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Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is an author of fantasy and horror literature who writes books for young adults. She is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania.

Best known for writing stories involving young heroines, she made a name for herself with her first quartet The Song of The Lioness, which followed the main character Alanna through the trials and triumphs of training as a knight. Pierce is also the co-founder of the forum Sheroes Central.

Alanna of Trebond

 * "I just want to be a warrior maiden and go on adventures. I don't want to fall in love, especially not with George or Jon. They'll ask me to give them parts of me. I want to keep me for myself. I don't want to give me away. Look at my father. He never really got over my mother's death. They told me when he died last month he was calling for her. He gave her part of himself, and he just never got it back. That's not going to happen to me."

 * [to Duke Hilam] “You are brave kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!”

 * Funny. It used to be I couldn't wait to go. And now that the time to leave is here, I only want to stay. Why can't I be happy- or at least, why can't I make up my mind?

 * [admiring her shield] A lioness rampant. I like it.

 * Even if [Roger] kills me, I've won. I've planted the seed of doubt here; he'll never be trusted again.

 * "C'mon, Coram! Let's go find an adventure!"

 * "I think as a human being... Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to."

 * [to Roger] “You know something? There are sandstorms that stop man and horse and bury them, I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other creature solid. Against those things, you're just a man. I can deal with you.”

 * [to Daine] "Don't tell me. You expected some one taller."

 * [regarding Aly's blue hair] "It's as sophisticated as a blueberry."

Veralidaine "Daine" Sarrasri

 * "It's fair funny. I've gone from having no home, to having too many!"

 * "Folk like you always lay the blame on somebody else. If I'd listened to talk like that, I'd've let myself get killed by my own people months ago."

 * [to Numair] “I hope you will think of a smart way to fight them. If you don't, I will find a stupid way.”

 * "Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no."

 * [To Numair] "I think it's fair rude of you to turn him into a tree and not know what kind he is!"

 * "Odds bobs!"

Keladry "Kel" of Mindelan

 * "You mean there has to be a reason for the masters to give us hard work? I thought that was their idea of fun."

 * [to Raoul] “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, my lord. You are a bad man.”

 * "You all know why we're here. You know the enemy. He will be on us soon. When he comes, we will fight, not for some glorious cause, but to survive. The gods have given us time to prepare, and we must take advantage of every moment of it. Once the enemy comes, how safe we'll be is determined by these walls and the people in them…"

 * "Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male- I hesitate to say 'man'- or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations or our monthlies?"

Alianne "Aly" of Pirate's Swoop

 * [to her mother] "Must you be so obsessed? I know all of this already. When you were my age you’d killed ten giants, armed with only a stick and a handful of pebbles. Then you went on to fly through the air on a winged steed, to return with the Dominion Jewel in your pocket and the most beautiful princess in all the world for your king to marry."

 * "Why, I'm just as true and honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming than dirt."

 * [explaining her blue hair] "I proclaim the shallowness of the world and of fashion. I scorn those who sway before each breeze of taste that dictates what is stylish on one's dress, face, or hair. I scoff at the hollowness of life."

Rebekah "Beka" Cooper

 * "The lower city is mine, it's people are mine. If I find them that's doing all this kidnapping and murdering, they'd best pray for mercy, because once I get my teeth in 'em, I will NEVER let them go."

Nealan "Neal" of Queenscove

 * [to Kel] "Where's the sunny smile? The 'Hello, Neal, isn't it a wonderful day to be alive in the royal palace?' pain-in-the-bum greeting I usually get?"

 * “I’d like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs.”

 * “Tilt with Lord Raoul? Why don't I just lie down in front of an elephant and let him step on me? I bet it feels the same."

 * [about Jump] “You know, Mindelan, our lives would be easier if the dog just broke down and talked.”

Myles of Olau

 * "I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone."

 * "There's a dancing bear in Corus who's almost as shaggy as I am."

Raoul of Goldenlake

 * "When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh… Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks."

 * "Commanders are as rare as heroes... You've shown flashes of being a commander, Keladry. Its my job to see if you will do more than just flash..."

Gareth of Naxen

 * "Ah. 'Free time.' I've heard about that. Don't fool yourself, Fire-Top. What with the extra hours of lessons for punishments, and the work you get everyday, free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life working from dawn until midnight. We all face up to it sooner or later."

 * [upon learning Alanna's true identity] "Oh, I can't wait to see their faces!"

George Cooper

 * [to Alanna] "There are plenty of fish in the sea besides Prince Jonathan, and this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."

 * “Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.”

Numair Salmalín

 * [to Daine] "I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you."
 * [to Daine] "Boys worry just as much about their looks as girls do; we only hide it better."

Faithful

 * He's here. The Voice of the Tribes. He has very good taste: he likes cats.

 * [to Alanna] Wake up and get dressed. You don't want the surprise they've planned to be a surprise for them as well as you.

 * There must be insanity in my family, too.

 * [observing Coram and Rispah flirting] He likes your coming here better now.

Others

 * "You've a gift for healing. It's greater than mine, greater than any I have ever known. And you've other magic, power you'll learn to use. But the healing- that's the important thing. [...] You see only the glory. But there's lives taken and families without fathers and sorrow. Think before you fight. Think on who you're fighting, if only because one day you must meet your match. And if you want to pay for those lives you do take, use your healing magic. Use it all you can, or you won't cleanse your soul of death for centuries. It's harder to heal than it is to kill. The Mother knows why, but you've a gift for both." -Maude [to Alanna]

 * "I wish I could say 'have fun', but I can't see how anyone can have fun learning to be a knight." -Thom [to Alanna]

 * “If I'd known I'd be traveling with a legend, I would of thought twice about comin' along.” – Coram Smythesson

 * "Girls play at bein' Lioness. I saw one chasing her brother down the street, wavin' a stick and calling for the Conte Duke to submit to her sword." -Lord Provost

 * "All you mages are Players at heart. I swear. Can't do the magic unless you have all kinds of robes and props and a big audience to cheer you." -Onua Chamtong

 * “I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had manners. Happily, I don’t.” -Rikash Moonsword

 * “That's Lalasa, Kel's maid. She sews and knows all sorts of ways to hurt you.” -Owen of Jesslaw [to his first-year cousins]

 * “You're alive. Most people who go five rounds with my lord can only babble about funeral plans.” -Domitan of Masbolle [to Kel]

 * "If he's like this now, how will he stay calm when his daughter tries for her knighthood?" -Irnai the Seer [about Neal]

 * "It appalls me to say this, but for the first time I find myself in agreement with Sir Nealan." -Lord Wyldon of Cavall

 * “That’s the one, all right. I told you she would come, the Protector of the Small. And she’s got her knowing animals, the healer, and the horse boy, the armed men and the marked men, the trapper and the bitter mother. They’re all here. Blayce will fall.” -Irnai the Seer

Alanna: The First Adventure

 * "Hello," [Myles] greeted her cheerfully. "You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here?"
 * Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. "The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time."

 * Gary: "I like you- for all you're a thief."
 * George: "And I like you, Gary- for all you're a noble."

 * Raoul grinned. "I'd like to see him mess with our Alan. I'd pound him to a pulp." Alanna had become a favorite with Raoul, and he didn't care who knew it.
 * Alanna make a face. "I do my own fighting, thanks."
 * "Raoul just wants an excuse," Jonathan explained. "He likes hitting Ralon."

 * Stefan: "...if Ralon ever comes back from th' City wiv a full purse, George'll have all our ears. George likes Master Alan."
 * Gary: "Let George do what he wants. What do you mean, he'll have you ears."
 * Stefan: "George has a collection. One slip an' he warns ye. Two, an' he takes an ear- fer his collection. Three mistakes- he takes t'other ear an' all that's attached. George likes things done right."

 * "I fell down, you Grace," she said, her face straight.
 * "Mithros, boy- can't you think of a better excuse?"
 * She scuffed a foot. "This one works so well, sir. It- it has tradition behind it."
 * Alanna was opening the door when he added, "I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."
 * She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down."
 * She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down."

 * Alanna: "Ralon of Malven has beggars and thieves for ancestors. He's the son of a lizard and a demon. He has all the honor of a weasel. He can't even fight in the open like a man and a noble. He picks his fights in back halls- so no one can see him cheat."
 * Ralon: "What did you say?"
 * Alanna: "Liar. Sneak. Coward. Bully. You disgrace your name. D'you want me to write it down for you? Oh- I forgot. You can't read, either."

 * Ralon looked at the others. "They won't step in, no matter what?" he asked slyly.
 * "They won't. I swear on my honor as a gentleman. You'd better swear by something else, though. You don't have any honor." [Alanna] slapped him with all her strength and ducked.

 * Alanna: "You planned this all along!"
 * Jon: "I hate mysteries. This place has been one for years. I knew you'd have the guts to come with me."
 * Alanna: "But- Gary, Alex, Raoul. They would've-"
 * Jon: "They would've grumbled all the way here and then knocked me over the head when I tried to enter the city. I knew you'd come and keep quiet."
 * Alanna: "That's because I'm the only one with insanity in my family."

 * Ylanda: [to Jon] "Young lion- see your companion for what she really is!"
 * Jon: "She?"

 * Alanna: "I haven't wanted to lie to you."
 * Jon: "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met. Or the best. Now I'm all confused."

 * "Don't you watch," she warned as she stripped and plunged into the chilly water.
 * Jonathan chuckled. "Not me. You're too skinny- and too good with a sword."

In the Hand of the Goddess

 * In the three years she had been disguised as a boy, [Alanna] had learned that boys know girls as little as girls know boys. It didn't make sense- people are people, after all, she thought- but that was how things were.

 * Myles: “You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.”
 * Alanna: “So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid I wouldn't have time to sleep.”

 * Myles: "You're a good lad, Alan of Trebond. You give an old man hope.
 * Alanna: "Nonsense. You aren't that old. And I'm not that good a lad.

 * And the cat! If Faithful was an ordinary cat, Roger would swallow his wizards rod whole.

 * Scholar: "Are ye ever here t' drink? What a sober youngling! Ye an' Johnny! Ye never have a drop!"
 * Lightfingers: "'Tis unnatural! Alan, ye won't even have a drink t' celebrate th' Prince's birthday?"
 * Alanna: "You're celebrating His Highness's birthday? It's not even midnight! Does he know you're so loyal, 'Fingers?"
 * George: Lightfingers just likes to drink, Alan. And if he can't find an excuse, he drinks from sorrow."

 * Alanna: "Need help getting back to your rooms?"
 * Myles: "No. I'm staying to watch the pretty little Eldorne girl try to hook every eligible male at Court.
 * Alanna: "If she doesn't succeed, it won't be because she didn't try."

 * This was insane! [Alex] acted as if he really wanted to kill her; with a dull practice sword, death would be very painful.

 * Alanna: "You must think I'm an awful sissy."
 * Jon: I threw up after my first skirmish."
 * Alanna: "You never."
 * Jon: "I did. And I didn't have anyone to hold my head for me. Don't tell the men, will you?"
 * Alanna: "I won't tell if you won't."
 * Jon: "Done. It wouldn't do for them to think we're sissies, would it?"

 * Alanna: "Were you the one who found me?"
 * Jon: "Actually, Faithful did. You know, that cat's more intelligent then most people."
 * Faithful: Of course I am.

 * Roger: "I appreciate your honesty, Alan of Trebond. Not many dare be so open with me."
 * Alanna: "Not many have insanity in their families, either."

 * Duke Hilam: "I've heard about your bad manners, Alan of Trebond."
 * Alanna: "Funny. I always heard the men from Tusaine possessed some trace of honor. Isn't it odd how rumors lie?"

 * Alanna: "Perhaps your mother betrayed your father with a warthog. You both certainly have a warthog's manners. Jem there even has a warthog's looks."
 * Duke Hilam: Jemis is very rash. I'm not. It's going to take far more than these little barbs to pierce my armor-"
 * Jon: "Perhaps my sword will pierce it, then?"

 * Alanna: "Don't die on me. It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George- don't die on me."
 * George: "I didn't know you cared. And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day."
 * Alanna: "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket! Of course I care."

 * She thought he was asleep. "I love you, Jonathan," she whispered.
 * A long arm snaked around her, and he pulled her against his side. "I know," he said. "I just wanted to be sure you knew it, too."

The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

 * Akhnan Ibn Nazzir: "The favor of the gods to the man who kills her! I swear it!"
 * Alanna: "If the favor of the gods is offered, why don't you kill me yourself?"

 * Akhnan Ibn Nazzir: "Demon! Not content with the soul of Halef Seif, you try to steal our young ones!"
 * Halef Seif: "I believe I retain my soul, Akhnan Ibn Nazzir. Surely I would know if it was gone."

 * Coram: "[Alanna] always hated the Duke, feared him, even. He felt the same about her. She killed him in proper combat, before the King and his Court, but she never felt right about it. I'd give a lot to know how a sword that looks like his wizard's rod turned up in her path now."
 * Halef Seif: "She has been chosen by the gods. Is that not reason enough?

 * Ali Mukhtab: "You frighten them. You are too new; you are too different. Will they have to behave differently, now that you are of the tribe? Better that you die and become a legend. Legends force no one to change."

 * [Alanna] could feel the crystal sword humming each time it sliced past her. The sound made her slightly ill: it was as if Duke Roger were nearby, directing the sword in its quest for her life.

 * Ali Mukhtab: "To make girls shamans is a new thing. But this tribe has done many things that are new since the coming of the Woman Who Rides Like a Man."

 * Alanna: "This training will be good for them."
 * Faithful: It will be good for you, too. It might even make an adult of you, but I doubt that.
 * Alanna: "I'm glad I have you to keep me humble."
 * Faithful: I'm glad you do, too.

 * Alanna: "You look at what you want to burn- later you won't have to look at it- and you picture it burning. Then you want it to burn."
 * Kara: "What if I don't want it to burn?"
 * Alanna: "You have to want it to burn. Otherwise why would you be trying this spell?"
 * Kara: "Oh."

 * Myles: "Do you love Jon?"
 * Alanna: "...Yes, I love him. That's the whole problem."

Ali: "It would be a great thing for the Woman who rides like a man to marry the voice of tribes." Alanna: "And if we don't?" Ali: "Then you are still the woman who rides like a man, and he is still the voice of tribes"

Lioness Rampant

 * Alanna: “At least I never thought I could take on an entire army by myself!”
 * Faithful: “You still do.”

 * Roger: “You're cocky, aren't you? Killed anyone recently?”
 * Alanna: “No. It's so depressing to come back and find one's work reversed.”

Wild Magic

 * Daine: “Does your ma know you're this silly?”
 * Numair: “The few grey hairs she has on her head are my doing. But, I send her plenty of money, so she can have them dyed!”
 * Onua: “I hope she beat you as a child.”

 * "...the tinder burst into flame. She had to put large sticks of wood on it fast, before the fire used up the tinder. "But you didn't point, or make circles, or anything-"
 * [Numair] shrugged. "Some people need those things. I don't."
 * She gasped at his arrogance. "Well, excuse me for breathing!"

 * Sarge: "Something the matter, my lamb?"
 * Daine: "No, sir. I just never met nobody like you."
 * Buri: "And if you're lucky, you won't again."

 * Jon: "I'd best go then. I have to dance with the Carthaki ambassador's wife."
 * Numair: "Wear iron shoes, Your Majesty."

 * [Daine] frowned, remembering. "[My heart] made too much noise. I wanted it to quiet down so I could talk with the dolphins."
 * "Do you hear her?" Numair asked the clouds. "She wanted to talk to dolphins, so she stopped her own blessed heart! Mithros, Mynoss, and Shakith!"

Wolf-Speaker

 * Daine: "[Stormwings] befoul the dead who fall in battle. They live on human fear and anger. They're monsters!"
 * Maura: "They can't help how they're made, Daine."

 * Numair [after turning Tristan Staghorn into a tree]: “What kind is he, can you tell?”
 * Daine: “I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.”

Emperor Mage

 * Kaddar: "We assumed those tales of women fighting among the Riders were only tales. No woman has ever asked to join our armies."
 * Daine: "With you so open and welcoming to the idea, I'm not surprised."

 * "Woe to the empire- we are forsaken. The gods are angry!" -Statue of Zernou, the first Carthaki emperor

 * Kaddar: "Women aren't up to the discipline of military life."
 * Daine: "You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance."

 * "[Numair] dies, my dear. The gods demand a blood sacrifice, and so do I." -Emperor Ozorne

 * Daine: "I thought they'd killed you. I lost my temper."
 * Numair: "Magelet, that is the greatest understatement I've ever heard in my life."

In the Realms of the Gods

 * Daine: “It's a very great honor meeting you.”
 * Queenclaw: (Goddess of cats) “Of course it is."

First Test

 * Salma: "What do they think their mothers do, when the lords are at war and a raiding party strikes?"
 * Kel: "My aunt lit barrels of lard and had them catapulted onto Scanran ships this summer."
 * Salma: "As would any delicately reared noblewoman."

 * Lord Wyldon: "You have been told to mind you manners, Page Nealan. I will have an apology for your insolence."
 * Neal: "An apology for general insolence, your lordship, or some particular offense?"
 * Lord Wyldon: "One week scrubbing pots. Be silent."
 * Neal: "How can I be silent and yet apologize?"

 * Neal: "What possessed you? Why in the name of all the gods in all the Eastern and Southern Lands would you start a fight with them?"
 * Kel: "I didn’t like the shape of Joren’s nose."

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 * Kel: "I'll tell you what the Yamanis told me. Fear is a good thing. It means you're paying attention."
 * Lalasa: "They sound like wonderful people, I'm sure."

 * Neal glared at the chubby second-year with all the royal disdain of a vexed lion. He was limping from a staff blow to the knee. "You are a bloody-minded savage," he informed Owen sternly. "I hope you are kidnapped by killer centaurs."

Squire

 * Sergeant Osbern: “Let's have an inspection. Mithros witness, if I find one strap undone, heads will roll.
 * Giles of Veldine: But, Sergeant Osbern, sir, I like my head.”

 * The Chamber of the Ordeal: “You again.”
 * Kel: “Yes, of course, it’s me. I’m proving to myself that I’m not afraid of you.”
 * The Chamber of the Ordeal: “But you are.”
 * Kel: “I like lying to myself. It’s fun.”

 * She loved no one so much as her horse.

Lady Knight

 * Kel: “He’s a fine judge of folk, Peachblossom. Except Neal. He’s prejudiced against Neal.”
 * Tobe: “He just likes the way Neal squeaks when he’s bit.”

 * Kel waited for them to quiet once again before she said ruefully, “I’m not sure that being known for gutting a man is exactly a recommendation for a commander.”
 * “It is in the north!” cried someone.

 * "You don't respect me," Kel told him with her sourest glare.
 * Neal grinned. "I respect you heaps, lady knight. I'd've thrown myself off a bridge, getting this assignment. You, you're there with lists and plans. You listen to every flap-mouthed bumpkin who thinks he can do your task better, and you answer him with a smile and thanks. Why, you've inspired me to be a blessing to my fellow bumpkin, just like you." He fluttered his fingers in delicate farewell and trotted down the stairs.
 * "I can turn him into something, if you like," Numair murmured, startling a laugh out of Kel.
 * "He was actually complimenting me," she told the mage. "It happens so rarely, I'd hate to see him turned into anything for it."

 * “Sergent Domitan, tell me these children aren’t the result of you squad’s Scanran frolics,” Kel heard Raoul say cheerfully. “Though I do admit, some of them look a little old to be yours.”
 * “Well, sir, my men helped,” Dom said, the picture of boyish mischief.

 * Tobe looked up at her with suspicion. “Are you goin’ t’act like a girl now?” he demanded.
 * “No,” Kel said, stifling a giggle- something that really would frighten him. “It won’t happen again.”

 * “I want a scar to impress the girls,” [Owen] informed Neal, “They like a man who looks dangerous, and my face needs all the help I can get.”
 * “At least let me clean it,” Neal growled. “Unless you think you’ll look really dangerous with your face rotting off.”

Trickster's Choice

 * "I want her head shaved," [the captain] snapped. "Nobody's going to buy a blue-haired slave."

 * Slave Woman: "So were you always mad, or did it come on you when you was took?"
 * Aly: "I'm told it runs in the family."

 * "A noble maiden must convey dignity and chastity without appearing to think about either one. Let common-born girls tussle in the hay with their loutish swains. The future of your family's bloodline and your future lord's bloodline should be your greatest concern." -Excerpt from Advice to Young Noblewomen

 * "Cooked or raw, sausage is not the food of the gods." -Kyprioth

 * "I don’t trust anyone who feels you should like them because they love themselves so much." -Dove

 * "Such fatherly wrath. I would be terrified, except, well, I'm not." -Kyprioth

 * "Merchants," Ulasim remarked drily, referring to her false background again. "Yes, of course I believe you. I must, mustn't I? You are Kyprioth's chosen, so the truth drips from your tongue like honey from the comb."

Terrier
Shut your gob...You tell me nothin' in my kennel. Here, I am Queen Bitch, and you will muzzle yourself." -Kebibi Ahuda

"Don't hit her again, Beka. Let me do it next time." - Aniki Forfrysning

"Who needs handsome idiots when we can have kitties!" - Aniki Forfrysning

"Guardsfolk, lovely day for a riot." - Rosto the Piper

Berryman: Why can't I be on watch with Tunstall?

Goodwin: Because we tossed a coin and I lost.

[Ersken and Kora are kissing]

Beka: [grabs Ersken as she's passing] I'm not having fun, you're not having fun,

Ersken: You sound more like Goodwin every day.

Beka: I begin to see how she got the way she is.

Bloodhound
"'Beka, I'm going to hold your hand now,'He said, only half joking. He reached out and drew me into the alley with him. 'I'm sorry. I've never taken a Dog around before. It never occured to me there might be...hazards." Dale Rowan to Beka Cooper

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Boutros Boutros-Ghali (14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996.

1990s

 * We have entered a time of global transition marked by uniquely contradictory trends. Regional and continental associations of States are evolving ways to deepen cooperation and ease some of the contentious characteristics of sovereign and nationalistic rivalries. National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations. At the same time, however, fierce new assertions of nationalism and sovereignty spring up, and the cohesion of States is threatened by brutal ethnic, religious, social, cultural or linguistic strife. Social peace is challenged on the one hand by new assertions of discrimination and exclusion and, on the other, by acts of terrorism seeking to undermine evolution and change through democratic means.
 * An Agenda for Peace : Preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping (1992) - online text.

 * The concept of peace is easy to grasp; that of international security is more complex, for a pattern of contradictions has arisen here as well. As major nuclear Powers have begun to negotiate arms reduction agreements, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction threatens to increase and conventional arms continue to be amassed in many parts of the world. As racism becomes recognized for the destructive force it is and as apartheid is being dismantled, new racial tensions are rising and finding expression in violence. Technological advances are altering the nature and the expectation of life all over the globe. The revolution in communications has united the world in awareness, in aspiration and in greater solidarity against injustice. But progress also brings new risks for stability: ecological damage, disruption of family and community life, greater intrusion into the lives and rights of individuals.
 * An Agenda for Peace : Preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping (1992)

 * Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.
 * In a speech in 1992. Cited in Awake! magazine, 1995, 9/8; article: How Was the World 50 Years Ago?

 * The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
 * Statement of 1993, as quoted in The Coming Plague : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1995) by Laurie Garrett, p. 592, and in Preventive Diplomacy : Stopping Wars before they Start (1996) by Kevin M. Cahill, p. 254

 * There are signs that the system of collective security established in San Francisco nearly 50 years ago [at the founding of the UN] is finally beginning to work as conceived . . . We are on the way to achieving a workable international system.
 * Cited in the Awake! magazine 1996, 4/22; article: Is a World Without War Possible?

 * Only stupid people don't change their minds.
 * On why he sought a second 5 year term as Secretary General of the UN, having initially planned on serving only one, "The Change in the Administration's Position is a Mystery" Interview with The Washington Times (11 November 1996)

 * I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.
 * On the Bosnian War, as quoted in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)

 * It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. This is why the weak are so deeply concerned with the democratic principle of the sovereign equality of states, as a means of providing some small measure of equality for that which is not equal in fact. Coming from a developing country, I was trained extensively in international law and diplomacy and mistakenly assumed that the great powers, especially the United States, also trained their representatives in diplomacy and accepted the value of it. But the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness.
 * Unvanquished : A U.S. - U.N. Saga (1999), p. 198.

2000s

 * No, because Disneyland is not an independent state.
 * As quoted in "War" (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show

 * I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your guns and listen to Bob Marley.
 * As quoted in "War" (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show

 * The days of dictatorship are over. … We have come a long way. Millions of Egyptians and Iraqis have cast their votes at the ballot box. The Palestinians will follow suit.
 * Quoted in "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster" by Gamal Nkrumah in Al-Ahram weekly No. 777 (10 - 18 January 2006)

 * While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably … We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.
 * Quoted in "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster" by Gamal Nkrumah in Al-Ahram weekly No. 777 (10 - 18 January 2006)

 * Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy.
 * Quoted in "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster" by Gamal Nkrumah in Al-Ahram weekly No. 777 (10 - 18 January 2006)

 * I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. … Education itself — which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people — sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour … It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.
 * Quoted in "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster" by Gamal Nkrumah in Al-Ahram weekly No. 777 (10 - 18 January 2006)

Quotes about Boutros-Ghali

 * I is here with the geezer who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations. His name be none other than my man, Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
 * Sacha Baron Cohen, as quoted in "War" (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show.

 * The situation also gave U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali a chance to start the U.N.'s disegagement from Bosnia, something he had long wanted to do. After a few meetings with him, I concluded that this elegant and subtle Egyptian, whose Coptic family could trace its origins back over centuries, had disdain for the fractious and dirty peoples of the Balkans. Put bluntly, he never liked the place. In 1992, during his only visit to Sarajevo, he made the comment that shocked the journalists on the day I arrived in the beleaguered capital: "Bosnia is a rich man's war. I understand your frustration, but you have a situation here that is better than ten other places in the world. … I can give you a list." He complained many times that Bosnia was eating up his budget, diverting him from other priorities, and threatening the whole U.N. system. "Bosnia has created a distortion in the work of the U.N.", he said just before Srebrenica. Sensing that our diplomatic efforts offered an opportunity to disengage, he informed the Security Council on September 18 that he would be ready to end the U.N. role in the former Yugoslavia, and allow all key aspects of implementation to be placed with others. Two days later, he told Madeleine Albright that the Contact Group should create its own mechanism for implementation — thus volunteering to reduce the U.N.'s role at a critical moment. Ironically, his weakness simplified our task considerably.
 * Richard Holbrooke, To End a War, pp. 174-175.

 * The struggle over the U.N.'s role foreshadowed the American determination a year later to oppose Boutros-Ghali's quest for a second term as Secretary-General. More than any other issue, it was his performance on Bosnia that made us feel he did not deserve a second term — just as Kofi Annan's strength on the bombing in August had already made him the private favorite of many American officials. Although the American campaign against Boutros-Ghali, in which all our key allies opposed us, was long and difficult — especially for Allbright, who bore heavy and unjust criticism for her role — the decision was correct, and may well have saved America's role in the United Nations.
 * Richard Holbrooke, To End a War, p. 202.

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Radovan Karadžić

Radovan Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Караџић) (born June 19, 1945) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet, political doctor, psychiatrist, and war criminal. He was convicted for war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

1990s

 * This, what you are doing, is not good. This is the path that you want to take Bosnia and Herzegovina on, the same highway of hell and death that Slovenia and Croatia went on. Don't think that you won't take Bosnia and Herzegovina into hell, and the Muslim people maybe into extinction. Because the Muslim people cannot defend themselves if there is war here.
 * Radovan Karadžić speaking at the Bosnian parliament, on the night of 14–15 October 1991, in a charged atmosphere in a debate whether to declare the republic "sovereign", which would mean that republic's laws would take precedence over Yugoslav ones. (The term "Muslim people" refers to the people known as Bosniaks.)
 * Variant translation: "You want to take Bosnia and Herzegovina down the same highway to hell and suffering that Slovenia and Croatia are travelling. Do not think that you will not lead Bosnia and Herzegovina into hell, and do not think that you will not perhaps lead the Muslim people into annihilation, because the Muslims cannot defend themselves if there is war – How will you prevent everyone from being killed in Bosnia and Herzegovina?"

2010s

 * There is no doubt that the United States and Germany had their own interests in igniting wars in Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia.
 * Radovan Karadžić speaking in May 2011 during a magazine interview given from Scheveningen Prison, The Hague. — "Radovan Karadzic: The other side to the Bosnian story", Politics First (May 2011).

Quotes about Karadžić

 * Who are they for a whole nation to suffer for them, both in the Republika Srpska and in Serbia, because a certain Mladic has decided that he does not want to surrender and go to court? Or Karadzic? And then they say: "I love the Serbian people." The hell they love us. They are pushing us into ever deeper problems.
 * Milorad Dodik, as quoted in "BOSNIAN SERBS SUPPORT TRIALS OF MLADIC, KARADZIC" (27 July 2007), RFE/RL Newsline

 * In one of his many public statements, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Montenegrin Radovan Karadžić, said the Serbs in the past period, when everyone was on their side, had been subjected to "genocidal extermination" whereas now, over the last year, when so many are against them, they are suffering the least. Of all the innumerable absurdities and untruths that have been uttered, this statement truly takes the cake. For more than forty years Bosnia was inhabited by Bosnians, and we did not distinguish between Serbs, Muslim, and Croats, or at least such distinctions were not paramount in their mutual relations. Throughout that period, to the best of the Yugoslav and world public's knowledge, there were no detention camps for Serbs in Bosnia, no brothels for Serbs women, no Serbian children had their throat cut. (...) But according to Karadzic, the Serbs were somehow unhappy then. And now, in war, with so many dead, (...) now, according to their leader, the time has come when they are suffering the least. (...) Ethnically pure states are an impossibility in today's world, and it is ridiculous to try to create and maintain such a state, even when there is just one nation.
 * Mirjana Markovic, in her newspaper column, on 20 January 1993, cited in Night and Day: A Diary, 1995, pp. 17-18

 * People are not little stones, or keys in someone's pocket, that can be moved from one place to another just like that.... Therefore, we cannot precisely arrange for only Serbs to stay in one part of the country while removing others painlessly. I do not know how Mr. Krajišnik and Mr. Karadžić will explain that to the world. That is genocide.
 * Ratko Mladić, as quoted in "Bosnia's 'Accidental' Genocide" (30 September 2006), by Edina Becirevic, Bosnian Institute, United Kingdom

 * Setting his goal as the creation of a ‘Greater Serbia’, Milošević deployed the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) — then the fourth largest army in Europe — against would-be secessionist republics. Meanwhile, Serb separatist forces within such republics were encouraged to rise up. Lacking a large Serb population, Slovenia was allowed by Milosevic, after a ‘ten-day war’, to go its own way after declaring independence in June 1991. Not so with Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: he was determined that their sizeable Serb minority populations would remain within Yugoslavia. Milosevic loyalists helped carve out Serb autonomous enclaves in each: first Milan Babic in the Serb-dominated Krajina region of Croatia, and then General Ratko Mladić and the psychiatrist-turned-demagogue Radovan Karadžić, within Bosnia. Paramilitary gangs bearing outlandish names — Arkan’s Tigers, the White Eagles, the Chetniks — rampaged through Serb-run Croatia and Bosnia, bringing death and destruction wherever they went. In the process they endowed the lexicon of conflict with a new term, ethnicko cis cenje terena — literally the ‘ethnic cleansing of the earth’, or simply ethnic cleansing.
 * Simon Sebag Montefiore, Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2009), pp. 361-362
 * In addition to the ICC, various other bodies have been involved in the hunt for and prosecution of war criminals. The best-known of these is the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, established in 1993 to bring to justice those responsible for crimes during the Balkan Wars of the early 1990s. In 1996 a Bosnian Serb, Dusan Tadic, became the first man to be convicted by the tribunal when he was found guilty of murder and torture. Other prosecutions have followed, most notably that of Slobodan Milošević — the first ever sitting head of state to be indicted for war crimes (see main text). Having evaded capture for more than a decade — despite an international warrant for his arrest — Milošević's Bosnian Serb proxy Radovan Karadžić was finally run to earth in July 2008 in Belgrade, where he had been working under a new identity as a New Age healer. Ratko Mladić, who with Karadžić was responsible for events on the ground in Bosnia, remains at large at the time of this writing. The fate of Milošević stands as a clear message to them and others like them: for the perpetrators of the most terrible crimes, there is no escape from justice.
 * Simon Sebag Montefiore, Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2009), p. 361

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Talk:Aeschylus

I'm confused by the "die on your feet...live on your knees" line being called a misattribution when attributed to Aeschylus.

Here's from the Robert Fagles translation of Agamemnon, line 1384:

"Never, better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

So not only is Wikiquote incorrect in calling this a misattribution, it also lists the source of the misattributed/mistranslated line as Prometheus Bound. Which is wrong. unsigned 07:55, 18 February 2007 71.115.16.212 -

The line "The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." is commonly attributed to Richard Bach. unsigned 23:17, 29 October 2011 101.170.211.101
 * As quoted in Voices from Earth (2004) by James Randall Miller books.google is indeed no sufficient source. The "quote" should be deleted. --Vsop.de (talk) 09:08, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Truth: first casualty of war
Snowden 1916 is the oldest I could find, followed by William Trufant Foster, President of Reed College, at the national convention of teachers 1917: '' for "truth is the first casualty of war." The nature of the assault upon truth is shown in the proposal that this national convention of teachers pass a resolution in favor of abolishing the study of the German language and literature'' http://www.archive.org/details/addressesproceed55natiuoft. books.google has something similar, allegedly by Edward Maguire from 1884, but it is obviously later than 1918: ''every honest person knows that truth is the first casualty in every war. Pay a visit to a public library and look through the newspaper files from 1914-18.'' --Vsop.de (talk) 09:08, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
 * Variant: The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

 * God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

 * God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
 * Variant: To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.
 * Variant: When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
 * Variant: When a man's willing and eager the gods join in.

 * Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

 * He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

 * I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.

 * It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

 * It is always in season for old men to learn.

 * It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
 * Variant: It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

 * It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

 * The wisest of the wise may err.

 * There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

 * There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

 * To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

 * To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

 * When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

 * Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Sources listed as references ?
Would it be clearer to add references at bottom rather then have the source description and link repeated for each quote ??

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M. S. Golwalkar

Madhavrao Sadashivrao Golwalkar (February 19, 1906 – June 5, 1973), popularly known as "Guruji", was the second "Sarsanghchalak" (supreme chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Quotes

 * To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the semitic Races - the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.
 * Quoted in The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics by, p. 55.

 * The foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no ideas but those of glorification of the Hindu race and culture [...] or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment - not even citizen's rights.
 * Quoted in The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics by, p. 56.

 * (...) in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews, the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.
 * Quoted in The Saffron Swastika: The Notion of "Hindu Fascism" by, pp. 159-160.

Bunch of Thoughts

 * The Christians committed all sorts of atrocities on the Jews by giving them the label “Killers of Christ”. Hitler is not an exception but a culmination of the 2000-year long oppression of the Jews by the Christians.
 * Bunch of Thoughts, Jagarana Prakashana, Bangalore, 1966, p. 210.

 * Many workers appear to take a delight in blaming others for all ills. Some may put the blame on the political perversities, others on the aggressive activities of the Christians or Muslims and such other faiths. Let our workers keep their minds free from such tendencies and work for our people and our Dharma in the right spirit, lend a helping hand to all our brethren who need help and strive to relieve distress wherever we see it. In this service no distinction should be made between man and man. We have to serve all, be he a Christian or a Muslim or a human being of any other persuasion; for, calamities, distress and misfortunes make no such distinction but afflict all alike. And in serving to relieve the sufferings of man let it not be in a spirit of condescension or mere compassion but as devoted worship of the Lord abiding in the heart of all beings, in the true spirit of our dharma of surrendering our all in the humble service of Him who is Father, Mother, Brother, Friend and Everything to us all. And may our actions succeed in bringing out the Glory and Effulgence of our Sanatana-Eternal - Dharma.
 * Quoted from Talreja, K. M. (2000). Holy Vedas and holy Bible: A comparative study. New Delhi: Rashtriya Chetana Sangathan. Also in

 * 'These protagonists of separatism argue that these 'tribals' worship things like trees, stones and serpents. Therefore they are 'animists' and cannot be called 'Hindus'.  Now this is something which only an ignoramus who does not know the ABC of Hinduism will say. (..) Do not the Hindus all over the country worship the tree?  Tulasi, bilva, ashwattha are all sacred to the Hindu. (...) The worship of Nâg, the cobra, is prevalent throughout our country. (...) Then, should we term all these devotees and worshippers as 'animists' and declare them as non-Hindus?'
 * M.S. Golwalkar: Bunch of Thoughts, p.471-472. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism. ISBN 978-8185990743

 * [Given the Hindu-tribal continuity, Guru Golwalkar proposed that for the integration of tribals and untouchables, one and the same formula applies:] 'They can be given yajñopavîta (...) They should be given equal rights and footings in the matter of religious rights, in temple worship, in the study of Vedas, and in general, in all our social and religious affairs. This is the only right solution for all the problems of casteism found nowadays in our Hindu society.'
 * M.S. Golwalkar: Bunch of Thoughts, p.479. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism. ISBN 978-8185990743

 * It has been the tragic lesson of the history of many a country in the world that the hostile elements within the country pose a far greater menace to national security than aggressors from outside. Is it true that all pro-Pakistani elements have gone away to Pakistan? It was the Muslims in Hindu majority provinces led by U.P. who provided the spearhead for the movement for Pakistan right from the beginning. And they have remained solidly here even after Partition. In those elections Muslim League had contested making the creation of Pakistan its election plank. The Congress also had set up some Muslim candidates all over the country. But at almost every such place, Muslims voted for the Muslim League candidates and the Muslim candidates of Congress were utterly routed. NWFP was an exception. It only means that all the crores of Muslims who are here even now, had en bloc voted for Pakistan. Have those who remained here changed at least after that? Has their old hostility and murderous mood, which resulted in widespread riots, looting, arson, raping and all sorts of orgies on an unprecedented scale in 1946-47, come to a halt at least now? It would be suicidal to delude ourselves into believing that they have turned patriots overnight after the creation of Pakistan. On the contrary, the Muslim menace has increased a hundred fold by the creation of Pakistan which has become a springboard for all their future aggressive designs on our country.
 * Bunch of Thoughts

 * Conversion of Hindus into other religions is dangerous to the security of the nation and the country. It is therefore necessary to put a stop to it. It is by exploitation of poverty, illiteracy and ignorance, offering of inducement and by deceptive tactics that people are converted.  It is but right that this unjust activity is prohibited.  It is a duty we have to discharge towards protecting our brethren in ignorance and poverty.
 * M.S. Golwalkar : ‘Bunch of Thoughts’, third edition, 1996, p. 170 Quoted from Talreja, K. M. (2000). Holy Vedas and holy Bible: A comparative study. New Delhi: Rashtriya Chetana Sangathan.

 * Without dynamic conquering spirit, even devotion to a divine cause will be of little avail In this hard world which is an arena for trial of strength with brute forces, mere goodness or noble virtues will not hold the field for a single moment. That is why we find that in spite of all the piety, goodness and devotion to God all through the past thousand years, we were trampled under the feet by foreign aggressors who, though total strangers to goodness and virtue, had a passion for heroic action and organised effort.
 * M.S. Golwalkar : ‘Bunch of Thoughts’, third edition, 1996, p. 92 Quoted from Talreja, K. M. (2000). Holy Vedas and holy Bible: A comparative study. New Delhi: Rashtriya Chetana Sangathan.

Quotes about Golwalkar

 * When Hindu revivalist sources are quoted at all, preference is given to sources or statements which put the movement in a bad light. The most frequently quoted Hindu nationalist publication in the secondary literature is RSS leader Guru Golwalkar's We, our Nationhood Defined, a rambling pamphlet written in 1938, a juvenile mistake which Golwalkar himself withdrew from circulation in 1948, and which the vast majority of living Hindu nationalists has never read. Hindutva-watchers just can't get enough of it: the majority of Golwalkar quotations in scholarly literature is taken from that pamphlet, though he was not the RSS supremo at the time (while his numerous later statements made when he was, are given much less attention) and though he himself later repudiated it.
 * Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 81-82

 * He is denounced as a fascist on the basis of two passages in a single booklet written at the start of his career. By such criteria, most famous people who are quoted as authorities on moral and political matters could be crucified on a handful of less felicitous lines in their complete works. However, this unfair treatment happens to be prevalent and is partly the result of the poor defence Golwalkar's followers have given him in the opinion-making domain. Public figures and social movements have to live in the real world and take the sheer facts of the power equation in the public sphere into account. As long as Golwalkar has not been disentangled from this identification with the worst handful of lines in his repertoire, it is most unwise and self-destructive to be seen glorifying him. ... According to the Times of India's Akshaya Mukul (9 March 2006), "We is considered the basic charter of Sangh". Whether this is yet another Marxist lie or just an instance of the stark ignorance of the present generations of journalists, I don't know, but the claim is at any rate untrue. .... And more importantly for us today, the book hasn't played any such role since at least 1948, when the remaining stock of its fourth print was confiscated during the crackdown on all Hindutva forces after the murder of Mahatma Gandhi. The book was never reprinted after that, so that over 99% of all Sangh activists now alive have never even seen a copy. ... Indeed, it was Golwalkar himself who vetoed any further reprints of We. The late K.R. Malkani and other RSS elders told me that Guruji had mused about the book's "immaturity". ... The quotes are so popular and by now worn out precisely because they are not representative for RSS thought. In my interviews and conversations with hundreds of Sangh leaders and activists, including in confidential settings where they let their guard down, I have never ever heard anyone cite Golwalkar's "race pride" quote nor make any statement to the same effect. If it were representative, then certainly it shouldn't be difficult to find more recent statements to the same effect. To be sure, attempts have been made to find or rather to fabricate such more recent RSS statements, vide the false presentation of a Gujarat textbook issued under Congress rule as a BJP textbook and then claiming, equally falsely, that it discussed Nazism without mentioning the Holocaust. Such attempts do show in passing how the Marxists realize that their single piece of evidence for "Hindu fascism", even if it had been strong in itself, is a bit dated and in need of being supplemented with more recent expressions of the same ideological tendency.
 * Elst, Koenraad. Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu Sanity (2007)

 * The image of M.S. Golwalkar (1906-73) has posthumously been narrowed down to just two infelicitous and embarrassing quotations from his first book, one that he himself had repudiated early in his career as RSS leader. If read judiciously and within their context, they are by far not as incriminating as various anti-Hindu polemicists would like to have us believe. In particular, contrary to the common allegation, they do not prove that Golwalkar was a Nazi sympathizer, nor that he had mass murder in mind as the solution for the problems Hindu society experienced with its Muslim and Christian minorities. So, clearly the RSS could defuse the negative-publicity bomb which its enemies claim to have dug up from We, if only it had the intellectual wherewithal to properly analyze the text and then, if this proves to be the right course, to clearly disown specifically what must be disowned. But instead it is satisfied to bury the book, refusing to discuss its contents or even to make it available to readers of Golwalkar's "complete works". Like in decades past, it still prefers to look the other way, intimidated by the total control of the mediatic and intellectual domain by India's anti-Hindu coalition of Islamic, Christian and Marxist polemicists. As so often, it is playing by the rules its enemies have imposed rather than changing the power equation through a sincere intellectual effort. It is a welcome development that Golwalkar's followers finally acknowledge that their Guruji has committed mistakes too. But whatever his faults, shouldn't they resolve that he deserved better than to be censored? Wouldn't they render a better service to his memory as well as to the Hindu cause by subjecting his book to a close and frank reading rather than to the silent treatment?
 * Elst, Koenraad. Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu Sanity (2007)

 * The single oftest-quoted Hindutva statement in the whole Hindutva-watching literature is definitely the [the one] from Golwalkar's We... Till today, and even in academic publications, it is very common to see the anti-BJP rhetoric built entirely on these few sentences in Golwalkar's pamphlet of more than sixty years ago.... That alleged Golwalkar quotations turn out to be excerpted from the invective of his critics, is symptomatic of Hindutva-watching in general: first-hand information is routinely spurned in favour of hostile second-hand claims made by unscrupled commentators. In most journalistic and academic publications on Hindutva, the number of direct quotations is tiny in comparison with quotations from secondary, hostile sources.
 * Elst, K. Was Guru Golwalkar a Nazi ?, 1999., and in Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". Chapter 2. I.117-130

 * Trying to corner an opponent with an unfortunate but peripheral quotation from his own past works is considered as intellectually dishonest and just not sportsmanlike. How radically different is the treatment which the Hindutva leader Guru Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar gets. In his case, his mature writings are quoted only rarely as compared with his first booklet, We... By contrast, the doctrine of Integral Humanism, formulated by BJS ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya in 1965, which is the official ideology of the BJP, and to which every BJP member has to swear allegiance, is not even mentioned in the vast majority of publications on Hindutva... Due to academic and mediatic power equations, so many dirty tricks with which you would never get away in a normal debate, are standard practice in writings and TV documentaries on Hindutva... The impression of his Nazi connection was created by intentionally dishonest methods, essentially by misinforming the readership through selective quoting, and by falsely presenting secondary comment as primary information.
 * Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". Chapter 2. I.122-3.

 * In articles of that category, used unquestioningly as source in the majority of introductions to Hindu Nationalism, the targeted Golwalkar book would ... [be] his slim maiden volume, We, Our Nationhood Defined (1939). That attempt at ideological contemplation of the political challenges before Hindu society has earned notoriety because of two overquoted passages... [I] found this common allegation, present in every introductory text on Hindutva, totally wanting.... This oft-quoted passage is irrelevant for the contemporary debates, except to show to what mendaciousness secularists and foreign India-watchers can stoop...
 * Elst, Koenraad. Hindu dharma and the culture wars. (2019). New Delhi : Rupa. Chapter : Guha's Golwalkar

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Green Wing Special

 * For series 1 quotes, see Green Wing (series 1).
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Green Wing (2004 – 2007) is a British television comedy broadcast on Channel 4. The final special episode was broadcast on 4 January 2007, with the DVD released on the 8 January 2007.

The Special

 * [During the funeral, Guy takes out his mobile phone and stars entering a number. Caroline sees him and is shocked.]
 * Caroline: "Guy, what are you doing? Put it away."
 * Guy: "Well, I couldn't be at my sister's funeral at the same time as this one, so I thought the least I could do was phone up and see how that one was going."
 * Caroline: "Your sister?"
 * Guy: "Yeah, my stepsister. You know, I didn't know her that well so it's not that sad. Plus this funeral was nearer. And really sad, obviously."

 * Mac: "So, what have I missed?"
 * Caroline: "Oh, you know, this and that. Oh, and one quite big thing."
 * Mac: "An elephant?"
 * Caroline: "I think Guy might want to tell you himself."
 * Mac: "Guy? He hasn't managed five in a bed, has he?"
 * Caroline: "No."
 * Mac: "That was always his life's ambition."
 * Caroline: "Things might have changed."
 * Mac: "Right."
 * Caroline: "I hope so, anyway. That sort of thing can really screw up a honeymoon."

 * [Karen had returned from her fall from the window, now wearing a fashionable suit. Harriet, Rachel and Kim are shocked by her new look.]
 * Karen: "Lovely morning."
 * Rachel: "What happened to you?"
 * Karen: "Did you not hear? I fell out of a window."
 * Kim: "Well, who'd you land on? Estée Lauder?"

 * [A mechanic is inspecting the camper van.]
 * Mechanic: "She's a bit of a mess, isn't she?"
 * Alan: "Well, no. Fair's fair. She's been on the road, no makeup, so make allowances for the old girl."
 * Joanna: "He means the van."
 * Mechanic: "I was talking about the van, but now you mention it, I take your point."

 * Kim: "Sorry about not noticing the falling out the window thing."
 * Karen: "That's all right."
 * Rachel: "Mind you, looks like you had a lucky escape. There's not a scratch on you."
 * [Karen then removes her right hand. It is a fake. The other admin girls are shocked as Karen shows them the hand, and puts it back on.]
 * Karen: "And my nose whistles when I orgasm."

 * [They start to rob the shop, but Alan still seems to want to buy things.]
 * Shopkeeper: "That'll be £16.20 please."
 * Alan: "Right, here's 5, 10, 15, and 1…"
 * Joanna: "What? What are you doing? She's supposed to be giving you the money."
 * Alan: "Well, she gave me the money and I'm using it to pay…" [To the shopkeeper, realising his error.] "Oh, very clever. Hm? Very clever. Sorry, but you have to get up pretty bloody early in the morning to trick Alan St…Stath…Not his name, there."

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User talk:Uncle Mart~enwikiquote

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Edward V. Berard

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: Delete.  Cbrown1023  talk  23:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Edward V. Berard
Questionable notability and copyright infringement possiblity. Mr. Berard seem to be a successful engeneering (4733 results at Goodsearch), but the top result there is his resume. On google the top entry is a quote site with one single quote, the second is again his resume and our article follows. He has no article on English Wikipedia, and the "spanish Wikiquote" link added by the original poster is now dead (supposedly deleted). The second argument is more serious; the quote site (which was provided as "the source") has one sigle quote identical with our website. To copy the whole content could be a copyright violation. Or not. Unless both arguments are well opposed, I think we are better not to keep this article as a part of our collection. Aphaia 14:12, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed: 15:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete Aphaia 14:13, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above.  Cbrown1023  talk  21:05, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment The article does still exist on the Spanish Wikiquote, but there is no link to it currently.  Cbrown1023  talk  21:05, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Copying a single, short, unsourced quote from a website can't reasonably be interpreted as a copyright violation without something more than just the words, like the presentation, which we don't copy. But the lack of clear notability is a compelling reason to delete this article. Consider also that search engines tend to have a bias toward computer professionals like this person, which is probably why the search results offer a sizeable count without any obvious reliable sources. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 16:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 22:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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User talk:Mr. Evil

Please stop removing content from Wikiquote. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Wikiquote exists for the collecting of notable quotations of famous people and famous works. For a quick overview of what Wikiquote is, read Wikiquote, and also What Wikiquote is not for a list of common activities that Wikiquote does not support. When people are not interested in responsibly contributing to the development of the project incidents of their deliberate vandalism can result in IP addresses being blocked from editing. Thank you.--Aphaia 14:16, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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User:Cola19~enwikiquote

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I am a 20 year old male from Scotland who is currently working to improve his poor grammer:).

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Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is an American journalist, television commentator, and writer.

Quotes

 * [On 2006 Israel-Lebanese war] "..the net result is you have an Israeli government in disarray and a United States administration so identified with Israeli failure right now that it hurts the United States around the world."
 * Washington Week, August 18, 2006

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