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Pitch Black (film)

Pitch Black is a 2000 science-fiction film about a group of travellers who find themselves stuck on a hostile planet after their ship crashes.
 * Directed by David Twohy. Written by David Twohy, Jim Wheat and Ken Wheat.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Be afraid of what's in the dark. (taglines)

Richard B. Riddick

 * They say most of your brain shuts down in cryosleep. All but the primitive side... the animal side. No wonder I'm still awake. Transporting me with civilians. Sounded like 40, 40-plus. Heard an Arab voice. Some hoodoo holy man, probably on his way to New Mecca. But what route? What route? Smelled a woman. Sweat, boots, tool belt, leather. Prospector type. Free settlers. And they only take the back roads. And here's my real problem: Mr. Johns, blue-eyed devil. Planning on taking me back to slam... only this time he picked a ghost lane. A long time between stops. A long time for something to go wrong.
 * All you people are so scared of me. Most days, I take that as a compliment. But it ain't me you got to worry about now.
 * Did I kill a few people? Sure. Did I kill Zeke? No. You got the wrong killer.
 * Finally found something worse than me?
 * These people didn't leave. Come on. Whoever got Zeke got them. They're all dead. You don't really think they left with their clothes on hooks... photos on the shelves?
 * You're not afraid of the dark, are you?
 * [to Fry] I guess if it were "trickeration," he'd just "X" me out. He'd kill me. Then again... I am worth twice as much alive. You didn't know that? Your Johns ain't a cop. He's got that nickel-slick badge. And that blue uniform. But he's just a merc. And I'm just a payday. That's why he won't kill me, see? - The creed is greed.
 * I don't truly know what's gonna happen when the lights go out. But I do know once the dying starts... this little psycho-fuck family of ours is gonna rip itself apart.

Carolyn Fry

 * [about the passengers] I'm not gonna die for them!
 * Is this whole planet dead?

William J. Johns

 * Why don't you shut up for two seconds and let me come up with a plan that doesn't involve mass suicide?
 * What's to be afraid of? My life's just a steaming pile of meaningless shit anyhow. So I say, "Mush on."
 * The verdict's in. The light moves forward.

Abu "Imam" al-Walid

 * I had the impression from the model... the two planets were moving as one...and there would be a lasting darkness.
 * They're afraid of our light. That means we don't have to be afraid of them.

Paris P. Ogilvie

 * It's amazing how you can do without the necessities of life provided you have the little luxuries.
 * People, just a suggestion. Perhaps you should flee!
 * I was supposed to die in France. I never ever saw France.

Dialogue

 * Jack: [sneaking up on Ogilvie] He'd probably get you right here... under the jaw, and you'd never even hear him coming. Because that's how good he is.
 * Paris P. Ogilvie: Did you run away from your parents or did they run away from you?

 * Jack: Where the hell can I get eyes like that?
 * Richard B. Riddick: Gotta kill a few people.
 * Jack: Okay. I can do it.
 * Richard B. Riddick: Then you gotta get sent to a slam where they say you'll never see daylight again. You dig up a doctor and you pay him 20 menthol Kools... to do a surgical shine job on your eyeballs.
 * Jack: So you can see who's sneaking up on you in the dark?
 * Richard B. Riddick: Exactly.

 * William J. Johns: [freeing Riddick] I want you to remember this moment. The way it could have gone and didn't. Here.
 * [Riddick suddenly grabs Johns' shotgun off him and aims it]
 * William J. Johns: Take it easy...
 * Richard B. Riddick: Fuck you!
 * William J. Johns: Do we have a deal?
 * Richard B. Riddick: [after a pause, Riddick hands the shotgun back] "I want you to remember this moment."

 * [Ogilvie drops a bottle of wine. He runs to fetch it, but just as he reaches out, it is picked up by Riddick].
 * Paris P. Ogilvie: [extending his hand] Paris P. Ogilvie. Antiquities dealer. Entrepreneur.
 * Richard B. Riddick: [grinning, taking his hand] Richard B. Riddick. Escaped convict. Murderer.

 * Hassan: Captain? Captain?!
 * Carolyn Fry: I'm not your fucking captain.

 * Richard B. Riddick: Looks clear.
 * [A creature lunges out and almost decapitates Johns before taking flight into the dark]
 * William J. Johns: I thought you said it was CLEAR!
 * Richard B. Riddick: I said, it looks clear!
 * William J. Johns: Well what does it look like now?
 * Richard B. Riddick: … Looks clear.

 * Riddick: [Riddick shuts off the ship's engines] We can't leave.
 * Jack: [panicked as creatures approach the ship] Why not?!
 * Riddick: Without saying "goodnight". [fires the ship's engines, incinerating the creatures behind it as it takes off]

 * Imam: Just because you do not believe in God, Mr. Riddick, does not mean God does not believe in you–
 * Riddick: You think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? You think he could start out in some … liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe in God? You got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God, and I absolutely hate the fucker.

 * [A creature is heard invading the shipwreck]
 * Riddick: Come on, Johns. You've got the big gauge.
 * Johns: I'd rather piss glass. Why don't you go in and check?

 * Johns: Doctors decide who lives and dies on the battlefield. It's called Triage.
 * Riddick: Kept calling it murder when I did it.

 * Jack: We're gonna lose everybody out here. We should've stayed at the ship.
 * Riddick: He died fast, and if we have any choice about it, that's the way we should all go out. Don't you cry for Johns. Don't you dare.

 * [Carolyn came back to the ship where Riddick already was]
 * Riddick: Strong survival instinct. I admire that in a woman.
 * Carolyn: I promised them that we would go back with more light.
 * Riddick: Did you?
 * Carolyn: What? Are you afraid?
 * Riddick: (laughs) Me afraid?
 * Carolyn: Come on, Riddick. There's gotta be some part of you that wants to rejoin the human race.
 * Riddick: Truthfully, I wouldn't know how.
 * Carolyn: Well, then just give me more light for them, and I'll go back by myself.
 * Riddick: Okay.
 * [Riddick gives her light]
 * Riddick: There you go.
 * Carolyn: Please, just come with me.
 * Riddick: I got a better idea. Come with me.
 * Carolyn: You're fucking with me! I know you are!
 * Riddick: You know I am? You don't know anything about me. I will leave you here. Step inside.
 * Carolyn: I can't.
 * Riddick: Sure, you can.
 * Carolyn: I can't.
 * Riddick: Here. I'll make it easy on you. [he lends her his hand] Take my hand. Come on. Come on … look. No one's gonna blame you. Save yourself, Carolyn.
 * Carolyn: I …
 * Riddick: Come on … come on … [she's getting to the ship] That's it. That's it. Good girl.
 * [She suddenly hears a creature, bringing back memories of the people she leaves, and changes her mind]
 * Carolyn: Now, you! You listen to me! I am the captain of this ship. And I am not leaving anyone on this rock with those fucking things, even if it means –
 * [Riddick brings the knife to her throat]
 * Carolyn: Get that thing off my neck.
 * Riddick: Shut up! You'd die for them?
 * Carolyn: I would try for them.
 * Riddick: You didn't answer me.
 * Carolyn: Yes, I would, Riddick. I would – I would die for them.
 * Riddick: (pauses) ...Interesting.

 * [Carolyn is taken by a creature when she was helping Riddick]
 * Riddick: Not for me! [weakly] Not for me!

 * Imam: Where's Johns?
 * Riddick: Which half?

About Pitch Black (film)

 * Pitch Black filmed in forbidding winter conditions in the isolated Australian town of Coober Pedy. "You start to feel quite fragile even though you're playing these cyberbabes. You just call on whatever strength you can to portray that sort of role," she says. Especially when conditions were far from movie-star glamour. "The crew comes over and says 'I'm really sorry, but I have to spray you with water now to make it look like you're sweating,' and they quickly spritz you and run for the hills because they're afraid you're going to murder their families!" Black says, chuckling. "It's character-building. I had a whole street of characters!"
 * Claudia Black in "Claudia Black Talks About Pitch Black" by Scott Chitwood, (10 Feb 2000).
 * Q: Okay, Pitch Black. What's up with your eyes? Were you guys doing contacts or was that CGI'd in?
 * A: "A little bit of both. Certain shots in the film, like if [my character] Riddick...turned a certain way, they would accent a moment in that sequence and punch up the effect a little bit--add a little light in the eyes. For the most part, it was just contacts. The contacts were prototypes, they had never been tested or worn before. So it felt like--imagine going to your father's 1960 Plymouth, taking the hubcaps off, painting them blue and sticking them in your eyes. They had to fly out an optometrist from three hours away on the first day because they couldn't get 'em out. And they were like, 'What the--?' And at the end of that, I had to go to the hospital. They were like, 'We should take you to the hospital.' I was like, 'Why? What are you--?' 'Because there's a little scratch, we have to make sure everything's okay, we have to go to the hospital.' It was a grueling experience having to wear those contacts. Because as an actor, you rely so heavily on your eyes. Your eyes are a great sort of resource for communication of thoughts and emotion, and you're stripped of that, you have to use other things you haven't used before. You develop mannerisms, and you really rely on creating that inner emotion and hoping that comes through. And the contacts did that, the goggles did that. I think a large decision was made in creating this character in terms of the process and that was to rely on not showing his emotion and hoping that somehow showed his emotions, that that would somehow give you an idea of what's going on."

 * Vin Diesel in "Interview With Vin Diesel on Pitch Black" by Scott Chitwood, (10 Feb 2000).
 * The spoiler commences: Yes, night does fall on the planet, every once in a long while when all three suns are in eclipse. I am not sure what complex geometries of space and trajectory are necessary for a planet to exist in a three-star system and somehow manage to maintain any continuity of climate and temperature, but never mind: What is maybe more difficult to accept is that it would develop a life form that appears only in the dark. Since sunlight is the source of heat and energy, Darwinian principles would seem severely challenged by the task of evolving living things that hibernate for 22 years between eclipses. How does a thing that lives in the dark evolve in a planet where it is almost always daytime? This is not the kind of question you're supposed to ask about "Pitch Black," but I'd rather have the answer than any 45 minutes of this movie. The story also poses the problem (less challenging from a Darwinian view, to be sure) of whether the Diesel character will cooperate with his species mates or behave entirely like a selfish gene. Whether this happens or not I leave it to you to discover. By the end of the movie, however, I was wondering if the trip had been necessary; most of the plot could be ported into a Western or a swashbuckler with little alteration.
 * Roger Ebert, “Pitch Black”, Chicago Sun-Times, (February 18, 2000).
 * With his elephantine glare and trapezius muscles that could support a Mack truck, Vin Diesel, who appears in two films opening today, is definitely the flavor of the movie weekend. In The Boiler Room he is a hulking illegal stock trader who would be right at home in the world of The Sopranos. And in the snazzily atmospheric sci-fi horror film Pitch Black he is Riddick, a fiendishly grinning murderer with a nose for menstrual blood. In the movie's opening scenes, in which Riddick tears off his manacles, he suggests a bone-crushing hybrid of Hannibal Lecter, Harry Houdini and Hulk Hogan stomping out of a leather fetishist's private dungeon. But in both roles Mr. Diesel finds ways to insinuate glints of humor, intelligence and even a grudging sweetness. As styles of macho, shaved-headed antihero go, he is a new variation on something familiar. Think of Telly Savalas as a hip-hop thug, and you'll get the idea.
 * But in evoking a fear of darkness and of shrieking batlike things slicing at you when the lights go out, the movie shrewdly taps into the lurking primal terrors of anyone who ever had to sleep with a night light. If Pitch Black goes where The Blair Witch Project has gone before, it has millions of dollars at its disposal to give that unnamable menace a shape as well as a sound.
 * One thing Pitch Black can't do is begin to create the engulfing sense of total darkness that its title promises. Even when the survivors' lights begin to fail (among the unforeseen meteorological events on this supposedly parched planet is an unexpected cloudburst), the humans are clearly visible. Still, as their lights begin to flicker, and the ravenous creatures gather on the edge of darkness, you have an ominous sense of what the world must have been like before electric light gave us the illusion of rationality, a time when our demons couldn't be instantly banished with the flick of a switch.
 * Stephen Holdenfeb, "FILM REVIEW; Dark and Dismal Doings on a Planet With Three Suns", (Feb. 18, 2000).
 * Pitch Black was made for $23 million, which is about how much Diesel demands per flick these days. While it's debatable whether he deserves it, what isn't debatable is that director David Twohy got his money's worth. The mysterious planet (in reality, the Australian desert) had a distinct, spooky look. The film owed a few debts to Aliens, but was still stylish enough that people didn't mind. The $39 million box office for the film was impressive, given its moderate release (1,800 theaters, as opposed to 4,100 for Spider-Man) and R rating.
 * Andy Patrizio, "An Interview With David Twohy", IGN, (2 Dec 2004).
 * The script called for a hot arid desolate world; and there aren't many places in the world where you can find a place with 360 degrees of no tree's no telephone poles phones, no power lines; and we found that nothingness in the the middle of your outback.
 * David Twohy "David Twohy and Vin Diesel Interview", SBS, (2000).

Taglines

 * Fight Evil With Evil.
 * There's A New Reason To Be Afraid Of The Dark.
 * Don't be afraid of the dark. Be afraid of what's in the dark.
 * Are you afraid of the dark? You will be …
 * It's getting Dark.
 * There's only one rule: Stay in the light.
 * A new species of terror.

Cast

 * Vin Diesel – Richard B. Riddick
 * Radha Mitchell – Carolyn Fry
 * Cole Hauser – William J. Johns
 * Keith David – Abu "Imam" al-Walid
 * Lewis Fitz-Gerald – Paris P. Ogilvie
 * Claudia Black – Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery
 * Rhiana Griffith – Jack/Jackie
 * John Moore – John "Zeke" Ezekiel
 * Simon Burke – Greg Owens

title: Pitch Black (film)


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Livy

Titus Livius (around 59 BC – 17 AD), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) through the reign of Augustus.

Quotes
I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement, for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...
 * The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
 * Introduction to Ab urbe condita (trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1960)

 * Aetolos Acarnanas Macedonas, eiusdem linguae homines, leues ad tempus ortae causae diiungunt coniunguntque: cum alienigenis, cum barbaris aeternum omnibus Graecis bellum est eritque; natura enim, quae perpetua est, non mutabilibus in diem causis hostes sunt...
 * The Aitolians, the Akarnanians, the Macedonians, men of the same speech, are united or disunited by trivial causes that arise from time to time; with aliens, with barbarians, all Greeks wage and will wage eternal war; for they are enemies by the will of nature, which is eternal, and not from reasons that change from day to day...
 * Liber XXXI, 29, 15

History of Rome

 * Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
 * Praefatio, sec. 4

 * I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world.
 * Praefatio, sec. 5

 * Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus
 * We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
 * Praefatio, sec. 9

 * This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
 * Praefatio, sec. 10

 * Vulgatior fama est ludibrio fratris Remum novos transiluisse muros; inde ab irato Romulo, cum verbis quoque increpitans adiecisset 'sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea', interfectum.
 * The more common report is that Remus mockingly jumped over the newly raised walls and was forthwith killed by the enraged Romulus, who exclaimed, "So shall it be henceforth with every one who leaps over my walls."
 * Book I, sec. 7

 * The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
 * Book I, sec. 17

 * Before anything else [Numa] decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods, this being the most effective measure with an ignorant, and at that time uncultured, people.
 * Book I, sec. 19

 * Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
 * Book II, sec. 3

 * Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
 * Book II, sec. 39

 * Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
 * Book II, sec. 47

 * From abundance springs satiety.
 * Book III, sec. 1

 * The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
 * Book III, sec. 39

 * Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
 * Book III, sec. 40

 * Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.
 * Book III, sec. 68

 * Potius sero quam nunquam.
 * Better late than never.
 * Book IV, sec. 2

 * 'Vos telis hostium estis indefensi, inulti? quid igitur arma habetis, aut quid ultro bellum intulistis, in otio tumultuosi, in bello segnes? quid hic stantibus spei est? an deum aliquem protecturum uos rapturumque hinc putatis? ferro via facienda est. hac qua me praegressum uideritis, agite, qui uisuri domos parentes coniuges liberos estis, ite mecum. non murus nec uallum sed armati armatis obstant. virtute pares, necessitate, quae ultimum ac maximum telum est, superiores estis'.
 * "Are you going to offer yourselves here to the weapons of the enemy, undefended, unavenged? Why is it then you have arms? And why have you undertaken an offensive war? You who are ever turbulent in peace, and laggard in war. What hopes have you in standing here? Do you expect that some god will protect you and bear you hence? A way is to be made with the sword. Come you, who wish to behold your homes, your parents, your wives, and your children; follow me in the way in which you shall see me lead you on. It is not a wall or rampart that blocks your path, but armed men like yourselves. Their equals in courage, you are their superiors by force of necessity, which is the last and greatest weapon."
 * Book IV, sec. 28

 * There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
 * Book IV, sec. 35

 * Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
 * Book IV, sec. 57

 * Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
 * Book V, sec. 4

 * There are laws for peace as well as war.
 * Book V, sec. 27

 * Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
 * Book V, sec. 37

 * Vae victis!
 * Woe to the vanquished!
 * Variant: Woe to the conquered!
 * Book V, sec. 48

 * No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
 * Book VI, sec. 34

 * The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
 * Book VIII, sec. 29

 * Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
 * Book VIII, sec. 31

 * They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
 * Book X, sec. 28

 * Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
 * Book XXII, sec. 25

 * He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
 * Book XXII, sec. 38

 * He will have true glory who despises it.
 * Book XXII, sec. 39

 * Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
 * Book XXII, sec. 39

 * All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
 * Book XXII, sec. 39

 * We do not learn this only from the event, which is the master of fools.
 * Book XXII, sec. 39

 * You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.
 * Book XXII, sec. 51

 * They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.
 * Book XXII, sec. 83

 * Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile
 * The best known evil is the most tolerable.
 * Variant: Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
 * Book XXIII, sec. 3

 * The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
 * Book XXIV, sec. 21

 * It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
 * Book XXIV, sec. 22

 * Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
 * Book XXIV, sec. 25

 * Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
 * Book XXVI, sec. 11

 * In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
 * Book XXV, sec. 38

 * Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
 * Book XXVII, sec. 44

 * Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
 * Book XXVIII, sec. 25

 * I approach these questions unwillingly, as it wounds, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.
 * Book XXVIII, sec. 27

 * The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
 * Book XXVIII, sec. 27

 * No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
 * Book XXVIII, sec. 28

 * Temerity is not always successful.
 * Book XXVIII, sec. 42

 * There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.
 * Book XXVIII, sec. 44

 * Greater is our terror of the unknown.
 * Book XXVIII, sec. 44

 * Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.
 * Book XXX, sec. 21

 * Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
 * Book XXX, sec. 30

 * Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
 * Book XXX, sec. 30

 * It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
 * Book XXX, sec. 30

 * It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
 * Book XXX, sec. 30

 * Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
 * Book XXX, sec. 42

 * We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
 * Book XXX, sec. 44

 * No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
 * Book XXXIV, sec. 3

 * No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
 * Book XXXIV, sec. 3

 * The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.
 * Book XXXIV, sec. 4

 * It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
 * Book XXXIV, sec. 4

 * There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
 * Book XXXIV, sec. 4

 * For he considered that, in many cases, but especially in war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
 * Book XXXIV, sec. 12

 * The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
 * Book XXXIV, sec. 14

 * He was always before men’s eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.
 * Book XXXV, sec. 10

 * Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.
 * Book XXXV, sec. 32

 * There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
 * Book XXXIX, sec. 16

 * The sun has not yet set for all time.
 * Book XXXIX, sec. 26

 * There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
 * Book XL, sec. 46

 * A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
 * Book XLIV, sec. 15

 * Is demum vir erit, cuius animum neque prosperae res flatu suo efferent nec adversae infringent
 * He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
 * Book XLV, sec. 8

Quotes about Livy

 * The style must be always plain and open, yet sometime higher and lower, as matters do rise and fall: for if proper and natural words, in well-joined sentences, do lively express the matter, be it troublesome, quiet, angry, or pleasant, a man shall think not to be reading, but present in doing of the same. And herein Livy, of all other in any tongue, by mine opinion, carrieth away the praise.
 * Roger Ascham to John Astley, quoted in The Whole Works of Roger Ascham, now first Collected and Revised, with a Life of the Author, Vol. III (1864), p. 6

 * [Those who have specialised in the study of Livy] agree in this, that the purpose of that author in writing his History was to give the world an account of a republic which was very well ordered.
 * Trajano Boccalini, Commentarii...sopra Cornelio Tacito (Cosmopoli, 1677), 2, quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 147

 * He explained the organization (gli ordini) and described the methods of government of the Roman Republic better than anyone else.
 * Antonio Ciccarelli, dedication to Discorsi sopra Tito Livio (Rome, 1598), quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 147

 * By semblance advertisements shall a noble heart be trained to delight in histories. And then, according to the counsel of Quintilian, it is best that he begin with Titus Livius, not only for his elegance of writing, which floweth in him like a fountain of sweet milk: but also forasmuch as by reading that author he may know how the most noble city of Rome, of a small and poor beginning, by prowess and virtue little and little came to the empire and dominion of all the world.
 * Thomas Elyot, The Book Named the Governor (1531), quoted in John C. Hunter (ed.), Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (2010), p. 73

 * [I translated Livy to propose] the imitation of every true virtue of the Roman people.
 * Jacopo Nardi, preface to Livy, Le deche delle historie romane (Venice, 1540), quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 147

 * There has been no one since Livy who has made the trumpet utter its terrible sound in military operations.
 * Giovanni Pontano, Actius, printed in Artis Historicae Penus (Basel, 1579), I, 569, quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 146

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William Booth

General William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was a British theologian and the founder of The Salvation Army.

Quotes

 * Let the business of the world take care of itself … My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.
 * "The Risks" in The War Cry (20 December 1884)

 * The Army of the Revolution is recruited by the Soldiers of Despair. Therefore, down with any Scheme which gives men Hope. In so far as it succeeds it curtails our recruiting ground and reinforces the ranks of our Enemies. Such opposition is to be counted upon, and to be utilised as the best of all tributes to the value of our work. Those who thus count upon violence and bloodshed are too few to hinder, and their opposition will merely add to the momentum with which I hope and believe this Scheme will ultimately be enabled to surmount all dissent, and achieve, with the blessing of God, that measure of success with which I verily believe it to be charged.
 * In Darkest England : And The Way Out (1890), p. 81

 * Go for souls and go for the worst.
 * As quoted in The Life of General Booth (1913) by Hulda Friedrichs

 * As long as women suffer as they do I will fight! As long as little children hungering go, as they now do, I will fight. As long as men go to the prisons, in and out, in and out, as they now do, I will fight. All who are not on the ship are in the sea. Every Soldier must do his utmost to save them.
 * An unspecified platform appeal, as quoted in The Musical Salvationist (September 1927). Several variants of this exist, some of them credited to his speech at the Royal Albert Hall on May 9, 1912, as researched "While Women Weep - I'll Fight" by Gordon Taylor at the International Heritage Centre (19 July 1996)
 * Variants:
 * While women weep as they do now, I'll fight. While little children go hungry as they do now, I'll fight,. while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight.
 * As quoted in "To the General" by Charles Coller, in All the World (April 1906), p. 169
 * While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight — I'll fight to the very end!
 * As quoted in Booth the Beloved (1949) by J. Evan Smith, pp. 122-124; this version seems to have become the basis of the most quoted variants.
 * While Women weep as they do now, I'll fight. While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight. While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, I'll fight. While there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight. I'll fight to the very end!
 * As quoted in What price the poor? William Booth, Karl Marx and the London Residuum (2005) by Ann M. Woodall, p. 218

 * Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.
 * As quoted in Revolution (2005) by Stephen Court & Aaron White.

 * "I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be .... religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell."

Misattributed

 * Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?
 * Though it is widely attested that Booth used this adage, it originates in the 18th century, being attributed to George Whitefield, in The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal, Vol. 49 (June 1773 - January 1774), p. 430; it has also been reported as a remark made by Rowland Hill, when he arranged an Easter hymn to the tune of "Pretty, Pretty Polly Hopkins, in The Rambler, Vol. 9 (1858), p. 191, as well as being attributed to Charles Wesley, and sometimes his brother John.

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28 Days Later

28 Days Later is a 2002 horror film about a bicycle courier who wakes from a four-week coma to find himself among a handful of survivors of a virus that induces homicidal rage.
 * Directed by Danny Boyle. Written by Alex Garland.

The Days Are Numbered.taglines

Jim

 * [Repeated line] Hello...?!
 * No, see, this is a really shit idea. You know why? Because it's really obviously a shit idea.

Selena

 * It started off as rioting. But right from the beginning you knew this was different, because it was happening in small villages, market towns... and then it wasn't on TV anymore. It was on the street outside. It was coming through your windows. It was a virus, an infection. You didn't need a doctor to tell you that. It was the blood, or something in the blood. By the time they tried to evacuate the cities, it was already too late. The infection was everywhere. The army blockades were overrun, and that's when the exodus started. The day before the TV and radio stopped broadcasting, there were reports of infection in Paris and New York. You didn't hear anything more after that.

Mark

 * I remember my dad had all this cash. He thought maybe we could buy our way onto a plane, even though cash was completely useless. Ten thousand other people had the same idea. The crowd was surging. I lost my grip on my sister's hand. I remember the ground felt very soft, and I saw I was standing on people. People who had fallen. Like a carpet. There were infected in the crowd- it spread fast. You couldn't get away, you could only climb, climb over more people. So I did that. So I climbed, I climbed on top of more people. I got up on top of this kiosk. Looking down you couldn't tell which faces were infected and which weren't. Then I saw my dad. Not my mum or my sister. My dad. I saw his face... Selena's right. You should be grateful.

Dialogue

 * [A researcher tries to dissuade animal-rights activists from releasing his chimpanzees.]
 * Researcher: The chimps have been infected. They're highly contagious. They've been given an inhibitor...
 * Activist: Infected with what?
 * Researcher: In order to cure, you must first understand...
 * Activist: Infected with WHAT?
 * Researcher: Rage.

 * Jim: What about the government? What are they doing?
 * Selena: There is no government.
 * Jim: Of course there's a government! There's always a government! They're in a... a bunker, or a plane!
 * Mark: No. There's no government. No army. No police. No TV, no radio, no electricity. You're the first uninfected person we've seen in six days.
 * Jim: What about your family?
 * Mark: They're dead. So is Selena's.
 * Selena: And yours will be dead too.

 * [Shortly after Selena has killed the newly infected Mark.]
 * Jim: How did you know? I mean, how did you know he was infected?
 * Selena: The blood.
 * Jim: Yeah... but there was blood everywhere. It was on me, it was on you —
 * Selena: Look, I didn't know he was infected, okay? He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand — if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat... He was full of plans, Mark. Do you have plans, Jim? Do you want us to find a cure and save the world, or just fall in love and fuck? Plans are pointless. Staying alive's as good as it gets.

 * Jim: Do you know what I was thinking?
 * Selena: You were thinking that you'll never hear another piece of original music, ever again. You'll never read a book that hasn't already been written or see a film that hasn't already been shot.
 * Jim: Um, that's what you were thinking.
 * Selena: No. I was thinking I was wrong.
 * Jim: About what?
 * Selena: All the death, all the shit, it doesn't really matter to Frank and Hannah, because... well, she's got a dad and he's got his daughter. So I was wrong when I said staying alive is as good as it gets.
 * Jim: See, that's what I was thinking.
 * Selena: Was it?
 * Jim: Mm-hmm. You stole my thought.
 * Selena: [she kisses him on the cheek] Sorry.
 * Jim: It's okay. You keep it.

 * [Major West takes Jim to an enclosed yard in the mansion while showing him around]
 * Major West: And lastly, meet Mailer. [Mailer charges out at them but is held back by a chain; Major West casually introduces them to each other.] Mailer, Jim. Jim, Mailer. Got infected two days ago. Mitchell managed to knock him out cold, and we got a chain around his neck.
 * Jim: You're keeping him alive?
 * Major West: The idea was to learn more about infection. Have him teach me.
 * Jim: And... has he? [Mailer completely ignores several open but untouched cans of food left out for him]
 * Major West: In a way. [he kneels near Mailer, inducing a fit of groaning and thrashing] He's telling me he'll never bake bread, plant crops, raise livestock. He's telling me he's futureless. And eventually, he'll tell me how long the infected take to starve to death.

 * Major West: Jones, did you notice while cooking that these eggs were off?
 * Private Jones: I-I thought the salt might cover the taste, sir.
 * Major West: Get rid of it.
 * Private Bedford: What a fuckin' disappointment. When I saw those eggs, I thought it was Christmas.
 * Private Bell: We'll have eggs again, soon as everything's back to normal.
 * Corporal Mitchell: Aw, you muppet. I mean, look at him, oi? He's still waiting for Marks & Spencer to reopen! Listen, mate, you don't know nothing-
 * Sergeant Farrell: Well, I think Bell's got a point. When you look at the whole life of the planet, we- you know, man- has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out- that is a return to normality. [pauses] That what you meant, Bell?
 * Private Bell: Uh, yeah- yeah. [Laughter breaks out among the men]
 * Major West: [To Jim, Selena, and Hannah] Have you met our new age sergeant? Our spiritual guru? Tell me, Farrell, why exactly did you join the Army in the first place? [Farrell, aware he is being mocked, scowls and says nothing.] This is what I've seen in the four weeks since infection: people killing people. Which is much what I saw in the four weeks before infection, and the four weeks before that, and before that, as far back as I care to remember- people killing people. Which, to my mind, puts us in a state of normality right now.
 * Selena: Hannah, you're not eating.
 * Hannah: I don't want to eat.
 * Major West: You must eat, Hannah.
 * Hannah: I don't want to eat. I want to bury my dad. He's one of the people you're talking about.
 * [There is a long pause, and Major West reluctantly nods in acknowledgement. Suddenly, the room shakes as an infected detonates a land mine on the lawn.]
 * Sergeant Farrell: STAND TO! STAND TO!

 * Private Jones: [Shooting at infected onslaught] Mitch, I fucking got one!
 * Corporal Mitchell: What you want, a fuckin' sweetie? Keep shootin', you cunt!

 * Major West: Who have you killed?
 * Jim: What?
 * Major West: Since it began, who have you killed? You wouldn't be alive right now if you hadn't killed somebody.
 * Jim: I killed... I killed a boy.
 * Major West: A child?
 * Jim: Yeah.
 * Major West: But you had to kill him. Otherwise he'd have killed you.
 * [...]
 * Major West: I promised them women.
 * Jim: What?
 * Major West: Eight days ago, I found Jones with his gun in his mouth. He said he was going to kill himself because there was no future. What could I say to him? We fight off the infected or we wait until they starve to death... and then what? What do nine men do except wait to die themselves? I moved us from the blockade, and I set the radio broadcasting, and I promised them women. Because women mean a future.

Taglines

 * The Days Are Numbered

 * Be Thankful For Everything, For Soon There Will Be Nothing...

 * Day 1: Exposure - Day 3: Infection - Day 8: Epidemic - Day 20: Evacuation - Day 28: Devastation

 * Goodbye

 * His fear began when he woke up alone. His terror began when he realised he wasn't.

 * "...people killing people." -Our rage is destroying humanity; whether on a large or small scale, slowly but surely.

 * Return to normality

About

 * Yes. It's this idea of a psychological virus. Like road rage, that moment when the red mist descends, if you magnify that a thousand times and experience it to the exclusion of everything else, imagine what that kind of power would be like. That was our monster. If you really think about that, it's very, very scary indeed.
 * We cast athletes as the monsters, because they're incredibly powerful and you can sense that power in them. We also used manifestations of Ebola: the vomiting and blood pouring from orifices; and the rictus look of fear at the hydrophobia stage of rabies. Hopefully all of that makes it a very scary film.

 * One of the problems with filming in Britain is that there's this slightly depressing air of familiarity and scale, but we wanted to make it something mythic and give it a mythical size. We didn't have enough money to pay for carnage on a city-wide scale, but the idea of an emptied London gave us the iconic image we needed.
 * Danny Boyle

Cast

 * Cillian Murphy - Jim
 * Naomie Harris - Selena
 * Noah Huntley - Mark
 * Brendan Gleeson - Frank
 * Megan Burns - Hannah
 * Christopher Eccleston - Major Henry West
 * Stuart McQuarrie - Sergeant Farrelle

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Talk:The Incredibles

Transcribing through Edna's accent
There is an ongoing battle here involving some of Edna "E" Mode's dialog, made more difficult because of her peculiar (and somewhat variable) accent. Is it "Stratogirl" or "Stratogale"? "Metaman" or "Metalman"? (I can say with some surety that it's "November 15th of '58", not "the '58", because although Edna's enunciation makes either possible, the latter makes no grammatical sense.) Rather than continue to revert each other on this, can someone provide an official source for this spelling? Ideally, this would be a published script or comic book references. (Unofficial fan-based transcriptions are useful for brainstorming, but aren't particularly authoritative.) Any help on this would be appreciated. — Jeff Q (talk) 14:34, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Well... there is a complete list of superheroes created for the movie on Disc 2 of the Collectors' Edition. -- 172.170.192.152 06:55, 4 August 2005

 * If I had that DVD, I'd be happy to post this documented evidence of the actual names spoken by Edna. Since I don't, can someone who does add that information here as a reference citation to ensure accuracy in this article? Thank you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 12:46, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

It's Stratogirl and Metalman, I have the DVD. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.78.21.14 (talk • contribs) 14:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

 * One good summary of the Wikimedia Foundation's philosophy on sourcing might be the old expression: "Trust, but verify." The above anonymous editor, whether they have the DVD or not, is making a false statement. I finally rented the bonus DVD, and the "Top Secret: NSA Files" segment clearly shows the supers' names are "Meta Man" and "Stratogale", which the article now reflects. Just for the record, here is the complete list given in that DVD segment:

 * Apogee, Blazestone, Dynaguy, Downburst, Elastigirl, Everseer, Frozone, Gamma Jack, Gazerbeam, Hypershock, Macroburst, Meta Man, Mr. Incredible, The Phylange, Plasmabolt, Psycwave, Splashdown, Stormicide, Stratogale, Thunderhead, Universal Man

 * If need be, I can provide screenshots of the files to confirm this. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup
I've added a cleanup tag to this article because there are massive amounts of cumbersome contextual information added to what is supposed to be a quote article. Contexts should be on separate lines, to get out of the way of actual dialog. Only stage directions (1-3 words indicating an action or gesture absolutely required to make sense of the dialog) should be interspersed within a single character's actual words. Anything that doesn't fit this model is almost always inappropriate for a quote compendium, more suited to a transcription or fan website. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I tried to get rid of the unnecessary contextual information preceding a ton of these quotes. Some of it I felt was required and so left it alone. --Aerodynamicdeskset 18:33, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

January 2017
I was reading the quotes in the dialogue section, some are inaccurate. Who thinks some of the quotes should be accurate? It is not vandalism or violating copyright, it is just an improvement. --86.12.177.189 06:53, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Far from an improvement. WikiLubber (talk) 17:19, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

I have just undid your changes on those changes of those quotes, I agree with WikiLubber, That doesn't seem to be a improvement that you're doing. You might wanna rethink of what you've doing and obviously read the editing guidelines. WikiLubber does have a point. --TPercival (talk) 18:59, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

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José Martí

José Julián Martí Pérez (28 January 1853 – 19 May 1895) was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain. He was also an important figure in Latin American literature. He was very politically active and is considered an important philosopher and political theorist. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol of Cuba's bid for independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th century, and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence" (El Apostol de la Independencia Cubana).

Quotes

 * Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.
 * Letter (1881), as quoted in The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions : Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context (1993) by Irving Louis Horowit, p. 11

 * Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!
 * Amor (1887)

 * Oh, what company good poets are!
 * Longfellow (1882)

 * A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
 * On Oscar Wilde (1882)

 * To beautify life is to give it an object.
 * On Oscar Wilde (1882)

 * Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
 * "Adúltera" [Adulterous Thoughts] (1883)

 * Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
 * On El Poema de Niágara of Pérez Bonalde (1883)

 * A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men.
 * A Glance at the North American's Soul Today (1886)

 * Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.
 * Henry Ward Beecher (1887)

 * A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
 * Dedication of the Statue of Liberty (1887)

 * Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
 * Woman Suffrage (1887)

 * Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
 * Letter (1890)

 * Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.
 * "Vivir en Sí" [To Live in Oneself] (1891)

 * Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
 * Poesia (1891)

 * The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.
 * Our America (1891)

 * The whole afternoon was spent rejoicing as the demonstration spread across the city; no one walked alone for all San Juan was a single family.
 * "The Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico" (1893)

 * Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice — for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!
 * "The Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico" (1893)

 * Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.
 * "Letter to a Cuban Farmer" (1893)

 * Yo quiero salir del mundo por la puerta natural: en un carro de hojas verdes a morir me han de llevar. No me pongan en lo oscuro a morir como un traidor: yo soy bueno, y como bueno moriré de cara al sol.
 * I wish to leave the world By its natural door; In my tomb of green leaves They are to carry me to die. Do not put me in the dark To die like a traitor; I am good, and like a good thing I will die with my face to the sun.
 * A Morir [To Die] (1894)

 * This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.
 * A Morir [To Die]

 * Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
 * Manifesto of Montecristi (1895)

 * I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.
 * Of the United States, in a letter to Manuel Mercado (1895), as quoted in Research : The Student's Guide to Writing Research Papers (1998) by Richard Veit, p. 143

 * Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.
 * As quoted in Inside the Monster : Writings on the United States and American Imperialism (1975) by José Martí, as translated by Elinor Randall, p. 27

 * La patria es ara, no pedestal.
 * The motherland is an altar, not a platform.
 * As quoted in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002) translated by Esther Allen, p. xxi

 * Day and night I always dream with open eyes.
 * "I dream awake" ["Ismaelillo"]
 * As quoted in Great Hispanic-Americans (2005) by Nicolás Kanellos, Robert Rodriguez and Tamra Orr, p. 72

 * Cuba and Belgium are both countries of modest size, surrounded by large, powerful and often hostile powers.
 * Our Man in Havana and Other Facts about the Belgo-Cuban Connection

Our America (1891)

 * "Nuestra América" (1891), first published in La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York (1 January 1891), translated as "Our America" (online text) · Variant translation online

 * The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village. Provided that he can be mayor, humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart, or add to the savings in his strongbox, he considers the universal order good, unaware of those giants with seven-league boots who can crush him underfoot, or of the strife in the heavens between comets that go through the air asleep, gulping down worlds.

 * Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones. There is no prow that can cut through a cloudbank of ideas. A powerful idea, waved before the world at the proper time, can stop a squadron of iron-clad ships, like the mystical flag of the Last judgement.

 * The trees must form ranks to keep the giant with seven-league boots from passing! It is the time of mobilization, of marching together, and we must go forward in close ranks, like silver in the veins of the Andes.

 * To govern well, one must see things as they are.

 * Government must originate in the country. The spirit of government must be that of the country Its structure must conform to rules appropriate to the country. Good government is nothing more than the balance of the country's natural elements.

 * In nations composed of both cultured and uncultured elements, the uncultured will govern because it is their habit to attack and resolve doubts with their fists in cases where the cultured have failed in the art of governing. The uncultured masses are lazy and timid in the realm of intelligence, and they want to be governed well. But if the government hurts them, they shake it off and govern themselves.

 * En el periódico, en la cátedra, en la academia, debe llevarse adelante el estudio de los factores reales del país. Conocerlos basta, sin vendas ni ambages; porque el que pone de lado, por voluntad u olvido, una parte de la verdad, cae a la larga por la verdad que le faltó, que crece en la negligencia, y derriba lo que se levanta sin ella. Resolver el problema después de conocer sus elementos, es más fácil que resolver el problema sin conocerlos.
 * Newspapers, universities and schools should encourage the study of the country's pertinent components. To know them is sufficient, without mincing words; for whoever brushes aside even a part of the truth, whether through intention or oversight, is doomed to fall. The truth he lacks thrives on negligence, and brings down whatever is built without it. It is easy to resolve our problem knowing its components than resolve them without knowing them.
 * Variant translation:
 * In the newspapers, lecture halls, and academies, the study of the country's real factors must be carried forward. Simply knowing those factors without blindfolds or circumlocutions is enough — for anyone who deliberately or unknowingly sets aside a part of the truth will ultimately fail because of the truth he was lacking, which expands when neglected and brings down whatever is built without it. Solving the problem after knowing its elements is easier than solving it without knowing them.

 * Knowing is what counts. To know one's country and govern it with that knowledge is the only way to free it from tyranny.

 * Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own. And let the vanquished pedant hold his tongue, for there are no lands in which a man may take greater pride than in our long-suffering American republics.

 * America began to suffer, and still suffers, from the tiresome task of reconciling the hostile and discordant elements it inherited from the despotic and perverse colonizer, and the imported methods and ideas which have been retarding logical government because they are lacking in local realities. Thrown out of gear for three centuries by a power which denied men the right to use their reason, the continent disregarded or closed its ears to the unlettered throngs that helped bring it to redemption, and embarked on a government based on reason-a reason belonging to all for the common good, not the university brand of reason over the peasant brand. The problem of independence did not lie in a change of forms but in change of spirit.

 * It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed, in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

 * The youth of America are rolling up their sleeves, digging their hands in the dough, and making it rise with the sweat of their brows. They realize that there is too much imitation, and that creation holds the key to salvation. "Create" is the password of this generation. The wine is made from plantain, but even if it turns sour, it is our own wine! That a country's form of government must be in keeping with its natural elements is a foregone conclusion. Absolute ideas must take relative forms if they are not to fail because of an error in form. Freedom, to be viable, has to be sincere and complete. If a republic refuses to open its arms to all, and move ahead with all, it dies.

 * The general holds back his cavalry to a pace that suits his infantry, for if its infantry is left behind, the cavalry will be surrounded by the enemy.

 * Politics and strategy are one. Nations should live in an atmosphere of self-criticism because it is healthy, but always with one heart and one mind. Stoop to the unhappy, and lift them up in your arms! Thaw out frozen America with the fire of your hearts! Make the natural blood of the nations´ course vigorously through their veins! The new American are on their feet, saluting each other from nation to nation, the eyes of the laborers shining with joy. The natural statesman arises, schooled in the direct study of Nature. He reads to apply his knowledge, not to imitate.

 * One must have faith in the best in men and distrust the worst. One must allow the best to be shown so that it reveals and prevails over the worst. Nations should have a pillory for whoever stirs up useless hate, and another for whoever fails to tell them the truth in time.

 * There can be no racial animosity, because there are no races. The theorist and feeble thinkers string together and warm over the bookshelf races which the well-disposed observer and the fair-minded traveller vainly seek in the justice of Nature where man's universal identity springs forth from triumphant love and the turbulent hunger for life. The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies of different shapes and colors. Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity.

Simple Verses (1891)

 * Versos sencillos (1891)

 * Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma.
 * I am an honest man From where the palm tree grows, And I want, before I die, to cast these verses from my soul.
 * I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273, ISBN 0142437042
 * Variant translations:
 * A sincere man am I From the land where palm trees grow, And I want before I die My soul's verses to bestow.
 * "A Sincere Man Am I", as translated by Manuel A. Tellechea, in Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (1997) ISBN 1558852042
 * I am a sincere man from where the palm tree grows, and before I die I wish to pour forth the verses from my soul.

 * I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs.  In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
 * I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273

 * Wings I saw springing from fair women's shoulders, and from beneath rubble I've seen butterflies flutter.
 * I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273

 * Once I reveled in a destiny like no other joy I'd known: when the warden — reading my death sentence — wept.
 * I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273

 * I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
 * I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 275

 * All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
 * I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 275

 * My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.
 * V

 * My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords.
 * V

I Grow a White Rose

 * "Cultivo Una Rosa Blanca" [I Grow a White Rose], said to have originally been sent to a friend who had betrayed him to the police.

 * Cultivo una rosa blanca En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni ortiga cultivo, Cultivo una rosa blanca.'
 * I grow a white rose In July just as in January For the sincere friend Who gives me his frank hand. And for the cruel man who pulls out of me the heart with which I live, I grow neither nettles nor thorns: I grow a white rose.
 * As translated in Spanish-American Poetry : A Dual-language Anthology (1996) by Seymour Resnick ISBN 0486401715
 * Variant translation: I cultivate a white rose In July as in January For the sincere friend Who gives me his hand frankly. And for the cruel person who tears out the heart with which I live, I cultivate neither nettles nor thorns: I cultivate a white rose.

I dream of cloisters of marble

 * "Sueño con claustros de mármol" [I dream of cloisters of marble]

 * Sueño con claustros de mármol donde en silencio divino los héroes, de pie, reposan; ¡de noche, a la luz del alma, hablo con ellos: de noche! Están en fila: paseo entre las filas: las manos de piedra les beso: abren los ojos de piedra: mueven los labios de piedra: tiemblan las barbas de piedra: empuñan la espada de piedra: lloran: ¡viba la espade en la vaina! Mudo, les beso la mano.
 * I dream of cloisters of marble where in divine silence the heroes, standing, rest; at night, in light of the soul, I speak with them: at night! They are in a row: I walk among the rows: the stone hands I kiss them; the stone eyes open; the stone lips move; the stone beards tremble; they seize the sword of stone; they cry: place the sword in the sheath! Mute, I kiss their hand.

The Monetary Conference of the American Republics (1891)

 * It is not the form of things that must be attended to but their spirit. The real is what matters, not the apparent. In politics, reality is that which is unseen. Politics is the art of combining a nation’s diverse or opposing factors to the benefit of its domestic well-being, and of saving the country from the open enmity or covetous friendship of other nations.

 * When a nation is invited to join in a union with another, the ignorant, bedazzled statesman might rush into it, young people enamored of beautiful ideas and lacking good sense might celebrate it, and venal or demented politicians might welcome it as a mercy and glorify it with servile words, but he who feels in his heart the anguish of the patria, he who watches and foresees, must investigate and must say what elements constitute the character of the nation that invites and the nation that is invited, and whether they are predisposed toward a common labor by common antecedents and habits, and whether or not it is probable that the fearsome elements of the inviting nation will, in the union it aspires to, be developed to the endangerment of the invited one.

My Race (1893)

 * "Mi Raza", first published in Patria (16 April 1893) Full translation online

 * "Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.
 * Variant translation: Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

 * Everything that divides men, everything that specified, separates or pens them, is a sin against humanity.

 * To insist on racial divisions, on racial differences, in an already divided people, is to place obstacles in the way of public and individual happiness, which can only be obtained by bringing people together as a nation.

 * What right do white racist, who believe their race is superior, have for complaining about black racists, who see something special in their own race? What right do black racists, who see a special character in their race, have for complaining about white racists? White men who think their race makes them superior to black men admit the idea of racial difference and authorize and initiate black racists. Black men who proclaim their race — when what they are really proclaiming is the spiritual identity that distinguishes one ethnic group from another — authorize and incite white racists. Peace demands of Nature the recognition of human rights; discrimination is contrary to Nature and the enemy of peace. Whites who isolate themselves also isolate Negroes. Negroes who isolate themselves incite and isolate whites.

 * In Cuba, there is no fear of a racial war. Men are more than whites, mulattos or Negroes. Cubans are more than whites, mulattos or Negroes. On the field of battle, dying for Cuba, the souls of whites and Negroes have risen together into the air.

 * Ostentatious men who are governed by self-interest will combine, whether white or black, and the generous and selfless will similarly unite. True men, black and white, will treat one another with loyalty and tenderness, out of a sense of merit and the pride of everyone who honors the land in which we were born, black and white alike. Negroes, who now use the word "racist" in good faith, will stop using it when they realize it is the only apparently valid argument that weak men, who honestly believe that Negroes are inferior, use to deny them the full exercise of their rights as men. White and black racists would be equally guilty of racism.

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

 * Quotations from Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994) edited by Carlos Ripoll

 * Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

 * Liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

 * Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

 * Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.

 * Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together. You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

 * We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. We must say no once more. Man is not free to watch impassively the enslavement and dishonor of men, nor their struggles for liberty and honor.

 * Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

 * The vote is the most effective and merciful instrument that man has devised to manage his affairs.

 * Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. A nation that neglects either of these forces perishes. They must be steered together, like a pair of carriage horses.

 * Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.

 * The merit and strength of a people are measured by their enthusiasm for freedom when the only rewards from it are anguish and martyrdom, the blood and ashes of exile, the sorrow of a house driven by the waves, and the shame of a useless life that lacks the foundation and peace of mind needed to do one's share of the common task.

 * We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

 * It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

 * One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

 * Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. He who seeks it elsewhere will not find it for, having drunk from all the glasses of life, he will find satisfaction only in those.

 * Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

 * Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft. Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright. A selfish man is a thief.

 * He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

 * A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

 * Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

 * It is the duty of man to raise up man. One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

 * There are men who live contented though they live without decorum. Others suffer as if in agony when they see around them people living without decorum. There must be a certain amount of decorum in the world, just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without decorum, there are always others who themselves possess the decorum of many men. These are the ones who rebel with terrible strength against those who rob nations of their liberty, which is to rob men of their decorum. Embodied in those men are thousands of men, a whole people, human dignity.

 * Through a marvelous law of natural compensation, he who gives of himself grows, and he who turns inward and lives from small pleasures, is afraid to share them with others, and only thinks avariciously of cultivating his appetites loses his humanity and becomes loneliness itself. He carries in his breast all the dreariness of winter. He becomes in fact and appearance an insect.

 * Man is not an image engraved on a silver dollar, with covetous eyes, licking lips and a diamond pin on a silver dickey. Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

 * A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

 * To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

 * Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

 * There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. To fulfill one's duty elevates the soul to a state of constant sweetness. Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

 * In truth, men speak too much of danger. Let others be terrified by the natural and healthy risks of life! We shall not be frightened! Poison sumac grows in a hard-working man's field, the serpent hisses from its hidden den, and the owl's eye shines in the belfry, but the sun goes on lighting the sky, and truth continues marching across the earth unscathed.

 * Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

 * The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women. But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Quotes about Martí

 * That Martí is a madman — but a dangerous madman.
 * Spanish Captain General Ramón Blanco, after hearing an address by Martí, as quoted in Inside the Monster : Writings on the United States and American Imperialism (1975) by José Martí, as translated by Elinor Randall, p. 27

 * While it is the sovereign right of the Cuban people to cherish Jose Marti as their own son of the soil it can be said honestly and accurately without the slightest disagreement from the unselfish, Cuban people that Marti belongs not only to Cuba but to all of the Americas.
 * Maurice Bishop in a celebration of the 130th anniversary of Martís' birth at Revolution Square, Havana Cuba (28 January 1983)

 * Sin embargo no has muerto Martí, sólo duermes;/la tierra te pidió como bandera...A tu pecho, José Martí, toco entre lágrimas,/en esta hora del hombre y de la guerra,/para que llegues, a la paz, despierto,/sobre el dolor más grande de la América.
 * And yet, you have not died Martí, you only sleep;/the earth requested you like a flag...At your chest Martí, I knock among tears/in this hour of man and of war,/so you may arrive, at peace, awake,/over the greatest pain of America.
 * Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

 * José Martí, fulcrum of the revolution that made Cuba free, died in the struggle, but not before he had bequeathed the country which in so large part owes him its independent existence a record in poetry and in prose which is testimony to one of earth's no- blest spirits. Federico de Onís has said of him that his life is among the purest in the history of mankind. Martí's poetry has the seemingly effortless spontaneity of the born lyrist. His prose, as P. Henríquez Ureña has pointed out, was always written either to promote the liberation of Cuba, or earn him enough to live on so that he might continue promoting the liberation of Cuba, and "is thus journalism, but journalism raised to an artistic level that has never been equaled in Spanish, nor probably in any other language."
 * Muna Lee (writer) "Cuban Literature" in Americas, April 1947. Included in A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee, edited and with biography by Jonathan Cohen (2004)

 * We Cuban artists have played a decisive role not only in the Cuban society of today but also in its greatest definition throughout our history. We Cuban artists have contributed to improving our values, to articulating our character, to stimulating the clearest cultural resistance, to understanding ourselves better, to creating a world where, as the poet José Martí demanded, the most important currency is the full dignity of man and woman...
 * Nancy Morejón Interview (2002) translated from the Spanish by Jason Weiss.

 * By the mid-nineteenth century, José Marti-hero and example to revolutionaries and dissidents alike-was writing important poetry in the modernist tradition.
 * Margaret Randall Introduction in Only the Road / Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry (2016)

 * José Martí always stated that the republic would have been impossible without the brawn and muscle of all races.
 * Arturo Alfonso Schomburg "General Antonio Maceo" quoted in Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg by Vanessa K Valdés (2018)

 * Hopefully, these characters bring us closer to a sense of self: honest and honored. Icons: Toussaint Louverture to José Martí to lesser known heroes, Atahualpa and Denmark Vesey. We lace our visions with Celia Cruz and Aretha Franklin.
 * Ntozake Shange, Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems (2017)

 * Mormino and Pozzeta, professors who studied the labor world of Ybor City, quote Cuban national leader and writer José Martí as saying that "the readers' platforms in the factories were advanced pulpits of liberty."
 * Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist, Norma Valle-Ferrer

 * What we need is a collective practice in which investigating and shedding privilege is seen as reclaiming connection, mending relationships broken by the system, and is framed as gain, not loss. Amílcar Cabral, leader of Guinea-Bissau's war of independence from Portuguese colonial rule, called it "class suicide," meaning to die to one's class position by irrevocably aligning oneself with the interests of the oppressed. Cuban revolutionary José Martí put it more positively and poetically in the poem that became the popular song "Guantanamera": "I want to throw in my lot with the poor of the earth. The little mountain stream pleases me more than the sea."
 * Aurora Levins Morales Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (2019 edition)

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Yanni

Yanni (born Yiannis Chrysomallis, Greek: Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης, on 14 November 1954) is a Greek keyboardist and composer. He was born in Kalamata, Greece.

Yanni Live at the Acropolis
A little while back I was watching an interview with one of the astronauts from the Space Shuttle and in this interview he was describing his experiences while he was orbiting the planet and he was saying how beautiful Earth looks from above and he said that, much to his surprise, when he was going over Europe, he found that he was having a hard time telling the countries apart from each other. He said, the reason for that was, that the lines in the maps are not in the ground, it makes a great point: these lines really don´t exist. They´re made up completely and we perpetuate in the illusion that somehow we´re all different from each other and I think the world would be a much better place if someday we stop pretending that these lines exist and we concentrate in our similarities rather than in our differences. And I just want to remember one more thing, that everything great that has ever happened to humanity since the beginning, has begun as a single thought in someone's mind and if anyone of us is capable of such a great thought then all of us have the same capacity, capability, because we are all the same.
 * I would like to leave you with a couple of thoughts:

 * Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin

 * My father once said, 'If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don't have to follow. You don't have to make a big deal about which way you're going. Just go. It's very easy.

 * The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.

 * My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

 * The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

 * I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

 * You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

 * Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

 * I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

 * You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

 * I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.

 * All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

 * Passion is the fuel.

 * Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - "this is just the way it is" - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.

 * I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's "facts" and believe that winning was impossible.

 * Endurance is mind over matter.

 * I don't have a "you can't do this" voice in my head.

 * The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.

 * You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

 * These changes are part of what keeps me interested and excited. Life won't let me keep coming at it from the same angle.

 * If my music can change someone's mood for the better even a little bit, that's amazing.

 * I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.

 * I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.

 * You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

 * Taking responsibility gives me a sense of control.

 * I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.

 * It's a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.

 * It seems that in every culture, however tough life is and however impossible the conditions, there are some resilient human beings who find their way through, who survive and make something of themselves.

 * All I had to do was do it.

 * I've always lived in the moment.

 * Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

 * Nobody could believe in me the way I believed in myself.

 * Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

 * We're all capable if we have faith and passion.

 * My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

 * On the plane home I remember thinking that I am who I am because I have faith in myself, and it has always been the possibility of emotionally rewarding the experiences that has encouraged me to gamble on myself; those experiences have made all that I do worthwhile.

 * Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

 * That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

 * The more doubt you have, the less likely it is that the creation will come to life.

A lot of his ideas and thoughts all of the years and now are echoed by the astronauts in the international space station right now. What they’re saying is that when they’re looking at earth from above, they’re having a hard time telling countries apart from each other. Because the lines that are in the maps, are not on the ground. It’s a great point. Isn’t it? These lines really don’t exist and human beings having using them since the beginning of time and another commit aggression and violence from each other and all the lines on the maps completely made up anyway and they perpetuate this illusion that somehow we’re all different from each other. Well, I dream of the day when all lines fade away and we finally realize that we’re all one people living on this one magical beautiful place we called earth.
 * I remember a few years ago I was watching this astronaut from the space shuttle, talking about his experiences in space and talking about what earth looked like to him from above.

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Talk:Herbert Spencer

Source of quote
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

This Spencer quote is included in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous at the end of Appendix II, "Spiritual Experience". I have been unable to determine exactly where this quote comes from other than that book.

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To the previous unidentified editor who states above that they were unable to determine where the "contempt" quote comes from:

See the section on Misattributed. The quotation has been thoroughly researched. It is not Spencer's, but it is widely misattributed to him. I updated and clarified the section from what existed prior to today's date. I fixed the chronology of the section, formatted for ease of reading and consistency with the rest of the page, linked to relevant Wikipedia articles, and clarified some of the language. I also gave two complete source citations for the information in the Misattributed section. AA members and others often have questions about Spencer in connection with this quote. It is probably the most common Spencer quote in usage, but it is not his. Radcuré (talk) 03:55, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Brutal facts
I came across a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin: "the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts" with various intros. It struck me as off so I did a google book search. The earliest appearance I could find was in the 1922 book by Walter Lippman, "Public Opinion" page 15 "Herbert Spencer's tragedy of the murder of a Beautiful Theory by a Gang of Brutal Facts" (capitalization in the original). Its attribution to Spencer continued until the mid-1950s when it started being attributed to Franklin (such attribution continuing to the present day). It is similar to Thomas Huxley's quote "The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact" which can be tracked back to his 1870 address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. So the first question is Spencer the actual of author of the quote that Lippman attributed to him and if so where and when. The second question is how does one add a misattribution (this is my first time working in Wikiquote) since what I have is original research. --Erp (talk) 03:51, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

The aim of education
Dozens of sources indirectly attribute to Herbert Spencer the words: "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." I'm 90% sure he did not said those exact words, as they can't be find in any of his open-access publications, but perhaps it is a paraphrase of his other quotation? Does anyone has any clue about that? Or could it be attributed to another author? Andrzej Zurawski (talk) 09:19, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Italian proverbs style issues
Wikiquote follows the general MediaWiki style guideline of not capitalizing anything but first-word initial letters and proper nouns in headings and other special contexts, which is why I changed "Literal Translations" in Italian proverbs to "Literal translations". Please do not revert this change. Thank you for your cooperation.

As far as the other changes you reverted, I'll agree that the capitalization of words following a colon is ambiguous in MediaWiki projects. But the term "20/20", which borrowed from optometry, is not written "twenty-twenty". — Jeff Q (talk) 19:43, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikiquote. We look forward to more contributions from you like your creation of a Yanni article. I would like to point out, though, that you should not include personal information in the article itself. Credit for adding or editing an article is automatically recorded in the article history, which may be viewed by clicking on the "history" tab in the top middle of an article's page. On the other hand, it is highly desirable (though not required) to provide citations for the quote sources, especially when they can be found in a published work. (These can be placed in a section called References at the bottom of the article.) If you don't have this information, don't worry; it can be added later by someone who does.

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Andrew Bacevich

Andrew J. Bacevich (born July 5, 1947) is an American historian specializing in international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, and American diplomatic and military history. He is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. He is also a retired career officer in the Armor Branch of the United States Army, retiring with the rank of colonel. He is a former director of Boston University's Center for International Relations (from 1998 to 2005), now part of the Pardee School of Global Studies. Bacevich is the co-founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

Quotes

 * In war-as-spectacle, appearances could be more important than reality, because appearance often ended up determining reality.
 * The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005).

 * We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom.
 * Moyer's Journal, 2008 August 15.

 * The U.S. has become a de facto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.
 * The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008).

 * For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.
 * The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008).

 * Call it habit or conditioning or socialization: The citizens of the United States have essentially forfeited any capacity to ask first-order questions about the fundamentals of national security policy.
 * Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (2010)

 * War is an unvarnished evil.
 * Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013, p. 17).

 * The way a nation wages war — the role allotted to the people in defending the country and the purposes for which it fights — testifies to the actual character of its political system.
 * Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013).

 * In its quest to control an unruly world, the Pentagon — acting in the name of the American people — slices and dices that world into smaller and smaller segments, while neglecting to assess the actual costs and benefits of the persistent meddling that it terms engagement.
 * Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013).

 * In this way, the bravery of the warrior underwrites collective civic cowardice, while fostering a slack, insipid patriotism.
 * Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013).

 * As it dragged on, the Iraq War exposed as hollow any American aspirations to global hegemony. Left behind when U.S. troops finally withdrew was their reputation for military supremacy. Meanwhile as reports of prisoner abuse, torture, and the killing of noncombatants mounted, American moral confidence lost its luster.
 * The Duplicity of the Idealogues: US Policy and Robert Kagan’s Fictive Narrative, 2014 July 11.

 * You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome.
 * Conversation with Bill Moyers, 2014 June 20.

 * From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in that region. Within a decade, a great shift occurred. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed anywhere except the Greater Middle East.
 * America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (2016).

 * Endless wars persist (and in some cases have even intensified); the nation’s various alliances and its empire of overseas bases remain intact; US troops are still present in something like 140 countries; Pentagon and national security state spending continues to increase astronomically.
 * Quoted in Patriotic Dissent: How a Working-Class Soldier Turned Against “Forever Wars”, by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon, CounterPunch, (24 July 2020)

Quotes about Andrew Bacevich

 * As military historian and retired career officer Andrew Bacevich notes, “endless wars persist (and in some cases have even intensified); the nation’s various alliances and its empire of overseas bases remain intact; US troops are still present in something like 140 countries; Pentagon and national security state spending continues to increase astronomically.”**Patriotic Dissent: How a Working-Class Soldier Turned Against “Forever Wars”, by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon, CounterPunch, (24 July 2020)

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Articles I've significantly contributed to or created at some point

 * Ben Throttle
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * H. P. Lovecraft
 * Richard Dawkins
 * Sam and Max

Links

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