ''Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde,
 * '''On some preference esteem is based;
 * Act I, sc. i

De vouloir se mêler de corriger le monde.''
 * ''Et c’est une folie, à nulle autre, seconde,
 * The world will not reform for all your meddling.
 * As published in Le Misanthrope, Molière, tr. Curtis Hidden Page, G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1913), p. 12
 * Variant translation: Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
 * As contained in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p.772 : ISBN 0231071949
 * Act I, sc. 1, lines 155-156 (Philinte)

L'art de ne vous rien dire avec de grands discours.'' Of telling you nothing in a great harangue.'''
 * ''C'est un parleur étrange, et qui trouve toujours
 * '''He's a wonderful talker, who has the art
 * Act II, sc. iv

Et que c'est à sa table à qui l'on rend visite.'' And the world visits his dinners and not him.
 * ''Que de son cuisinier il s'est fait un mérite,
 * He makes his cook his merit,
 * Act II, sc. iv

 * On voit qu'il se travaille à dire de bons mots.
 * You see him laboring to produce bons mots.
 * Act II, sc. iv

À rien pardonner le pur amour éclate.'' It is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.'''
 * ''Plus on aime quelqu'un, moins il faut qu'on le flatte:
 * '''The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them;
 * Act II, sc. iv

 * Les doutes sont fâcheux plus que toute autre chose.
 * Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
 * Act III, sc. v

 * On peut être honnête homme et faire mal des vers.
 * Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
 * Act IV, sc. i

Si tous les cœurs était francs, justes et dociles, La plupart des vertus nous seraient inutiles, Puisqu'on en met l'usage à pouvoir sans ennui Supporter dans nos droits l'injustice d'autrui.'' If every heart were just, frank, kindly, The other virtues would be well-nigh useless, Since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience The injustice of our fellows.
 * ''Si de probité tout était revêtu,
 * If everyone were clothed with integrity,
 * Act V, sc. i

 * C'est un merveilleux assaisonnement aux plaisirs qu'on goûte que la présence des gens qu'on aime.
 * It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
 * Act V, sc. iv

Amphitryon (1666)
Qu'une fatigante vertu.'' To an obstinate virtue.
 * ''J'aime mieux un vice commode,
 * I prefer an accommodating vice
 * Act I, sc. iv

Est l'Amphitryon où l'on dine.'' Is the Amphitryon who gives dinner.
 * ''Le véritable Amphitryon,
 * The true Amphitryon
 * Act III, sc. v

 * Le Seigneur Jupiter sait dorer la pilule.
 * My lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.
 * Act III, sc. x

L'Avare (1668)
Je parle... je parle à mon bonnet.'' I am addressing myself—I am addressing myself to my cap.
 * ''[J]e veux que tu me dises à qui lu parles quand lu dis cela.
 * Tell me to whom you are addressing yourself when you say that.
 * Act I, scene iii

 * Les beaux yeux de ma cassette.
 * The beautiful eyes of my cash-box.
 * Act V, scene iii

 * Vous parlez devant un homme à qui tout Naples est connu.
 * You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known.
 * Act V, scene v

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)

 * Tout ce qui n'est point prose, est vers; et tout ce qui n'est point vers, est prose.
 * All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.
 * Act II, sc. iv

 * Par ma foi, il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien.
 * Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
 * Act II, sc. iv

 * Ah, la belle chose que de savoir quelque chose.
 * Ah, it's a lovely thing to know a thing or two.
 * Act II, sc. iv.

Une ardeur éternelle.''
 * ''Jurons, ma belle,
 * Let's swear, my beauty, An eternal ardor.
 * Act IV, sc. i

 * Je le soutiendrai devant tout le monde.
 * I will maintain it before the whole world.
 * Act IV, sc. iii

Les Femmes Savantes (1672)

 * La grammaire qui sait régenter jusqu'aux rois.
 * Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
 * Act II, sc. vi. An apparent reference to Sigismund I, at the Council of Constance, 1414, said to a prelate who had objected to his Majesty's grammar, "Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam" (I am the Roman emperor, and am above grammar).

 * Il est de sel attique assaisonné partout.
 * It is seasoned throughout with Attic salt.
 * Act III, sc. ii

 * Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
 * A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
 * Act IV, sc. iii

Misattributed

 * Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pas vivre pour manger.
 * One must eat to live, and not live to eat.
 * L'Avare (1668), Act III, sc. i.
 * Firstly, an inaccurate sourcing: in Act III, yes—but in Scene I, no: rather, in Scene V—HARPAGON, VALÈRE, MASTER JACQUES (see, e.g., the Project Gutenberg HTML version of the English translation: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6923/6923-h/6923-h.htm). Secondly, a misattribution made clear by the Molière text—the character in the play, VAL, obviously points out that the quote refers to a "saying of one of the ancients" (and the quote is precisely written in quotation marks as well), in the full line of dialogue below:
 * Know, Master Jacques, you and people like you, that a table overloaded with eatables is a real cut-throat; that, to be the true friends of those we invite, frugality should reign throughout the repast we give, and that according to the saying of one of the ancients, "We must eat to live, and not live to eat."
 * The "ancients" to which VAL/Molière refers is Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, and the oldest known attribution, Socrates (whom Laertius explicitly attributes—and Cicero presumably invokes). Various books of quotations document this—e.g., Elizabeth Knowles' 2006 The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (http://books.google.com/books?id=r2KIvsLi-2kC&dq=%22one+must+eat+to+live+not+live+to+eat%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s) and Jennifer Speake's 1982 A Dictionary of Proverbs (http://books.google.com/books?id=-IpkOkM3IfEC&dq=%22one+must+eat+to+live+not+live+to+eat%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s): the former lists the quote as "a proverbial saying, late 14th century, distinguishing between necessity and indulgence; Diogenes Laertius says of Socrates, 'he said that other men live to eat, but eats to live.' A similar idea is found in the Latin of Cicero, 'one must eat to live, not live to eat'"; the latter, reiterates this. Moreover, in William Shepard Walsh's 1909 Handy-book of Literary Curiosities, he adds that "According to Plutarch, what Socrates said was, 'Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.'" He also adds that Atheneus quotes similarly to Laertius, as well as explores other later variations (http://books.google.com/books?id=hrJkAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s).

title: Molière


text:
George Grove

Sir George Grove (August 13, 1820 – May 28, 1900) was an English writer on music, immortalised in the title of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Quotes

 * Another equally true saying of Schumann is that, compared with Beethoven, Schubert is as a woman to a man. For it must be confessed that one's attitudes towards him is almost always that of sympathy, attraction, and love, rarely that of embarrassment or fear. Here and there only, as in the Rosamund B minor Entr'acte, or the Finale of the 10th symphony, does he compel his listeners with an irrestistible power; and yet how different is this compulsion from the strong, fierce, merciless coercion, with which Beethoven forces you along, and bows and bends you to his will."
 * Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn (London:Macmillan, 1951), 238.

title: George Grove


text:
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17 1770, died March 26 1827) was a German composer and pianist who lived predominantly in Vienna, Austria. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.

 * See also:
 * Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven)
 * Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
 * Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
 * Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)

Quotes

 * I want to seize fate by the throat.
 * Letter to F.G. Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.

 * There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.
 * Conversations (January 1801)

 * ...thus do I take my farewell of thee — and indeed sadly — yes that beloved hope — which I brought with me when I came here to be cured at least in a degree — I must wholly abandon, as the leaves of autumn fall and are withered so hope has been blighted, almost as I came — I go away — even the high courage — which often inspired me in the beautiful days of summer — has disappeared — O Providence — grant me at least but one day of pure joy — it is so long since real joy echoed in my heart — O when — O when, O Divine One — shall I find it again in the temple of nature and of men — Never? no — O that would be too hard.
 * Heiligenstadt Testament, 10 October 1802

 * Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
 * Conversations (January 1804)

 * Nur das Reine im Herzen kann eine gute Suppe machen.
 * Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup.

 * Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.
 * Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
 * As reported by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe, 28 May 1810.
 * Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde: Seinem Denkmal, Volume 2, Dümmler, 1835, p. 193.

 * Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.
 * Attributed to Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (28 May 1810); Goethe's Correspondence with a Child (1837)

 * Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
 * Letter to Bettina von Arnim (11 August 1810)

 * Fahre fort, übe nicht allein die Kunst, sondern dringe auch in ihr Inneres; sie verdient es, denn nur die Kunst und die Wissenschaft erhöhen den Menschen bis zur Gottheit.
 * Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity.
 * Letter to Emilie, July 17, 1812.
 * Quoted in Musical news, Vol. 3 (1892), p. 627

 * I met [Meyerbeer] at the performance of my "Battle." Most of the composers then in Vienna were kind enough to undertake something or other in my orchestra, and the young man played the big drum. Ha! ha! ha! (a peal of laughter). I had reason not to be very well satisfied with him. He was always behindhand, and I had to give it him roundly. (New peal of laughter.) He must have felt mortified by my observations; but there is no reliance to be placed in him; he has not the courage to raise his arm at the proper moment.
 * 10th October, 1814
 * In: Johann Wenzel Tomaschek, "A Talk with Beethoven", The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 33, Beethoven Supplement (Dec. 15, 1892)

 * One clashes with stupidity of all kinds. And then how much money must be spent in advance! The way in which artists are treated is really scandalous. I am compelled to give a third of my receipts to the manager of the theatre and a fifth to the hospitals. Devil take them! As long as these abuses exist, I shall always ask whether music is or is not an art that may be freely exercised. Believe me, there is nothing to be done for artists in times like these.
 * 24th November, 1814
 * In: Johann Wenzel Tomaschek, "A Talk with Beethoven", The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 33, Beethoven Supplement (Dec. 15, 1892)

 * It is a recognised fact that the greatest composers were likewise the greatest virtuosos; but did they play like the pianists of the present day, who run up and down the keyboard with passages studied beforehand? Pooh! pooh! pooh! Don't tell me! A real virtuoso, when extemporising, plays pieces which hold together and possess a form. Were the ideas in them fixed instantly on paper, they would be taken for pieces written at leisure. That is what I call playing the piano; everything else is a bad joke.
 * 24th November, 1814
 * In: Johann Wenzel Tomaschek, "A Talk with Beethoven", The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 33, Beethoven Supplement (Dec. 15, 1892)

 * The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
 * Conversations (March 1820)

 * The day-to-day exhausted me!
 * to Karl von Baden, August 23, 1823

 * Ach du erbärmlicher Schuft, was ich scheisse ist besser, als was du je gedacht.
 * O you miserable fool, what I shit is better than anything you can do.
 * Written in the margin of Gottfried Weber's negative review of Wellington's Victory in Beethoven's copy of Cäcilia (August 1825)

 * Muß es sein? Es muß sein.
 * Must it be? It must be.
 * Epigraph to string quartet in F Major, Opus 135 (October 1826)

 * Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
 * Said on his deathbed, 1827

 * Ich werde im Himmel hören! (I will hear in heaven!)
 * Said on his deathbed, 1827, as cited from the book Last Words.

Attributed

 * I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
 * "A meeting of minds", The Guardian, 18 November 2005.

 * Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
 * To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst

Disputed

 * To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable
 * Not found in Beethoven's known works. It may be a summary of the following description of Beethoven from his piano pupil Ferdinand Ries: "When I left out something in a passage, a note or a skip, which in many cases he wished to have specially emphasized, or struck a wrong key, he seldom said anything; yet when I was at fault with regard to the expression, the crescendo or matters of that kind, or in the character of the piece, he would grow angry. Mistakes of the other kind, he said were due to chance; but these last resulted from want of knowledge, feeling or attention. He himself often made mistakes of the first kind, even playing in public."

Quotes about Beethoven

 * As usual he submitted to the interminable entreaties and finally was dragged almost by force to the pianoforte by the ladies. Angrily he tears the second violin part of one of the Pleyel quartets from the music-stand where it still lay open, throws it upon the rack of the pianoforte, and begins to improvise. We had never heard him extemporize more brilliantly, with more originality or more grandly than on that evening. But throughout the entire improvisation there ran in the middle voices, like a thread, or cantus firmus, the insignificant notes, wholly insignificant in themselves, which he found on the page of the quartet, which by chance lay open on the music stand; on them he built up the most daring melodies and harmonies, in the most brilliant concert style. Old Pleyel could only give expression to his amazement by kissing his hands. After such improvisations Beethoven was wont to break out into a loud and satisfied laugh.
 * Carl Czerny, quoted by Friedrich Kerst, Beethoven, the Man and the Artist: As Revealed in His Own Words (1905) Tr. Henry Edward Krehbiel

 * His improvisation was most brilliant and striking. In whatever company he might chance to be, he knew how to produce such an effect upon every hearer that frequently not an eye remained dry, while many would break out into large sobs; for there was something wonderful in his expression in addition to the beauty and originality of his ideas and his spirited style of rendering them. After ending an improvisation of this kind he would burst into loud laughter and banter his hearers on the emotion he had caused in them. "You are fools!" he would say. Sometimes he would feel himself insulted by these indications of sympathy. "Who could live among such spoiled children?" he would cry, and only on that account (as he told me) he declined to accept an invitation which the King of Prussia gave him after one of the extempore performances above described.
 * Carl Czerny, quoted by Lewis Lockwood, "Beethoven, Florestan, and the Varieties of Heroism," Beethoven and His World (2000) ed. Scott G. Burnham & Michael P. Steinberg

 * Another equally true saying of Schumann is that, compared with Beethoven, Schubert is as a woman to a man. For it must be confessed that one's attitudes towards him is almost always that of sympathy, attraction, and love, rarely that of embarrassment or fear. Here and there only, as in the Rosamund B minor Entr'acte, or the Finale of the 10th symphony, does he compel his listeners with an irrestistible power; and yet how different is this compulsion from the strong, fierce, merciless coercion, with which Beethoven forces you along, and bows and bends you to his will.
 * Sir George Grove in his Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn (London:Macmillan, 1951), p. 238.

 * A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of depression, but a Beethoven symphony reveals what that depression feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of mind, yet they are rarely brought together.
 * Eric Kandel, In Search of Memory (2006)

 * when people ask you for "influences," they almost inevitably mean literary ones. How silly. It's very probable that listening to Beethoven might influence a writer far more deeply than anything read, but only musicians are asked about Beethoven. The same thing is true, of course, with painting. We really ought to run the arts together more.
 * 1982 interview in Conversations with Ursula Le Guin

 * If the question [about if there were only one composer in the world I could play] is purely ‘original’ works, no transcriptions, then Beethoven.
 * Valentina Lisitsa, "Valentina Lisitsa – Up Close" Pianist magazine (May 22, 2013)

 * Beethoven did not always plumb the depths. He was not always busy with major problems and the most significant spiritual experiences. Such works, as the fourth, sixth, and eighth symphonies depict states of mind that require no such intensity of realization. It is significant that they were all written comparatively quickly... They are not in the main line of Beethoven's spiritual development.
 * Lewis Lockwood, "Beethoven, Florestan, and the Varieties of Heroism," Beethoven and His World (2000) ed. Scott G. Burnham & Michael P. Steinberg

 * I sometimes dwell on the fact that there's one thing that time and humankind will not be able to take away from me, leaving me rich, richer than Croesus: the bliss that I derive from a Heine poem, from a Beethoven sonata or a DaVinci painting.
 * Anna Margolin "From a Diary" short story (1909) translated from Yiddish by Daniel Kennedy, ‘’During Sleepless Nights and Other Stories’’ (2022)

 * A colossus beyond the grasp of most mortals, with his totally uncompromising power, his unsensual and uningratiating way with music as with people.
 * Yehudi Menuhin, Unfinished Journey (1976)

 * His ideas came so profusely that he always had several works going on at once, and he always meditated and thought over them for a long while before he brought them to completeness. His practice was to jot down the ideas roughly as they came into his head in little sketch-books which he carried in his pocket, and he then polished and improved these original ideas time after time, sometimes for years, before he worked them up into complete works.
 * C. Hubert H. Parry, Studies of Great Composers, published 1904

 * Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents?
 * Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism

 * When his friends, says Czerny, speak to him of his youthful renown, he replies: "Ah, nonsense! I have never thought of writing for renown and glory. What I have in my heart must out; that is why I write."
 * Romain Rolland, "Portrait of Beethoven in His Thirtieth Year" Ch.5, Beethoven the Creator, (1929) first written for the centenary of Beethoven's death in 1927; also appeared in Romain Rolland's Essays on Music (1948)

 * It was not an enjoyable experience. First of all the piano was dreadfully out of tune, which did not trouble Beethoven in the least, since he could not hear it. Little or nothing remained of the brilliant technique which had been so much admired. In loud passages the poor deaf man hammered away at the notes crashing through whole groups of them so that without the score one lost all sense of the melody. I was deeply moved by the tragedy of it all. Beethoven's almost continual melancholy was no longer a mystery to me.
 * Louis Spohr commenting on an invitation, in 1808, to attend a rehearsal by Beethoven of his D Major Piano Trio, Opus 70, no. 1.

 * The Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven must always be among the choicest possessions of all who love music and especially of those who make music their main object and study.
 * Donald Tovey, 1931

 * You are going to Vienna in fulfillment of your long-frustrated wishes. The Genius of Mozart is mourning and weeping over the death of her pupil. She has found a refuge but no occupation with the inexhaustible Haydn; through him she wishes to form a union with another. With the help of assiduous labor you shall receive Mozart's spirit from Haydn's hands.
 * Ferdinand von Waldstein in a letter to Beethoven (1792)

 * My theory was that we are all fundamentally 'multiple personalities', beginning with the baby and the child, and slowly developing into more complex selves. If, for some reason, we abruptly cease to develop -- through some trauma that undermines self-confidence -- all those potential personalities are stunted and repressed. And some accident or violent shock may give one of them the opportunity to 'take over'. This suggests, of course, that in some mysterious sense, our 'future' personalities are already there, in embryo, so to speak, and that they also develop as we mature. We move from personality to personality, as we might climb a ladder. The Beethovens and Leonardos got further up the ladder than most of us; yet even they failed to reach the top, as we can see if we study their lives.
 * Colin Wilson in The Janus Murder Case, p. 228- 229 (1984)

title: Ludwig van Beethoven


text:
Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer.

About Franz Schubert

 * Another equally true saying of Schumann is that, compared with Beethoven, Schubert is as a woman to a man. For it must be confessed that one's attitudes towards him is almost always that of sympathy, attraction, and love, rarely that of embarrassment or fear. Here and there only, as in the Rosamund B minor Entr'acte, or the Finale of the 10th symphony, does he compel his listeners with an irrestistible power; and yet how different is this compulsion from the strong, fierce, merciless coercion, with which Beethoven forces you along, and bows and bends you to his will.
 * Sir George Grove, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn (London:Macmillan, 1951), p. 238.
 * The distance in form, intention, mood and expression between Schubert's songs for voice and piano and those of, say, Adele is remarkably small.
 * Howard Goodall, Howard Goodall's Story of Music. Episode 3, BBC, February 2014

title: Franz Schubert


text:
Wernher von Braun

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March 1912 - 16 June 1977) was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, as well as the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and later a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States.

Quotes

 * The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
 * Remark to a colleague after the first V-2 rocket hit London (September 1944), as quoted in Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now (1999) by Jonathan Allday, p. 85

 * We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured.
 * Press statement after surrendering to U.S. Forces (May 1945)

 * Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
 * In an interview in the New York Times (16 December 1957), cited in a footnote on page 32 of "Work, Society, and Culture" by Yves Reni Marie Simon, and also in a footnote (in German) on page 360 of "Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben" by Hannah Arendt (1981)
 * Variants:
 * Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know I'm doing.
 * Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
 * Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

 * Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
 * As quoted in Time (17 February 1958)

 * We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
 * "On Bureaucracy", Chicago Sun Times (10 July 1958), as quoted in Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, 2nd edition (2012), by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, editors, p. 925

 * There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: Your tax dollar will go farther.
 * Attributed in Reader's Digest (1961), and The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) edited by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 101

 * If our intention had been merely to bring back a handful of soil and rocks from the lunar gravel pit and then forget the whole thing, we would certainly be history's biggest fools. But that is not our intention now — it never will be. What we are seeking in tomorrow's trip is indeed that key to our future on earth. We are expanding the mind of man. We are extending this God-given brain and these God-given hands to their outermost limits and in so doing all mankind will benefit. All mankind will reap the harvest. … What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.
 * Banquet speech on the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, Royal Oaks Country Club, Titusville (15 July 1969); quoted in "Of a Fire on the Moon", LIFEmagazine (29 August 1969), 67, No. 9, p. 34

 * I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
 * Taped TV interview, broadcast on WMAL, Washington, (7 January 1972), as reported in "Birth of Child on Moon Foreseen by von Braun", New York Times (7 January 1972), p. 14

 * For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
 * From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)

 * My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
 * From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)

 * It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.
 * From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)

 * Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?
 * In letter to California State board of Education (14 September 1972)

 * The materialists of the nineteenth century and their Marxist heirs of the twentieth, tried to tell us that, as science gives us more knowledge about the creation, we could live without faith in a Creator. Yet so far, with every new answer, we have discovered new questions. The better we understand . . . the master plan for the galaxies, the more reason we have found to marvel at the wonder of God’s creation.
 * As quoted in "Basis for an Assured Faith", in The Watchtower magazine (15 June 1981)

 * In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible ... this grandiose, stirring history of the gradual revelation and unfolding of the moral law ... remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the Moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God. It is no longer enough that we pray that God may be with us on our side. We must learn again that we may be on God's side.
 * As quoted in Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings (1993) edited by Bob Phillips, p. 42

Responsible Scientific Investigation and Application (1976)

 * Address delivered to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, as published in The Nature of a Humane Society : A Symposium on the Bicentennial of the United States of America (1977) edited by Hans Ober Hess, p. 97

 * The body of knowledge is advancing at an absolutely incredible rate, and new tools are constantly being made available to the researcher that were previously not only unavailable, but often not even dreamed of.

Young people today are learning a new science, but even more importantly, they are viewing the earth and man's relationship to it quite differently — and I think perhaps more humanly — than we did fifteen years ago. The space program is the first large scientific and technological activity in history that offers to bring the people of all nations together instead of setting them further apart.
 * Without wanting to seem overly partisan, I would like simply to point out that the space program has by all standards become America's greatest generator of new ideas in science and technology. It is essentially an organization for opening new frontiers, physically and intellectually. Today we live in a different world because in 1958 Americans accepted the challenge of space and made the required national investment to meet it.

'''Science, all by itself, has no moral dimension. The same poison-containing drug which cures when taken in small doses, may kill when taken in excess.''' The same nuclear chain reaction that produces badly needed electrical energy when harnessed in a reactor, may kill thousands when abruptly released in an atomic bomb. Thus it does not make sense to ask a biochemist or a nuclear physicist whether his research in the field of toxic substances or nuclear processes is good or bad for mankind. In most cases the scientist will be fully aware of the possibility of an abuse of his discoveries, but aside from his innate scientific curiosity he will be motivated by a deep-seated hope and belief that something of value for his fellow man may emerge from his labors. The same applies to technology, through which most advances in the natural sciences are put to practical use.
 * One of the most disconcerting issues of our time lies in the fact that modern science, along with miracle drugs and communications satellites, has also produced nuclear bombs. What makes it even worse, science has utterly failed to provide an answer on how to cope with them. As a result, science and scientists have often been blamed for the desperate dilemma in which mankind finds itself today.
 * Comparable to remarks of William Masters, in "Two Sex Researchers on the Firing Line" LIFE magazine (24 June 1966), p. 49: "Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built."
 * Variants:
 * Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
 * As quoted in Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change (2009) by Robert B. Seidensticker
 * Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently. Should the knife have not been developed?
 * As quoted in Science & Society (2012) by Peter Daempfle, Ch. 6, p. 97

Quotes about von Braun
Tom Lehrer, in lyrics from "Wernher von Braun":

 * "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.
 * "In German or English, I know how to count down, und I'm learning Chinese" says Wernher von Braun.

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Talk:George Grove

Anybody know what this "10th symphony" is? Schubert never completed what we know as his tenth symphony, and although Brian Newbould made a performing version of it, that was long after Grove's death. At the time of his death, I don't even think the sketches of the tenth had been discovered. The standard numbering of Schubert's symphonies has changed somewhat over the years, so maybe this piece is now known as something else - I'm guessing it's the the ninth (the "Great" in C major)? An explanatory note would be good if anybody knows for sure. --Camembert

 * I don't have any idea, but according to http://classicals.com/music/FranzSchubert(1797-1828)hall/cas/114.html "Of the 8 symphonies published in Schubert's lifetime, his 7th published symphony "The Great" in C Major was actually the 10th symphony he completed." Hyacinth 07:04, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Kamisese Mara

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (May 6, 1920 - April 18, 2004), Founding father and Long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji.

Quotes

 * "Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding." (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).
 * Independence Day address, 10 October 1970.

 * How could I stand by and watch my house on fire? (This quote, and the one following, were part of his defence for joining Sitiveni Rabuka's military government in 1987).
 * concerning the 1987 coups and their aftermath The Fiji Sun.

 * At that stage my heart ruled my head".
 * concerning the 1987 coups and their aftermath The Fiji Sun

 * It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
 * (Letter to President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, 5 December 1987).

 * Here was an action that touched on raw and sensitive nerves in a community that had already undergone the trauma of two military takeovers. There was an undoubted threat to public order, welfare and freedom. I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.
 * (Concerning public demonstrations and roadblocks led by Methodist ministers, calling for a ban on Sunday sport and commerce).

 * When you (President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau) called me at Lomaloma in December 1987 and asked me to form an Interim Government to prepare the country for a return to parliamentary rule, I knew the task at hand would be onerous. Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups. Society was fractured, the economy was tottering and the country had been ostracised by some of its oldest friends and allies. There was no Parliament and no properly functioning political system. Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
 * (On the eve of final his departure from the Prime Ministerial office). (Report to President Ganilau, 15 May 1992).

 * (On his Catholic faith): "Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life."
 * The Pacific Way: A Memoir (1996).

 * (On his proposal to overcome the ethnically polarized election results with a National Unity government in 1982, which the Opposition declined): "Fiji was too small to squander its limited pool of talent. Worse still, this division created an atmosphere of frustration that could fester and poison relations."
 * The Pacific Way: A Memoir (1996).

 * From where I stand, I do not see the lost people of the South Seas, the defeated and the despairing, shrunken shadows of those who went before. What I observe are the proud descendants of some of the most remarkable explorers and settlers who ever lived. We carry the cultural and historical inheritance of ocean navigators of peerless skill and their courageous kin who crossed vast distances before the tribes of Europe had ventured forth from their small part of the earth. Our forebearers populated islands scattered over the world's greatest stretch of water, covering a fifth of the planet's surface. It was one of the most amazing migrations in history, a triumphant testimony to human endurance, fortitude and achievement.
 * Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand (26 July 1999).

 * But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.
 * Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand (26 July 1999).

 * It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. We are taught to obey our parents, as Jesus did, and about the sanctity of truth and life itself. We are warned against lying, cheating and stealing. We learn that we must respect the person and property of others, care for each other, live and work together in cooperation, show loyalty, patience, kindness and share what we have. The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
 * Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand (26 July 1999).

 * (Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): "They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitution and this is exactly what Speight wants and if they belong to Speight, I don’t belong to them."
 * (Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).

 * "If the constitution goes, I go."
 * (Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).

 * "I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back."
 * (Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).

 * "It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest."
 * (Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).

 * "I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collapse."
 * (Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).

Attributed

 * "The Pacific Way … is not a thing or state; it is the working out of a process. (But) … the most important things in life are the most difficult to measure … love, peace of mind, creativity, fulfillment, maturity or wisdom, for example."

 * "In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order".

 * "It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest."
 * Attributed to him posthumously by his friend, business tycoon Hari Punja

 * "I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collapse."
 * Attributed to him posthumously by his friend, business tycoon Hari Punja

 * "The reconciliation that has been undertaken today will be worthless if investigations into the coup do not reveal the truth behind the staging."
 * (Attributed to him by his daughter, Adi Koila Nailatikau in a Senate speech, 22 October 2004).

Quotes about Mara
''Unless otherwise stated, all quotes below are from The Fiji Times Online. They are ordered by the last name of the person being quoted''.

 * James Ah Koy, Senator and former Cabinet Minister: (From a Senate speech, 10 May, 2004): "Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara was a man who is loved by many today and is appreciated for what he was - a man for all seasons, who was true to his God and his belief, true to his wife and family, true to his country, a man of faith, unswervingly for what he believed in and strived for".

 * Joseph Browne, Mara's secretary at the time of the coup:
 * "What we are going to witness is the height of hypocrisy. The involvement of the military and other elements in any ceremony is farcical because these institutions ridiculed him and betrayed him when he was the president at the height of the 2000 coup." (May 2004, on military participation in Mara's funeral)
 * "Fiji doesn't deserve him … they crucified him … he was attacked personally by the masses … rumours were spread about him … the decisions of the Great Council of Chiefs embarrassed him and the actions taken by the military and the police … he felt betrayed … justice will prevail." (This quote, and the one below, were reported by the Fiji Village news service, 21 April 2004).
 * "He stood for peace, progress and prosperity … the Turaga stood on the side of the marginalized … the poor … the suppressed and he treated all as equals. The interest of the nation was first and foremost. The legacy that he left behind that I use as a beacon is the sum total of the hold is always greater than any of its parts".

 * Mahendra Chaudhry, Prime Minister (1999-2000). The following quotes are from a condolence message that Chaudhry sent out on 19 April 2004, after learning of Ratu Mara's death the previous day:
 * "He set a high standard of governance and demanded the very best from all those who served under him as ministers or civil servants."
 * "Ratu Mara was a man of great vision, commitment and dignity who towered above his contemporaries both here and abroad."
 * "Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara was a rare combination of traditional Fijian aristocracy and the finest values of the Western tradition".

 * Sakeasi Dikota, former Aide-de-Camp to Ratu Mara (1992-1994): "Something that I learnt from Ratu Mara was his adherence to time .. he was a stickler for keeping up the time .. he was never, never late … and he would ensure that all programmes were not late by a minute. Protocol was also high on his list of priority. I also admired his art of dressing immaculately … he was always dressed according to the occasion … something that young people can learn from him".

 * Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Vice-President of Fiji (2005-): "Ratu Mara is a man who stands for the truth, he hated lies".

 * Laisenia Qarase, Prime Minister of Fiji (2000-): "For as long as many of us could remember, he dominated our national life. His leadership was marked by discipline, vision and a keen and penetrating intellect. His dedication to this country was total. He worked tirelessly to make a unified nation from different communities; a nation to stand tall as a model of progress and harmony".

 * Sitiveni Rabuka, chief instigator of two military coups in 1987 and Prime Minister (1992-1999):
 * "When he brought it up again in the television interview, I thought it was very unbecoming of a national leader and of a statesman." (2 July 2001, responding to Mara's televised allegations that Rabuka had been a party to the 2000 coup).
 * "In 1987 he called me an angry young man and I can say he is an angry … old man. The mana he thought he enjoyed on his own in leadership he sees now can be enjoyed by Chaudhry, Rabuka, Reddy".

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Peter Akinola

The Most Reverend Peter Jasper Akinola (born 27 January 1944, in Abeokuta) is Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Archbishop of Province III of Nigeria, and Bishop of the capital city, Abuja.

Sourced

 * "We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman."
 * Interview with Associated Press December 2003

 * "I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind."
 * Reported in the East African Standard January 2004, now only available online here.

 * "We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation."
 * (Explaining the decision to reject American funding as a protest over liberal theology and practices, including the ordination of homosexuals.)

 * "They are trying to make my God a liar. That I will not accept. If that's the case, then better to be poor and loyal to God than to have all the money in the world."

 * "To opine that, unknown to humans, God had hitherto created some people to be homosexuals and lesbians (i.e., sexual orientations) is tantamount to creating God in our own image and introducing a cancerous element into the fabric of the African understanding of marriage and family."

 * "Homosexuality and lesbianism, like divorce, breed a society of single parents which gives rise to a generation of bastards. And in the context of much poverty and lack of education, this further produces an ill-bred generation of hooligans, portending much terror to the peace and stability of the society."

 * "In a society where many women are finding it difficult to have husbands of their own due to depletion of men by many factors, homosexuality will exacerbate the disequilibrium, leading to much social unrest."

 * "All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension."

 * "We must never forget that if Christ had been so inclined, he would not have come and there will be no Christmas to celebrate."

 * "By your victory at the polls, you have put to shame the revisionists and their agenda in the Church of Christ, and particularly in the Episcopal Church of United States of America (ECUSA). I hope that by your election victory, these ordained men and women will feel rebuked and be forced to repent of this grievous sin of repudiating the word of God, and to seek genuine restoration."
 * From An Open Congratulatory Message to the President George W Bush

 * "Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break."

 * "Britain has joined its brethren in the 'civilised West' to legitimise civil partnerships, which to us simply means same-sex marriages. They are also putting a ban on preaching because it offends Muslim minorities. Britain has, of course, made Sunday a working day."

 * "a misfit, a wolf in shepherd’s clothing and one of the end-time agents of the devil sent to lead astray those who would have believed in God."
 * (referring to the Anglican Primate of South Africa, Archibishop Winston Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town)

 * "May we at this stage remind our Muslim brothers that they do not have the monopoly of violence in this nation. Nigeria belongs to all of us – Christians, Muslims and members of other faiths. No amount of intimidation can Change this time-honoured arrangement in this nation.  C.A.N. may no longer be able to contain our restive youths should this ugly trend continue."
 * (Statement issued in his capacity as President, Christian Association of Nigeria, February 2006, "on the ugly development of renewed religious fanaticism in this country")

 * "The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality."
 * (Communique on the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2006
 * The 2006 Bill, as well as criminalising same-sex marriage, also proposed to criminalise "Registration of Gay Clubs, Societies and organizations" and "Publicity, procession and public show of same-sex amorous relationship through the electronic or print media physically, directly, indirectly or otherwise", on penalty of up to 5 years imprisonment.

 * "We remind our churches to maintain the emphasis on the war against indecent dressing"
 * (Pastoral Letter September 2006)

 * "Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome.  Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England."
 * (Interview in Christianity Today, October 2006)

 * "Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility."
 * (Interview in The New York Times, 25 December 2006)

 * "Homosexuality seeks to destroy marriage as we know it, unity as we know it, family life as we know it, so how can we endorse that? That is completely outside what God planned for humanity. When God created man, he saw man was alone and added a female mate for him. Why didn't he pick one of the baboons, one of the lions to make his partner? He could have done so. He didn't. Homosexuality is nothing short of sinning against God with impunity as you are going against his will.  Homosexuality is wrong, it's from the devil."
 * (Interview in The Christian Science Monitor, 8 January 2007)

 * "Whoever God is calling to govern must put God first, must know the people, must know what their aspirations are, must know what their needs are and address those needs. In that way they will be blessed, they will rejoice and God too will be honoured."
 * (Interview in the Guardian newspaper, 24 January 2007)

 * "He will do what we tell him."
 * (To another Primate at Dromantine in 2005, about the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Reported in the Guardian, 14 January 2007)

 * "I was shocked to my marrow the very first time I heard the Church is saying a man can marry a man. What?  It is from that shock, that surprise, how is that possible?  Is it a kind of experiment or something?  They are sick or tired of normal heterosexual relationships?  How could that be?"
 * (Interview in The Times, 5 July 2007)

Associated quotations

 * "This Conference:... (3) recognises that there are among us persons who experience themselves as having a homosexual orientation. Many of these are members of the Church and are seeking the pastoral care, moral direction of the Church, and God's transforming power for the living of their lives and the ordering of relationships. We commit ourselves to listen to the experience of homosexual persons and we wish to assure them that they are loved by God and that all baptised, believing and faithful persons, regardless of sexual orientation, are full members of the Body of Christ; (4) while rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture, calls on all our people to minister pastorally and sensitively to all irrespective of sexual orientation and to condemn irrational fear of homosexuals"
 * (Resolution 1.10 on Human Sexuality, Lambeth Conference 1988.)

 * "The victimisation or diminishment of human beings whose affections happen to be ordered towards people of the same sex is anathema to us."
 * (Statement of the Primates of the Anglican Communion at Dromantine, February 2005)

Criticism

 * "The archbishop's support for this law [the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2006, see above] violates numerous Anglican Communion documents that call for a "listening process" involving gay Christians and their leaders. But his contempt for international agreements also extends to Articles 18-20 of the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which articulates the rights to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, association and assembly. Surprisingly, few voices -- Anglican or otherwise -- have been raised in opposition to the archbishop. When I compare this silence with the cacophony that followed the Episcopal Church's decision to consecrate the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, a gay man who lives openly with his partner, as the bishop of New Hampshire, I am compelled to ask whether the global Christian community has lost not only its backbone but its moral bearings."
 * (John Chane, Bishop of Washington)

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