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Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American Realist painter, best remembered for his eerily realistic depictions of solitude in contemporary American life. Sales of his prolific output were managed by his wife Josephine Hopper.

Quotes of Edward Hopper

 * sorted chronologically, after date of the quotes of Edward Hopper

1905 - 1910

 * Paris is a very graceful and beautiful city, almost too formal and sweet to the taste after the raw disorder of New York. Everything seems to have been planned with the purpose of forming a most harmonious whole, which certainly has been done.. .Every street here is alive with all sorts of conditions of people, priests, nuns, students, and always the little soldiers with wide red pants.
 * Quote in Hopper's letter to his mother, Paris, October 30, 1906; as cited in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 13

 * The people here in fact seem to live in the streets, which are alive from morning until night, not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the 'long-green', but with a pleasure-loving crowd that doesn’t care what it does or where it goes, so that it has a good time.
 * Edward Hopper, in a letter to his mother, Paris, October 30, 1906; as quoted in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 14

 * Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' and let himself loose.. .Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part..  ..perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts..  ..the parade of the queens of the halls [Paris’ markets] is also one of the events..  ..Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects – perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastly white in the sunlight.
 * In a letter to his mother, Paris, May 11, 1907; as quoted in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 27

 * The killing of the horses [a bullfight in Madrid, he visited in June 1910] by the bull is very horrible, much more so as they have no chance to escape and are ridden up to the bull to be butchered.. ..the entry of the bull into the ring however is very beautiful; his surprise and the first charges he makes are very pretty.
 * Quote of Hopper's letter to his sister, June 9, 1910; as cited in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 23

 * It seemed awful crude and raw here when I got back [after his return from his third and last trip to Europe, in 1910]. It took me ten years to get over Europe.
 * In a letter to his mother, c. 1910; as quoted in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 27

1911 - 1940

 * The idea [for his painting 'Room in New York', he painted in 1932] had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live [Washington Square, New York] although it’s no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.
 * Quoted in 'Such a Life', 'Life', 102; August 1935, p. 48

 * I was always interested in architecture, but the editors [of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper] wanted people waving with their arms.
 * In: 'Wake of the News, Washington Square North Boasts Strangers Worth Talking to', by Archer Winston, 'New York Post', November 26, 1935

 * So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.
 * Quote in Hopper's letter to Charles H. Sawyer, October 29, 1939; as cited in Edward Hopper, Lloyd Goodrich; New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1971, p. 164

 * I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.
 * Letter to Charles Sawyer of Addison Gallery of Art October 19, 1939

Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)

 * Quotes of Edward Hopper, from his text: Notes on Painting, (1933), for the catalog of his exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (later published in 'Reality Magazine', 1953 (the text of his former statement is read aloud by Hopper himself as start of an interview, 17 June 1959, conducted by John D. Morse], for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute)

 * My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.

 * If this end is unattainable, so, it can be said, is perfection in any other ideal of painting or in any other of man's activities.

 * The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

 * One must perhaps qualify this statement and say that seemingly opposite tendencies each contain some modicum of the other. I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

 * The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.

 * I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds..

 * I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. I find any digression from this large aim leads me to boredom.

 * The domination of France in the plastic arts has been almost complete for the last thirty years or more in this country [America]. If an apprenticeship to a master has been necessary, I think we have served it. Any further relation of such a character can only mean humiliation to us. After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

 * It is true that the Impressionists perhaps gave a more faithful representation of nature through their discoveries in out-of-door painting. But that they increased their statute as artists by so doing is controversial.. .If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

 * There may come, or perhaps has come, a time when no further progress in truthful representation is possible. There are those who say that such a point has been reached, an attempt to substitute a more and more simplified and decorative calligraphy. This direction is sterile and without hope to those who wish to give painting a richer and more human meaning and a wider scope. No one can correctly forecast the direction that painting will take in the next few years, but to me at least there seems to be a revulsion against the invention of arbitrary and stylized design.

 * There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
 * Alfred Barr & Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition Museum of Modern Art New York 1933

1941 - 1967

 * Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality.
 * Quoted by Selden Rodman, in'Conversations with Artists, Capricorn Books, New York, 1961

 * I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.
 * quoted by Floyd Goodrich, in Edward Hopper, H. Abrams, New York 1971

 * It is hard for me to know what to paint. It comes slowly.
 * quoted by Gail Levin in 'Edward Hopper - an intimate biography' (1995)

 * It takes a long time for an idea to strike.
 * quoted by Sheena Wagstaff 'Edward Hopper', Tate Publishing (2004)

 * The whole answer is there on the canvas.
 * Hopper's answer to journalists - quoted by Sherry Maker, in 'Edward Hopper' (1990)

 * The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing.
 * Hopper's answer to journalists -quoted by Avis Berman in 'Hopper, the Supreme American Realist of the 20th Century' Smithsonian Magazine June 2007

 * All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.
 * Comment on his 'Early Sunday Morning' (1930)

 * The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
 * In: 'statement by the Chairman of the Jury', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1951, p. 7

 * I wish I could paint more.. .I do dozens of sketches for oils..  ..if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.
 * Quote in 'Travelling Man', Time January 1948

 * I could just go a few steps [from the house where he stayed in Paris in 1906- 1907] and I'd see the Louvre across the river. From the corner of the Rue de Bac and Lille (sic) you could see Sacré-Coeur. It hung like a great vision in the air above the city.
 * In: 'Portrait: Edward Hopper', Brian O'Doherty, 'Art in America', 1952 (December 1964), p. 73

 * The only real influence I have had was myself.
 * Recognition does not mean so much, you never get it when you need it.
 * 2 Quotes in 'The Silent Witness', Time, December 24, 1956

 * I am after ME [his response on the question what he was after, in his sober painting in 1963 'Sun in an empty room'.
 * In: 'Portrait: Edward Hopper', Brian O'Doherty, 'Art in America', 1952 (December 1964), p. 79

 * Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.. .The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm.
 * In: 'Statements by Four artists', Edward Hopper, in 'Reality' 1., Spring 1953, p. 8

 * Partly through choice, I was never willing to hire out more than three days a week [making illustrations for the magazines to support himself, c. 1912] I kept some time to do my own work. Illustrating was a depressing experience. And I didn't get very good prices because I didn't often do what they wanted.
 * Quote in: 'Edward Hopper: The Emptying Spaces', Suzanne Burrey; in 'Art Digest', April 1, 1955 pp. 8 - 10

 * After I took up etchings [c. 1915], my paintings seemed to crystallize.
 * In: 'Edward Hopper: The Emptying Spaces', Suzanne Burrey; in 'Árt Digest', April 1, 1955 p. 10

 * It is a woman looking out to see if the weather is good enough to hang out her wash.
 * Josephine Hopper remarking on her husband's painting 'Cape Cod morning', 1950
 * Did I say that? You're making it Norman Rockwell. From my point of view she's just looking out the window, just looking out the window.
 * Edward Hopper's reply
 * In: 'Gold for Gold', 'Time', (Josephine Hopper and Edward Hopper together interviewed) 30 May, 1955, p. 72

 * Just to paint a representation or design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends to direct the thought. The more you punt on canvas the more you lose control of the thought. I’ve never been able to paint what I set out to paint.
 * In: Three Hundred Years of American Painting, Alexander Eliot; New York: Time Inc., 1957, p. 298

 * They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
 * Interview in the late 1950's, Katherine Kuh and Avis Berman ed., in 'My Love Affair With Modern Art', New York 2006, p.276; as quoted in 'The Artist’s Voice', Katharine Kuh, New York and Evanston 1962, p.135
 * Hopper qualified his early Paris sketches, by adding that these sketches were direct, about the 'immediate impression', while being very much concerned to represent with representing depth

 * Well, I have a very simple method of painting. It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method. It's very simple.. .Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer..  .I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
 * In: 'Oral history interview with Edward Hopper' (1959, June 17), conducted by John Morse; 'Archives of American Art', Smithsonian Institution

 * [about his painting 'Approaching a CityWell' Hopper painted in 1946:] I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. There is a certain fear and anxiety and a great visual interest in the things that one sees coming into a great city. I think that's about all I can say about it.
 * In: 'Oral history interview with Edward Hopper' (1959, June 17), conducted by John Morse; 'Archives of American Art', Smithsonian Institution

 * Though I studied with Robert Henri, I was never a member of the Ash-Can School. You see, it had a sociological trend which didn't interest me. [Hopper then proceeded to inform Kuh that his work contained no social content whatsoever!]
 * In: 'Edward Hopper' (1962), Katherine Kuh, in 'The Artist's Voice: Interviews with Artists' New York: Harper and Row, 1962:140

 * It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
 * In: an interview with Aline Saarinen, 'Sunday Show', NBC-TV 1964, transcript, p. 3
 * Hopper’s respond on a comment of an interviewer about the 'lack of communication' in his painting art

 * Ninety percent of them [artists in general] are forgotten ten minutes after they’re dead.
 * In: a letter to Margaret McKellar, 14 November 1965; as quoted in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984

 * In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
 * In: 'How Edward Hopper Saw the Light', by Joseph Phelan, at Artcyclopedia online
 * Hopper quoted this from Ralph Waldo Emerson's book Self Reliance, the book he loved throughout his life

posthumous

 * To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
 * 'Edward Hopper in Saõ Paulo', as cited by William C. Seitz, Smithsonian Press, Washington D.C., 1967

 * Sloan [American colleague artist who started his art by making etchings, c. 1920] not having been abroad [in contrary to Hopper himself], has seen these things with a truer and fresher eye than most.. .The hard early training has given to Sloan a facility and a power of invention that the pure painter seldom achieves.
 * In: 'Joan Sloan' Hopper', p. 172; as quoted in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 39

 * At Gloucester [village at the sea where Hopper with his wife Jo had married and stayed during the summer of 1924] when everyone else would be painting ships and the waterfront I'd just go around looking at houses (watercolor: 'Haskell's house', 1924). It is a solid looking town. The roofs are very bold, the cornices bolder. The dormers cast very positive shadows. The sea captain influence I guess – the boldness of ships.
 * In an interview with William Johnson, p. 17; as quoted in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 46

 * [on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others':] I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them [his chosen subjects] to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.
 * In: 'Edward Hopper', Goodrich; p. 152; as quoted in "Edward Hopper", Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 52

Quotes about Edward Hopper

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 * The element of silence that seems to pervade every one of his [Hopper’s] major works.. ..can almost be deadly, as in [his] 'Room in New York' [painted in 1932]..
 * Quote of Charles Burchfield (a friend and fellow painter), in: 'Hopper,: Career of Silent Poetry', Charles Burchfield, Art News’ 49 – March 1931, p. 14-17

 * I got over there [to show her watercolors in the Brooklyn Museum, in Fall of 1913] and they liked the stuff and I started writing and talking about Edward Hopper, my neighbor [the museum accepted six of him for the exhibition where they hung next to Jo's [Hopper's wife] watercolors]) .. ..they knew him as an etcher, but they didn't know he did watercolors..  ..he carried my stuff when the time came..  ..didn't have me hauling them through the subway – what a sorry sight I'd have made.
 * Quote of Jo [Josephine Verstille Nivison] Hopper, from an interview together with Edward by Arlene Jacobwitz, at the Brooklyn Museum, April 29, 1966; as quoted in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 46

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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (1811) is a novel by Jane Austen, the first of her novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady." The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. Because Norland is passed down to their half-brother John, the product of Mr. Dashwood's first marriage, and his young son, the four Dashwood women need to look for a new home.

Quotes

 * They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
 * Chapter 1

 * No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs John Dashwood [...] arrived with her child and their attendants.
 * Chapter 1

 * He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
 * Chapter 1

 * [...] people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them.
 * Chapter 2

 * He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave every indication of an open, affectionate heart.
 * Chapter 3

 * Brandon is just the kind of man [...] whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.
 * Chapter 10
 * Yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
 * Chapter 11

 * [...] mindful of the feelings of others; and much was said on the subject of rain by both of them [to change topic].
 * Chapter 12

 * To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
 * Chapter 13

 * The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
 * Chapter 13

 * Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby.
 * Chapter 16

 * I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
 * Chapter 17
 * Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.
 * Chapter 17

 * Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.
 * Chapter 19

 * Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing...
 * Chapter 21

 * As it was impossible however now to prevent their coming, Lady Middleton resigned herself to the idea of it, with all the philosophy of a well bred woman, contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject five or six times every day.
 * Chapter 21

 * In spite of the absolute necessity of their returning to fulfil them immediately, which was in full force at the end of every week, they were prevailed on to stay nearly two months [...].
 * Chapter 24

 * Sir John was delighted; for to a man, whose prevailing anxiety was the dread of being alone, the acquisition of two, to the number of inhabitants in London, was something.
 * Chapter 25
 * Her mind did become settled, but it was settled in a gloomy dejection. She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart...
 * Chapter 32

 * There was a kind of cold hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of understanding.
 * Chapter 34

 * Nothing gave any symptom of that indigence [...] – no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared – but there, the deficiency was considerable.
 * Chapter 34

 * [...] a punctuality not very agreeable to their sister-in-law, who [...] was then hoping for some delay on their part that might inconvenience either herself or her coachman.
 * Chapter 36

 * Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
 * Chapter 36

 * Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.
 * Chapter 37

 * I did not then know what it was to love [...] had I really loved, could I have sacrificed my feelings to vanity, to avarice?
 * Chapter 44

 * His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
 * Chapter 47

 * I suppose you know, ma'am, that Mr. Ferrars is married.
 * Chapter 47

 * [...] an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.
 * Chapter 50

About Sense and Sensibility

 * No indeed, I am never too busy to think of S & S. I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.
 * Letter 70, Jane Austen's Letters to Her Sister Cassandra and Others, ed. R. W. Chapman, 2nd edn (London: Oxford University Press, 1952; repr. 1979), p. 272.

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Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto (born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo. He is the creator of video game franchises such as Mario and ''The Legend of Zelda.

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 * Challenge for the player is the most important thing. In the Mario games for example, the player can go back and try to finish the game without collecting a single coin. I think great video games are like favorite playgrounds, places you become attached to and go back to again and again. Wouldn't it be great to have a whole drawer full of "playgrounds" right at your fingertips?
 * "The Man Behind Mario", The Nintendo Mario Mania Player's Guide [1991]

 * A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.
 * Source: Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto Eurogamer.net, published on 31 March 2010

 * I could make Halo. It's not that I couldn't design that game. It's just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.
 * Source

 * A game that keeps a smile on the player's face is a wonderful thing. Nintendo's theme for 2006 will be "Create new fun". Spread the fun of games to everyone. To do this, we must return to the beginning, to recapture the essence that made people who enjoy games even now enjoy them in the first place.
 * Source: Famitsu

 * Any new media or industry that grows rapidly is going to be criticized. That's just because the older, more established media have been around, and a lot of adults can be very conservative. They may not have an open mind to new things that weren't around when they were growing up, and are replacing the things they grew up with... over the years I've seen this standard image of a child playing a video game in which the child is alone in a darkened room, with his face very close to the TV, with the light of the TV reflecting off his face, holding the controller and just staring at the TV. I'd really like to be able to change that image of video games into something that's a little more positive.
 * Source: Gamasutra.com (members only)

 * Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. When I am a child, creating, I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.
 * Source: Next Generation Magazine

 * I don't know what Mario will look like next; maybe he will wear metallic clothing with a red hat.
 * 1991, before the release of Super Mario 64.

 * I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.
 * Source: Digital Trends

 * The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.
 * Source: USA Today

 * What if everything that you see, is more than what you see? The person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it or accept that there is more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.
 * Source: Nintendo Power

 * Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.
 * Source:

 * So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.
 * Source

 * It isn't about "games", for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself.
 * Source: GDC 2011

 * When we’re doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.
 * Source:

 * If you release a game in a bad state, you will always regret it.
 * Source: 2016 Interview about Star Fox Zero with TheJWittz at 11:15Text quote

 * I think the first is that a game needs a sense of accomplishment. And you have to have a sense that you have done something, so that you get a sense of satisfaction of completing something. When I approach the design of my games, what I have to think about is how I'm showing a situation to a player, conveying to them what they're supposed to do. In Mario you keep going to the right to reach your end goal. In Donkey Kong you keep climbing up to rescue the captured princess. The last is the immersive quality of the game being able to feel it's a world you're immersed in, that you've become a hero. That you've become brave. Even if you're actually crying.
 * How the inventor of Mario designs a game - Vox January 12, 2017

On Wii

 * Controller is so intuitive, even your mom can play.
 * Source: E3 2006

 * I would say the games that we're working on now, like the new Zelda: Twilight Princess, have hardcore content. And if you look at the Revolution's controllers, there's a nunchaku-style controller expansion that's really well suited to first-person shooters.
 * Source: 2006 Issue of Maxim (Note: "Revolution" was the working name for the Wii)

 * Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory [to store data such as games and photos] and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.
 * Source: November 16, 2006 Business Week interview

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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a senator and member of the House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. John Quincy Adams was the son of former President John Adams and Abigail Adams.

As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in negotiating key treaties, most notably the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812. As secretary of state, he negotiated with Britain over the United States' northern border with Canada, negotiated with Spain the annexation of Florida, and drafted the Monroe Doctrine.

Quotes

 * I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
 * Letter to his father, John Adams (1 August 1816), referring to the popular phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong!" based upon Stephen Decatur's famous statement "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong." The Latin phrase is one that can be translated as : "Let justice be done though heaven should fall" or "though heaven perish".

 * All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
 * Journal entry (January 1819)

 * There is one principle which pervades all the institutions of this country, and which must always operate as an obstacle to the granting of favors to new comers. This is a land, not of privileges, but of equal rights. Privileges are granted by European sovereigns to particular classes of individuals, for purposes of general policy; but the general impression here is that privileges granted to one denomination of people, can very seldom be discriminated from erosions of the rights of others. [ Immigrants], coming here, are not to expect favors from the governments. They are to expect, if they choose to become citizens, equal rights with those of the natives of the country. They are to expect, if affluent, to possess the means of making their property productive, with moderation, and with safety;—if indigent, but industrious, honest and frugal, the means of obtaining easy and comfortable subsistence for themselves and their families. They come to a life of independence, but to a life of labor—and, if they cannot accommodate themselves to the character, moral, political, and physical, of this country, with all its compensating balances of good and evil, the Atlantic is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers.
 * Letter written as Secretary of State under President James Monroe (1819), as quoted in "What John Quincy Adams Said About Immigration Will Blow Your Mind" by D.C. McAllister, in The Federalist (18 August 2014)

 * The discussion of this Missouri question has betrayed the secret of their souls. In the abstract they admit that slavery is an evil, they disclaim it, and cast it all upon the shoulder of…Great Britain. But when probed to the quick upon it, they show at the bottom of their souls pride and vainglory in their condition of masterdom. They look down upon the simplicity of a Yankee’s manners, because he has no habits of overbearing like theirs and cannot treat negroes like dogs. It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
 * From the private journal of Secretary of State Adams (1820)

 * Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary... The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.
 * Diary entry (1820), as quoted in The Diary of John Quincy Adams (1951), by John Quincy Adams, Scribner's Sons, New York, p. 228-229

 * Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
 * Letter to James Lloyd (1 October 1822)

 * This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.
 * Epitaph for John Adams (1829), inscribed on one of the portals of the United First Parish Church Unitarian (Church of the Presidents), Quincy

Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
 * In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST : TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
 * Passage on Muhammad by an anonymous author in The American Annual Register for the Years 1827-8-9 (1830), edited by, Ch. X, p. 269. Robert Spencer attributed the authorship to Adams in  (2005), p. 83, but provided no clear documentation as to why this attribution was made.
 * J. Q. Adams acknowledged authorship for his chapters in The American Annual Register in his diary, entry for April 9, 1830.

 * The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this — it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity.
 * Letter to an autograph collector (identified: "Washington, 27th April, 1837"), published in The Historical Magazine 4:7 (July 1860), pp. 193-194; this became slightly misquoted by John Wingate Thornton in The Pulpit of The American Revolution (1860): "The highest glory of the American Revolution, said John Quincy Adams, was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity".

 * Why is it that, next to the birth day of the Saviour of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? … Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birth-day of the Saviour? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the corner stone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfilment of the prophecies, announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Saviour and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?
 * Newburyport Oration (4 July 1837)

 * In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
 * Letter to A. Bronson (30 July 1838); a similar idea was later more famously expressed by Abraham Lincoln, "With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right".

 * 30th [June 1841]. Morning visit from John Ross, chief of the Cherokee Nation, with Vann and Benn, two others of the delegation. Ross had written to request an interview with me for them on my appointment as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. I was excused from that service at my own request, from a full conviction that its only result would be to keep a perpetual harrow upon my feelings, with a total impotence to render any useful service. The policy, from Washington to myself, of all the Presidents of the United States had been justice and kindness to the Indian tribes—to civilize and preserve them. With the Creeks and Cherokees it had been eminently successful. Its success was their misfortune. The States within whose borders their settlements were took the alarm, broke down all the treaties which had pledged the faith of the nation. Georgia extended her jurisdiction over them, took possession of their lands, houses, cattle, furniture, negroes, and drove them out from their own dwellings. All the Southern States supported Georgia in this utter prostration of faith and justice; and Andrew Jackson, by the simultaneous operation of fraudulent treaties and brutal force, consummated the work. The Florida War is one of the fruits of this policy, the conduct of which exhibits one (un)interrupted scene of the most profligate corruption. All resistance against this abomination is vain. It is among the heinous sins of this nation, for which I believe God will one day bring them to judgement—but as His own time and by His own means.
 * Diary entry (30 June 1841)

Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still would want for more.''
 * ''My wants are many, and, if told,
 * The Wants of Man, stanza 1, published in The Quincy Patriot (25 September 1841)

The ensigns of command, Charged by the people's unbought grace, To rule my native land. '''Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask But from my country's will, By day, by night, to ply the task Her cup of bliss to fill.'
 * ''I want the seals of power and place,
 * The Wants of Man, stanza 22 (25 September 1841)

 * The Constitution of the United States recognizes the slaves, held within some of the States of the Union, only in their capacity of persons — persons held to labor or service in a State under the laws thereof — persons constituting elements of representation in the popular branch of the National Legislature — persons, the migration or importation of whom should not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808. The Constitution no where recognizes them as property. The words slave and slavery are studiously excluded from the Constitution. Circumlocutions are the fig-leaves under which these parts of the body politic are decently concealed. Slaves, therefore, in the Constitution of the United States are recognized only as persons, enjoying rights and held to the performance of duties.
 * Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States, p. 39

 * We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.
 * Remarks to "the colored people of Pittsburge, Pennsylvania" in 1843, as quoted in History of the Rebellion : Its Authors and Causes (1864) by Joshua Reed Giddings; Alabama Representative Dellet quoted the speech in the House of Representatives and added "though it cost the blood of thousands of white men?" Adams replied Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

 * The duties of man consist in alternate action and meditation, mutually aiding and relieving each other; and both, directed with undeviating aim, to the progressive improvement of himself and his fellow creatures. Heaven has given him in charge, to promote the happiness and well-being of himself, his wife, his children, his kindred, his neighbors, his fellow citizens, his country, and his kind; and the great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community, that this gradation of duties, may be made to harmonize in all its parts — that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.
 * "Society and Civilization" in the American Review (July 1845)

 * To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
 * Report on the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution (c. 1846)

For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.
 * This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
 * Written in an Album (1842)l compare: "Manus haec inimica tyrannis / Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem", Algernon Sidney, From the Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney.

 * The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation.
 * Journal of John Quincy Adams (11 December 1838),

Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. '''Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth be found.'
 * ''Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize
 * Poem

 * I told him that I thought it was law logic — an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
 * Diary record of a comment made by Adams to John Marshall, Charles Francis Adams, Memoirs of John Quincy Adams : Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 (1875), p. 372

 * All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
 * Letter to William Eustis (22 June 1809), published in Writings of John Quincy, Adams (1914), The Macmillan company.

 * This is the last of Earth! I am content.
 * Last words (21 February 1848)

 * ''La molesse est doce, et sa suite est cruelle.
 * Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
 * Attributed as a diary entry, as quoted in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1992) by Suzy Platt

Oration at Plymouth (1802)

 * Adams' commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims (22 December 1802)

 * Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers, and of love for our posterity. They form the connecting links between the selfish and the social passions. By the fundamental principle of Christianity, the happiness of the individual is Later-woven, by innumerable and imperceptible ties, with that of his contemporaries: by the power of filial reverence and parental affection, individual existence is extended beyond the limits of individual life, and the happiness of every age is chained in mutual dependence upon that of every other.

 * Respect for his ancestors excites, in the breast of man, interest in their history, attachment to their characters, concern for their errors, involuntary pride in their virtues. Love for his posterity spurs him to exertion for their support, stimulates him to virtue for their example, and fills him with the tenderest solicitude for their welfare. Man, therefore, was not made for himself alone. No; he was made for his country, by the obligations of the social compact: he was made for his species, by the Christian duties of universal charity: he was made for all ages past, by the sentiment of reverence for his forefathers; and he was made for all future times, by the impulse of affection for his progeny. Under the influence of these principles, "Existence sees him spurn her bounded reign." They redeem his nature from the subjection of time and space: he is no longer a "puny insect shivering at a breeze;" he is the glory of creation, formed to occupy all time and all extent: bounded, during his residence upon earth, only by the boundaries of the world, and destined to life and immortality in brighter regions, when the fabric of nature itself shall dissolve and perish.
 * He here quotes statements made about William Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson, and then one made in reference to Timon by Alexander Pope in Moral Essays.

 * The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings — "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity."
 * He here is translating a phrase of Calgacus in Vita Agricolae by Tacitus : Et majores et posteros cogitate.

 * Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.
 * In recent years this has often been misquoted as: "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish".

 * Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction. Our age is too enlightened to contend upon topics, which concern only the interests of eternity; and men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a common-place censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however aggrieved by the intolerance of others, they were alike intolerant themselves. Against these objections, your candid judgment will not require an unqualified justification; but your respect and gratitude for the founders of the State may boldly claim an ample apology. The original grounds of their separation from the church of England, were not objects of a magnitude to dissolve the bonds of communion; much less those of charity, between Christian brethren of the same essential principles.

Independence Day address (1821)

 * Adams' address as Secretary of State to the U.S. House of Representatives. (4 July 1821)

 * And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

 * America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet on her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world; she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit. . . . Her glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

Oration on Lafayette (1834)

 * Oration before the US Congress on the character of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (31 December 1834)

 * Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice. Try him by that test to which he sought in vain to stimulate the vulgar and selfish spirit of Napoleon; class him among the men who, to compare and seat themselves, must take in the compass of all ages; turn back your eyes upon the records of time; summon from the creation of the world to this day the mighty dead of every age and every clime — and where, among the race of merely mortal men, shall one be found, who, as the benefactor of his kind, shall claim to take precedence of Lafayette?

Lafayette discovered no new principle of politics or of morals. He invented nothing in science. He disclosed no new phenomenon in the laws of nature. Born and educated in the highest order of feudal Nobility, under the most absolute Monarchy of Europe, in possession of an affluent fortune, and master of himself and of all his capabilities at the moment of attaining manhood, the principle of republican justice and of social equality took possession of his heart and mind, as if by inspiration from above. He devoted himself, his life, his fortune, his hereditary honors, his towering ambition, his splendid hopes, all to the cause of liberty. He came to another hemisphere to defend her. He became one of the most effective champions of our Independence; but, that once achieved, he returned to his own country, and thenceforward took no part in the controversies which have divided us. In the events of our Revolution, and in the forms of policy which we have adopted for the establishment and perpetuation of our freedom, Lafayette found the most perfect form of government. He wished to add nothing to it.
 * There have doubtless been, in all ages, men, whose discoveries or inventions, in the world of matter or of mind, have opened new avenues to the dominion of man over the material creation; have increased his means or his faculties of enjoyment; have raised him in nearer approximation to that higher and happier condition, the object of his hopes and aspirations in his present state of existence.

 * When the principle of hereditary dominion shall be extinguished in all the institutions of France; when government shall no longer be considered as property transmissible from sire to son, but as a trust committed for a limited time, and then to return to the people whence it came; as a burdensome duty to be discharged, and not as a reward to be abused; when a claim, any claim, to political power by inheritance shall, in the estimation of the whole French people, be held as it now is by the whole people of the North American Union — then will be the time for contemplating the character of Lafayette, not merely in the events of his life, but in the full development of his intellectual conceptions, of his fervent aspirations, of the labors and perils and sacrifices of his long and eventful career upon earth; and thenceforward, till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of Lafayette shall stand enrolled upon the annals of our race, high on the list of the pure and disinterested benefactors of mankind.

Letter to the 12th Congressional District (1839)

 * The first steps of the slaveholder to justify by argument the peculiar instutitions is to deny the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence. He denies that all men are created equal. He denies that he has inalienable rights.
 * As quoted in letter to the citizens of the twelfth congressional district (29 June 1839), The Hingham Patriot, MA. As quoted in Thomas Huges Rare and Early Newspaper catalog, No. 141

Disputed

 * The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.
 * in The American Annual Register for the Years 1827–8–9 (New-York: E. & G. W. Blunt, 1830), Chapter X, p. 274

Misattributed

 * Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
 * Attributed in The Rebirth of a Nation : With a Bill of Rights for America's Third Century (1978) by Robert S. Minor, p. 10; this is a paraphrase of a statement by his father John Adams in a letter to his mother Abigail Adams (27 April 1777): "Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it".

Quotes about Adams

 * Opposition to the slaveholding interests was led by the Massachusetts representative and former president of the United States, John Quincy Adams. He not only denounced slavery, but advanced progressive views on the right of women to engage in political activity.
 * Bettina Aptheker Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982)

 * John Quincy Adams, born in 1767, was the last surviving American leader with strong ties to America’s founding: As a young diplomat he had been praised and respected by Washington, Jefferson, and Madison; under President Monroe he had been one of America’s greatest secretaries of state (perhaps the greatest). Though party politics had undermined the goals of his own presidency, as an aging congressman he led the ultimately successful nine-year battle against Southerners to defeat the House of Representatives’ “gag rule” against the reception of antislavery petitions. In the midst of this battle, Adams served as the key legal adviser to Roger Sherman Baldwin, before becoming the senior defense attorney in the Amistad trial before the U.S. Supreme Court. At ages seventy-three and seventy-four, as Adams fought slavery on two fronts, he exemplified the noblest meaning of the Revolutionary heritage. As he told William Jay, the abolitionist son of the first chief justice, John Jay, the blacks had “vindicated their own right to liberty” by “executing the justice of Heaven” upon a “pirate murderer, their tyrant and oppressor.” Adams’s view that the Africans had freed themselves by “self-emancipation” won surprising support from the Northern press.
 * David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the Americas (2006)
 * Because he was both introspective and uncommonly candid in admitting his own shortcomings, Adams remains the best source for a description of his personality. "I am a man of reserved, cold, austere and forbidding manners," he confided to his diary, "my political adversaries say, a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage. With a knowledge of the actual defect in my character, I have not the pliability to reform it." In a letter to his wife he admitted, "I never was and never shall be what is commonly termed a popular man, being as little qualified by nature, education, or habit for the arts of a courtier as I am desirous of being courted by others... I am certainly not intentionally repulsive in my manners and deportment, and in my public station I never made myself inaccessible to any human being. But I have no powers of fascination; none of the honey which the profligate proverb says is the true fly-catcher. Ironically, a man famous for his cold demeanor was the most successful American diplomat of his time. In the ticklist art of negotiation, Adams assiduously checked his temper and performed the diplomatic amenities.
 * William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), p. 89-90

 * You could walk over to Sen. (Scott) Brown's desk, for example, and find that in the chair before him was Sen. Edward Kennedy, before him was John F. Kennedy, before him Charles Sumner, Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams.
 * Peter Meade, as quoted in Plans For Kennedy Senate Institute Unveiled (28 July 2010)

 * John Quincy Adams may have been gratified by the result, but he, too, was disturbed by the way it had been achieved, through chicanery and cheap political slogans and unchecked hostility between the parties. He considered it "a revolution in the habits and manners of the people," and being an Adams, he worried about what it portended for the future. "Their manifest destiny is to civil war," he concluded glumly. Some -those who won- saw it as the vindication of democracy. But the tawdriness of this campaign, with its false claims and easy sound bites, signaled what Henry Adams would later call the degradation of the democratic dogma. Out on the Illinois prairie, a young friend of Lincoln's, Albert T. Bledsoe, worried that "pandemonium had been let loose upon earth."
 * Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren (2005), p. 139-140

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Abigail Adams

Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and is retrospectively perceived as the second First Lady of the United States; the term was not coined until after she had died. She was also the mother of John Quincy Adams.

Quotes

 * We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
 * Letter to John Adams (1774)

 * I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me — to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
 * Letter to John Adams (24 September 1774)

 * How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.
 * Letter to John Adams (10 July 1775)

 * I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and, like the grave, cries, “Give, give!” The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government. You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.
 * Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775)

 * The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
 * Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775)

 * I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
 * Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775)

 * I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And by the way, in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend. Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity? Men of Sense in all Ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex; regard us then as Beings placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness.
 * Letter to John Adams (31 March 1776), published in Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams (1875) edited by Charles Francis Adams, p. 147

 * Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?
 * Letter to John Adams (7 May 1776)

 * I can not say that I think you very generous to the Ladies, for Whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives. But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken — and notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet.
 * Letter from Abigail to John Adams, Braintree, May, 7, 1776.

 * Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
 * Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776)

 * If you complain of neglect of Education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it? With regard to the Education of my own children, I find myself soon out of my depth, destitute and deficient in every part of Education. I most sincerely wish that some more liberal plan might be laid and executed for the Benefit of the rising Generation, and that our new Constitution may be distinguished for encouraging Learning and Virtue. If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me and accuse me of vanity, But you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early education of youth and the first principles which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
 * Letter to John Adams (14 August 1776)

 * It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
 * Letter to John Thaxter (15 February 1778)

 * I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
 * Letter to John Adams (30 June 1778)

 * If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
 * Letter to John Thaxter (29 September 1778)

 * Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
 * Letter to John Adams (13 February 1779)

 * These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by the scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
 * Letter to John Quincy Adams (19 January 1780)

 * A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
 * Letter to John Adams (1 May 1780)

 * Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
 * Letter to John Quincy Adams (8 May 1780)

 * Patriotism in the female s*x is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence. Even in the freest countries our property is subject to the control and disposal of our partners, to whom the laws have given a sovereign authority. Deprived of a voice in legislation, obliged to submit to those laws which are imposed upon us, is it not sufficient to make us indifferent to the public welfare? Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
 * Letter to John Adams (17 June 1782)

 * I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
 * Letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch (1784)

 * To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
 * Letter to Elizabeth Shaw (1784), quoted in John Adams (2001) by David McCullough, p. 310

 * Knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severly for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
 * Letter to Elizabeth Shaw (20 March 1791)

 * I acknowledge myself a unitarian — Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. … There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
 * Letter to John Quincy Adams (5 May 1816)

 * Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.
 * Last words in a letter to John Adams, as quoted in Famous Last Words (1961) by Barnaby Conrad

 * Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs, which treat us only as the vessels of your sex
 * Cited in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.

 * Do not put such unlimited powers in the hands of the husband, Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
 * Cited in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
 *

Disputed

 * Great necessities call forth great leaders.
 * This seems to first appear in Why Leaders Can't Lead : The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues (1989) by Warren G. Bennis, p. 159, where it is cited as being from a letter to Thomas Jefferson, but it might be a misquote of "Great necessities call out great virtues" stated in a letter to her son John Quincy Adams (19 January 1780)

Quotes about Abigail Adams

 * In the revolution, Mrs. Adams sad to her husband, “It seems to me that while you are struggling for your own liberty, you are not applying the principle universally” — the women and the slaves had been left out. The principle was not applied then, and has not been applied since.
 * Lucy Stone, speech (1858)

 * I had always resented the pains that militant suffragists took to belittle the work that woman had done in the past in the world, picturing her as a meek and prostrate "doormat." They refused, I felt, to pay proper credit to the fine social and economic work that women had done in the building of America. And in 1909, after we took over the American Magazine, I burst out with a series of studies of leading American women from the Revolution to the Civil War, including such stalwarts as Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams, Esther Reed, Mary Lyon, Catharine Beecher, the fighting antislavery leaders-not omitting two for whom I had warm admiration, if I was not in entire agreement with them, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

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Talk:Knowledge

Why the hell Britney Spears-like stuff reside here?

Shouldn't this page contain quotes on the concept "knowledge" itself?

Source of quote
"The more you know, the more you realise that you know nothing." - Unknown I have seen a simillar quote in the Talmud. Thought the wording would be more likely be translated to, "The more you learn, the more you realise how little you learnt." 220.233.48.200 18:53, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

This is ancient Greek long before the goyim loving Talmud was concipated or constipated which ever. Socrates a.p. Plato

Quotes from Rabbi Schneerson
Some quotes from him should be on this page, after all Education and Sharing Day is dedicated to him. Anyone else agree? 220.233.48.200 18:58, 2 January 2006 (UTC

my personal quote about knowledge
Without our comfort we know how to do it better.

Credit where it's due
The quote from "Learning to Fly" by Chris Collison was contributed originally by. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 15:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

 * It was also reformatted by Rmhermen, which is a legitimate contribution to the quote as transferred. (There were other subsequent article changes by others, but none that affected the quote itself.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

use the knowledge
kowledge should express to all to keep improving that. by naaganivethitha.b.r.

Can't access page
I am unable to access the Knowledge page itself - either from the tab at the top or by any other means (was directed there from google) - get an 'unknown file type' error न चोरहार्यं न च राजहार्यंन भ्रातृभाज्यं न च भारकारी । व्यये कृते वर्धते एव नित्यं विद्याधनं सर्वधन प्रधानम् ॥

विद्यारुपी धन को कोई चुरा नहि सकता, राजा ले नहि सकता, भाईयों में उसका भाग नहि होता, उसका भार नहि लगता, (और) खर्च करने से बढता है । सचमुच, विद्यारुप धन सर्वश्रेष्ठ है ।

 * I do not get any error. The problem may be with your local server. BD2412 T 14:25, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Bhartrihari quote
I'm looking for a source for "Knowledge grows when shared." - Bhartrihari and have not been able to find anything. Does anyone know where this is from? --mikeu 13:42, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

reorganization along more standard lines
I might attempt to do a more standard "alphabetized by author or source" breakout on this page, such as exists on the Love and Magic pages within a few weeks. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:31, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Please do: I don't think the chronological arrangement of this article is particularly useful. Although philosophical approaches to Epistemology have evolved along diverse branches over time, its object, knowledge, is a universal theme and many of the quotations are timeless. ~ Ningauble (talk) 14:34, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I obviously never got around to this, but it is a VERY complex cleanup task, which will probably take MUCH of a day, at least, and perhaps after a few more priorities in the next week or two, I will try to make an attempt at it. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:45, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to.

 * Knowledge changes you more than any medication can.
 * Jared Duncan

 * Knowledge grows when shared.
 * Bhartrihari

 * Knowledge is something I should have that if I knew I wouldn't be as ignorant as I am now.
 * Franklin P. Jones

 * Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
 * Nancy Willard

 * The more you know, the more you realise that you know nothing.
 * Socrates

 * The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
 * Albert Einstein

 * There is no wealth like knowledge; no poverty like ignorance.
 * Ali ibn Abi-Talib
 * We all don't know something.
 * Will Rogers
 * You must understand a thing completely before you can safely ignore it.
 * James Geary
 * Gain knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
 * (Prophet Mohammed)
 * "Misdirection is the key to survival. Never attack what your enemy defends. Never behave as your enemy expects and never reveal your true strength. If knowledge is power, then to be unknown is to be unconquerable."
 * David R. George III [Narrator of Romulan Intro in Birth of the Federation, Romulan maxim (DS9 novel: Rough Beasts of Empire)].
 * “Knowledge Management is common sense, but not common practice.”
 * Rob Van der Spek
 * It’s not what you know that gives you power, it’s what you share about what you know that gives you power.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 British-American adventure film and first installment in Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean series. The story depicts an upstanding young blacksmith who enlists the help of an eccentric, dishonest pirate to rescue the beautiful young woman with whom he is in love and who has been kidnapped by cursed, undead pirates. This film is released July 9, 2003 in United States.
 * Directed by Gore Verbinski. Written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio.

Prepare to be blown out of the water. taglines

Captain Jack Sparrow

 * A wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around!
 * Wow. So you're dating a football player?
 * [after a cannonball from the Interceptor blows a hole in the Black Pearl] STOP BLOWING HOLES IN MY SHIP!
 * Gentlemen my lady you'll always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!

Captain Hector Barbossa

 * [to Elizabeth] Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are! We are not among the living, and so we cannot die. But neither are we dead! For too long, I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starvin' to death and haven't died. I feel nothin'. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea, nor the warmth of a woman's flesh. [steps out into the moonlight, revealing his skeletal form] You best start believin' in ghost stories, Miss Turner. You're in one!
 * You're off the edge of the map, mate! Here, there be monsters!
 * [after Jack assumes Barbossa was talking to him] Oh, not you! We named the monkey Jack! [Monkey Jack gives Human Jack a devilish smile]

Dialogue

 * [Jack is trying to get aboard HMS Interceptor at the Port Royal naval docks; two Royal Marines are on guard duty]
 * Murtogg: This dock is off-limits to civilians.
 * Jack Sparrow: I'm terribly sorry, I didn't know. If I see one, I shall inform him immediately. [the pair block Jack's path] Apparently there's some sort of high-toned and fancy to-do up at the fort, eh? How could it be that two upstanding gentlemen, such as yourselves, did not merit an invitation?
 * Murtogg: Someone's got to make sure that this dock stays off-limits to civilians.
 * Sparrow: It's a fine goal, to be sure. But it seems to me... that a ship like that one, makes this one here seem a bit superfluous, really.
 * Murtogg: Oh, the Dauntless is the power in these waters, true enough. But there's no ship as can match the Interceptor for speed.
 * Sparrow: I've heard of one, supposed to be very fast, nigh uncatchable: the Black Pearl.
 * Mullroy: [laughs] Well, there's no real ship as can match the Interceptor.
 * Murtogg: Black Pearl is a real ship.
 * Mullroy: No, it's not.
 * Murtogg: Yes it is, I've seen it.
 * Mullroy: You've seen it?
 * Murtogg: Yes.
 * Mullroy: You haven't seen it.
 * Murtogg: Yes, I have.
 * Mullroy: You've seen the ship with black sails that's crewed by the damned, and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out?
 * Murtogg: No.
 * Mullroy: No.
 * Murtogg: But I have seen a ship with black sails.
 * Mullroy: [sarcastic] Oh, and no ship not crewed by the damned and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out couldn't possibly have black sails, therefore couldn't possibly be any ship other than the Black Pearl, is that what you're saying?
 * Murtogg: [nods] No.
 * Mullroy: Like I said. There's no real ship, as can match the Interceptor... [notices Jack on the ship; he and Murtogg run over and aim their muskets at him] Oi! You! Get away from there! You don't have permission to be aboard there, mate!
 * Jack: I'm sorry, it's just such a pretty boat. Ship!
 * Mullroy: What's your name?
 * Jack: Smith. Or Smithy, if you'd like.
 * Mullroy: What's your purpose in Port Royal, "Mister Smith"?
 * Murtogg: Yeah, and no lies!
 * Jack: All right; I confess. It is my intention to commandeer this ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, and then proceed to raid, pillage, and otherwise pilfer my weasly black guts out.
 * Murtogg: [stunned] I said no lies!
 * Mullroy: ...I think he's telling the truth.
 * Murtogg: If he were telling the truth, he wouldn't have told us.
 * Jack: Unless of course he knew you wouldn't believe the truth, even if he told it to you.

 * James Norrington: Well, well. Jack Sparrow, isn't it?
 * Jack Sparrow: Captain Jack Sparrow, if you please, sir.
 * Norrington: I don't see your ship, Captain.
 * Jack Sparrow: I'm in the market, as it were.
 * Murtogg: He said he's come to commandeer one.
 * Mullroy: Told you he was telling the truth! [hands Norrington Jack's effects] These are his, sir.
 * Norrington: [examines Jack's pistol] No additional shot, nor powder. [opens Jack's compass] A compass that doesn't point north. [partially draws Jack's sword; smirks] And I half-expected it to be made of wood. You are, without doubt, the worst pirate I've ever heard of.
 * Sparrow: But you have heard of me.
 * Elizabeth Swann: Commodore, I really must protest! Pirate or not, this man saved my life.
 * Norrington: One good deed is not enough to save a man from a lifetime of wickedness.
 * Sparrow: Though it seems enough to condemn him.
 * Norrington: Indeed.

 * Elizabeth: Captain Barbossa, I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal.
 * Barbossa: There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?
 * Elizabeth: I want you to leave and never come back.
 * [Barbossa's crew laugh.]
 * Barbossa: I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no".
 * Elizabeth: Very well. I'll drop it. [dangles medallion over the sea]
 * Barbossa: [Nonchalantly at first, then curious] Me holds are burstin' with swag. That bit of shine matters to us? Why?
 * Elizabeth: It's what you've been searching for. I recognize this ship! I saw it eight years ago on the crossing from England!
 * Barbossa: Did ya, now?
 * Elizabeth: Fine. Well, I suppose if it is worthless then there's no point in me keeping it.
 * [she releases the medallion chain briefly, the pirates lunge forward.]
 * Barbossa: No! Ah... You have a name, Missy?
 * Elizabeth: Elizabeth... Turner. I'm a maid in the Governor's household.
 * Barbossa: Miss Turner...?
 * Pintel: [to Raggetti] Bootstrap.
 * Barbossa: And how does a maid come to own a trinket such as that? Family heirloom, perhaps?
 * Elizabeth: [uncertain] I didn't steal it, if that's what you mean.
 * Barbossa: Very well, you hand it over and we'll put your town to our rudder and ne'er return.
 * Elizabeth: [she hands it over] Our bargain?
 * Bo'sun: [after a nod from Barbossa] Still the guns and stow 'em. Signal the men, set the flags and make good to clear port.
 * Elizabeth: Wait! You have to take me to shore. According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren-
 * Barbossa: First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the Code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner!

 * [a woman walks up to Jack]
 * Jack: Scarlet! [she slaps him and storms off] Not sure I deserved that. [another woman approaches] Giselle.
 * Giselle: Who was she?
 * Jack: What? [she slaps him as well] I may have deserved that.

 * Barbossa: There be the chest. Inside be the gold. And we took 'em all. We spent 'em and traded 'em and frittered 'em away on drink and food and pleasurable company. The more we gave 'em away, the more we came to realize, the drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, and all the pleasurable company in the world could not slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were, but now we are consumed by it. There is one way we can end our curse. All the scattered pieces of the Aztec gold must be restored and the blood repaid. Thanks to ye, we have the final piece.
 * Elizabeth: And the blood to be repaid?
 * Barbossa: That's why there's no sense to be killin' ya, yet. Apple?

 * Bo'sun: [to Pintel and Ragetti] You two! You brought us the wrong person!
 * Pintel: No! She had the medallion. She was the proper age!
 * Ragetti: She said her name was Turner. You heard her. I think she lied to us
 * Twigg: You brought us here for nothing!
 * Barbossa: I won't take questions or second guesses, not from the likes of you, Master Twigg.
 * Koehler: Who's to blame? Every decision you've made has led us from bad to worse!
 * Mallot: It was you who sent Bootstrap to the depths!
 * Bo'sun: And it's you who brought us here in the first place! [the cursed crew draw out their weapons and turn them on Barbossa]
 * Barbossa: [drawing his own sword] If any coward here dare challenge me, let him speak! Hmm?
 * [The crew hesitate]
 * Koehler: I say we cut her throat and spill all her blood! Just in case.

 * [HMS Dauntless gets boarded while lying at anchor]
 * Jack Sparrow: Everyone stay calm, we're taking over the ship!
 * Will Turner: AYE! AVAST!
 * Lieutenant Gillette: [after the sailors stop laughing] This ship cannot be crewed by two men. You'll never make it out of the bay.
 * Jack Sparrow: Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy?

 * William Turner: I'm not a simpleton, Jack. You knew my father.
 * Jack Sparrow: I knew him. Probably one of the few who knew him as William Turner. Everyone else just called him "Bootstrap" or "Bootstrap Bill".
 * Turner: "Bootstrap"?
 * Sparrow: Good man, good pirate. I swear you look just like him.
 * Turner: That's not true. He was a merchant sailor, a good and honest man who obeyed the law.
 * Sparrow: He was a bloody pirate! A scallywag.
 * Turner: My father was not a pirate! [threatens Jack with a sword]
 * Sparrow: Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.
 * Turner: You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement! In a fair fight, I'd kill you!
 * Sparrow: Well, that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then, is it? [turns the wheel rapidly, bringing a yard swinging around; Will ends up hanging onto it over the ocean] Now as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention. The only words that really matter are these: what a man can do, an' what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man, or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that someday. Now, me for example. I can let you drown. But I can't bring this ship all the way into Tortuga by me onsie, savvy? So- [swings the wheel again; the yard comes back and Will drops to the deck] Can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?

 * Jack Sparrow: You, sailor.
 * Joshamee Gibbs: Cotton, sir.
 * Sparrow: Mr. Cotton: do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death? ... Mr. Cotton! Answer, man!
 * Gibbs: He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him... no one's yet figured how.
 * Sparrow: Mr. Cotton's... parrot. Same question.
 * Parrot: Rawk! Wind in the sails! Wind in the sails!
 * Gibbs: Mostly, we figure that means "yes".
 * Sparrow: Of course it does. [to Will] Satisfied?
 * Will Turner: Well, you've proven they're mad.

 * Jack: Anamaria. [Anamaria slaps him]
 * Will: I suppose you didn’t deserve that?
 * Jack: No, that one I deserved.
 * Anamaria: You stole my boat!
 * Jack: Actually— [she slaps him again] Borrowed. Borrowed without permission, but with every intention of giving it back.
 * Anamaria: But you didn’t!
 * Jack: You'll get another one.
 * Anamaria: [pointing sharply at Jack] I will.
 * Will: A better one.
 * Jack: A better one!
 * Will: That one.
 * Jack: What one? [Will gestures towards the Interceptor] That one?! [he considers] Aye. That one. What say you?
 * Anamaria: Aye!
 * Crew: Aye!

 * [Elizabeth has destroyed a cache of rum to create a smoke signal]
 * Jack: No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing? You’ve burnt all the food, the shade! The rum!
 * Elizabeth: Yes, the rum is gone!
 * Jack: Why is the rum gone?!
 * Elizabeth: One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for me, do you really think there is even the slightest chance that they won’t see it?
 * Jack: But... why is the rum gone?

 * William Turner: Jack?
 * Hector Barbossa: It's not possible.
 * Jack Sparrow: Not probable.
 * Turner: Where is Elizabeth?
 * Sparrow: She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word, really... except for Elizabeth, who is, in fact, a woman.
 * Barbossa: Shut up! You're next!

 * Hector Barbossa: Jack, I thought I had you figured. But it turns out you're a hard man to predict.
 * Jack Sparrow: Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. I mean honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for. Because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.

 * James Norrington: You forget your place, Turner.
 * William Turner: It's right here. Between you and Jack.
 * Elizabeth Swann: As is mine.
 * Governor Swann: Elizabeth. Lower your weapons. For goodness sake, put them down.
 * James Norrington: So, this is where your heart truly lies, then?
 * Elizabeth Swann: It is.
 * Jack Sparrow: Well! I'm actually feeling rather good about this. I think we all arrived at a very special place eh? Spiritually. Ecumenically. Grammatically. [to Norrington] I want you to know that I was rooting for you, mate. Know that. [to Elizabeth] Elizabeth. It would never have worked out between us, darling. I'm sorry. [to Will] Will. Nice hat. [to all] Gentlemen, this will be the day you will always remember as the day you- [falls off the ledge]

About Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

 * There's a nice little 90-minute B movie trapped inside the 143 minutes of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," a movie that charms the audience and then outstays its welcome.
 * Roger Ebert, in his July 9, 2003 review of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Taglines

 * Prepare to be blown out of the water.
 * Over 3000 Islands of Paradise—For Some it's A Blessing—For Others... It's A Curse.
 * The pirates are coming.Source 1 with text Source 2 with word
 * The curse is unleashed. Now, Jack Sparrow and Will Turner must find a way to stop it. Get ready for the greatest adventure under the sun.Source with word

Cast

 * Johnny Depp - Captain Jack Sparrow
 * Geoffrey Rush - Captain Hector Barbossa
 * Orlando Bloom - William 'Will' Turner
 * Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann
 * Jack Davenport - James Norrington
 * Jonathan Pryce - Governor Weatherby Swann
 * Lee Arenberg - Pintel
 * Mackenzie Crook - Ragetti
 * Damian O'Hare - Lt. Gillette
 * Giles New - Murtogg
 * Angus Barnett - Mullroy


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Talk:John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

I, as well as others, have used bolding to emphasize passages or entire quotations that we find to be especially significant or notable. I do seek to continue to encourage the use of this form of presentation, as I think it can be very useful in drawing the eye to major passages and statements, especially on pages with a great deal of material. It may not be perceived as necessary but I (and, I believe, others as well) do find it appropriate, and useful. (I personally rather dislike the blandness of many pages that have no bolding or other use of typography to draw the attention of the eye to at least some of the more significant statements.)

As I noted in my original comment on this issue last year, I am aware that this could be excessively employed, but the only guideline that I have thus far suggested is that passages that are innately derogatory should not be so emphasized. Even this, though I consider it a good practical guideline, I have not and do not seek to make an absolute rule.

I think bolding is generally preferable to italics for such purposes on electronic pages, because it is more noticeable, and italics have often been used in the original documents or statements— bolding is thus more obviously an editorial addition within Wikiquote. On the rarer occasions where bolding or capitalization is used in the original for emphasis these can be retained or omitted as seems appropriate.

Anyone well acquainted with me would perceive that I am a person who recognizes a need for establishing some useful and convenient rules and guidelines for many procedures, but who strongly prefers that in nearly all endeavors there be a minimum of rules improperly imposed as if they were absolutes, and an avoidance of any rules or actions based upon casual presumptions or unwarranted suppositions. I know that others do, and expect that others will disagree with me on many issues, but hope that relatively minor disputes, or even major ones, will not be seen as indications or causes of enmity. ~ Kalki 00:59, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Kalki, I have to say I disagree. In fact, I find this practice of yours quite annoying. Picking out and highlighting certain quotations, or even a certain phrase within a quotation, is un-encyclopedic. It's only your take on the quotation or the author. Wikiquote is supposed to be a general resource, not your personal chapbook. When I go to a book (or whatever) of quotations, I'll decide for myself what's important or useful. --Michael K. Smith 06:05, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

As you certainly must be aware, as a user here since 2003, this isn't an encyclopedia. It is a collection of quotes. The most fundamental and least controversial utility of bolding is in the emphasis of more famous passages within larger passages that are retained for context, but I have always asserted it should also remain an option for the editors of the pages to emphasize passages they think notable, as well as to select them, and any major disputes that might arise over what should or should not be emphasized resolved by those at work on specific pages, just as what text should or should not be included is. I have always been appalled at any attempts to try establish an imposition of absolute uniformity in the formating of the quotes. I've always thought Ray Bradbury's statement about writing and editing was also quite apt in reference to the practice of quoting, and the art of presenting quotations: "Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme." ~ Kalki 06:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Support. Kalki I agree with your general principles (bolding online, minimum of rules) as well as your specific use of them here.  Most text would benefit with some visual structure.   I found the context of the quotes very helpful, more like you were non-bolding the lesser-known words surrounding the famous phrases, than you were bolding the famous phrases.Bob Stein - VisiBone 04:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

The quotes that are critical of religion are in bold. Typical Wikipedia. 86.45.226.161 17:56, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Where's the Power and Corruption?
I wanted to link more directly to Acton's uber-famous (IMO) quote, on power and corruption. The closest I could get was this very coarse link http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton%2C_1st_Baron_Acton#Sourced Perhaps a more fleshed-out, finer-grained contents section would help? Bob Stein - VisiBone 04:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced
The following quotes were placed in the section for The History of Freedom in Antiquity, but none may be found in this work. I've moved them here until they can be properly sourced.

 * It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State — ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios— burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man … and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.

 * Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

 * Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned — the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.


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