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Force

In the physical sciences, a force is any influence which causes objects or energy flows to undergo a change in speed, direction, shape or power levels; in the fields of social laws, the word force commonly has two main meanings: unlawful violence and lawful compulsion.

Quotes

 * Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici
 * By the force of truth I have conquered the universe.
 * Anonymous Latin motto, which seems to have been first published by Theodor Reuss, in the undated work, Das Erotische in Goethes Faust und die Tantriks

 * Violence … is the last refuge of the incompetent.
 * Isaac Asimov, in Foundation (1951)

 * But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.
 * Adin Ballou, Christian Non-Resistance: In All its Important Bearings, Illustrated and Defended (1846).

 * Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
 * Alan Brien, in Punch

 * Force is no remedy.
 * John Bright, On the Irish Troubles (1880)

 * The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
 * Jacob Bronowski, in The Face of Violence

 * The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
 * Edmund Burke Conciliation with America speech

 * The danger is becoming greater. As the arsenals of the superpowers grow in size and sophistication and as other governments—perhaps even, in the future, dozens of governments—acquire these weapons, it may be only a matter of time before madness, desperation, greed or miscalculation lets loose the terrible force.
 * Jimmy Carter, as quoted in The Watchtower magazine, (15 August 1981)

Suppose a body with a certain momentum to be the only body in the universe; it will go on with the same momentum. The case of bodies in contact is no exception to this law, but only a particular case. Here the change of motion is called pressure. The case of bodies not in contact is illustrated by the motion of the earth about the sun [under the force of gravitation, as we call it]. '''In all cases change of motion is connected by invariable laws with the position of surrounding bodies. Force, then, has a definite direction [at every instant] at any point in space, and depends on the position of surrounding bodies, and may be described as the change of momentum of a body considered as depending upon its position relative to other things.''' It embodies the quality of direction as well as magnitude. In other words, 'it is a quantity having direction''. ...Force, defined as above, is not conserved''' at all. It may appear and disappear; it is continually being created and destroyed. "Conservation of force" is, mathematically speaking, a contradiction in terms.
 * Force cannot be explained without stating a law of nature concerning momentum, viz.:—
 * William Kingdon Clifford, "Energy and Force" (Mar 28, 1873) A previously unpublished lecture by Prof. Clifford before members of the, as described in Nature (May-Oct, 1880) Vol. 22, p. 123. with an introduction by J. F. Moulton.

 * What we know as moral forces are even more important than guns and battleships. These forces would constantly grow stronger if nations relied upon them and cultivated them instead of the munitions of warfare.
 * Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.

 * Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
 * Albert Einstein, in response to atheist Alfred Kerr in the winter of 1927, who after deriding ideas of God and religion at a dinner party in the home of the publisher Samuel Fischer, had queried him "I hear that you are supposed to be deeply religious" as quoted in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971) by H. G. Kessler, p. 157

 * Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.
 * Albert Einstein, in a speech to the New History Society (14 December 1930), reprinted in "Militant Pacifism" in Cosmic Religion (1931). Also found in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice, p. 158

 * An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
 * Albert Einstein, in Mein Weltbild (1931)

 * I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
 * Albert Einstein, in Mein Weltbild (1931)

 * Churches and universities — insofar as they live up to their true function — serve the ennoblement of the individual. They seek to fulfill this great task by spreading moral and cultural understanding, renouncing the use of brute force.
 * Albert Einstein, "Moral Decay" (1937); later published in Out of My Later Years (1950)

 * There are many changes in what concepts are important when we go from classical to quantum mechanics. ... In particular, the force concept gradually fades away, while the concepts of energy and momentum become of paramount importance. You remember that instead of particle motions, one deals with probability amplitudes which vary in space and time. In these amplitudes there are wavelengths related to momenta, and frequencies related to energies. The momenta and energies, which determine the phases of wave functions, are therefore the important quantities in quantum mechanics. Instead of forces, we deal with the way interactions change the wavelength of the waves. The idea of a force becomes quite secondary—if it is there at all. When people talk about nuclear forces, for example, what they usually analyze and work with are the energies of interaction of two nucleons, and not the force between them. Nobody ever differentiates the energy to find out what the force looks like.
 * Richard Feynman, (1964) 15–5. The vector potential and quantum mechanics in Chapter 15. The Vector Potential, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II, Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

 * La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.
 * The reason of the strongest is always the best.
 * Jean de La Fontaine, in Le loup et l'agneau

 * Personally I do not resort to force — not even the force of law — to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example — of fashion. Until these resources are exhausted I would not think of force.
 * Rutherford B. Hayes, on attempts at an alcohol prohibition amendment, in his Diary (9 October 1883) Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926), edited by Charles Richard Williams

 * Why are human beings so obsequious, ready to kill and ready to die at the call of kings and chieftains? Perhaps it is because they worship might, venerate those who command might, and are convinced that it is by force that man prevails. The splendor and the pride of kings blind the people.
 * Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets, Section titled "The idolatry of might," Volume 1, p. 159

 * Vis consili expers mole ruit sua.
 * Brute force without judgement collapses under its own weight
 * Horace, in Odes

 * The laws of motion of visible and tangible, or molar, matter had been worked out to a great degree of refinement and embodied in the branches of science known as Mechanics, Hydrostatics, and Pneumatics. These laws had been shown to hold good... throughout the universe on the assumption that all such masses of matter possessed inertia and were susceptible of acquiring motion, in two ways, firstly by impact, or impulse from without; and, secondly, by the operation of certain hypothetical causes of motion termed 'forces,' which were usually supposed to be resident in the particles of the masses themselves, and to operate at a distance, in such a way as to tend to draw any two such masses together, or to separate them more widely.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (1889)

 * To all appearance, the phenomena exhibited by the pendulum are not to be accounted for by impact: in fact, it is usually assumed that corresponding phenomena would take place if the earth and the pendulum were situated in an absolute vacuum, and at any conceivable distance from one another. If this be so, it follows that there must be two totally different kinds of causes of motion: the one impact—a vera causa [true cause], of which, to all appearance, we have constant experience; the other, attractive or repulsive 'force'—a metaphysical entity which is physically inconceivable.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, 'The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century'' (1889)

 * Newton expressly repudiated the notion of the existence of attractive forces, in the sense in which that term is ordinarily understood; and he refused to put forward any hypothesis as to the physical cause of the so-called 'attraction of gravitation.'
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, 'The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century'' (1889)

 * It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (1889)

 * A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit upon it.
 * William Ralph Inge, in Philosophy of Plotinus

 * A riot is at the bottom the language of the unheard.
 * Martin Luther King, in Chaos or Community

 * Roger Smith: A negotiator only uses force as a last resort.
 * Chiaki Konaka, The Big O The Greatest Villain

 * Whenever you employ a force of any sort, to carry a point of real importance, reject all nice calculations of economy. Better to be a thousand per cent over the mark, than the smallest fraction of a unit under it.
 * Sheridan Le Fanu in "The Room in the Dragon Volant" in In a Glass Darkly (1872)

 * There is little to choose morally between beating up a man physically and beating him up mentally.
 * Compton MacKenzie in On Moral Courage (1962)

 * Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
 * John Milton in Paradise Lost

 * A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
 * Alfred Nobel, Aphorisms by Alfred Nobel

 * Let there be no violence in religion.
 * Quran, Sura 2

 * I have always been fond of the West African proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
 * Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter to Henry L. Sprague (26 January 1900)

 * Not only is democracy mystical nonsense, it is also immoral. If one man has no right to impose his wishes on another, then ten million men have no right to impose their wishes on the one, since the initiation of force is wrong (and the assent of even the most overwhelming majority can never make it morally permissible).  Opinions—even majority opinions—neither create truth nor alter facts.  A lynch mob is democracy in action.  So much for mob rule.
 * Linda & Morris Tannehill, Ch. 4, "Government—An Unnecessary Evil",  (1970) pp. 33–34.

 * The idea that Anarchy can be inaugurated by force is as fallacious as the idea that it can be sustained by force. Force cannot preserve Anarchy; neither can it bring it.
 * Benjamin Tucker, Individual Liberty: Selections From the Writings of Benjamin R. Tucker, Passive Resistance. Vanguard Press, New York, 1926. Online text.

 * Where force is necessary, one should make use of it boldly, resolutely, and right to the end. But it is as well to know the limitations of force; to know where to combine force with manoeuvre, assualt with conciliation.
 * Leon Trotsky in What Next?

 * Vencer no es convencer.
 * To conquer is not to convince.
 * Miguel de Unamuno
 * Variant: Hatred without compassion cannot win minds, to conquer is not to convince.
 * As quoted in Spanish Recognitions : The Roads to the Present (2004) by Mary Lee Settle, p. 134

 * He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.
 * Simone Weil, "The Iliad or The Poem of Force" (1940-1941) in Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986) edited by Siân Miles, p. 192

 * Der imperialistische Machtgedanke muß, von welcher Seite er auch kommen möge, für alle Zeit unschädlich gemacht werden.
 * The imperialist ideology of force, from whatever side it comes, must be shattered for all time.
 * White Rose, Fifth leaflet

 * Occult historians generally agree that V.V.V.V.V. signified Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici ("By the force of truth I have conquered the universe"), one of the eleven magic mottoes of Aleister Crowley.
 * Robert Anton Wilson, Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups (1998), p. 22

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Talk:Chesty Puller

This comes from a family friend whose name was Don. Don served as a Navy Corpsman in WWII and was assigned to Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942. Colonel Puller had been wounded and was supposed to get "Bedrest" for several days. Don had the duty of keeping him in bed. Of course, that did not work!!

On the second day, Don checked on the Colonel to find him fully dressed, armed and heading out. Don said something like, "Colonel, you are supposed to be in bed." Chesty said something like, "Thank you, Petty Officer, for doing your duty.  I just need to check on a few things and will be right back.  Do you think there is any kippered herring on this island?  If you can find any, let me know!"

Chesty was gone for 3 days and on his return did not need any (real) medical attention, but he did appreciate the two cans of kippers that Don had found/cumshawed. The Colonel was gone before sunup the next day but on return would always look up Don to see about the Kipper Supply.

In 1970, after Parris Island and Camp LJ, I bought two cans of kippers. I never had the chance to give them to General Puller. In 1975 as a Sergeant, I placed them on his grave.

"Good Night, Chesty Puller, Wherever you are."

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 * Take me to the brig. I want to see real Marines.
 * We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them.
 * So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away this time!
 * Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a heartier race!
 * They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!
 * (Upon seeing a flame thrower for the first time) "Where do you put the bayonet?"
 * Don't forget you're First Marines, not all the communists in hell can kill you!
 * A Marine with cold hands and warm pockets is a fool.
 * Pain is weakness leaving the body.

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Nations

A is a stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, history, ethnicity, or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

A

 * The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations — there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole, — an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself — is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.
 * Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 141.

 * I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community.
 * Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities, London: Verso. (Anderson 1983, 6); quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13

B

 * Nations, like men, have their infancy.
 * Henry Bolingbroke, Letters on Study and Use of History (1752).

 * Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "A Court Lady", stanza 20, The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1974), p. 418.

 * If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us.
 * George W. Bush, presidential debate (11 October 2000).

C

 * The coming of a new life always excites our interest. Although we know in the case of the individual that it has been an infinite repetition reaching back beyond our vision, that only makes it the more wonderful. But how our interest and wonder increase when we behold the miracle of the birth of a new nation.
 * Calvin Coolidge, speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (5 July 1926).

D

 * Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together.
 * Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

 * The honor of a nation is an important thing. It is said in the Scriptures, “What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” It may be said, also, What doth it profit a nation if it gain the whole world, but lose its honor?
 * Frederick Douglass, "What the Black Man Wants" (1865)

 * When the architect intends a grand structure, he makes the foundation broad and strong. We should imitate this prudence in laying the foundations of the future republic. There is a law of harmony in all departments of nature. The oak is in the acorn. The career and destiny of individual men are enfolded in the elements of which they are composed. The same is true of a nation. It will be something or it will be nothing. It will be great, or it will be small, according to its own essential qualities. As these are rich and varied, or pure and simple, slender and feeble, broad and strong, so will be the life and destiny of the nation itself. The stream cannot rise higher than its source. The ship cannot sail faster than the wind. The flight of the arrow depends upon the strength and elasticity of the bow, and as with these, so with a nation.
 * Frederick Douglass, Our Composite Nationality (7 December 1869), Boston, Massachusetts

F

 * Nation states were a comparative novelty in European history. Much of the continent in 1900 was still dominated by the long-established and ethnically mixed empires of the Habsburgs, Romanovs and Osmanli. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was another such entity. Some smaller countries were also ethnically heterogeneous: Belgium and Switzerland, for example. And there were numerous petty principalities and grand duchies, like Luxembourg or Lichtenstein, that had no distinct national identity of their own, yet resisted absorption into bigger political units. These patchwork political structures made practical sense at a time when mass migration was increasing rather than reducing ethnic intermingling. Yet in the eyes of political nationalists, they deserved to be consigned to the past; the future should belong to homogeneous nation states. France, which had nurtured in the Swiss political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau the prophet of popular sovereignty, also provided a kind of model for nation-building. A republic forged and re-forged in repeated revolutions and wars, France by 1900 seemed to have subsumed all its old regional identities in a single 'idea of France'. Auvergnais, Bretons and Gascons alike all considered themselves to be Frenchmen, having been put through the same standardized schooling and military training.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), p. 74-75

G

 * As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And you will be the father of a multitude of nations. "No longer shall your name be called Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. "I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you.…
 * Genesis 17:5.

 * The Russian past offers many lessons for the present and not just those the current powers that be want people to draw. Among those unlearned lessons, Sergey Lozenko of Sovershenno Sekretno says, is one that comes from the disasters that followed from Aleksandr Kolchak’s failure to take the nationality question seriously. In a 2,000-word article entitled “Kolchak’s Nationality Question,” the historian says what the leaders of the White Movement routinely underestimated the importance of ethnic issues and believed that any problems in that area could be solved by force alone. The result was disaster (sovsekretno.ru/articles/istoriya/natsionalnyy-vopros-kolchaka100624/).
 * , "Putin Must Avoid Kolchak’s Mistakes on National Question, ‘Soveshenno Sekretno’ Historian Suggests", Window on Eurasia (June 24, 2024)

H

 * And I will shake all the nations, and the precious things of all the nations will come in; and I will fill this house with glory,’ says Jehovah of armies.
 * Haggai 2:7, NWT

 * The nation that can, in the next century, show the greatest output of spiritual strength, that is the nation that shall lead the world.
 * Kwamankra to Whitely, in : Studies in Race Emancipation by J. E. Casely Hayford. C.M. Phillips. 1911. p. 8.

 * Honesty, decency, faithfulness, and comradeship, ... must be shown when dealing with those of like blood but to no one else. What happens to a Russian, to a Czech, does not interest me in the slightest. . . . Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death like cattle interests me only insofar as we need them as slaves for our culture. . . . Whether 10,000 Russian females collapse from exhaustion while digging an antitank ditch interests me only insofar as the antitank ditch for Germany is finished.
 * Heinrich Himmler, cited in Awake! magazine 1987, 3/22, article: The World Since 1914, Part 2; 1929-1934 Worldwide Depression and On to War Again

I

 * A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.
 * William Ralph Inge, The End of an Age: and other essays (1948), p. 127.

 * Look! The nations are like a drop from a bucket, And as the film of dust on the scales they are regarded. Look! He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
 * Book of Isaiah 40:15.

 * Nations will certainly go to your light, and kings to the brightness of your shining forth.
 * Book of Isaiah 60:3

 * The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a mighty nation. I myself, Jehovah, will speed it up in its own time.
 * Book of Isaiah 60:22.

J

 * She gave birth to a son, a male, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away to God and to his throne.
 * John the Evangelist, Revelation 12:5, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

K

 * Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
 * "The Star-Spangled Banner", by Francis Scott Key.

 * [T]hough affluence is a good thing, and the spirit of compassionate reform is a good thing, in the end a nation survives only to the extent that the spirit of self-discipline and self-sacrifice is strong and vital.
 * Irving Kristol, memorandum to Robert T. Hartmann (1976)

 * The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
 * Stanley Kubrick, The Guardian (1963)

L

 * There are various ways to protect the nation, but nothing more is patriotic than giving one's life for the nation. This is the best patriotism.
 * Myung-bak Lee, as quoted in "‘Northern Limit Line’ about more than past inter-Korean clash" (29 June 2015), by Ha-young Choi, NK News

 * The law of nations knows of no distinction of color, and if an enemy of the United States should enslave and sell any captured persons of their army, it would be a case for the severest retaliation, if not redressed upon complaint.
 * The Lieber Code of 1863, United States Department of War, 58

 * Come all you true friends of the nation, attend to humanity's call!
 * "Lincoln and Liberty" (1864)

 * The nation is worth fighting for.
 * Abraham Lincoln, speech to One Hundred Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment (22 August 1864)

M

 * Every nation, like every individual, has received a mission that it must fulfil.
 * Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France (1796), Ch. II

 * Consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a Nation not slow and dull, but of quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that humane capacity can soar to.
 * John Milton, Aeropagitica (1644)

 * If it is worth a bloody struggle to establish this nation, it is worth one to preserve it.
 * Oliver P. Morton, speech (22 November 1860), as quoted in Indiana in the Civil War Era, 1850–1880: History of Indiana III (1995), by Emma Lou Thornbrough. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, p. 102

P

 * No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.
 * Charles Stewart Parnell, speech (1885)

 * What do we call a nation? – People who are of the same origin and who speak the same words and who live and make friends of each other, who have the same customs and songs and entertainment are what we call a nation, and the place where that people lives is called the people's country.
 * Georgi Pulevski, Dictionary of Three languages: Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish (1875)

S

 * The disappearance of whole nations would impoverish us no less than if all the people were to become identical, with the same character and the same face. Nations are the wealth of humanity, its generalized personalities. The least among them has its own special colors, and harbors within itself a special aspect of God's design.
 * Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture, 1972

 * Humanity without Nationality is empty, nationality without humanity is blind.
 * Werner Sombart, Vom Menschen (1938)

 * This is the vanity of every principality—and notable for a nation—that the principality is sovereign in history; which is to say, that it presumes it is the power in relation to which the moral significance of everything and everyone else is determined.
 * William Stringfellow, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 51

T

 * No nation can plan its future without coming to terms with its past.
 * Amir Taheri, "Opinion: Iran must confront its past to move forwards", Ashraq Al-Awsat (February 6, 2015).

 * We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.
 * Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Party television broadcast “Winter of Discontent” (January 17, 1979).

 * You can construct a nation on an idea; but you cannot reconstruct a nation on the basis of one.
 * Margaret Thatcher, speech at Hoover Institution lunch (8 March 1991)

V

 * From a single crime know the nation.
 * Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Aeneid, Book. 2, line 65.

W

 * A nation is created by families, a religion, traditions: it is made up out of the hearts of mothers, the wisdom of fathers, the joy and the exuberance of children.
 * Wilhelm II, German Emperor, quoted in Ken Magazine (15 December 1938)

 * No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
 * Woodrow Wilson, speech (1915)

Z

 * In those days ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold, yes, they will take firm hold of the robe of a Jew, saying: “We want to go with you, for we have heard that God is with you people.
 *  8:23.

 * Many of the countries that achieved formal sovereignty through decolonization in the post-World War II period emerged as extremely weak States. That is, they emerged with a level of institutional capacity-of "infrastructural power," in Michael Mann's useful conceptualization-well below the minimum level one usually associates with the notion of "sovereign State." Looking at the phenomenon from the perspective of the international system, Robert Jackson has suggested that decolonization brought with it an unprecedented disjunction between "negative" and "positive" sovereignty-that is, between sovereignty in the traditional sense and empirical Statehood, producing "quasi-States." Whereas in the past, States gained sovereignty only if they mustered the internal capacity to withstand the challenges of other States at the international level, in the contemporary world the situation is partially reversed, in that some of the new States are able to maintain their sovereignty only with the support of the international system. While decolonization has certainly resulted in the proliferation of "weak States," Jackson exaggerates the newness of the phenomenon; indeed he himself acknowledges that the "new sovereignty game" originated under the League of Nations, when the application of the principle of national self-determination produced a plethora of countries in the Balkans and northern Europe whose capacity for "empirical" Statehood was open to question. In any case, it is quite evident that the resumption of imperial disintegration within eastern Europe following the collapse of Communism is producing additional "quasi-States." Weak States are prone to protracted internal conflicts, and due to the widespread availability of cheap, rapid-fire weapons, such conflicts are likely to involve high levels of violence.
 * Aristide R. Zolberg, “Changing Sovereignty Games and International Migration Changing Sovereignty Games and International Migration”, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1, (Fall 1994), pp. 168-169

Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)

 * Not gold but only men can make A people great and strong; Men who for truth and honor's sake Stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly— They build a nation's pillars deep And lift them to the sky.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, "A Nation's Strength", stanzas 5 and 6. Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. James Dalton Morrison, p. 459 (1948). Granger's Index to Poetry, 6th ed., p. 898 (1973) says the author is unknown and that this is wrongly attributed to Emerson; the poem is not found in Emerson's Complete Works (1903).

 * Cleanse the body of this nation Through the glory of the Lord.
 * Henry Scott Holland, "Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendor". Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America, music ed., no. 343 (1958).

 * Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations—such is the national program that Marxism, the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers.
 * Vladimir Lenin, "The Right of Nations to Self-Determination", reported in Vladimir Lenin; Doug Lorimer (2002). Marxism & Nationalism. Resistance Books, p. 125. ISBN 1876646136.

 * Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.
 * John Ruskin, St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice, Preface p. 1 (1885).

 * A nation that can not preserve itself ought to die, and it will die—die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow.
 * Morris Sheppard, remarks in the Senate (December 18, 1914), Congressional Record, vol. 52, p. 338.

 * What defines a people is not race, not tradition, not geography, but the free choice of a group of human beings to live together as fellow citizens.
 * Thomas G. West, Vindicating the Founders (2001), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., p. 28.

 * Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
 * Author unknown. Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

 * I know three things must always be To keep a nation strong and free. One is a hearthstone bright and dear, With busy, happy loved ones near. One is a ready heart and hand To love, and serve, and keep the land. is a worn and beaten way where the people go to pray. long as these are kept alive, Nation and people will survive. God keep them always, everywhere— The home, the heart, the place of prayer.
 * Author unknown, "Three Things", Sourcebook of Poetry (1968), comp. Al Bryant, p. 514. A variation of this poem appeared in the Congressional Record, January 14, 1959, vol. 105, Appendix, p. A144.

title: Nations


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Phil Collins

Philip David Charles Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951), generally referred to as Phil Collins, is a British rock/pop musician. Collins’ presence on popular music was most evident in the mid-to-late 1980s. He is most famous as the lead singer and drummer of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy winning solo artist.

Quotes

 * The world is in your hands, now use it.
 * "Dance Into the Light"

 * Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun. So I've been told...
 * Live at Wembley Stadium DVD (July 1987)

 * Stewart Copeland is an amazing drummer. I just wish he didn't think he was amazing. Sting is a lovely bloke. We've become friends. I felt honored to be on stage with him at Live Aid.
 * Playboy interview (October 1986)

 * [On his Live Aid appearance with members of Led Zeppelin] They wanted me there early to rehearse the old Zeppelin songs, but I couldn't make it and I told them, "Listen, I know the songs. I know them backward and forward." Well, that day the tempos were all over the place, and it may have seemed like it was my fault, because I was the one who hadn't rehearsed, but I would pledge to my dying day that it wasn't me. In fact, it was Tony Thompson who was racing a bit; he was a bit nervous, I guess. It came off because of the magic of being Zeppelin; but I remember in the middle of the thing, I actually thought, How do I get out of here?
 * Playboy interview (October 1986)

 * I can't remember those words (Lyrics) even when we were on tour.
 * From "Telling Stories", when Collins was asked to sing "Home By The Sea", a song by the band Genesis from the album "Genesis"

 * I wouldn't blow my head off. I'd overdose or do something that didn't hurt. But I wouldn't do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the Sixties left a note saying, 'Too many things went wrong too often.' I often think about that.
 * On his suicidal thoughts in recent years — "Exclusive: Phil Collins Admits Suicidal Thoughts", Rolling Stone (9 November 2010)

 * They're just horrible. Horrible, horrible guys. They're rude, not as talented as they think they are... I won't mince words here, but they've had a go at me personally.
 * On Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher, BBC programme Room 101, Series 10, Episode 8, 2005

 * Past a certain point, the music is no longer mine. It's yours.
 * Phil Collins at Todomusica.org

Face Value (1981)
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh Lord. Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord.
 * I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord.
 * "In the Air Tonight"

I would not lend a hand. I've seen your face before my friend But I don't know if you know who I am. Well, I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes. So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been. It's all been a pack of lies
 * Well, if you told me you were drowning,

 * "In the Air Tonight"

I remember, don't worry How could I ever forget? It's the first time, the last time we ever met But, I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don't fool me. The hurt doesn't show But the pain still grows It's no stranger to you and me.
 * Well, I remember!
 * "In the Air Tonight"

Quotes about Collins

 * Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.
 * Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner, American Psycho (2000), film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho (1991) (the novel contains a similar but much lengthier exposition at p. 134-136)

 * Don't mess with my Phil.
 * Ice-T, in response to a music journalist who teased him for having Phil Collins records; as quoted by David Cheal and Jan Dalley (2017) The Life of a Song: The fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's best-loved songs; Ch. 11, "In the Air Tonight", Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 9781473668188

title: Phil Collins


text:
Rome (TV series)

Rome (2005-2007) is an American-British television show by HBO/BBC about the last century B.C. in Rome.

The Stolen Eagle [1.1]

 * Narrator: Four hundred years after the last king was driven from the city, the Republic of Rome rules many nations, but cannot rule itself.  The city is constantly roiled by conflict between the common people and the nobility.  Power is shared, and order maintained by two soldiers, old friends Gnaeus Pompey Magnus and Gaius Julius Caesar.  Once, Pompey was acknowledged by all to be the greater man, but for the last eight years, while Pompey has kept the peace in Rome, Caesar has waged a war of conquest in Gaul, that has made him even more rich and popular.  The balance of power is shifting, and the nobility have grown fearful - Though of noble blood himself, Caesar stands with the common people.  A man like that, an aristocrat with soldiers, money and the love of the people...  Might make himself king.

 * Lucius Vorenus: [After a battle in which Pullo hit him and was clearly drunk, and is now being flogged] Legionary Titus Pullo is a hero of the XIII Legion, but look at him now!  Justice knows every man's number.  He has committed a terrible sacrilege, and he will pay for it with his life!  As will any man here who breaks the law.
 * [Each soldier and officer looks slightly shaken by the flogging. Mark Anthony eats an apple, apparently enjoying it.]
 * Vorenus: Brawlers and drunkards will be flogged.  Thieves will be strangled!  Deserters will be crucified!
 * Titus Pullo: [Being released, the flogging over] Is that it? I was just beginning to enjoy myself.

 * Scipio: What a dreadful noise plebs make when they're happy.
 * Cato: This is music. Wait until Caesar starts them howling for our blood; then you'll hear something dreadful!

 * Vorenus: Fortune pisses on me.

 * Titus Pullo: Forculus, if you be the right god for the business here, I call on you to help. If you would open this door, then I would kill for you a fine white lamb, or, failing that, if I couldn't get a good one at a decent price, then six pigeons.

 * Atia: The man has tears in his eyes. Tears!
 * Octavia: He loves me.
 * Atia: A womanish husband is no use to anyone. And your servants! What a fuss! I think you feed them too much.

 * Titus Pullo: I have simpler tastes. I like to kill my enemies, take their gold and enjoy their women. That's it. Why tie yourself to one? Where's the flavor? Where's the joy?
 * Vorenus: Pullo, when is the last time you had a woman who wasn't crying or wanting payment?

 * Pullo: Look here, Mars! Look here, Mars! I am Titus Pullo! These bloody men are my gift to you.

How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic [1.2]

 * Titus Pullo: [on returning to Rome]] Here I come, girls! I'm gonna drink all the wine, smoke all the smoke, and fuck every whore in the city!

 * Atia: By the Five Furies, if I were not a genteel woman, I'd have you flayed and hung from a bracket at the door! Castor!
 * Castor: Yes, domina?
 * Atia: Fetch the dogs!

 * [Mark Antony, when discussing terms of Caesar's return to Rome]
 * Pompey: He sits alone in Ravenna with one mutinous skeleton of a legion and he dares to dictate terms to me!?
 *  Mark Antony : Caesar has many more legions than the Thirteenth.
 * Scipio: Yes, on the far side of the Alps.
 *  Mark Antony: Winter does not last forever. Spring comes.  Snows melt.
 *  Scipio: That is a threat!
 *  Mark Antony : No, I assure you, that is no threat. Snows always melt.

 * [After Mark Anthony survives a presumed attempt on his life by Pompey's mob in Rome...]
 * Julius Caesar: After all these years...  Pompey surprises me!  I had hoped to provoke some kind of aggression, sure, but to try and kill a Tribune, in the forum...  The man's found some hard black iron in his soul.
 *  Mark Antony : Sure it was yon demented little worm Cato who put him up to it. [On the wine] It's excellent, this...  So, what next?
 * Caesar: Let's see what the men have to say...
 * [Caesar heads off outside while Antony goes to wash himself up]
 * Caesar: Don't do that! [Puts an arm on Mark's shoulder] You look fine exactly as you are. Like Leonidas at Thermopylae.

 * [Caesar's speech to the XIII Legion, preluding the civil war against Pompey]
 * Caesar: Soldiers!  Pompey, and the Senate, have formally declared that Gaius Julius Caesar is an enemy of Rome!
 * [The soldiers shout in denial]
 * Caesar: They have declared that I am a criminal.  They have declared, in the fact, that all of you, ALSO, are criminals!
 * [The soldiers roar in disapproval]
 * Caesar: Tribune's veto was not exercised!  People's Tribune, Mark Anthony, and fifty men of the XIII were assaulted by a thousand head of Pompeian scum.
 * [The soldiers boo again. From behind, Pullo watches it all.]
 * Caesar: A Tribune, of the Plebs, assaulted on the steps of the Senate house!  Can you imagine a more terrible sacrilege!?  Our beloved Republic is in the hands of madmen!  This is a dark day, and I stand in a fork in the road - I can abide the law and surrender my arms to the Senate, and watch the Republic fall to tyranny and chaos, or, I can go home, with my sword in my hand, and run those maniacs TO THE TARPEIAN ROCK!
 * [The soldiers roar, supporting Caesar.]
 * Caesar: Legionary Titus Pullo, step forward!  [Pullo is surprised to hear his name, but doesn't move]  Titus Pullo!
 * [Pullo moves in the crowd, headed towards Caesar]
 * Caesar: Of fifty brave men of the XIII, whom fought Pompey's Thousand in the forum, and saved the Tribune, it was Legionary Titus Pullo whom drew first blood!  [Picks up a purse and raises it]  Here's five hundred Denarii!
 * [Throws the purse to Pullo]
 * Pullo: [Shocked]  Very grateful, sir!
 * Caesar: Are you with me, Titus Pullo?  Will you come with me to Rome?
 * Pullo: [Briefly stuttering]  Yes-  YES SIR!  Certainly!
 * Caesar: Titus Pullo is with me!  AND YOU, ARE YOU WITH ME!?
 * [The whole Legion roars in approval]

 * Vorena: What is going to happen?
 * Niobe: War is going to happen.

An Owl in a Thornbush [1.3]

 * Brutus: Mother, you are blinded by untapped lust. I'll get you a good big Cyrenian at the market and have done with it!

 * [Caesar has sent Vorenus ahead to scout with a squadron of cavalry]
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: Can we trust him?
 * Mark Antony:  Who?
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: Lucius Vorenus.
 * Mark Antony:  Vorenus? Deep Thirteenth, him.  He'd follow the Eagle up Pluto's arse!

 * [Pullo instructs Vorenus on the fine points of wooing.]
 * Titus Pullo: Now, your best method of pleasing a woman is the warm, beating heart of an enemy.  Oh, women say they don't like it, but they do!  Makes them wet as October!

 * [discussing how to please Lucius's wife.]
 * Titus Pullo: Also: very important. When you couple with her there's this spot just above her cunny. It's like a button. Now, attend to that button and she will open up like a flower.
 * Lucius Vorenus: [outraged] How do you know this about her?!
 * Titus Pullo: [momentarily gobsmacked] All women have them! Ask anyone!

 * [On finding Rome unprotected by Pompeian troops:]
 * Lucius Vorenus: [aghast] This can only mean that the Republic has fallen.
 * Titus Pullo: And yet, the sky is still above us and the earth still below.  Strange.
 * Vorenus: How could Mars allow such a thing to happen?
 * Pullo: Maybe he was out having a crap and missed it!

Stealing from Saturn [1.4]

 * Caesar: You are a thief. A foolish, incompetent thief. But we will treat your foolishness as some species of loyalty.

 * Caesar: I do not like to quarrel with fortune, and clearly she's taken you for a pet.

 * Caesar: [to Octavian after having an epileptic seizure] Vow to Orcus, never speak of this.
 * Octavian: [nodding his head yes in agreement]

The Ram Has Touched the Wall [1.5]

 * Caesar: They say a slave talks of bravery like a fish talks of flying.
 * Posca: They say that, do they? How very witty of them.

 * [Atia has informed Octavian she has engaged a tutor for him: one of the soldiers who rescued him.]
 * Octavian: Vorenus?
 * Atia of the Julii: Is that it?  Not the sullen Catonian one, I don't like him. The cheerful, brutish one.
 * Octavian: [turning to go]  Pullo.
 * Atia: What extraordinary names these plebs have.  Pullo.

Egeria [1.6]

 * Atia: Octavian, have you penetrated anyone yet? Titus Pullo, didn't I tell you to get that sorted? What else?
 * Octavia: Perhaps you could arrange he kill someone.
 * Atia: That will happen in due course. We Julii always have the needful enemies.

 * Titus Pullo: What's your price, then?
 * Madame: One thousand.
 * Titus Pullo: Gerrhae! I could have half the whores in Narbo for that, and their mothers!
 * Madame: We're not in Narbo, wherever that might be.
 * Titus Pullo: All right, my dove, we'll pay, but the girl better fuck him like Helen of Troy with her arse on fire, or I'll know the reason why!

 * Atia: Well this last news from Greece cannot have improved your appetite.
 * Mark Antony: Hardly.
 * Atia: And is it really so bad? Caesar always finds a way to win.
 * Mark Antony: Pompey's gathered ten men for every one of Caesar's. Arithmetic has no mercy.

 * Newsreader: This month's public bread is provided by the Capitoline Brotherhood of Millers. The Brotherhood uses only the finest flour: true Roman bread for true Romans.

 * Mark Antony: [to Atia] I had not realised until now... what a wicked old harpy you are.

 * Atia: A large penis is always welcome.

 * Titus Pullo: This is cack, this is! I'm wet through!
 * Lucius Vorenus: We're perfectly safe - a very favorable offering was made to Triton before we left.
 * Pullo: Well, if Triton can't keep me drier than this, he can suck my cock!
 * [Ship's mast breaks]
 * Vorenus: Pullo, when will you learn to keep your fat mouth shut?!

Pharsalus [1.7]

 * Caesar: Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

 * Caesar: Try to avoid bloodshed this time.
 * Posca: Wait a while, and Pompey can shave you instead.

 * Brutus: lf l had known what wretched company and rotten food l would endure, if l had known what an old fool is Pompey, l would never have left Rome.

 * Cicero: You may do as you wish. As for me, I intend to go from here and surrender myself to Caesar.
 * Cato: [outraged] Have you no dignity?! No honor?!
 * Cicero: Some little, I hope. Not as much as you, of course.
 * Scipio: [sympathetic] Caesar will kill you.
 * Cicero: That may be. I'm not afraid to die. I'm tired. I want to go home.

 * Vorenus: His hands trembled, sir. His clothes were dirty, there was water in his eyes -- he is broken. I saw no need to apprehend him. I'd like to add that Legionary Pullo took no part in my decision, sir.
 * Caesar: You saw "no need." Do you not see that Pompey may be broken like a Dacian catamite and still be dangerous?! If he is still living, he will be a standard around which our enemies will gather. As long as he can propped on a horse, he's dangerous! But you saw no need to apprehend him?!
 * Vorenus: I did not, sir.
 * Caesar: [furious] AND WHO BY THE SONS OF DIS GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO MAKE SUCH JUDGEMENT?!
 * Vorenus: Sir, I am aware I have not done my duty and I respectfully ask your pardon.
 * Caesar: My pardon, he asks. I ought to have you scourged and crucified! [long pause] In future, you will remember that it is I that offers mercy. No one else. Clear?
 * Vorenus: Clear, sir.
 * Caesar: Dismissed.
 * [Vorenus and Pullo leave]
 * Mark Antony: I don't like to disagree with you, but you're being far too lenient with him. He let Pompey go and you let him live?! The man should be made an example of!
 * Caesar: Any other man, certainly. But those two, they found my stolen standard, stumbled upon the treasury gold, and now they survive a wreck that drowned an army and find Pompey Magnus on a beach. They have powerful gods on their side and I will not kill any man with friends of that sort.

 * Pompey Magnus: It didn't seem possible to lose, it's always a bad sign.

Caesarion [1.8]

 * King Ptolemy XIII: [presenting the head of Pompey Magnus] We were going to make him a body, with moving arms and legs, and do a mime show with real animals and everything, and...
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: [furious] SILENCE!
 * [long, heavy silence]
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: Shame on the House of Ptolemy for such barbarity. Shame.
 * Pothinus: But... you are enemies.
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: (shouts) He was a consul of Rome!
 * [guards put hands to their swords]
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: A consul of Rome, to die in this sordid way - quartered like some low thief? Shame!
 * [another long, heavy silence]
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: Where is the rest of him?
 * Pothinus (stammering) It... he, has been cremated. With all proper funeral rites, of course! With all decorum.
 * Gaius Julius Caesar I will return tomorrow, at which time you will give me the man that took Pompey's life.

 * Gaius Julius Caesar: Pompey's murderer?
 * Pothinus: Alas, he has run away.
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: Find him. In the meantime... [motions to Posca, who produces a scroll and hands it to Pothinus] These instruments tabulate the money that was borrowed by his majesty's illustrious father, Ptolemy XII. In the name of the Republic, I have come to collect.
 * Posca: Seventeen thousand, thousand drachmae.
 * Pothinus: Seventeen?! Absurd! Four, perhaps.
 * Posca: The tabulation includes all moneys borrowed from Pompey and other agents of the Republic now... unable to collect.
 * Pothinus: That is not just.
 * Posca: Post mortem interests of this type are legally entailed to the presiding consul, i.e. Gaius Julius Caesar. It's law.
 * Pothinus: Roman law.
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: Is there some other form of law, you wretched woman?
 * Pothinus: One thousand apologies, forgive us.
 * [Ptolemy XIII arises from his litter, and snatches the scroll from Pothinus, throwing it at Caesar's feet]
 * Ptolemy XIII: There! There's for your payment.
 * [Shocked mutterings from Ptolemy's entourage]
 * Theodotus: [stepping forward] So sorry!
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: His majesty forgets he's a vassal to Rome.
 * Ptolemy XIII: "Vassal"? "Vassal"?! I am no vassal! I am king! I am --
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: Sit down!
 * [Cowed, Ptolemy retreats back to sit on his litter]
 * Gaius Julius Caesar: Thank you.

 * Caesar: I have conquered Gaul. I have defeated Pompey Magnus. I think I can handle a small boy and a eunuch.

 * Marc Antony: I'm glad you're so confident. Some would call it hubris.
 * Caesar: It's only hubris if I fail.

 * Vorenus: Pullo, report to Princess Cleopatra and do whatever she tells you!
 * [Pullo reports for duty - which is to have wild sex with Cleopatra. Afterwards:]
 * Pullo: [exhales] Gods, that was something, let me tell you...
 * Vorenus: I don't want to hear about it! If you're wise, you'll never speak of this again.
 * Pullo: Why? I was only obeying orders. Bloody good orders, too!

 * Cicero: You should have no ill conscience, we only did what we have to do.
 * Brutus: No doubt Saturn said something of the sort after eating his children.

 * Marc Antony: If I ever again hear your name connected with murmurs of treachery, I will cut off these soft, pink hands and nail them to the senate door.

Utica [1.9]

 * Scipio: Where there's life, there's hope.
 * Cato: (sad smile) I think, if anything, we have disproved that proverb, old friend.

 * Titus Pullo: [on Vorenus' toga candida] You look like laundry!

Triumph [1.10]

 * Posca: The Roman people are not crying out for clean elections.  They are crying out for jobs.  They are crying out for clean water, for food, for stability and peace.

The Spoils [1.11]

 * Caesar: You know I've always looked upon you as a son...
 * Brutus: Oh dear, not one of those conversations.

 * Caesar: Be reasonable! You're on every wall in the city with a knife at my throat!
 * Brutus: Only tyrants need to worry about tyrant killers! And you are no tyrant! Haven't you told me so many times!

 * Marcus Junius Brutus: I betrayed nothing. Had you told me you were to march on Rome and asked me for my allegiance, I would have given it. I would've judged you insane, but I would've given you my allegiance because I look on you as my father.
 * Caesar: Brutus-
 * Marcus Junius Brutus: You did not ask me for my allegiance. You demanded it at swordpoint. I betrayed nothing.

 * Cassius: Look now. Look at that.
 * Marcus Junius Brutus: It is a chair. What of it?
 * Cassius: A chair? It's a throne!
 * Marcus Junius Brutus: I believe thrones are generally more decorative. That is decidedly plain, and chair-like.

 * [in his cell, about to be executed in the arena]
 * Titus Pullo: (holds up a cockroach) Janus, Gaia, and Dis, I humbly beg you accept this creature as my offering. And if it pleases you, I ask you to give Eirene long life. And same for my friend Lucius Vorenus and his family, if it's not too much. And... let Eirene know I'm sorry for what I did.

 * Caesar: [of an assassinated political opponent]I didn't know he existed until he didn't.

Kalends of February [1.12]
[Servilia has invited Atia over for a visit.]
 * Atia: Why would she want to see me? She hates me!
 * Mark Antony: So do I; that's no bar to friendship.

Passover [2.1]

 * [Before Caesar's funeral.]
 * Antony: I've never fucked a woman in a funeral dress before.
 * Atia: Nor shall you now.
 * Antony: That's a shame. It'll have to be Merula then. [Atia's slave Merula stares in shock] Come here, old girl, jump on!
 * Atia: She'd eat you alive! Come on, this is no morning for foolery. Just get up.
 * Antony: [grabs Atia and tries to pull her into bed] Aw, come here.
 * Atia: Stop fooling around and get up!
 * Antony: I'm not rising from this bed until I fuck someone.
 * Atia: Fine, fine. Merula, fetch that German slut from the kitchen. [turns to her other slaves] And get it right or you'll be next for the King of Goats there.

 * Mark Antony: [indicates outside] Listen. Why so quiet? A tyrant is dead. Surely the people should be happy? Where is the cheering throng at your door? Where are the joyful cries of "Liberty"?
 * Servillia: The people fear change. A sombre mood is only...natural.
 * Brutus: When they realise they are free from tyranny, they will be glad.
 * Mark Antony: [coldly] The people loved Caesar. And they will hate you for what you have done.

 * Mark Antony: You boys play too rough for me. Knives in the Senate House? I didn't know you had it in you. No, I will serve out my term as consul and then return to the provinces, plough my fields and fuck my slaves like old Cincinnatus.

 * [Servillia joins with Cassius and Cicero in urging Brutus to murder Antony]
 * Brutus: You too, mother?

 * [After Antony orders the murderers of Caesar from Rome]
 * Cassius: You may wish as you will. We yet have all the Senate behind us and all the men of quality. [Furious, Antony storms over to Cassius]
 * Antony: [almost berserk with rage] And I have an angry mob, that will roast and eat your 'men of quality' in the ashes of the Senate House!

Son of Hades [2.2]

 * Antony: You're not saying that these men paid me to put their names on here.
 * Cicero: Oh, no... I assume they paid Posca.

 * Vorenus: I AM A SON OF HADES! I FUCK CONCORD IN HER ARSE!

 * Antony: Centurion Vorenus... as was.
 * Vorenus: [lying in bed] Sir.
 * Antony: [disgusted] Look at the fucking state of you.
 * Pullo: It's mourning dress, sir. He...
 * Antony: Mourning? You may well mourn. Caesar is dead, and it was you as good as held the knife. Stand to fucking attention when I'm talking to you! [Vorenus does.] You know that your name is disgraced forever?
 * Vorenus: I do, sir.
 * Antony: "I do, sir"? Why then are you still alive? Why have you not done your damned duty and opened your stomach?
 * Vorenus: I would like that above all things, sir. But Dis is my master, and he will take me when he chooses. At present, he wishes for me to suffer here, on this earth.
 * Antony: You are wrong, Centurion. Dis is not your master. I am your master, by sacred oath under the standards of the Thirteenth. [stoops to pick up the rotting head on the floor] And this, I take it, was Erastes Fulmen?
 * Pullo: I told him to get rid, but it calms him to look at the thing.
 * Antony: Not content to let our great father die, you start a damn war on the Aventine that threatens to engulf the whole fucking city! [tosses Erastes' head out the door] Now... would you like a chance to redeem yourself, Centurion?
 * Vorenus: There's no redemption.
 * Antony: No man is beyond redemption, Lucius. Not even you.

These being the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero [2.3]

 * Cicero: Please continue with your threats; I would hate to submit to implication alone.

 * Clerk (holding up a scroll for all to see): These being the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero: (reading) "When I was a young man, I defended the State. As an old man, I shall not abandon it. I give sincere thanks to Mark Antony, who has generously presented me with the most promising theme imaginable. I address you directly, Antony. Please listen as if you... as if you..."
 * Mark Antony: Go on...
 * Clerk (shaken): "...please listen, as if you were sober and intelligent, and not a drink-sodden, sex-addled wreck."
 * [Senators start leaving the Senate hall]
 * Clerk: "You are certainly not without accomplishments: it is a rare man who can boast of becoming a bankrupt before even coming of age. You have brought upon us war, pestilence and destruction. You are Rome's Helen of Troy. But then... but then..."
 * Mark Antony (fuming): Go on... GO ON!
 * Clerk: "...a woman's role has always suited you best."
 * [Antony screams in rage, and proceeds to beat the Clerk to death with the scroll. He looks up and finds the Senate completely empty.]

Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare) [2.4]

 * Cicero: Oh, how I tire of young men and their ambitions.

 * [Following the Battle of Mutina]
 * Mark Anthony: How many dead in total?
 * Centurion: 8,000 men, sir, give or take.
 * Posca: 8,000?!
 * Mark Anthony: Oh, do cheer up! You're still alive, aren't you!?
 * Posca: I do hope so; if this is the afterlife, it is extremely disappointing!

Heroes of the Republic [2.5]

 * Vorenus: These are my daughters, redeemed from slavery. The eldest has been prostituted, the boy is my wife's child by another man. You will treat them with respect and kindness - or I will know the reason why.

 * [Following Octavian's proposal to name Brutus and Cassius enemies of the state]
 * Octavian: My father died on this floor. Right there. Stabbed 27 times, butchered by men he called his friends. Who will tell me that is not murder? [Several soldiers enter the Senate hall as the Senators mutter angrily] Who will tell my legions, who love Caesar as I do, that that is not murder?! [the soldiers draw their swords. Silence falls] Who will speak against the motion?

 * [After Octavian uses his position as Consul for his own ends]
 * Tyro: Some willow tea, perhaps?
 * Cicero: Henbane, more like. I've been outmanoeuvred by a child.

Philippi [2.6]

 * Mark Antony [Giving Agrippa instructions to pass to Vorenus and Pullo about the assassination of Cicero] Tell them to cut off his hands and nail them to the Senate door. I told the old fool I'd do it if he ever crossed me again. Nobody can possibly say that I don't keep my word.

 * Eirene: [in tears] I'm preglant!
 * Titus Pullo: What?
 * Eirene: I'm preglant! Preglant!!
 * Titus Pullo: [surprised, but delighted] What, pregnant?
 * Eirene: Whatever you call it!

 * Cicero: What is your name, young man?
 * Pullo: Titus Pullo, sir. Late of the Thirteenth.
 * Cicero: Ah, the famous Titus Pullo. I'm honoured.
 * Pullo: Likewise, honoured. Talk about famous. Everyone's heard of Cicero.
 * Cicero: Yes. I daresay your work today will earn you immortality.
 * Pullo: How's that?
 * Cicero: I will be in all the history books. My killer's name, no doubt, will live on also.
 * Pullo: [slightly disappointed] Ah, my name... thought you meant me. [looks at a fruit tree] Good peaches!
 * Cicero: Yes, just getting ripe. There's no way I can dissuade you from your task, I suppose? I have a great deal of money.
 * Pullo: No, sorry. Normally, I'd be tempted, but you're far too important. Imagine the fuss, I get back and I haven't done my job.

 * [Before the Battle of Philippi]
 * Brutus: Heavens, I entirely forgot! Today's your birthday, isn't it?
 * Cassius: Is it? I believe you're right.
 * Brutus: [shakes his hand] Happy Birthday. Sorry there's no cake.
 * Cassius: Next year, eh? You bake me an extra big one.
 * Brutus: I shan't forget.
 * Cassius: No cinnamon, it makes me sneeze.

 * [At Philippi]
 * Antony: [To Octavian] Watch closely, boy. This is how history is made. Now, let's have some fun! [gives the order to advance]

 * Octavian: What's happening? Do you know?
 * Antony: No idea. On my command, forward!
 * Octavian: Where are you going?
 * Antony: When in doubt... ATTACK!
 * [The cavalry charges with Antony at their head. Agrippa looks after them longingly.]
 * Octavian: Go.
 * Agrippa: Thank you. (to troopers) You two, on me!
 * [Rides after Antony.]

 * [Cassius is brought back from the battle line, mortally wounded.]
 * Brutus: Cassius? What happened?
 * Cassius: Not sure, to be honest. Hell of a birthday...

 * [As Antony's forces approach, Brutus decides to go down fighting.]
 * Brutus: Give my best to my mother. Tell her... tell her something suitable.

 * [In the aftermath of the Battle of Phillipi]
 * Mark Anthony: Breathe deep, boy. The smell of victory.
 * Octavian: [disdainful] Smoke, shit and rotting flesh.
 * Mark Anthony: Beautiful, isn't it?

Death Mask [2.7]

 * [Servilia, kneeling in front of Atia's house, curses Atia, then commits suicide followed by her slave, Eleni.]
 * Marc Antony: ...Now that's an exit.

A Necessary Fiction [2.8]

 * Titus Pullo: Nobody's a traitor until they are.

 * Newsreader: From pliant virgins to learned greeks - Rufus has slaves for every budget.

 * [Regarding Mark Antony's affair with Atia and Octavia's affair with Agrippa]
 * Mark Antony: So what? What if it is true, huh? What are you going to do about it? There is nothing you can do about it.
 * Octavian: I shall send my women to their house... [Antony scoffs] ...where they shall remain, in seclusion, under guard until I say otherwise.
 * Atia: I'll do no such thing--!
 * Octavian: Silence. [to Antony] You. You shall leave this city.
 * Mark Antony: "Leave this city"?!
 * Octavian: You shall go east to your provinces, and you shall not come back.
 * Mark Antony: [scoffs] Or else what, boy?
 * Octavian: You shall leave this city or I shall declare that our alliance is broken. I shall have this sad story told in the Forum, I shall have it posted in every city in Italy, and you know the people are not so liberal with their wives as you are. They will say you wear cuckold's horns. They will say your wife betrayed you with a low-born pleb on my staff. You will be a figure of fun. The proles will laugh at you in the street. Your soldiers will mock you behind your back.
 * [By this point trembling with fury, Antony grabs Octavian's throat to throttle him but hesitates. Octavian does not flinch.]
 * Octavian: [whispers] Go on, strike me. See what happens.
 * [Slowly, Antony releases his grip, and departs.]

Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus [2.9]

 * Vorenus: Sir your wife instructed me to tell you something.
 * Antony: Oh?
 * Vorenus: She instructed me to tell you that "you are cowardly scum".
 * Antony: [laughs] She did, did she? And what's your opinion of that?
 * Vorenus: It's not my place to have an opinion, Sir.
 * Antony: Ah, tell me anyway.
 * Vorenus: Is that an order?
 * Antony: Yes. That's an order.
 * Vorenus: You're no coward, but you do have a strong disease in your soul. A disease that will eat away at you, until you die.
 * Antony: Really? Hmm... and what is this disease?
 * Vorenus: I don't know. I'm not a doctor.
 * Antony: No, no you're not. So how can you be so sure of your diagnosis?
 * Vorenus: I recognize your symptoms. I have the same sickness.

De Patre Vostro [2.10]

 * Antony: Do you believe there is an afterlife?
 * Vorenus: Of course.
 * Antony: Well, there are people who say no. And this is all there is.
 * Vorenus: Who says that?
 * Antony: Learned men. Greeks, probably.
 * Vorenus: Greeks?
 * Antony: Mmm.
 * Vorenus: Greeks talk a whole pile of nonsense.
 * Antony: Fuck 'em.
 * Vorenus: Fuck 'em.

 * Antony [examining the knife Cleopatra apparently used to kill herself] No - this won't do. Let's use a proper, Roman sword.
 * [Vorenus offers his sword, Antony takes it, regards it for a moment then draws it]
 * Antony: It's a damn good sword. [Throws the sheath away, looks around the room] It's a good place to die at any rate. Could've been a ditch in Gaul. Men that knew Alexander ... once stood here.
 * Vorenus: Good a place as any, I suppose
 * Antony: Lucius Vorenus - iron to the end. Don't you die here with me. You get out while you can.
 * Vorenus: I'll do that. It's been an honour, serving with you Sir.
 * Antony: Has it? I... I hope so. [positions the tip of the sword above his stomach] Brace it there, eh?
 * Vorenus: Any instructions or messages, sir?
 * Antony: No. Just... tell the people I died well. I died Roman.

 * [Discussing Pullo]
 * Cleopatra: Is he a good man?
 * Vorenus: Define "good".

 * Octavian: I was all sweetness and light with her... charm itself.
 * Maecenas: Yes, that is your most disheartening manner.

 * Cleopatra: [hissing into Octavian's ear] You have a rotten soul. [dies]
 * Maecenas: What did she say?
 * Octavian: She said I had a rotten soul.
 * Maecenas: Ah. Well, can't argue with that.

 * Octavia: Today is your triumph as much as his. Mother to the First Citizen, you should be happy.
 * Atia: [softly] Hooray.
 * Octavia: All my life, I've watched you strive for this moment. Look at you... it's amusing, isn't it? I don't know what i shall do if you give up.

 * [Atia moves to the head of the women's procession for Augustus' triumph]
 * Livia: Excuse me?
 * Atia: Yes?
 * Livia: Oh, I don't mind really, but it is really I who should go first. If you consult the priests, I'll think you'll find the wife takes precedence.
 * Atia: I don't give a fuck what the priests say. I'll not let a vicious little trollop like you walk ahead of me.  I go first.
 * Livia: I take no offense, of course. You are not yourself.
 * Atia: I know who you are. I can see you. You're swearing now that, someday, you'll destroy me. Remember that far better women than you have sworn to do the same. Go look for them now.

 * [last lines of the series]
 * Titus Pullo: (to Caesarion) About your father...

title: Rome (TV series)


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Zatch Bell!

Zatch Bell!, known in Japan as Konjiki no Gash Bell!! (anime) and Konjiki no Gash!! (manga) (金色のガッシュベル!! Konjiki no Gasshu Beru!! literally translates to "Golden Gash Bell!!"), is a shōnen manga series by Makoto Raiku, which has been adapted as an anime TV series by Toei Animation.

Lightning Boy from Another World

 * Kiyo: I have no intention of being tutored! Especially by a puny brat like you!! Zacker, or whatever your name is!!

Botanical Madness

 * Haru: (about the Rashield) How can they still cast the spell!
 * Kiyo: So you guys know how it feels when you hurt others!
 * (Sugino's book is burned and purple flame come out)

 * Sugino: Aaaaaaaaaah!
 * Haru: Aaaaah! All that training for nothing!

The Third Spell

 * Zatch: Kiyo, remember what that mean old mamodo Brago called me? He said I was a weakling? What if he's right? What if I can't become stronger?
 * Kiyo: What if, what if, what if my aunt had a mustache? She'd be my uncle. Listen you just had an off day alright? Don't worry about it.

 * Zatch: You ok, Kiyo?
 * Kiyo: Uh...yeah, sure. No worries. I just took a small explosion to the body and everything hurts. Other than that, I'm fine.

The Invincible Folgore

 * Suzy: [After Kiyo falls from ceiling, landing on his imposter] [to Kiyo] I didn't know you had a twin.
 * Kiyo: NO! CLEARLY HE'S A FAKE! DON'T YOU SEE ANYTHING STRANGE!? The nose, the nose, THE NOSE! [screen shows Kiyo] My nose, [screen shows imposter] his nose.
 * Zatch and Suzy: OH!
 * Kiyo: WHADDYA MEAN OH!?
 * Zatch: Heh heh heh, I knew it, heh, I'm just playing, heh heh heh heh, I would never mistake your face Kiyo.
 * Kiyo: I WAS RIGHT UP THERE! I SAW YOU!
 * Suzy:[crying] Oh no! Does that mean you really don't think I'm pretty?
 * Kiyo: IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY SUZY!?
 * Fake Kiyo: Zatch, buddy pal! I'm the real Kiyo! So where's the book! Tell me, quick!
 * Kiyo: GAME OVER YOU LOSER! [Punches Fake Kiyo's head]
 * Fake Kiyo: OW! THAT HURT! OH!
 * Kiyo: Dork...
 * Fake Kiyo: [crying, as he transforms into Kanchome]
 * Kanchome: Hey you meanie, why'd you hit me? You didn't have to go and do that.

The Tomboy and the Popstar

 * Maruss: This is the place, Rembrant.
 * Rembrant: Funny how a mamodo is ever so much easy when their parnter's a famous singer. Hee hee hee.
 * Maruss: Yeah.

 * Maruss: And I'm glad to finally see you again. He he he he he he he he.
 * Tia: Me too. I'm so lonely I've been all byself ever since I got here. And I haven't been able to find a human partner yet.
 * Maruss: Really?
 * Tia: Huh? Maruss, what's wrong?

 * Maruss: Well, Tia, I've finally found you.
 * Tia: Maruss!
 * Maruss: Your partner's on stage, and the show won't be over for quite a while. Which means that at the moment, your spells are totally useless. [Tia tries to run away] Go on! Go ahead, Tia! Run! I don't care; but if you do, I'll attack all those fans out there!
 * Tia: No, not that! Leave them alone!
 * Maruss: The last time we saw each other, you got away which was aggravating to say the least, but you won't escape this time. We're going to defeat you right here and now.
 * Zatch: That book! Is that a mamodo?
 * Tia: Then, promise me this: if you defeat me, you leave Megumi alone and let her do the show! She's my friend! She's risked my life for me! So please, I'm begging you!
 * Zatch: Ah!
 * Maruss: Ha! You're begging me? How very touching! Well, in that case, there's going to be a slight changing plan. I'm gonna take my time destroying you, and I'm going to enjoy every minute of it! [Tia cries] Ha ha! Once, I'm done with you, I'll wreak such havoc in that auditorium; it will be empty in no time! [Tia cries even louder]
 * Rembrandt: Garon!

A New Pledge Between Zatch and Tia

 * Kiyo: That's perfect! We blew them out of the building. Find a place to hide and stay out of sight. Don't worry. We'll keep these two from getting inside the auditorium!

 * Maruss: You lily-livered little wuss! I warned you not to interfere and you did it anyway! So now you're gonna get what you deserved you're going down!!!
 * Rembrant: Garon!
 * Kiyo: Okay Zatch, this is it! Zaker!

 * Maruss: Blast it! Why am I have so much trouble getting rid of this little nerd?

 * Maruss: Darn it! Why do you keep interfering? Why are you protecting them? This fight has nothing to do with you! Besides, what good is it gonna do? Even if you protect them from me, sooner or later you’ll have to fight them yourself.

 * Kiyo: Way to go! [Zatch pants as Maruss falls over] Good work Zatch!

[next scene is Maruss who is on the ground with his shirt torn off exposing his muscles and his shirt pieces are everywhere]
 * Tia: Incredible! He actually did it! He defeated Maruss! Is that really Zatch? The little weakling I grew up with?

[Maruss opens his eyes; he is now furious]
 * Maruss: [loses his temper] ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! I'M NOT ABOUT TO LET MYSELF BE DEFEATED BY AN OUTCAST WEAKLING LIKE YOU!!
 * Tia: He still has that much power left?
 * Maruss: I'M GOING TO WIN!! I'M GONNA BE KING!! HOW DARE YOU DEFY ME YOU LOWLY OUTCAST SCUM!! COMPARED TO ME, YOU'RE JUST A FRIGHTENED MOUSE TREMBLING IN FEAR OF MY POWER LIKE TIA!!
 * Tia: Liar!
 * Maruss: REMBRANT, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!? ATTACK THEM AGAIN AT ONCE!!
 * Rembrant: Garon!!
 * [Maruss launches Garon to try to attack Tia and Zatch]
 * Kiyo: You’re rotten to the core you monster! Zatch and Tia aren’t lowly or less than you. In fact, they’re quite the opposite!
 * Maruss: DRAT!! THEY’VE DODGED MY ATTACK AGAIN!!
 * Kiyo: You see, you shouldn’t ever tell anyone you’re better than they are. Because those you belittle are the very ones who will defeat you! Zaker!
 * Maruss: [Zatch blasts Maruss for the last time] AAAAAHHHHH!!

[While Zatch is blasting Maruss, goes to Maruss’ abs and his face, and Rembrant sees a purple flame on Maruss' body and the book is on fire as well]
 * Rembrant: AAHHH!!

[Rembrant falls over, Maruss falls to the ground, and his burned book as well]
 * Maruss: Ugh! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[Maruss is now sent back to the Mamodo World]
 * Zatch: [panting]
 * Tia: Zatch, when you met Kiyo met a good person. I think I understand Zatch has gotten so strong.
 * Rembrant: Uhh... uhh... aah... aah... aah... [Rembrant runs off]

The Invulnerable Robnos

 * Kiyo: [Reading from a note] You have the statue, I have the girl. Zatch and the owner of the book better come to warehouse number 8 in Mochinoki harbor by 3:00 pm or the girl will be in even more trouble... [examining note] hmmm...hmmm. WHAAAAT!? BY 3:00 PM!? [Looks at clock] AHHH! THAT'S IN 10 MINUTES!!!
 * Zatch: Sorry I didn't tell you sooner Kiyo, but I've been busy all day. My favorite soap opera ran a special wedding episode.
 * Kiyo: SUZY WAS KIDNAPPED AND YOU WERE WATCHING SOAPS!?
 * Zatch: Don't worry. The same thing happened to the bride and they rescued her.
 * Kiyo: FORGET THE SOAP OPERA!! WE ONLY GOT 10 MINUTES!!!

 * Robnos: I am Robnos, an unbeatable mamodo and I sculpt in my spare time.
 * Kiyo: Ehhh?
 * Robnos:I also really enjoy singing but mostly I like picking on weak opponents. The statue gift worked perfectly and put me in a great mood. In fact, I feel like singing about it. You two guys are gonna lose, cause when I fight, I autocruise. I am so strong. You are so weak. Surrender your boooooook!

Zatch and Tia: A Fierce Combination

 * Purio: Well aren't you the cutest little thing? Say, how about after I'm king, I'll make you my favorite girlfriend after the hundred years, or so I planned to have
 * Lupa:
 * Tia: IF YOU THINK YOU'LL BE KING, YOU'RE CRAZY AND EVEN CRAZIER THAN NOT BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND!!!

 * Tia: What do you mean I'm too small and can't go on the roller coaster! Megumi, bang me on the head so I can notice everyone that would make me taller!

The Final Mirror Battle

 * Kiyo: What are you so happy about?
 * Grisor: Believe it or not, it's actually hard to go easy on you guys!
 * Kiyo: What do you mean?
 * Dr. Hakase: Ha ha! He means that the power of the magic mirror is too strong for you.
 * Grisor: I'm still only using the fraction of the power I am capable of.
 * Dr. Hakase: [laughing maniacally]
 * Kiyo: Just tell me why!
 * Dr. Hakase: Huh?
 * Kiyo: Why do you need things like the magic mirror? And why did you intentionally hurt...Shion and her friend Nya!?
 * Dr. Hakase: Heh heh heh heh. Alright, I'll tell you the truth as a going away present. It's because Grisor was once a little weakling like Zatch. He knew it was forbidden to use it in the mamodo world. He also knew that there was no way he would even been standing there at the end of the battle. So Grisor took the mirror and brought it to the human world for the battle.
 * Kiyo: What!? So Grisor is the one who stole the magic mirror?
 * Dr. Hakase: Hah hah hah hah hah hah! And who says crime doesn't pay? Unfortunately, the mirror broke between the human world and the mamodo world. It split into three pieces scattering across the planet. And you know the rest of the story, we tricked that foolish girl with my scientific knowledge and Grisor's skillful powers of persuation and we've finally obtained all three pieces of the mirror.
 * Kiyo: For someone supposedly so smart, you don't listen very well. That's not what I asked you!
 * Dr. Hakase: Huh?
 * Grisor: Huh?
 * Kiyo: Why did you get Shion and Nya involved? Shion, the only way she wanted was to be with Nya! You just toyed with her heart! And you guys took away...HER BEST FRIEND!!!

Invincible Kanchome

 * Kanchome: That's the spirit Folgore! Think of all you fans!
 * Fredo: [about Iron Man Folgore] Man, I really hate that song!
 * Parco Folgore: Oh...
 * Fredo: Let's finish them, before they sing em again.

 * Fredo: Are you kidding me? [to Bago] Well Bago, what's wrong? Don't tell you can't tell me which one is the real one.
 * Kanchome: [as Fredo] Of course he can, he's a smart mamodo. He knows who his master is.
 * Bago: Aaaw! Uhh! Huh?
 * Fredo: [explodes with impatience] COME ON ARE YOU BLIND OR WHAT!!? ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AT HIM TO SEE IF HE'S A FAKE!!!
 * Bago: Whoa. Uh...
 * Kanchome: [as Fredo] Now now, don't let him confuse you, just look deep in your heart and ask yourself which one is always loved and respected you like the son he never had.
 * Fredo: THIS IS INSANE!! JUST CRUSH HIM YOU IDIOT!!
 * Bago: Huh? Who's an idiot!? [punches Fredo] I know who’s the real master. Youse nice to Bago.

Cold-Hearted Foes

 * Apollo: Hey what's the matter, Rops? [he looks at Zeno]
 * Zatch: Ha ha ha ha haa ha ha!
 * Apollo: It's Zatch! Hey Zatch! Wait up!
 * Zeno: You've got the wrong guy.
 * Apollo: Huh?
 * Zeno: How dare you mistake me for that sniveling little clown of a mamodo.
 * Apollo: It's not Zatch. But it just look like him, there's an evil in his eyes that Zatch doesn't have, and if he's not Zatch. Then who is he?
 * Zeno: So tell me. Have you seen Zatch lately? Ha! I'm just asking if you destroyed his book.
 * Apollo: No. I didn't do it. He and Kiyo were a powerful team, and we settle for a tie.
 * Zeno: Ha! That's so idiotic. You say that team's powerful. Then you and little squirt must be the weakest team ever. Now I understand how a loser like Zatch keep surviving. He must be fighting lame opponents.
 * Apollo: You don't seem so tough to me.
 * Zeno: Huh?
 * Apollo: Let's go Rops. I've had enough of this guy.
 * Rops: Cau.
 * Zeno: Don't you want ta battle?
 * Apollo: No thanks. We'd like to travel in peace. I'm not interesting in someone fighting like you.
 * Zeno: Naive. You guys are so naive. You're acting like you had a choice. When I need a couple of guys as naive as you two. It puts me in the mood to destroy your book.
 * Apollo: This looks like one fight I can't back out of.

title: Zatch Bell!