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Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 until 1905. The author of several influential works of philosophy, he was one of the most intellectual prime ministers of the 20th century. As Foreign Secretary he authored the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.

Backbench MP

 * He did not believe that any such transaction could be quoted from the annals of our political or Parliamentary history. It stood alone—he did not wish to use strong language, but he was going to say—it stood alone in its infamy.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (16 May 1882) denouncing the Kilmainham Treaty

President of the Local Government Board

 * To secure order, freedom, and safety, for the minority as well as for the majority of the Irish people, and to do so as far as possible, by the administration of equal laws, should be the first object of any Ministry responsible for the government of that country. But I shall resist to the uttermost any attempt to loosen the connection, which has subsisted so long between Ireland and Great Britain, under whatever disguises that attempt may be made.
 * Election address for the 1885 general election, quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1848–1905 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 72

 * I shall offer uncompromising resistance to any measure which may throw obstacles in the way of the teaching of religion in elementary schools. I will not consent in the name of religious freedom, to banish religion from education; or, in the name of religious equality, to plunder the Church.
 * Election address for the 1885 general election, quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1848–1905 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 72

Chief Secretary for Ireland

 * Cromwell failed because he relied solely upon repressive measures. That mistake I shall not imitate. I shall be as relentless as Cromwell in enforcing obedience to the law, but, at the same time, I shall be as radical as any reformer in redressing grievances, and especially in removing every cause of complaint in regard to the land. It is on the twofold aspect of my policy that I rely for success. Hitherto, English Governments have stood first upon one leg and then upon the other. They have either been all for repression, or all for reform. I am for both; repression as stern as Cromwell: reform as thorough as Mr Parnell or anyone else can desire.
 * Statement shortly after taking office (March 1887), quoted in Bernard Alderson, Arthur James Balfour: The Man and His Work (1903), p. 71

 * There are those who talk as if Irishmen were justified in disobeying the law because the law comes to them in a foreign garb. I see no reason why any local colour should be given to the Ten Commandments.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (28 March 1887) introducing the Irish Crimes Bill

 * I have never had to go back beyond the year 1885 to prove that the Irish leaders desired to obtain what they call the freedom of their country by illegal and anarchic means.
 * Speech in Eridge Park near Tunbridge Wells (6 August 1888), quoted in The Times (7 August 1888), p. 1.

 * It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
 * Letter to Mary Gladstone Drew (17 May 1891), in Some Hawarden Letters, 1878–1913, Written to Mrs. Drew (Miss Mary Gladstone) Before and After Her Marriage, chosen and arranged by Lisle March-Phillipps and Bertram Christian (London: Nisbet & Co., 1917), p. 248.

 * Those who look forward to a period of continuous and, so to speak, inevitable progress, are bound to assign some more solid reason for their convictions than a merely empirical survey of the surface lessons of history. ...Humanity, civilisation, progress itself, must have a tendency to mitigate the harsh methods by which Nature has wrought out the variety and the perfection of organic life.
 * A Fragment on Progress (1891)

Leader of the House of Commons

 * [T]he energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.
 * The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology (1895), p. 31

 * [I]t is Authority rather than Reason to which, in the main, we owe, not religion only, but ethics and politics; that it is Authority which supplies us with essential elements in the premises of science; that it is Authority rather than Reason which lays deep the foundations of social life; that it is Authority rather than Reason which cements its superstructure. And though it may seem to savour of paradox, it is yet no exaggeration to say, that if we would find the quality in which we most notably excel the brute creation, we should look for it, not so much in our faculty of convincing and being convinced by the exercise of reasoning, as in our capacity for influencing and being influenced through the action of Authority.
 * The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology (1895), pp. 237–238

 * In my judgment, the importance of the Crown in our Constitution is not a diminishing, but an increasing factor. It increases, and must increase with the development of those free, self-governing communities, those new commonwealths beyond the sea, who are constitutionally linked to us through the person of the Sovereign, the living symbol of Imperial unity.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (25 January 1901)

Prime Minister

 * ...the existing educational system of this country is chaotic, is ineffectual, is utterly behind the age, makes us the laughing-stock of every advanced nation in Europe and America, puts us behind not only our American cousins but the German and the Frenchman and the Italian, and that it was not consistent with the duty of an English Government, of a British Government, to allow that state of things longer to continue without an adequate remedy.
 * Speech in St James's Hall, Manchester (14 October 1902) defending the Education Act, quoted in The Times (15 October 1902), p. 5

Leader of the Opposition

 * ...the great Unionist party shall still control, whether in power or whether in opposition, the destinies of this great Empire.
 * Speech in Victoria Hall, Nottingham (15 January 1906), quoted in The Times (16 January 1906), p. 6

 * I hold that fiscal reform is, and must remain, the first constructive work of the Unionist party; That the objects of such reform are to secure more equal terms of competition for British trade and closer commercial union with the Colonies. ... the establishment of a moderate general tariff on manufactured goods, not imposed for the purpose of raising prices or giving artificial protection against legitimate competition, and the imposition of a small duty on foreign corn are not in principle objectionable, and should be adopted if shown to be necessary for the attainment of the ends in view or for the purposes of revenue.
 * Letter to Joseph Chamberlain (14 February 1906), quoted in The Times (15 February 1906), p. 9

 * ...we are now in a position which we have not been within the memory of living men. (“Shame.”) Now, what does this imply? Everything depends upon the Navy. (Hear, hear.) We exist as an Empire only on sufferance unless our Navy be supreme (hear, hear), and I for one, ladies and gentlemen, am not content to exist on sufferance. (Cheers.)
 * Speech in Hanley (4 January 1910), quoted in The Times (5 January 1910), p. 7

 * Go about at this moment if you will and consult the statesmen and diplomatists of the lesser Powers, and I am perfectly confident that you will find among them an absolute unanimity of opinion that a struggle sooner or later between this country and Germany is inevitable. I do not agree with them, but that is their opinion. They have watched with the closest interest...and they have come to the conclusion, I believe utterly wrongly, that we are not alive to the sense of our responsibilities, and that nothing can stir us to a recognition of our position, and that, therefore, we are predestined to succumb in some great contest, the occasion for which nobody can foresee, to a country which does face facts, which is alive to its responsibility, and which talks little and does much. (Cheers.) And so far has this depreciatory view of the virility of the manhood of Great Britain gone that I have known Germans, not connected with the Government, but men of position and character, men engaged in great affairs, who if you talk to them about the adoption of Tariff Reform by this country, actually say,—“Do you suppose we should ever allow Great Britain to adopt Tariff Reform?” (Cheers.) I do not press private and irresponsible conversations more than they ought to be pressed, but the idea of any man of education and character outside this country should have the audacity to say that Great Britain is not to settle its own taxation according to its own ideas, makes my blood boil. (Cheers.)
 * Speech in Hanley (4 January 1910), quoted in The Times (5 January 1910), p. 7

 * No Continental country has ever been able to understand the temper of the British people, but, while I give them a note of warning of our foreign critics, let me say what is more to the point to my own friends, that unless they bestir themselves Great Britain will be in a position of peril which it has not known in the memory of their fathers, their grandfathers, their great grandfathers, and if that position of peril should issue in some great catastrophe...this country will not again easily arise. (Hear, hear.) I do not believe there is going to be war between this country and any great foreign Power. (Hear, hear.) Heaven knows I do not desire it, but I do not believe it. Please remember the absolutely only way in which you can secure the peace which you all desire is that you shall be sure of victory if war takes place. (Cheers.)
 * Speech in Hanley (4 January 1910), quoted in The Times (5 January 1910), p. 7

 * It is necessary for us as a nation not merely to be organized for war but to be organized for peace, not only to be an armed nation while other nations are armed but to have our industry, our productive capacity organized while other nations are organizing their industry and their productive capacity. (Cheers.)
 * Speech in Hanley (4 January 1910), quoted in The Times (5 January 1910), p. 7

 * I cannot become another Sir Robert Peel in my Party.
 * Remark to David Lloyd George (October 1910) rejecting his proposals for a coalition government, quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 54

 * The advantage of the Referendum is this—that the issue is quite clear and quite precise. It is not one of the mixed issues inevitably put before the constituencies at a General Election. It is perfectly easy to say, when the Referendum is over, on what the Referendum was, whereas after a General Election every man says that it was upon the subject in which he is interested, if the election has gone in his favour. The Referendum has an enormous advantage. It does not involve a General Election; it does not involve all the personal bitterness inevitably involved in a contest between the two competitors for a seat; it does not carry with it a change of Government; and it does get a clear verdict from the people.
 * Speech in the Albert Hall, London (29 November 1910), quoted in The Times (30 November 1910), p. 9

 * The Government have tyrannically destroyed, so far as the Parliament Bill is concerned, every real power which the Second Chamber possesses. They have in their own fashion imitated Cromwell, without either his excuses or his genius.
 * Letter to Lord Newton (25 July 1911), quoted in The Times (26 July 1911), p. 8

 * This Government have lived on electoral bribes for six years. They have been floating helplessly down the revolutionary stream, which they have not controlled or guided in any way, snatching now at one electoral advantage and now at another electoral advantage. They have attacked the Crown, they have attacked the Second Chamber, they have bound the Representative Chamber hand and foot; and, having finished their bribes, they are now lapsing into the old Radical practice of destroying Churches, passing what they conceive to be judicious Reform Bills from the gerrymandering point of view, and generally comporting themselves as a Radical Party in difficulties always does comport itself. I do not believe the country will stand it much longer.
 * Speech to the executive committee of the City of London Conservative Association announcing his resignation as party leader (8 November 1911), quoted in The Times (9 November 1911), p. 10

Opposition MP

 * ...this Home Rule Bill is an experiment in Federalism of the most impossible, unexampled, and preposterous character.
 * Speech in Aberdeen (3 November 1913), quoted in The Times (4 November 1913), p. 10

First Lord of the Admiralty

 * It is not wisdom but folly to assume that all the chances are going to favour the enemy. ... It is admitted on all hands that the losses which would accompany voluntary retirement would be very heavy; I admit also that the losses which would accompany an involuntary retirement would be heavier still. But I suggest that, if we succeed in staying on [in Gallipoli], we shall suffer neither the kind of loss, and that in any case it may be worth while to risk the difference between the two, rather than desert, in the sight of East and West, an important strategic position, which has been gloriously captured, is gloriously held, and may perhaps never be dangerously threatened.
 * Memorandum on the Gallipoli campaign (19 November 1915), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 114

 * Whether an independent Bohemia would be strong enough to hold her own, from a military as well as from a commercial point of view, against Teutonic domination—surrounded as she is at present entirely by German influence—I do not know.
 * Memorandum, 'The Peace Settlement in Europe' (November 1916), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 324

 * I should fear that the new Poland would suffer from the diseases through which the old Poland perished; that it would be a theatre of perpetual intrigues between Germany and Russia; and that its existence, so far from promoting the cause of European peace, would be a perpetual occasion of European strife.
 * Memorandum, 'The Peace Settlement in Europe' (November 1916), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 325

Foreign Secretary

 * His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
 * Letter to Lord Rothschild (2 November 1917); this letter became known as the Balfour Declaration, quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 171

 * Our enemies, who, I may parenthetically remark, are attempting to change their constitution, appear to have no notion that what we want is not so much a change of the form of the apparatus of government as a change in the hearts by which that government is to be directed and animated, and if we are to judge, and surely we may judge without unfairness, of a man's heart by what he does, I would ask you whether those who have made mankind pale with horror over their early barbarities and brutal excesses in Belgium show the least sign that four years of war has in any material respect improved their disposition. Brutes they were when they begun the war, and, as far as we can judge, brutes they remain at the present moment.
 * Speech to a lunch of the English-Speaking Union in the Criterion Restaurant (11 October 1918), quoted in The Times (12 October 1918), p. 2

 * I speak perhaps, with a warmth of indignation unbefitting a Foreign Secretary, but with the news of this outrage...I confess that I find it difficult to measure my epithets, for...this Irish packet boat, crammed as it always is with men, women, and children, in broad daylight was deliberately torpedoed by a German submarine. It was carrying no military stores. It was serving no military ends. It was pure barbarism, pure frightfulness, deliberately carried out. ... I cannot measure the wicked folly of the proceeding of which they have been guilty. ... I wish I could think that these atrocious crimes were the crimes of a small dominant military caste. I agree that the direction of policy, the direction of national policy, may be in the hands of a small caste, but it is incredible that crimes like these, perpetrated in the light of day, known to all mankind, condemned from one end of the civilized world to the other, should go on being repeated month after month of four years of embittered warfare if it did not commend itself to the population which commits them.
 * Speech to a lunch of the English-Speaking Union in the Criterion Restaurant (11 October 1918) after the sinking of the RMS Leinster, quoted in The Times (12 October 1918), p. 2

 * The case which the French present to us with regard to the Left Bank of the Rhine is very forcible, but very one-sided. They draw a lurid picture of future Franco-German relations. They assume that the German population will always far outnumber the French; that as soon as the first shock of defeat has passed away, Germany will organise herself for revenge; that all our attempts to limit armaments will be unsuccessful; that the League of Nations will be impotent; and, consequently, that the invasion of France, which was fully accomplished in 1870, and partially accomplished in the recent War, will be renewed with every prospect of success.
 * Memorandum, 'France's Fear of German Aggression' (28 March 1919) written for the Paris Peace Conference, quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 204.

 * If Germany is going again to be a great armed camp, filled with a population about twice as great as that of any State in Europe; and if she is going again to pursue a policy of world domination, it will no doubt tax all the statesmanship of the rest of the world to prevent a repetition of the calamities from which we have been suffering. But the only radical cure for this is a change in the international system of the world—a change which French statesmen are doing nothing to promote, and the very possibility of which many of them regard with ill-concealed derision. They may be right; but if they are, it is quite certain that no manipulation of the Rhine frontier is going to make France anything more than a second-rate Power, trembling at the nod of its great neighbours in the East, and depending from day to day on the changes and chances of a shifting diplomacy and uncertain alliances.
 * Memorandum, 'France's Fear of German Aggression' (28 March 1919), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), pp. 204–205.

Lord President of the Council

 * The League of Nations has had many critics, but I am not aware that, among the multitude of criticisms that have been offered, any suggestion makes its appearance for finding a substitute for that organization which we desire to see entrusted, I admit, with the great task of preserving the peace of the world. Those who criticize the League of Nations have no substitute for the League of Nations. They are prepared, it seems, for the civilized world to go on in the future, as it has gone on in the past, oscillating between those scenes of violence and sanguinary disturbance and the intervals in which great and ambitious nations pile up their armaments for a new effort. To me such an ideal appears to be absolutely intolerable, and I am not prepared, seriously, to discuss with any man what the future of the international relations should be unless he is prepared either to accept in some form or another the League of Nations, or to tell me what substitute he proposes for it.
 * Speech in the Queen's Hall to the Armistice Day meeting organised by the League of Nations Union (11 November 1919), quoted in The Times (12 November 1919), p. 20

 * Nationality was valuable, in so far as it was a centripetal principle, in so far as it produced closer cooperation between members of the human race. It had the other side, and it must not be put on an absurd pedestal. It was not to any politician's or statesman's credit that he worked on the emotions of nationality to produce division; the proper use of the feeling of nationality was to produce union.
 * Speech to a meeting of the Congress of Philosophy at Oxford (27 September 1920), quoted in The Times (28 September 1920), p. 12

 * I feel, as time goes on, not that the war has produced fewer evils than I feared at the time, for the conviction grows on me that the evils are unmeasured. As year succeeds year we shall more and more see how great was the calamity, how inexplicable the crime which brought that war on humanity. There was one bright side to it. The horrors of that war did at least persuade mankind that some great effort must be made to prevent its repetition. Those who with the facile scepticism or easy cynicism of the arm-chair deride the efforts—humble, imperfect, but honest which are being made all the world over to render the repetition of those horrors impossible must be careful that they do not make themselves shares in the great crime from which we have already so bitterly suffered.
 * Speech (1921), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (1936), p. 230

 * Suppose [he said to the Americans] that it was a familiar thought in your minds that there never was at any moment of the year within the limits of your State more than seven weeks food for the population, and that that food had to be replenished by overseas communication...Then you will understand why every citizen of the British Empire, whether he comes from the far Dominions of the Pacific, or the small island in the North Sea, can never forget...that without sea communication he, and the Empire to which he belongs, would perish.
 * Speech to the second meeting of the Washington Naval Conference (1921), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (1936), p. 236

 * Fairly well, but it is like talking to a lot of tombstones.
 * Answer to Lord Riddell after he asked him how he liked speaking in the House of Lords (19 July 1922), quoted in Lord Riddell's Intimate Diary Of The Peace Conference And After 1918–1923 (1933), p. 379

 * Most terrible of all the terrible Turks.
 * His comment about Mustafa Kemal Pasha, later known as Atatürk, in THE TWO KEMALS; The Polished Aristocrat of European Circles in Contrast With the Ruthless Commander of Fanatical Turks, New York Times, 1 October 1922

Retirement

 * As you know many people have dreamed dreams since the War ended. It's partly the fault of the British nation—and of the Americans; we can't exonerate them from blame either—that this idea of “representative government” has got into the heads of nations who haven't the smallest notion of what its basis must be. ... I doubt if you would find it written in any book on the British Constitution that the whole essence of British Parliamentary government lies in the intention to make the thing Work. We take that for granted. We have spent hundreds of years in elaborating a system that rests on that alone. It is so deep in us that we have lost sight of it. But it is not so obvious to others. These peoples—Indians, Egyptians, and so on—study our learning. They read our history, our philosophy, and politics. They learn about our Parliamentary methods of obstruction, but nobody explains to them that when it comes to the point, all our Parliamentary parties are determined that the machinery shan't stop. “The king's government must go on,” as the Duke of Wellington said. But their idea is that the function of opposition is to stop the machine. Nothing easier of course, but hopeless.
 * Conversation (25 April 1925), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 267

Lord President of the Council

 * The General Strike has taught the working classes more in four days than years of talking could have done.
 * Speech (7 May 1926), reported in The Observer (14 November 1926), quoted in Robert Andrews, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations (2003)

 * We [Britain and the Dominions] stand on an equality, and if some foreign critics are disposed to say that standing on an equality means that we are bound to separate in a short time my view is precisely the contrary. My view most strongly is that the British Empire is now a more united organism than it has ever been before, that that organism is held together far more effectually by the broad loyalties, by the common feelings and interests—in many cases, of history—and by devotion to great world ideals of peace and freedom. A common interest in loyalty, in freedom, in ideals—that is the bond of Empire. If that is not enough, nothing else is enough.
 * Speech in the House of Lords (8 December 1926) on the Balfour Declaration

 * Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
 * Observer (20 January 1927)

 * I am a Scotsman addressing Scotsmen, and I feel, therefore, peculiarly qualified to speak on this subject. I absolutely refuse to allow any man, be he English or be he Scottish, to rob me of my share in Magna Charta, or Shakespeare, because of Bannockburn or Flodden.
 * Speech to the University of Edinburgh (26 January 1927), quoted in The Times (27 January 1927), p. 14

 * Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
 * Introduction to Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (London: Oxford University Press, 1928), p. xxiv.

 * It is proof of the most vital principle of the English Constitution, which no foreigner can understand, that when they are brought together in the public interest, they never get deflected from the main issue before them by the memory of ancient conflict or the impossibility of working together. That is the great secret of the paradox that in this country alone will you see the perfection of Parliamentary Government carried to the pitch it has been.
 * Speech in the Speaker's Courtyard of Parliament for his 80th birthday ceremony (25 July 1928), quoted in The Times (26 July 1928), p. 16

 * Parliament is the centre of the British Empire. It is the responsibility of the members of Parliament, to whatever party they belong, to see that the tradition which has insensibly grown up, which is not a product of this or that constitution-monger, but which is the result of the unthought-out efforts for the public good of the various constituent individuals who from generation to generation, either in this House or in the other, had the conduct of public affairs is continued. It is their action which has made Great Britain what it is, and has founded all over the world institutions modelled upon ours and showing that, whether the British Constitution be or be not the best Constitution in the world for all kinds and sorts of men, it is undoubtedly the best Constitution for people of British origin, British tradition, British hopes, and British ideals. That is why I am consoled by the gradual rising of new generations as old generations vanish.
 * Speech in the Speaker's Courtyard of Parliament for his 80th birthday ceremony (25 July 1928), quoted in The Times (26 July 1928), p. 16

 * I am 80. I cannot take much more part in public affairs, but I rejoice to think I see growing up younger generations, one by one, who instinctively follow the great example of their forefathers and are predestined with undiminished lustre to carry to future ages the glories of the British Empire.
 * Speech in the Speaker's Courtyard of Parliament for his 80th birthday ceremony (25 July 1928), quoted in The Times (26 July 1928), p. 16

 * The Irish had owed their success to crime. Winston practically admitted it. They had defied British rule,—and British rulers had given in to them. How could such a state of things be said to fit in with the scheme of the Empire?
 * Remarks after the publication of Winston Churchill's book The Aftermath (1929), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 248

Theism and humanism

 * Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.

 * I speak of God, I mean something other than an Identity wherein all differences vanish, or a Unity which includes but does not transcend the differences which it somehow holds in solution. I mean a God whom men can love, a God to whom men can pray, who takes sides, who has purposes and preferences, whose attributes, howsoever conceived, leave unimpaired the possibility of a personal relation between Himself and those whom He has created.

 * Apart from life and thought, there is no reason to regard one form of material distribution as in any respect superior to another. A solar system may be more interesting than its parent nebula ; it may be more beautiful. But if there be none to unravel its intricacies or admire its splendours, in what respect is it better ? Its constituent atoms are more definitely grouped, the groups move in assignable orbits ; but why should the process by which these results have been achieved be regarded as other than one of purposeless change super-induced upon meaningless uniformity?

 * Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal repose, would for ever be as if it were not. /.../ The physical course of nature does not merely fail to indicate design, it seems loudly to proclaim its absence.

 * Theory of selection /.../ leaves untouched all that can be inferred from the existence of the conditions which make organic evolution possible: matter which lives, multiplies, and varies ; an environment which possesses the marvellously complex constitution required to make these processes possible. /.../ it cannot produce either the original environment or the original living matter. These must be due either to luck or to contrivance; and, if they be due to luck, the luck (we must own) is great. How great we cannot say.

 * We now know too much about matter to be materialists. The very essence of the physical order of things is that it creates nothing new. Change is never more than a redistribution of that which never changes. But sensibility belongs to the world of consciousness, not to the world of matter.

 * Whereas reasons may, and usually do, figure among the proximate causes of belief, and thus play a part in both kinds of series (cognitive and causal), it is always possible to trace back the causal series to a point where every trace of rationality vanishes ; where we are left face to face with conditions of beliefs social, physiological, and physical— which, considered in themselves, are quite a-logical in their character. /.../ on any merely naturalistic hypothesis, the rational elements in the causal series lie always on the surface. Penetrate but a short way down, and they are found no more.

 * A distinguished agnostic once observed that in these days Christianity was not refuted, it was explained. Doubtless the difference between the two operations was, in his view, a matter rather of form than of substance. That which was once explained needed, he thought, no further refutation. And certainly we are all made happy when a belief, which seems to us obviously absurd, is shown nevertheless to be natural in those who hold it. But we must be careful. True beliefs are effects no less than false. In this respect magic and mathematics are on a level. Both demand scientific explanation ; both are susceptible of it. Manifestly, then, we cannot admit that explanation may be treated as a kind of refutation. /.../ This way lies universal scepticism. Thus would all intellectual values be utterly destroyed.
 * On questions of taste there is notoriously the widest divergence of opinion./.../ if, from a survival point of view, one taste be as good as another, it is not the varieties in taste which should cause surprise so much as the uniformities. To be sure, the uniformities have often no deep aesthetic roots. They represent /.../ tendencies to agreement, which govern our social ritual, and thereby make social life possible.

 * In art, origin and value cannot be treated as independent. Those who enjoy poetry and painting must be at least dimly aware of a poet beyond the poem and a painter beyond the picture. If by some unimaginable process works of beauty could be produced by machinery, as a symmetrical colour pattern is produced by a kaleidoscope, we might think them beautiful till we knew their origin, after which we should be rather disposed to describe them as ingenious. And this is not, I think, because we are unable to estimate works of art as they are in themselves, not because we must needs buttress up our opinions by extraneous and irrevelant considerations ; but rather because a work of art requires an artist. not merely in the order of natural causation, but as a matter of a-sthetie necessity. It conveys a message which is valueless to the recipient, unless it be understood by the sender. It must be expressive.

Yet why not ? '''Here we have values which by supposition we are reluctant to lose. Neither scientific observation nor sober sense can preserve them. It is surely permissible to ask what will.'''
 * Romantic love goes far beyond race requirements. From this point of view it is as useless as aesthetic emotion itself. And, like aesthetic emotion of the profounder sort, it is rarely satisfied with the definite, the limited, and the immediate. It ever reaches out towards an unrealised infinity. It cannot rest content with the prose of mere fact. It sees visions and dreams dreams which to an unsympathetic world seem no better than amiable follies. Is it from sources like these—the illusions of love and the enthusiasms of ignorance—that we propose to supplement the world-outlook provided for us by sober sense and scientific observation ?

 * There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.

 * Our admiration for natural beauty /.../ cares not to understand either the physical theories which explain what it admires, or the psychological theories which explain its admiration. It does not deny the truth of the first, nor (within due limits) the sufficiency of the second. But it requires more. It feels itself belittled unless conscious purpose can be found somewhere in its pedigree. Physics and psycho-physics, by themselves, suffice not. It longs to regard beauty as a revelation—a revelation from spirit to spirit, not from one kind of atomic agitation to the "psychic" accompaniment of another. On this condition only can its highest values be maintained.'

 * Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the "vanity of vanities" proclaimed by the Preacher.

 * Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.

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 * ...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true.
 * Quoted by Winston Churchill in his Great Contemporaries (London & New York, 1937) p. 250

Quotes about Balfour

 * Tall, slim and good-looking, like Asquith he was much admired. His intimate friends were few in number, and it is just possible that he didn't believe in anything or anybody. Asquith described him as a man of “superficial charm”. Others considered that his outstanding quality was his political cunning. He was, in fact, a crafty man. During the peace conference in Paris in 1919 Clemenceau used to speak of him as ‘cette vieille fille’.
 * Lord Beaverbrook, Men and Power, 1917–1918 (1956), p. xi

 * One key to the understanding of Arthur Balfour was his conversation. Unhesitatingly I should put him down as the best talker I have ever known, one whose talk was not a brilliant monologue or a string of epigrams, but a communal effort which quickened and elevated the whole discussion and brought out the best of other people. He would take the hesitating remark of a shy man and discover in it unexpected possibilities, would probe it and expand it until its author felt that he had really made some contribution to human wisdom.
 * John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door (1940), chapter VI, section V

 * The doubts that Mr. Balfour expressed nearly thirty years ago, in an Address delivered in Glasgow, have not, so far, been answered. And it is probable that many people, to whom six years ago the notion of a sudden decline or break-up of our western civilisation, as a result not of cosmic forces but of its own development, would have appeared almost fantastic, will feel much less confident to-day, notwithstanding the fact that the leading nations of the world have instituted a league of peoples for the prevention of war, the measure to which so many high priests of Progress have looked forward as meaning a long stride forward on the road to Utopia.
 * J. B. Bury, The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and Growth (1921) referring to Balfour's A Fragment on Progress (1891)

 * The game of international politics...gave free rein to his power of detached analysis. He was not always correct in his anticipations – he was slow, for instance, to recognize the German danger, seeing no rational conflict of interest, and persisted, even after the conclusion of the entente cordiale (and still in the 1920s), in regarding France as the most likely enemy. But the quality and range of his strategic memoranda are deeply impressive. It is no wonder that Asquith called him to the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1912, and to the War Council in 1914–15, on a non-party basis, as the most expert and penetrating mind available.
 * John Campbell, 'A hard man at the little game of politics', The Times (2 May 1985), p. 11

 * [T]he real mystery... [was] The hopeless failure to make good his leadership in spite of every quality & circumstance which should have ensured its success. He stepped into it by an undisputed and acclaimed succession: he was the most popular man in the House of Commons of his generation; brilliant abilities;—a unique charm;—high character. And then—crash! ... It is as if the gift of leadership was something quite distinct from its component elements,—a kind of 6th sense which my father [Lord Salisbury] had & Arthur was without, & which it is impossible to analyse.
 * Lady Gwendolen Cecil to Maud Selborne (18 November 1936), quoted in Hugh Cecil, 'Introduction', Salisbury–Balfour Correspondence, ed. Robin Harcourt Williams (1988), pp. xxiii-xxiv

 * Winston said, that if you wanted nothing done, AJB [Balfour] was undoubtedly the best man for the task. There was no one to equal him.
 * Winston Churchill's remarks to George Riddell, as recorded in Riddell's diary (15 September 1921), quoted in The Riddell Diaries 1908–1923, ed. J. M. McEwen (1986), p. 353

 * The Economic Notes on Insular Free Trade is one of the most remarkable scientific deliverances ever made by a Prime Minister in office. It wears well and bears re-reading. I think that economists to-day would treat Balfour's doubts, hesitations, vague sensing of troubles to come, polite wonder whether unqualified laisser-faire is quite certainly always for the best, with more respect, even if not with more sympathy, than they did then.
 * John Maynard Keynes, ‘Arthur Balfour’, Essays in Biography [1933] (2019), p. 44

 * I could work with Balfour, but the trouble with him is his underlying sense of class superiority. He is kind and courteous, but you feel that he feels that he is a member of a superior class. This makes him unpopular with his own people like Bonar Law, Carson, etc.
 * David Lloyd George's remarks to George Riddell, as recorded in Riddell's diary (30 October 1908), quoted in The Riddell Diaries 1908–1923, ed. J. M. McEwen (1986), p. 21

 * From 1887 up to the end of his Premiership in 1905, he was the most skilful of all the House of Commons speakers of his day, with the exception of...Gladstone. ... [H]e was a brave man—and a fearless one. In comparatively small things he shrank from conclusions and thus gave a false impression of irresolution, but on fundamental issues he never flinched or meandered. He was through and through a patriot and never lost confidence in the invincibility of his country...Clearly he was not the man to stimulate and organise the activity of the Navy in a crisis. But he was an ideal man for the Foreign Office and to assist the Cabinet on big issues. His contributions in the War and afterwards in the making of Peace were of the highest order. In personal charm he was easily first among all the statesmen with whom I came in contact. As to his intellectual gifts I doubt whether I ever met so illuminating an intelligence inside the Council Chamber.
 * David Lloyd George, War Memoirs, Volume I (1938), pp. 604-607

 * After the British captured Jerusalem from the collapsing Ottoman Empire in the wake of World War I, a headline in the New York Herald of December 11, 1917, declared that JERUSALEM HAS BEEN RESCUED AFTER 673 YEARS OF MOSLEM RULE. That same year, the British foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, in a declaration named after him, promised the Jewish people a national homeland in the biblical land of Palestine but stated that it was “clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish Communities in Palestine.” In 1921, the British High Commissioner reported that Jews were only 10 percent of the population of British Mandate Palestine—most of whom had arrived in the prior forty years, including from Russia where they had fled pogroms— though they were already a majority in Jerusalem. More were arriving, and Hebrew, once rarely spoken, was being revived along with the growth of settlements, agricultural colonies planting oranges and eucalyptus and producing wine.
 * Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (2016)

 * [Balfour Declaration is] the root of the suffering of the Palestinian people and paved the way for the violation of their rights and the confiscation of their land and capabilities...the British government and everyone who participated in the implementation of this permit, [have responsibility over] the massacres and tragedies that the Palestinian people were subjected to, especially the crime of uprooting and displacing them, which is ongoing.
 * Munib al-Masri, Palestinians are suing Britain, and why not?, Middle East Monitor, (October 20, 2020)

 * Balfour's favourite weapon was the rapier, with no button on, without prejudice to a strong broadsword when it was wanted... His eye for the construction of dilemmas was incomparable, and... [h]e revelled in carrying logic all its length, and was not always above urging a weak point as if it were a strong one. Though polished and high-bred in air, he unceremoniously applied Dr. Johnson's cogent principle that to treat your adversary with respect is to give him an advantage to which he is not entitled. Of intellectual satire he was a master—when he took the trouble; for the moral irony that leaves a wound he happily had no taste, any more than he had a taste for that extremity in temper and language which was rather the fashion of leading men at the time. I still can find no better parallel to him than Macaulay's account of Halifax: "His understanding was keen, sceptical, inexhaustibly fertile in distinctions and objections, his taste refined, his sense of the ludicrous exquisite, his temper placid and forgiving, but fastidious, and by no means prone either to malevolence or to enthusiastic admiration."
 * John Morley, Recollections, Volume I (1917), pp. 226-227

 * It was not surprising that, in Burke's famous language about Charles Townshend, he became the delight and ornament of his party in the country, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence, and clouds of incense daily rose about him from the prodigal superstition of innumerable admirers.
 * John Morley, Recollections, Volume I (1917), p. 228

 * It reminds me of Arthur Balfour when Brockdorff-Rantzau refused to stand when he was handed the Treaty [of Versailles]. “Did he remain seated?” said someone to Balfour. “I did not notice, I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.”
 * Harold Nicolson, diary (10 June 1941), quoted in Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, 1939–1945, ed. Nigel Nicolson (1967), pp. 171–172

 * He had a pervading charm that one felt as soon as he entered the room. There was nothing conscious about it. He did not, as it were, turn it on at will, as some charming people do. Indeed, he probably neither knew nor cared what other people felt about him. In that sense he was extremely aristocratic. But, at any rate, as an old man, he seemed to bless whatever company he was in.
 * 5th Marquess of Salisbury, 'Arthur Balfour, A Memoir', quoted in Hugh Cecil, 'Introduction', Salisbury–Balfour Correspondence, ed. Robin Harcourt Williams (1988), p. xvi

 * Breakfasted with Lloyd George. ... He said that...Balfour and Chamberlain were both now practically Liberals. Balfour, for instance, was in matters of foreign policy far more Liberal than Grey.
 * C. P. Scott, diary (2 March 1922), quoted in The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911–1928, ed. Trevor Wilson (1970), p. 421

 * [David Lloyd George said that] Balfour again has become a Liberal in his old age—like Gladstone.
 * C. P. Scott, diary (23 October 1922), quoted in The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911–1928, ed. Trevor Wilson (1970), p. 429

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Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE (born February 5, 1969) is an award-winning Welsh actor, mainly known for his stage work.

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 * There is an element of performance to leadership, because you’re on public display, and I suppose I must be attracted to that. Although, probably more than the leadership, I’m more attracted to characters who are quite extreme, and could be considered borderline monsters. It’s something you can get your teeth into, and I find the psychology fascinating. It’s interesting that in searching for monsters to play, you often end up playing leaders.
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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Greed

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 16:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Greed
Page for a game show (which rarely have meaningful quotes) with only one short, unoriginal quote on it. Had been tagged for speedy deletion; I removed the tag and gave it a week for improvement, but nothing was done. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
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 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 15:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete if no improvement.--Poetlister 17:55, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete.  Cbrown1023  talk  18:13, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This show apparently had only 1 season before it was cancelled. Even long-running game shows are unlikely sources of pithy quotes. I can't see how we could expect anything from this one. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:21, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

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An article that you've created and/or edited, Sam Turner, has been speedy-deleted. Based on the lack of information on the subject and reviews of similar quote articles, it is suspected that these are not quotes of notable figures with published references, which is what Wikiquote collects, but rather quotes from yourself or your friends or acquaintances. These are what we refer to as "vanity" quotes, much like Wikipedia's "vanity" articles. As is pointed out in FAQ and What Wikiquote is not, which are recommended reading, such quotes are perfectly acceptable on one's user page, but are not a proper subject for quotation in Wikiquote articles.

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/SeaChange

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The result was: keep. I know that it appears to go against the consensus, but given the improvements toward the end of the nomination, which address the issues raised in the nomination, I believe it to be reasonable that the "delete" votes implicitly concurred with the nomination. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

SeaChange
This is apparently about an Australian TV drama titled SeaChange. It has only a single quote, without attribution or episode source, that conveys so little information that we can't even be sure about this basic supposition. No intro, no WP or other links, no category — just one bare unattributed quote. One edit from the anonymous creator, then nothing for nearly a month (except our maintenance tagging). Delete unless turned into a proper stub of an article for SeaChange (or whatever it's supposed to be). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:10, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
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 * Delete.  Cbrown1023  talk  18:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:16, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 21:21, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Really not worth having.--Poetlister 18:06, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep now that the article has been cleaned up and sourced quotes have been added. Koweja 18:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep now. I've changed my nomination vote, per Koweja. I don't feel comfortable executing a speedy-keep because most of our current votes don't say why (e.g., "per nom" or "concur with" someone). Of course, 95% of the time, articles like these are never improved, so one can hardly fault the convenience of a simple delete. (Not that I would ever be so succinct! ☺) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Cato

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy!  Cbrown1023  talk  19:47, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
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Split up the Bible?
''I am proposing to split up the Bible article, maybe with a separate article for each major book, so we could end up with 30 or so. Maybe I should just be bold and do it, but I thought I ought to sound out people first.--Cato 20:18, 17 February 2007 (UTC)''

 * I apologize for being slow to respond. I'm not sure what to do about The Bible. It presents a unique challenge in that many different versions are extremely popular, and none of it was originally English. Furthermore, like with William Shakespeare, there are many who would love to include long passages, many of which have been memorized by millions. One could create an entire wiki just for Bible quotes.

 * Because of this, I've been reluctant to engage in any recommendations of how to attack this problem. It seems likely that we would need to split up the books at some point, but I don't know if we've reached that point, nor am I inclined to study the article to see where we should go with it. I'm sorry that I'm not of any help, but we all must be selective about what we work on here, and I've counted on the likelihood that many others would be more interested in this one than I am. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:40, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Lynx
I thought about deleting that, but weakly decided against it at the last moment becasue there is talk on that page that may be relevant later. But you think we should delete it too, so I'll delete it. :)  Cbrown1023  talk  21:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Br´s singers and female singers
Hello Cato!
 * Don´t we have a category entitled: Brazilian singers or Brazlian female singers?
 * Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

Ludovica 15:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

For your information
As an active member of this community you may wish to take a look at the requests for Checkuser rights for Jeff & Aphaia here and vote maybe (both are dedicated long serving members of the community. It will help the community to deal with vandalism the deep rooted vandalism that tends to occur on small wikis and which otherwise requires steward intervention which is sadly not always available quickly.  My apologies if you would prefer not to have received this but there is a requirement for 25 affirmative votes for the rights to be granted.  If you have any queries feel free to ask me.  My thanks & regards -- Herby  talk thyme 11:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

yo cato can you help me out for a sec good luck admin and look at my contribs thrive if you can djwolfman

RFA question
I've posted a question in your RFA self-nomination. Since I expect we'll be closing it with approval soon, I wanted to ping you to make sure you would be able to answer it quickly. Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:05, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Sysop status
Congratulations! You are now an administrator here at Wikiquote. ~ Kalki 23:17, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Congrats, and welcome to the team :) --Aphaia 03:32, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Welcome aboard, Cato. Might I make a suggestion on deletions? I find it a good idea to include a prefix in the edit summary for a short-hand justification of the deletion; e.g., "VFD:", "SD: nonsense", or at least "SD: G1" (per Speedy deletions). It's especially important for speedy deletions, since they have no other documentation. Thanks for listening. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:13, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * ...and I try to link as much as I can. :-)  Cbrown1023   talk   23:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Congratulations! from me as well. :-) Take care, FloNight♥♥♥ 10:25, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Congrats! :-)  Cbrown1023   talk   23:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Humor pieces
The purpose of a humor piece is to get a laugh, and you don't have to be accurate for that. Never mind the dubiousness of Gates talking about 32-bit operating systems and IBM while unveiling an 8-bit system that IBM wasn't involved with. w:User:Gazpacho 00:04, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

The Oxford sources might be unreliable, I'm not familiar with them. Do they make a representation that their content is researched and accurate? Humor pieces don't generally do this, because that isn't the point.

Why would Bill Gates talk about 32-bit operating systems and IBM in the context of MSX? There was, of course, a period when Microsoft had a tacit agreement with IBM not to produce a 32-bit system, but that was in the late 80s, well past the attributed timeframe. The attribution just doesn't make sense. w:User:Gazpacho 17:14, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Henry VIII
Thanks for fixing that. I'll try and fix some more royalty-stubs if I can. --82.42.237.84 21:56, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

 * There is an account who edits from this IP, namely User:SunStar Net but he's not online tonight so I'm using his computer instead... anyhow, you're doing a good job as admin! --82.42.237.84 21:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Hairspray question
Hello. I'm rather new at Wikiquote, so I was wondering if this was a "bad" edit or not. Thank you in advance. --Virana 00:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Alright, thank you for your response. Also thank you for the welcome. :-) --Virana 21:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

FCC
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpai! | Kanpai!|] Sorry for the missundetr...look I HATE the FCC! Im just trying to improve the site! Im sorry!--Saikano II 17:25, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Pick vandal
More socks to block, and they're using a new meme to watch out for.... best to block them now! I can't keep up with their pages being created! --SunStar Net 22:18, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
A lot for the page revert - regards -- Herby talk thyme 11:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

My translation
Why do you deleted my translation in password Adam Mickiewicz?Hist 09:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank You
Thank you for participating in my RFA. --CZac 01:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Will Smith
Cato, do you have page numbers for those Will Smith quotes you added? I'm trying to encourage everyone to be as specific as they can whenever they have the sources handy, as it makes the job of verification, which everyone can and should be able to do whenever they wish, much easier. Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:07, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Steward elections
Hi Cato - I spotted you question on the stewards elections (for Lar). Looks like it has been answered by Lar (& Cary). Has that covered it for you now? Cheers -- Herby talk thyme 12:45, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey - no stress I merely saw your vote, saw it had been answered (I thought reasonably) and as I "knew" you thought I would ask. I had no idea I assure you that you had other messages, no I've not contacted anyone else, it was merely that I knew you and considered that your point was valid and appeared to have been answered.  That really is all and I'm sorry to have bothered you -- Herby  talk thyme 08:48, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

VP
Hi Cato, I'm afraid your saying "May I warn people not to try to oppose Lar" on VP sounds sarcastic. I don't figure out what you intended with that, but assume sarcasm wouldn't. Re-wording may be helpful for the community - at least me as its part. Thanks :)

--Aphaia 23:49, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Sondheim
You have a point. I got so excited about the Sondheim page that I added the quotes first, and checked the existence of the show pages as an afterthought. As it is, there is no page for Follies, so I would leave those two with the Sondheim page. But do you want to be that strict about it? Isn't there room for a really good quote in more than one place? If not, let me know and I'll move the other quotes to their respective pages. --Ubiquity 00:10, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

 * No, you're right, I'll move the ones that have shows of their own. I just don't like the format of those other pages. But what's right is right. --Ubiquity 00:42, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Hammerstein Jewish?
We've had this discussion before, and I bet we have it again, but do you really want to categorize Hammerstein as Jewish? His mom was Scottish and he and his sibs were raised to be Christians. He did not identify Jewish, although he admitted that most of his best friends were Jewish. I'm willing to concede in the Disraeli case, because he probably maintained his Christianity for political reasons, but that's obviously not the case with Hammerstein. Where do you draw the line? If a Jewish ancestor makes you Jewish, cat+ Elvis.

Personally, as a big musical comedy fan, I'd love to claim Hammerstein along with Sondheim, Bernstein, The Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Arlen and Harburg, Berlin, Ebb, Ashman and Menken -- hell, I'd claim Cohan and Porter if I thought I could get away with it. ;-) So I'll leave it alone unless I've convinced you. But I would like to understand your criteria. --Ubiquity 01:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree that I have too much of a tendency to do original research. But what do you do when reliable sources disagree? American Heritage and Stephen Whitfield's In Search of American Jewish Culture are also reliable sources, and give many more convincing details than Stanford's Sanford. --Ubiquity 21:54, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to keep going on about this, but I think I you haven't addressed my main issue. Hammerstein was baptized a Christian, not because of coercion, and never claimed to be Jewish. Can we call him Jewish in spite of that? I am inclined to dismiss the texts that refer to him as Jewish that don't mention this, simply because there is such a widespread notion that he was Jewish. --Ubiquity 18:59, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

New Year's resolution
Happy New Year! One of my New Year's resolutions is to finish Bartlett's 1919 Index - but I can't do it alone. There are 234 red links for which articles need to be created, and 275 blue links for which articles need to be checked. Although I've been trying to get one done each day, lately I have not had time to do even that! Please consider making a commitment to help me keep my resolution by creating or checking one entry on this page per week. Help public domain quotes find their home in 2008! Cheers! BD2412 T 05:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

VfD on Free Willzyx
Jeff: can we move that VfD out of Votes for deletion/Log/Pending action yet?--Cato 22:43, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Sorry for the delay in responding, Cato. I wanted to review the state before replying, but I'm so preoccupied in meatspace right now that I'm unfairly holding things up by my attempt at preparation. If you feel the merge issues have been dealt with, by all means place it into the regular archive. If not, I'll try to look it over sometime soon (I hope) to see if I can do something about it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

British Columbia
Thank you for your comment on the above new article. There are new articles started by British Columbia persons, and the article about British Columbia now has quotes which mention BC or placenames of BC as per conversation at the AFD. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  03:45, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Judaism
Have you had a look at the Judaism page lately? It is almost solely composed of anti-Jewish quotes. Some of these probably belong on Jews, but that page almost has the same problem. I am going to try to prune some of them down (for instance, tonight I moved the John Chrysostom quotes to his page, though I'm sure will revert me). But I thought you might be able to help me come up with some positive quotes about Judaism to balance the page. --Ubiquity 00:50, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Amy Winehouse
Whoops, missed that blanking. Thanks for catching that. -- Greyed 22:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Account Deletion
With reference to [], yes, could you please do that? That is, delete my talk page and rename my account to avist or lemons. Thanks! - Blah 08:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Presumptions...
Hi... Thanks for your kind words in Poetlister's candidacy. But I want to point out that "knows more than almost anyone here about how to run a medium-sized wiki" might be a fair bit of an overstatement! And further, I'd never presume to claim to know more about how to run any particular wiki than the denizens of that particular wiki do... the most I would ever do is say "well I have learned that X works in place A and Y works in place B, and did you think of Z?" because to do any more would be presumptuous of me compared to the good hardworking volunteers who know their home wiki best, certainly better than any steward could. But yes, I do think that 2 'crats is fairly low for wikis of this approximate size. Cheers and all the best. ++Lar: t/c 22:47, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

My Reasoning
If I am speaking to Cato, please listen to me. I am not sure where to put this since there is no respond option, but the reason I have removed so many quotes from the Naruto section of wikiquote is because they are from characters that are not in the series and random quotes from REAL vandals. For example, "Sai" is in there. Sai is from "Naruto Shippuuden", which there is a seperate section for. Another example from the quotes was in Kakashi Hatake's section, in which one childish vandal wrote "don't fart in my face". One more example was in Kidomaru's section, in which somebody wrote three phrases:

1) I'm not sick! 2) I'm not terminally ill! 3) I don't have tuberculosis!

Kidomaru never said any of those. In fact, the vandal was so stupid that they put those quotes which implied illness in the wrong character's data... Even the character they meant to place them in never said any of those quotes. I was simply removing what did not belong. If that qualifies ME as a vandal, I apologize because I guess I'm a bad person for doing such an act. I am the kind of person who does not stand for when my show is mocked... I would never vandalize something for my shows or someone else's work. So there you have it; My reasoning for deleting from wikiquote.

Bible/book in
The Bible contents template has no bugs. It is just that all the books are in the  format. If you hover your mouse pointer over the links in the template, then you will see.

I was thinking of renaming the page names to Bible/Genesis and so forth. For now, I have redirected Bible/Psalms to Psalms.

Feel free to tweak the template and do whatever you please.--Inesculent 03:37, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Eleanor Farjeon
I reverted your edit to Eleanor Farjeon - the newer image is of entrance to King's Cross St. Pancras tube station serving both railway stations, and both are in the district of Kings Cross, and I find the older image of a building there in Farjeon's time preferable. Others I had considered were Image:Clock in Kings Cross.jpg and Image:九又四分之三站台.jpg. ~ Kalki 20:49, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion
Hi Cato. You recently told that he shouldn't have removed the  on Liza Tarbuck, but I fear you're in error. According to Proposed deletion, anyone may remove a. Furthermore: "If anyone, including the article's creator, removes Template:Prod from an article for any reason, do not put it back, except if the removal was clearly not an objection to deletion (such as blanking the entire article, or removing the tag along with inserting blatant nonsense); however, if the edit is not obviously vandalism, do not restore it, even if the tag was apparently removed in bad faith." I didn't tell McNoddy this yet, in case there's another policy I don't understand that contradicts this, but I'm pretty sure I'm right. If you disagree, let me know. If you agree, please let McNoddy know. --Ubiquity 12:40, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I think the idea is the is only for totally non-controversial deletions. If anyone disagrees, there is sufficient controversy to either let the page stand or go to VFD. Deleting the  is a pretty good way to demonstrate disagreement. ;-) --Ubiquity 20:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Invitation
Would it interest you to become a Wikiquote administrator? You've contributed so much to this site. If it isn't, however, something that would appeal to you, I hope that you will pardon this intrusion. - InvisibleSun 20:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to second the invitation.--Cato 20:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Goodness, this is certainly an unexpected honour! I'm very pleased to have been asked, but it wouldn't be a good idea for me to accept.  You see, I'm the sort of man who can only concentrate on the things he shouldn't really be doing.  I can be very industrious at idling, such as I do here, but making me an admin would be the first step towards making it a chore for me to log on to Wikiquote, and that would be the end of it.  Much better that I should carry on creating pages, and doing the odd bit of maintenance on the side.  But thanks again for the vote of confidence.  Cheers! Antiquary 20:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Tai chi chuan
Thanks for your input on the tai chi quote I was worrying about, and the nice welcome on my talk page. Cheers! --Bradeos Graphon 22:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

CU request
Congratulations., I was pleased to see your candidacy get the required 25 votes. In case you didn't already know, your request is on hold pending your supplying identification to Cary. If you're not sure what that means you can write Cary or ask any steward (IRC may be the fastest) for more information. ++Lar: t/c 17:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser congrats
Congratulations on becoming our newest checkuser, Cato! I'm afraid I was so tired after all the offline emailing and little wind-up tasks that I neglected to publicly welcome you to the ranks of community-approved snoops. ☺ I know you're already familiar with CU work from your own wiki, but I highly recommend reviewing CheckUser policy if you haven't recently, and signing up for checkuser-l access when you get a chance. The policy page also talks about an IRC channel for CU stuff, although I haven't used it to date. (Aphaia, who is everywhere, may be more familiar with its activities.)

Meanwhile, if you have any questions or topics you'd like to discuss, feel free to shoot me an email. Thanks for taking on this critical responsibility! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:16, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Congratulations and condolences from me as well — as I had indicated to JeffQ and Aphaia when they took on the task, CheckUser responsibilities are not such as I would wish upon anyone without their full consent. ~ Kalki 12:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I gave you mine above :) ... so this is just a ping to check your email pls... ++Lar: t/c 21:11, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Done!--Cato 21:16, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Pine/Paine
There may be a confusion of different people here. You ended the Prod on Albert Pine on the grounds that he is notable, with a link on the discussion page to the Columbia Encyclopedia. The link, however, is to Albert Bigelow Paine (link to Wikipedia article here), whom you have renamed Albert Bigelow Pine in the intro. - InvisibleSun 06:39, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

{Message to Shanel}

Removal of Unsourced Limbaugh Quotes
The quotes that I removed from the Rush Limbaugh are unsourced. They are mentioned in precisely one book, and that book does not cite a source for the quotes. In particular, the quote about James Earl Ray (where Limbaugh mentions that Martin Luther King Jr.’s killer should received a posthumous Medal of Honor) has not been referenced anywhere else. It has not been mentioned by the press, and it has not been cited by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, or any other notable leaders of the African-American community. If he really made this statement, then it would have been mentioned somewhere else. It has not. The quote remains unsourced, and should be removed. 17.224.39.215 23:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I made the following reply on the IP talk page: "The general principle is that to call a quote "sourced", we need a reliable source. A published book is prima facie a reliable source.  We do not normally demand multiple sources, and we certainly do not require reliable sources to cite their own sources or you get into an infinite regression.  However, I think that it would be quite in order to put a brief note of your concerns under the relevant quotes, possibly linking to a longer discussion on the talk page.  If you think there is a wider concern that the whole of Wikiquote should discuss, please post to WQ:VP.  I very much welcome your constructive criticism here, but please let's discuss things rather than taking precipitate action."--Cato 06:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

 * He should gain consensus for the "brief note" before he places it on the page. The place he should do that is WQ:VP.  This IP has been campaigning to  remove every quote that doesn't paint Limbaugh in a beatific light.  Wikiquote's sourcing policy is clear; this user/vandal doesn't get to overrule it by disruption. --69.86.228.70 02:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I made the following reply on the IP talk page: "I take your point about Rush Limbaugh, but I don't believe that one line commenting on the source (assuming that the information in tha tline is correct) is unreasonable. Of course, you are at liberty to post on WQ:VP if you think it would be helpful."--Cato 20:02, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Being an admin
Wow! Yes, thanks. I'll enable e-mail in the next day or two.--Yehudi 11:31, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[/DEFAULTSORT:Surname, 1st name/]
Hi Cato, thanks for the advice, I was just wondering wat a defaultsort does or its purpose.--McNoddy 07:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Hi Cato! Thanks for the welcome :-)

PaoWiki 23:09, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Removal of checkuser access
Hello Cato. Your checkuser access has been temporarily removed in accordance with a request made by FT2, pending review by Cary Bass and the Wikiquote community. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you would like to comment, please do so on the request page.

For archival purposes, the full text of the request follows. Removal of checkuser from Cato@en.wikiquote

Due to circumstances that Jimmy Wales and Cary and at least one other enquote checkuser are aware of, and events in the last couple of hours, please de-checkuser Cato on English Wikiquote.

I emphasize that this is a temporary action only to protect that project until its own users are in possession of the relevant information to decide what they wish, and in no way intended to impinge upon the sovreignty of that project. Unfortunately I cannot find anyone else better able to make that decision in light of events that are rapidly unfolding.

I will post a fuller explanation of this to Cary and Aphaia immediately, and to the wikiquote community hopefully tomorrow.

FT2 (Talk 03:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Removed until this can be reviewed by Cary and the Wikiquote community, given the serious issues posed by checkuser abuse. — {admin} Pathoschild 03:18:03, 06 September 2008 (UTC)

— Pathoschild 03:27:53, 06 September 2008 (UTC)

For the record, as said to your other avatar, both your CU and sysop right are permanently removed on the community consensus. --Aphaia 09:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Dboroughs

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Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bean Bryant (23 August 1978 - 26 January 2020) was an American basketball player who played his entire 20-year professional career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Bryant was an 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, 12-time member of the All-Defensive team and was the NBA's Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 2008. Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, he led the NBA in scoring during two seasons, ranks fourth on the league's all-time regular season scoring and fourth on the all-time postseason scoring list. He died in a helicopter crash outside of Calabasas, California, at the age of 41.

Quotes

 * When I was young, my mindset was image, image, image. I took that approach with the media. As I became more experienced I realized: No matter what, people are going to like you or not like you. So be authentic, and let them like you or not for who you actually are. At that point, I started keeping all of my answers blunt and straightforward. I would mix in some humor and sarcasm, too. I think fans and reporters came to appreciate that, came to appreciate the real me.
 * The Mamba Mentality : How I Play (2018), "KEEP IT REAL."

 * Get over yourself! 'Cause it's not about you, man. Like, okay, you feel embarrassed. You are not that important! Get over yourself! Right, like you are worried about how people may perceive you, and like you are walking around and it's embarrassing because you shot five air balls... Get over yourself.
 * interview with Patrick Bet-David, 23 August 2019, posted on YouTube.

 * I can’t believe how fast 20 years went by. I mean, this is crazy… To be standing here, standing on the court with my teammates behind me, and appreciate this journey that we’ve been along… I grew up a die heart—I mean it—a die heart Laker fan. Die heart. I mean, I knew everything about every players’ that had played here. So, to be drafted, and then traded to this organization, and to spend 20 years here, I mean, you can’t write something better than this… The thing that had me crackin’ me up all night long was, in fact, I go though 20 years of everybody screaming, ‘pass the ball!’ and I was like, ‘No passing!’ (laugh)… (I also have to thank) my family: my wife, Vanessa, my daughters, Natalia and Gianna. Thank you guys for your sacrifice… What can I say? Mamba Out!
 * A speech after Bryant's last game, 13 April 2016, posted on YouTube.

Quotes about Bryant

 * I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league, by far. It’s like that. With a player like him, he just wants that challenge. He’s just that fierce competitor. He doesn’t want to get out-showed. He’s the one who everybody’s afraid of.
 * Gilbert Arenas, as quoted in gilbertology.net

 * Only God can stop Kobe Bryant.
 * Charles Barkley, as quoted in youtube.com

 * To me he is the best player in the world right now. That guy doesn't know fear at all. He doesn't care. He would have won it "Obviously Kobe is an unbelievable player. He can explode for 50 points at any given time. There's nothing we can do about that, and we're just going to have to deal with that. You're never going to stop Kobe. He's just too good. You just have to make him work for what he gets. Kobe is the greatest player I have ever seen at what he does.
 * Mike D'Antoni, as quoted in insidehoops.com/forum

 * You can set the bar at seven and a half feet and tell them nobody has every jumped that before. And they say, 'I can do it.' And they'll go out and try.
 * Phil Jackson, as quoted in youtube.com

 * He's definitely the best player in the NBA — to me. I don't know if winning the (MVP) award is important to him or not. But he has three [championship] rings and that's what it's all about.
 * LeBron James, as quoted in lakers.topbuzz.com

 * I've been quoted in the past and I will continue to be quoted; I think he's the best player in our league right now.
 * LeBron James, as quoted in youtube.com

 * He's an unbelievable player. He's God's gift, something that's going to flash before our eyes and I don't think it's ever going to happen again. The only person I can think about he's catching up with is Michael Jordan.
 * Rashard Lewis, as quoted in seattlepi.nwsource

 * Kobe Bryant is the dirtiest player with the things he does on the court... But without a doubt he is a beast. He was amazing.
 * Darko Miličić, as quoted in "Storyline: Whatever Happened to Darko Milicic" (21 March 2016), HoopsHype

 * I think Kobe Bryant should be at the top of the (MVP) list. His game is unstoppable.
 * Amare Stoudemire, as quoted in lakers.topbuzz.com

 * Give you ice, like Kobe right? We sorta like Goldie right? The way, we mode 'em right? I could make you a celebrity overnight.
 * Twista, "Overnight Celebrity", Kamikaze

 * When Kobe Bryant died, a piece of me died.
 * Michael Jordan, posted on YouTube.

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User talk:Malygos~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Malygos. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Malygos~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:29, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Malygos~enwikiquote