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John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller (8 July 1839 – 23 May 1937) was an American business tycoon, industrialist, and book-keeper, most famous for his role in the early petroleum-industry and the founding of Standard Oil. Measured in today's dollars, Rockefeller is the richest person in the history of mankind. He was also the first billionaire (in US dollars) in history. With his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his advisor Frederick Taylor Gates, he established the Rockefeller Foundation, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world."

Quotes

 * The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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 * “We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.”
 * I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
 * As quoted in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden

 * It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
 * Attributed as a statement to his Bible class (1 April 1905) in "The Loneliness of John D. Rockefeller", Current Literature (November 1906) vol. 41 no. 5,

 * I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
 * Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1906)

 * Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
 * Remark to a neighbor, quoted by John Lewis in Cosmopolitan (1908)

 * God gave me my money.
 * Women's Home Companion (1915), quoted in God's Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn

 * The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.
 * The Men Who Are Making America (1918) by Bertie Charles Forbes

 * I was early taught to work as well as play, My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play — I dropped the worry on the way — And God was good to me every day.
 * Verses written on his eighty-sixth birthday (8 July 1925)

 * I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
 * TIME Magazine (21. May 1928)

 * I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
 * Interview with William Hoster, quoted in God's Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn

 * The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
 * Attributed in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) by Dale Carnegie

 * Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
 * Attributed in The Rockefellers (1976) by Peter Collier and David Horowitz

 * If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
 * As quoted in Steps to the Top (1985) by Zig Ziglar, p. 16

 * The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
 * Attributed in The Fourth — And by Far the Most Recent 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990) by Robert Byrne; attributed elsewhere to Nathan M. Rothschild

 * If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
 * As quoted in Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library (1992) edited by Jacob Morton Braude and Glenn Van Ekeren

 * Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
 * As quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007) edited by Ted Goodman, p. 175

 * I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
 * As quoted in Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life (2010) by Bryan Curtis, p. 75

 * The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
 * John D. Rockefeller, age 41, in 1880 — Allan Nevins, John D. Rockefeller (New York: Scribner, 1959), I:622.

Disputed

 * I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
 * As quoted by Isaac Hewitt (1879) in testimony to the New York Assembly. Rockefeller doubted that he said this, according to John D. : The Founding Father of the Rockefellers (1980) by David Freeman Hawke; this is reminiscent of the remark attributed to Jesus in John 4:32: "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." (KJV)/"I have food to eat that you know nothing about." (NIV)

 * Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
 * As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 71; the earliest published occurrence of such remarks yet located were those of Jim Low in "The Human in Public Relations" a diner address in Proceedings, Seventh Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Research Institute, October 13-14, 1958, Washington, Pt. 3, p. 83

 * I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.
 * Attributed by Jim Marrs in the William Lewis film One Nation Under Siege (2008); no published occurrence of this has been located prior to The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy : How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America (2010) by Jim Marrs

 * Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great
 * Earliest citation found in Google Books is from 1993, where it is attributed to country-music singer Kenny Rogers. Not found attributed to Rockefeller until 2006.

Misattributed

 * The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
 * Though attributed to John D. Rockefeller, Sr. in I Want to Make Money in the Stock Market : Learn to Begin Investing Without Losing Your Life Savings (2006) by Chris M. Hart, p. 169; this is clearly a statement of his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as quoted in John D. Rockefeller, Jr: A Portrait (1956) by Raymond Blaine Fosdick, p. 189: The only question with wealth is what to do with it. It can be used for evil purposes or it can be an instrumentality for constructive social living.

Quotes about Rockefeller

 * Competition was natural enough at one time, but do you think you are competing today? Many of you think you are. Against whom? Against Rockefeller? About as I would if I had a wheelbarrow and competed with the Santa Fe from here to Kansas City.
 * Eugene V. Debs, "The Issue" (1908)

 * If you could get along without King George, you can get along without King John Rockefeller. Political liberty without economic freedom is a myth. Political liberty is rooted in economic freedom. The man who controls and owns the means that sustain my life, owns and controls me.
 * Eugene V. Debs, "It Ought Not Be Difficult to Decide" (October 17, 1904)

 * Even the Rockefeller family, which made its vast fortune on oil, has begun divesting from fossil fuel companies. Stephen Heintz, an heir of Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, said, "We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy."
 * Amy Goodman Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2017) p 234

 * I despise the rule of Rockefeller and Morgan as much as that of King or Kaiser, and am as outraged by Ludlow and Calumet as by Belgium.
 * Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, "Do You Believe in Patriotism?" (March, 1916)

 * Of course John D. Rockefeller does not realize the fact, but it is true nevertheless that the Hookworm Commission he is supporting in the South is doing more for the revolutionary awakening in Dixie than anything else.
 * Kate Richards O'Hare, "Booze and Revolution" (1915)

 * I took responsibility early and, like my parents, I was serious.
 * John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as quoted in John D. Rockefeller, Jr : A Portrait (1956) by Raymond Blaine Fosdick, p. 32

 * My mother and father raised but one question: Is it right, is it duty?
 * John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as quoted in The Rich Man and the Kingdom : John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Protestant establishment (1995) by Albert F. Schenkel, p. 13

 * It is a common myth within capitalist thought that the individual through drive and hard work can become a capitalist. In the U.S.A., it is usual to refer to an individual like John D. Rockefeller, Sr., as someone who rose "from rags to riches." To complete the moral of the Rockefeller success story, it would be necessary to fill in the details on all the millions of people who had to be exploited in order for one man to become a multimillionaire. The acquisition of wealth is not due to hard work alone, or the Africans working as slaves in America and the West Indies would have been the wealthiest group in the world. The individualism of the capitalist must be seen against the hard and unrewarded work of the masses.
 * Walter Rodney,

 * What J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller were to the Age of Robber Barons, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, as well as digital moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are to the contemporary age of the rule of the 1%. Then as now, the super-rich used governments to write laws and rules to allow them to accumulate unlimited wealth; then as now, creating monopolies by enclosing the commons and killing competition is the strategy for becoming the 1%.
 * Vandana Shiva Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom (2018)

 * Each generation repeats its leaders. Each sees men endowed with superior inventiveness, energy, and genius for business, inspired by love of power and possession, launch selfish schemes-Carnegies, Rockefellers, Goulds… Each generation has had its Henry George, its Bellamy, its Bryan, intent on persuading mankind that he had found the way, could lead men to the good life. In each generation employer and employee have faced the decision-war or cooperation.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

 * When he rose to speak, the impression of power that the first look at him had given increased, and the impression of age passed. I expected a quavering voice, but the voice was not even old, if a little fatigued, a little thin. It was clear and utterly sincere. He meant what he was saying. He was on his own ground talking about dividends, dividends of righteousness. "If you would take something out," he said, clenching the hand of his outstretched right arm, "you must put something in"-emphasizing "put something in" with a long outstretched forefinger.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

 * My two hours' study of Mr. Rockefeller aroused a feeling I had not expected, which time has intensified. I was sorry for him. I know no companion so terrible as fear. Mr. Rockefeller, for all the conscious power written in face and voice and figure, was afraid, I told myself, afraid of his own kind. My friend Lewis Emery, Jr., priding himself on being a victim, was free and happy. Not gold enough in the world to tempt him to exchange his love of defiance for a power which carried with it a head as uneasy as that on Mr. Rockefeller's shoulders.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

 * To a mutual friend who had told him the articles should be answered Mr. Rockefeller was said to have replied: "Not a word. Not a word about that misguided woman." To another who asked him about my charges he was reported as answering: "All without foundation.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

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"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management." -Ted Kennedy "The war in Iraq itself has not made America safer and has not made the world safer." -Ted Kennedy "We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." Ted Kennedy "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is." -Ted Kennedy "Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things." -Ted Kennedy

Disgusting
I wasn't aware wikiquote was the place to post low partisan blows:

"Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things." -Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?" -- Ann Coulter

and what does this web site have to do factual information on ted kennedy? : Web Site's for Ted. http://fatboy.cc/index.htm

 * Well, wikiquote is the place to post accurate quotes. There's a good chance that 'low partisan blows' are fabrications, or lacking context, and those should either be deleted, or corrected, or placed under 'misattributed' section if it's a common fabrication. As for negative (but accurate) quotes by other people in an 'about' section, that's OK in my humble opinion, and you can balance it by adding positive quotes there. iddo999 10:25, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

 * It seems to me low partisan blows and Ted Kennedy go hand in glove. Funny how some people get angry at a supposed quote, but not so angry at a drunken philanderer killing a woman and caring more about how he was going to get out of trouble.

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"Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things." -Ted Kennedy

Is this an actual statment that was made (like is there a credible source)

Ann Coulter
I put on the end of the Ann Coulter quote 'I eat babies' but for some reason this was removed. I have no idea why this is. Ann Coulter is well known for ending every offensive remark she makes with her mission statement 'I eat babies'. Why was this removed?

I believe the Ann Coulter comment (and the satirical comment above concerning it) is of no value, written for no other purpose than to stimulate controversy and cast aspersions. I believe it (and this section, including my comment) should be removed.

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Ted Kennedy. --Antiquary 17:44, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Come out of the rose garden.

 * Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

 * For two years, terrorist cells have been spreading like cancer cells. Any doctor who let that happen would be guilty of malpractice.

 * Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

 * Hello? Hello?!? Is this what we are debating here? (Senate floor comments during the 2005 Bankruptcy bill debate. Has been replayed numerous times on conservative Talk Radio programs.)

 * Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

 * It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

 * No matter how many times the Administration denies it, there is no question they misled the nation and led us into a quagmire in Iraq.

 * One of the few positive results of the Vietnam War is the irresistible momentum it gave Congress thirty-four years ago to pass legislation lowering the voting age to 18.

 * Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

 * She [Vickie, his wife] was the most beautiful rose of all.

 * The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

 * The President's handling of the war has been a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideology. No amount of Presidential rhetoric or preposterous campaign spin can conceal the truth about the steady downward spiral in our national security since President Bush made the decision to go to war in Iraq.

 * The war in Iraq itself has not made America safer and has not made the world safer.

 * There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed. (27 September 2002)

 * There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

 * Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name — which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

 * Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

 * We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction. (27 September 2002)

 * We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

 * Well, here I don't go again.

 * There are two ways to view the stars: as they really are and as we might wish them to be.

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Penn & Teller

Penn & Teller are a two-man magic and comedy team, Penn Fraser Jillette (born 5 March 1955) and Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller, 14 February 1948). All the quotes from the duo come from Penn, except where noted, as Teller is famously silent.

Quotes

 * The idea of mind-altering substances gives me the willies. Fill your tank with nitro, the car goes fast, sure, but not far.
 * Teller in Pete Moss interview (21 March 2001)

 * This I believe: I believe there is no god.
 * Penn Jillette in "This I Believe", Morning Edition. NPR. WVGR, Grand Rapids.  21 November 2005  (NPR : There is no God)

 * Teller: Will you shut up! Homer Simpson: Hey, I thought you didn't talk. Teller: [nervously] Uh, I didn't mean to... it just slipped out. Oh god, now Penn's gonna beat me...I'm not the first Teller.
 * The Simpsons, "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"

 * Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
 * The Honor System Interview, Esquire Magazine (September 17, 2012)

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David Lange

David Lange (4 August 1942 – 13 August 2005) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. He headed New Zealand's fourth Labour Government, one of the most reforming administrations in his country's history, alongside Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble. Lange was renowned for a cutting wit and eloquence. His government implemented far-reaching free market reforms, some of which he later came to oppose and regret. Perhaps his most lasting legacy is New Zealand's Nuclear Free Legislation, which for many symbolised a moral, independent, powerful identity for New Zealand.

Sourced

 * I often write about the period and I do so with wistfulness rather than triumph. It is a period which was absolutely significant in New Zealand's history. It was a period which was calling out for the government we had in 1984 to 1987 and it was a chance where the social richness of New Zealand could have been enhanced because of its economic wealth and where instead the obsession for money overran any form of political, social, human sense.
 * On the performance of the fourth Labour government.
 * Source: Revolution (1996), p. 252.

 * After a very long year we've got a very short knight.
 * Source: Heinemann Dictionary of New Zealand Quotations (1988), p. 397.
 * On the knighthood of the rather short Sir Robert Muldoon in January 1984. Lange repeated the quote on U.S. television as an explanation of Sir Robert's dislike for him.

 * I agreed with the prevailing opinion in the Labour Party about nuclear weapons; I went on ban-the-bomb marches in the 1960s and I have not changed my mind about nuclear deterrence since. But I found it hard to accept the Labour Party’s policy that required the exclusion of nuclear-powered ships.  Given that nuclear energy exists it is the intention behind its use that matters.  The weapons are made to destroy and we have to learn to live without them.  The rest may be useful if properly managed.  The management is an environmental issue and the inevitable exclusion of nuclear-powered vessels was not an appropriate basis for our foreign policy.
 * Source: David Lange, My Life (2005).
 * Debunking the view of the left wing of the 1980s New Zealand Labour Party that the Lange Government's nuclear weapons ban should also extend to nuclear propulsion.

 * If the American global strategy is dependent on the ability of nuclear ships to come to New Zealand, then God defend the world.
 * Source: Heinemann Dictionary of New Zealand Quotations (1988), p. 397.
 * Referring to American nuclear policy, alluding to New Zealand's national anthem, God Defend New Zealand.

 * We are an enemy of the nuclear threat and we are an enemy of testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. New Zealand did not buy into this fight. France put agents into New Zealand. France put spies into New Zealand. France lets off bombs in the Pacific. France puts its President in the Pacific to crow about it.
 * Source: M. King, Death of the Rainbow Warrior (1986), p. 200.
 * Referring to the Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

 * ...a sordid act of international state-backed terrorism.
 * Source: M. King, Death of the Rainbow Warrior (1986), p. 202.
 * Referring to the Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

 * Death is very, very terminal.
 * Source: National Business Review, 1 May 1987, p. 10.
 * In a speech raising awareness about the AIDS epidemic.

 * They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.
 * Source: Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.
 * Referring to the National Party's problems with internal discipline and Robert Muldoon's reluctance to relinquish power.

 * The statement which has been made by the Leader of the Opposition was that the intelligence has stopped. I don't know whether that was a personal confession or whether it was a statement of position.
 * Source: Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.
 * Referring to Jim McLay's comments on the effect of the nuclear ships ban on the exchange of military intelligence with New Zealand's allies.

 * An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.
 * Source: Heinemann Dictionary of New Zealand Quotations (1988), p. 399.
 * Of Jim Bolger, Leader of the Opposition during the 1987 election campaign.

 * After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray — and I was a heavy smoker in those days — on the road outside the hall.
 * Source: Dominion, 4 October 1993, p. 10.
 * Lange had been invited during the election campaign to speak with local farmers in the Mangakahia hall. The meeting lasted well over three hours, with many questions and vigorous displays of support. However on election day, of the 88 votes cast in Mangakahia, none were for Lange's Labour Party.

 * Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.
 * Source: Dominion, 30 December 1991, p. 6.
 * Referring to the New Zealand Ecological Movement.

 * I wouldn't call the Prime Minister gutless. That's all that's left of him.
 * Source: NZPD 456, 1984, p. 107.
 * Referring to Sir Robert "Piggy" Muldoon.

 * He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.
 * Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.
 * Referring to an unsuitable applicant for a high-ranking government position.

 * When asked, "Does God help you?": "He's not really in caucus lately."
 * Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.

 * When asked, "So, what are you going to do with the rest of your life?": "I'm going to be a jockey."
 * Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 97.
 * Lange was notably rotund.

 * And I'm going to give it to you if you hold your breath just for a moment … I can smell the uranium on it as you lean towards me.
 * Source: http://publicaddress.net/default,1578.sm#post
 * (Commonly misquoted as "I can smell the uranium on your breath", as in A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.)
 * During the Oxford Union Debate, 1 March 1985.

 * Our military forces are an arm of government, just like the Department of Social Welfare, although probably less able to inflict widespread harm.
 * Source: Defence Quarterly, 1993, p. 32.

 * On seeing a machine labelled "media steriliser", Lange quipped: "Have that sent to my office immediately."
 * Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 98.

 * On Roger Douglas: "He's like rust, he never sleeps."
 * Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 100.

 * He's gone around the country stirring up apathy.
 * Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 112.
 * Referring to a national tour by Jim Bolger.

 * ...an economic ignoramus unfit to oversee a fifty-cent raffle.
 * Source: New Zealand Wit & Wisdom (1998), p. 155.
 * Referring to Muldoon.

 * What a friend we have in cheeses.
 * Source: New Zealand Wit & Wisdom (1998), p. 155.
 * Referring to New Zealand's lucrative dairy export industry.

 * Once while waiting at Auckland airport, Lange insisted on buying himself a newspaper and joined a queue at a newsstand. The woman in front of him turned around and said, "Good God!" Lange replied affably, "No madam, you are mistaken. I have never made that claim."
 * Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 95.

 * My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.
 * Source: A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations (2000), p. 96.

 * ...it all happened so quickly you got a lot of bewilderment; you get a lot of people who are basically meat-and-three-veg quarter-acre New Zealanders who find themselves eating dim sims with chopsticks and they can't cope.
 * Source: New Zealand Wit & Wisdom (1998), p. 156.
 * Referring to the reforms of the 1980s.

 * Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.
 * Source: David Lange, My Life (2005), p. 98
 * Referring to his former Cabinet colleague Dr Michael Bassett, who was delivered by his Doctor father.

 * He viewed humour as a relaxing introduction to many situations. "It is, of course, completely inappropriate in some... but in the end, you know, if you were serious in this job you'd go mad."
 * Source: Gliding on the Lino - The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.

 * To US Ambassador H. Monroe Browne, who owned a racehorse called Lacka Reason: "You are the only ambassador in the world to race a horse named after your country's foreign policy."
 * Source: National Business Review, 17/2/86.

 * Winston Peters: "the only member of Parliament named after a concrete block, and I can understand that."

 * "Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it."
 * Source: ''Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange", compiled by David Barber, 1987.

 * "I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now."
 * Source: Herald on Sunday, 7/8/05.

 * "I went in a round of the Domain on Saturday morning in a rally car. At the start of it, I was asked if I felt scared. I said, 'certainly not, I have been working with Roger for years'."
 * Source: Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.

 * "a man whose life is so boring that if it flashed past he wouldn't be in it"
 * Source:
 * Referring to former Labour Party member Peter Dunne.

Anecdotes

 * Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.
 * Source: Dominion, 23 March 1992, p. 6.

 * On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange.
 * Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.

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Hi. I have moved the quote you added to Love to Talk:Love because the person did not have a wikiquote or a wikipedia page. Please note that wikiquote is a collection of quotes from famous people. Quotes by you, or your friends, can go on your user page if you register. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

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Roman Polański

Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor.

Quotes

 * It's weird. I always had the premonition that Sharon belonged to me just for a little while.
 * On his murdered wife, Sharon Tate, in an interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)

 * She was the least hypocritical woman you could ever meet: once, when an executive told her that we should ask for single cabins in the transatlantic that brought us to the United States, she simply said, "Why? Everybody knows that we live together."
 * Interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)

 * I'm forced to mix with people of this industry and I can swear that is really difficult to meet people with her nature and her spirit. Generally, everybody is opportunistic here. Sharon had grace and charm; she knew how to make anybody's life easier. When somebody was busy, she was there in a discreet manner to serve you a drink or a coffee.
 * Interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)

 * Without her I feel lost, I can't explain this in words. However there are things that I just can't stand thinking of; the way she and our son died.
 * Interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)

 * I don't know that you can speak of shock … Nothing is too shocking for me. I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.
 * As quoted in Atlas magazine, Vol. 20 (1971), p. 56, and The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979) by Gary Herman, p. 26

 * I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million — a gamble for high stakes.
 * Interview in Playboy magazine (February 1972); also quoted in Make It Again, Sam : A Survey of Movie Remakes (1975) by Michael B. Druxman, p. 105

 * It's easy to direct while acting — there’s one less person to argue with.
 * The New York Times (22 February 1976)

 * If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. Juries want to fuck young girls. Everyone wants to fuck young girls!
 * Interview with Martin Amis (1979), published in Visiting Mrs Nabokov : And Other Excursions (1993), this was modified to censor the word "fuck" when quoted in "Roman Polanski: 'Everyone else fancies little girls too'" by Michael Deacon

 * You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
 * As quoted in Shakespearean Criticism : Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations (1985) by Laurie Lanzen Harris, p. 11

 * If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
 * The Independent (12 May 1991)

 * Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
 * As quoted in Values of the Wise : Aspiring to "The Life of Value" (2004) by Jason Merchey, p. 330

 * My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
 * As quoted in The Everything Cryptograms Book (2005) by Nikki Katz

 * It's already getting more and more difficult to make an ambitious and original film. There are less and less independent producers or independent companies and an increasing number of corporations who are more interested in balance sheets than in artistic achievement. They want to make a killing each time they produce a film. They're only interested in the lowest common denominator because they're trying to reach the widest audience. And you got some kind of entropy. That's the danger; they look more alike, those films. The style is all melting and it all looks the same. Even young directors — for most of them, their only standard of achievement is how well their films do on the first weekend or whatever. It worries me. But then, from time to time, you have a film like The Usual Suspects or.... I'm trying to think of something American with some kind of originality... Pulp Fiction.
 * "Roman Polanski: An Exclusive Interview" by Taylor Montague

 * You know, whenever you do something new and original, people run to see it because it's different. Then, if it happens to be successful, the studios rush to imitate it. It becomes commonplace right away. But it's been like that before, I think. Now, the stakes are so gigantic that they cut each other's throats. So if most of the films are failures, then those that succeed so spectacularly, so commercially, become the norm. It's like a roulette for the studios. The problem with it is that it becomes more and more of a committee. Before, you dealt with the studio. It had one or two persons and now you have masses of executives who have to justify their existence and write so-called "creative notes" and have creative meetings. They obsess about the word creative probably because they aren't.
 * "Roman Polanski: An Exclusive Interview" by Taylor Montague

 * Berlin was great. It’s a new generation. If you continue to hate, you are entering into the same philosophy that began the war. You have to look forward at people and new times.
 * "The Pianist Interview" by Marilyn Cole Lownes

 * Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
 * As quoted in The Cinema of Roman Polanski : Dark spaces of the World (2006) by John Orr and Elżbieta Ostrowska, p. 146

Polanski : His Life and Films (1982)

 * Quotes of Polanski from Polanski : His Life and Films (1982) by Barbara Leaming

 * I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

 * I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

 * People like Truffaut, Lelouch and Godard are like little kids playing at being revolutionaries. I've passed through this stage. I lived in a country where these things happened seriously.

 * In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

 * I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone — and this is my biggest satisfaction.

Roman by Polanski (1984)
an autobiography
 * ‘What’s wrong?’ I asked. She said her asthma was playing her up.… She was wheezing quite audibly by now. She picked up my towel and said, ‘I’d better rest awhile; otherwise I might pass out.’
 * We dried ourselves and each other. She said she was feeling better. Then, very gently, I began to kiss and caress her. After this had gone on for some time, I led her over to the couch.
 * There was no doubt about Sandra's experience and lack of inhibition. She spread herself and I entered her. She wasn't unresponsive. Yet, when I asked her softly if she was liking it, she resorted to her favorite expression: ‘It’s all right.’

I can remain silent no longer (2010)

 * 33 years ago I pleaded guilty, and I served time at the prison for common law crimes at Chino, not in a VIP prison. That period was to have covered the totality of my sentence. By the time I left prison, the judge had changed his mind and claimed that the time served at Chino did not fulfil the entire sentence, and it is this reversal that justified my leaving the United States.

 * On February 26 last, Roger Gunson, the deputy district attorney in charge of the case in 1977, now retired, testified under oath before Judge Mary Lou Villar in the presence of David Walgren, the present deputy district attorney in charge of the case, who was at liberty to contradict and question him, that on September 16, 1977, Judge Rittenband stated to all the parties concerned that my term of imprisonment in Chino constituted the totality of the sentence I would have to serve.

 * Gunson added that it was false to claim, as the present district attorney’s office does in their request for my extradition, that the time I spent in Chino was for the purpose of a diagnostic study.

Quotes about Polański

 * Sorted alphabetically by author or source.

 * Oh, the little man wanted me—Roman Polanski. Very dwarfish creature with a high giggle. After a take, he wouldn't say, "Cut." One would just hear a "Tee hee hee." [...] Roman presented everything in [such] a calm, matter-of-fact way that the creeping terror just builds. It's sheer genius on his part. It's a very quiet movie where a door creaking can unnerve one. There's a lot of dark comedy in there, too. he was a very careful director—explained everything, multiple takes, very demanding, very appreciative when one got it right. Loved to talk old movies with me.
 * , speaking with James Bawden in either 1978, 1983 or 1988, on how he landed his part in Rosemary's Baby; as quoted in Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era'' (2016) by Bawden and Ron Miller, p. 39

 * The probation officers quoted a pair of psychiatrists as saying that Mr. Polanski was not “a pedophile” or a “sexual deviate.”
 * Michael Cieply, in "In Polanski Case, ’70s Culture Collides With Today", New York Times (10 October 2009)

 * I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.
 * Christopher Hitchens, in "Save the Children: Thinking about Roman Polanski's vile child rape in a global context", Slate (5 October 2009)

 * He sees things from every point of view. He's an extraordinarily hard worker. I think he's worked for a long time, in every field. He's talented, passionate and has had an incredibly hard and full life that I'm sure you know about. I can not imagine myself having some of his experiences. You either swim or drown, but some like him go on and make every moment important. I think that's what he does.
 * Nastassja Kinski, as quoted in "Nastassja Kinski: Interview with Tony Bray" (June 2004)

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Madeleine Stowe

Madeleine Marie Stowe Mora (born 18 August 1958) is an American actress.

Quotes

 * I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
 * As quoted in The Los Angeles Times (30 January 1994)

 * I am really astonished at the number of violent acts. I'm not saying that the movies created these situations, because there are a whole bunch of things. But a lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become de-sensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets.
 * On violence in movies inspiring real-life violence, as quoted in Jam Showbiz (6 June 1999)

 * After you have a kid you're just so happy to be alive!
 * "Stowe Away" - interview in SPLICEDwire (14 June 1999)

 * They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?
 * On the roles she plays; "Stowe Away", interview in SPLICEDwire (14 June 1999)

 * Oh, it was just a movie that should have never been made. I'm horrible in it. I look at myself in it and think, "Oh, you stiff. Go die!" I can't even look at it. The only thing I can say about it was that it brought me to Texas.
 * On the film western Bad Girls (1994).. as quoted in an interview appearing at reel.com (10 July 1999)

 * I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett — she's fabulous in Pushing Tin and Elizabeth — and you don't use them.
 * Interview appearing at reel.com (10 July 1999)

Mohican Press interview (2005)

 * "Back from the Wilderness … Miss Cora Munro" an interview about Stowe's role in the 1992 movie The Last of the Mohicans (25 March 2005)

 * We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision. He's extremely thoughtful and sees grand issues both social and political in an interesting way. Quite honestly, I wasn't certain how some of his ideas were applicable to the screenplay, but he was heartfelt and adamant about them. And I remember completely going with it.
 * On talking with Michael Mann about his screenplay for Last of the Mohicans.

 * While I didn't know it at the time, Daniel had suggested to Michael that I play Cora before we had ever met. And prior to our meeting, I was at a restaurant with John Bailey, the director, when I felt this man looking over in our direction and smiling a good deal. I realized, after leaving, that it was Daniel. He later told me that he was having lunch with Michael and had coincidentally asked him earlier that very day about me. It's just a funny thing, isn't it? And I was terribly flattered when he told me this tale. He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

 * In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece. When Michael began speaking about the character's inner life, it was clear that his own inner life was strong, as well. I then saw Cora in a completely different light because of Michael's orientation. It became easy to personalize her.

 * I feel like everything I tried to do is in there.
 * A previous statement about her role in Last of the Mohicans, quoted by the interviewer.

 * When I said, "I feel like everything I tried to do is there", it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, "What on earth are you talking about?"

 * Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.

 * The moment with Hawkeye is all about mutual attraction, expressed without filter from him, and a surrendering of social guardedness from Cora. She accepts his directness as her own.

 * You are so funny to ask me about "The Look". I've been asked many times, and I really am not sure what anyone means.
 * On her expressions in the scene where she asks "What are you looking at, Sir" and Hawkeye replies, "I'm looking at you, Miss."

 * The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong. The next day at work, I went straight to Daniel and told him so, saying something to the effect that "It was my fault". We told Michael my opinion (and this was unusual), he thought it over, watched dailies (which we were not allowed to see) and came back and said "You're right".

 * There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version. It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down (if that's at all possible).

 * The location was very difficult to get to. I recall rock-climbing a good deal of the way in that long skirt, and I felt terrible for the crew members who had to haul the heavy equipment. For some reason, they couldn't get there by helicopter.
 * On getting to the location of the last scene in the movie.

 * Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration. And I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much.

 * There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened. And Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.

 * There came a point in time, with all the difficulty, all the frustration, where I was quite content to be where I was. I suppose one could call it a kind of enchantment, I don't know. The shoot was so difficult on the crew and the extras. Often, it was unpleasant for them and many left. But difficulty also creates its own kind of beauty, I suppose. And while I don't revisit it unless asked, there is this sense of apartness I felt during that period of time from our own world. Perhaps the others felt the same, I'm unsure, and that is what you might feel when you watch the movie. We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.

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User talk:Ralf Ratenberg~enwikiquote

I want to sent a remarkable example of modern quote into the discussion.

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Wikiquote talk:Other language Wikiquotes

Questions
I have some questions about adding languages:
 * Do we host the new Wiki or does it reside here?
 * Will each page have a link to the different languages for comparison, or will one use different-language Wikis?
 * Is there a way to change the English prompts to the translated language?

Redirect
www.wikiquote.org currently redirects to en.wikiquote.org. It should redirect to wikiquote.org. - Hephaestos 00:32, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Complete list
I have a proposal ; would we change this page to an introduction into other language Wikiquotes? Today all language subdomains are reserved and prepared to be started, so I suppose there is no necessity to keep this list. I would like to put an equivalent of ja:Wikiquote:多言語プロジェクトとしてのウィキクォート (list of all wikiquotes, in Japanese). Or I miss some points? --Aphaia 06:30, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I see you're one step ahead of me, Aphaia. :) Yes, I also feel this list has served it's purpose and should be replaced with a comprehensive list of all Wikiquote projects (along with their article count maybe). --TOR 15:37, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Changing criteria of "active project"
I found our list is a bit outdated; it's based on the situation of last year. Before updating it, I propose to change the criteria of "active project"; now it says "having at least one article", supposedly except main page. My proposal is to replace "one article" criterila with 10 articles. If a project is active, there we may expect a continous activities, not an article created before a year or more, and there we may find several articles - not only one as result of such activities. Opinions? --Aphaia 04:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Switched to a new criteria "projects with more than 100 articles", so in the newer definition we have 32 active projects (not so different, ne?) --Aphaia 00:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

French Wikiquote related news
originally posted to WQ:VP

Request for recreating french wikiquote
Some wikimedians agree to reactivate french wikiquote on meta.

So, I've done a resquest for reactivating french wikiquote on meta and on bugzilla. Since the deleting of french project in april 2006, more quote are in french on english wikiquote without translation.

It would be usefull to support this request on bugzilla or on meta. What do you think of that. ? --Bertrand GRONDIN 10:53, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * The proposal sound reasonable. BTW, where in English WQ we have untranslated French language quotes? The Category:Pages needing translation currently only has two articles with French text. jni 11:22, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Les Tontons flingueurs, my dear :-) (On est quand même pas venu pour beurrer les sandwichs)--Bertrand GRONDIN 12:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Personally, much as I'd like to support reactivating fr:WQ, I don't feel we here at en:WQ have the moral authority for this. We have our own serious problems with copyright infringement that have caused Wikimedia éminences grises Jimbo Wales and Danny to eviscerate articles and post stern warnings as recently as a couple of weeks ago. We need to get our own house in order first. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * If I can to help you... with my primary english :-) --Bertrand GRONDIN 20:06, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Anthere will submit our request to reactivate the french wikiquote next wednesday on the next Board Council. We hope to have it  for few weeks. All the database was destroyed for copyvio. --Bertrand GRONDIN 20:08, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

French Wikiquote reopened
Good news. Our French collegues are now back to their home. Wikiquote francophone was reopened at the early of this month. Already some of them came here to fix interlang links. (Now their VP is named Le Salon, altered from the former "Le Bistro").

One new interest is their charter and rigid citing policy. Since copyvio and legal threat from the external was the direct reason their shutdown, they are very sensitive in this sphere. Their content is growing slowly ... but all quotes seems properly cited. In other words "unsourced" quotes will have no place there. At least currently it seems so.

Anyway, it is good to have neighbours again, and it is also good news for us all in my opinion. It means Wikiquote is steadily in progress. --Aphaia 15:31, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


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Ernest Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867 – 23 February 1900) was an English poet associated with the Decadent Movement.

Quotes

 * I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
 * Letter to Arthur Moore (c. 15 February 1889), in The Letters of Ernest Dowson, ed. Desmond Flower and Henry Maas (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1967), p. 35

Verses (1896)
London: Leonard Smithers, 1896
 * They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.
 * "Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetet Incohare Longam", line 1; p. v. The title, a quotation from Horace, means "The short span of life forbids us to entertain long hopes."

 * Yea! for our roses fade, the world is wild, But there, beside the altar, there, is rest.
 * "Nuns of Perpetual Adoration", line 31; p. 2

 * Say, doth she weep for very wantonness? Or is it that she dimly doth foresee Across her youth the joys grow less and less, The burden of the days that are to be: Autumn and withered leaves and vanity And winter bringing end in barrenness.
 * "My Lady April", line 9; p. 4

 * Better than mortal flowers, Thy moon-kissed roses seem.
 * "To One in Bedlam", line 12; p. 5

 * Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty, fleeting flowers That deck our little path of light: For all too soon we twain shall tread The bitter pastures of the dead: Estranged, sad spectres of the night.
 * "Amor Profanus", line 22; p. 9. The Latin title means "Profane Love".

 * Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.
 * "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae", line 1; p. 17. This title too is from Horace: "I am not as I was under good Cynara's reign."
 * The poem was first published two years earlier in The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club (London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894), pp. 60–61

 * I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
 * "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae", line 6; p. 17

 * I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng.
 * "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae", line 13; p. 17

 * I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.
 * "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae", line 19; p. 18

 * I was not sorrowful, but only tired Of everything that ever I desired.
 * "Spleen", line 7; p. 22

 * When this, our rose, is faded, And these, our days, are done, In lands profoundly shaded From tempest and from sun:Ah, once more come together, Shall we forgive the past, And safe from worldly weather Possess our souls at last?
 * "Amantium Irae", line 1; p. 45. The title is from a line by Terence: "Amantium irae amoris integratio est." (Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.)

Decorations (1899)
Decorations (1899), in The Poems of Ernest Dowson (London: John Lane, 1906), pp. 117–166
 * You ask my love completest, As strong next year as now, The devil take you, sweetest, Ere I make aught such vow. Life is a masque that changes, A fig for constancy! No love at all were better, Than love which is not free.
 * "To His Mistress", line 17; p. 141

 * Ah, God, that sweet things should decline, And fires fade out which were not cold,  Erewhile.
 * "Jadis", line 9; p. 142

 * The fairest face of all is the face I have not seen.
 * "To a Lady Asking Foolish Questions", line 4; p. 156

 * O pray the earth enfold Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.
 * "A Last Word", line 13; p. 166

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Design

Design is the planning that lays the basis for the making of every object or system.

 * CONTENT : A - F, G - L , M - R , S - Z , See also , External links

A - F

 * Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.
 * Paola Antonelli (2001), curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art, New York, in A Conversation About The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

 * The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. The assumption is that somewhere, hidden, is a better way of doing things.
 * Attributed to Harry Bertoia, Knoll Design, p. 66 in: Carlotte & Peter Fiell (2005) 1000 Chairs. Introduction

 * As a noun, design is the named (although sometimes unnamable) structure or behavior of a system whose presence resolves or contributes to the resolution of a force or forces on that system. A design thus represents one point in a potential decision space. A design may be singular (representing a leaf decision) or it may be collective (representing a set of other decisions).
 * As a verb, design is the activity of making such decisions. Given a large set of forces, a relatively malleable set of materials, and a large landscape upon which to play, the resulting decision space may be large and complex. As such, there is a science associated with design (empirical analysis can point us to optimal regions or exact points in this design space) as well as an art (within the degrees of freedom that range beyond an empirical decision; there are opportunities for elegance, beauty, simplicity, novelty, and cleverness).
 * All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design decisions that shape a system, where significant is measured by cost of change.
 * Grady Booch (2006) "On design" cited in: Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt (2007) Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, On Patterns and Pattern Languages. p. 214

 * When any great design thou dost intend, Think of the means, the manner, and the end.
 * Sir John Denham, "On Prudence" (1668), line 185.

 * Disguise and complication are hindrances, both to good construction and good design, and as complication and disguise are expensive and wasteful... the interests of good art and true economy run on parallel lines.
 * Ernest Flagg, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

 * As in poetry and music, even the unskilled ear may be offended by a mistake in measure, without discerning the cause, may not also a mistake in the harmony of dimensions unconsciously offend us in design?
 * Ernest Flagg, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

 * One of the best ways to economize in building is to economize on ugliness. ...Nothing can be greater service in avoiding ugliness than a knowledge of the principles of design.
 * Ernest Flagg, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

 * If the chief rules of good design were understood by the masses as they might be, nothing would do more to promote beauty, improve workmanship, add to the value of manufactures, and in many other ways further the general welfare and prosperity of the country. They are simple, easy to acquire, and should be taught with the alphabet.
 * Ernest Flagg, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

G - L

 * They float before my soul, the fair designs Which I would body forth to Life and Power, Like clouds, that with their wavering hues and lines Pourtray majestic buildings:—
 * Felicia Hemans (1834), from the sonnet Design and Performance in Records of the Autumn of 1834.

 * Design is to design a design to produce a design.
 * John Heskett (2005), in Design: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press, USA, 2005, 148 pages), on p. 3

 * Honest designs Justly resemble our devotions, Which we must pay, and wait for the reward.
 * Sir Robert Howard, The Duke of Lerma, Act III, scene ii, in The Dramatic Works of Sir Robert Howard (London: J. Tonson, 1722), p. 351.

 * I think so many of the objects we're surrounded by seem trivial. And I think that's because they're either trying to make a statement or trying to be overtly different. What we were trying to do was have a very honest approach and an exploration of materials and surface treatment. So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think 'of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?' It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.
 * Jonathan Ive (2003), Designer of the iMac, iBook and iPod, in iconeye 004 (July/August 2003)

 * The more I learnt about this cheeky — almost rebellious — company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.
 * Jonathan Ive (2003), in iconeye 004 (July/August 2003)

 * People think it's this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
 * Steve Jobs (2003), as quoted in Rob Walker, "The Guts of a New Machine", The New York Times Magazine, 30 November 2003

 * I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I’m my client. That’s the difference between an artist and a designer; it’s a client relationship. And so, to me, it’s not a hierarchical order; it’s not like artists are better than designers, but it is a particular instrumentality, which makes for a difference.
 * Barbara Kruger Interview (2013)

 * I think this will be as good a pattern for orders as I can think on. A little thin flowery border round, neat not gaudy, and the Drury Lane Apollo with the harp at the top.
 * Charles Lamb on his design for box tickets for the Drury Lane Theatre. Letter to William Wordsworth (June 26, 1806), in The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. I: 1795–1820, ed. (London: Methuen & Co., 1904), p. 354

M - R

 * In a very real way, designers create the human environment; they make the things we use, the places we live and work, our modes of communication and mobility. Simply put, design matters. And at a moment in our history in which the scientific community has issued serious warnings about the negative impacts of our flawed designs-from global warming and water pollution to the loss of biodiversity and natural resources-designers have a critical role to play in the creation of a more just, healthful and sustainable world.
 * William McDonough (2004) “21st Century Design,” (accessed March 26, 2008)

 * Design is redesign.
 * Jan Michl (2002), in "On seeing design as redesign" (Scandinavian Journal of Design History 12, 2002: 7-23.)

 * If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
 * William Morris (1880) "The Beauty of Life," a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 - 1881 (1882).

 * Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.
 * Donald Norman (2002), The Design of Everyday Things, Introduction to the 2002 Edition

 * In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.
 * Donald Norman (1988), The Design of Everyday Things (1988), Ch. 6

 * The design process involves a series of operations. In map design, it is convenient to break this sequence into three stages. In the first stage, you draw heavily on imagination and creativity. You think of various graphic possibilities, consider alternative ways...
 * Arthur H. Robinson (1953) Elements of Cartography p. 318

 * Good design looks right. It is simple (clear and uncomplicated). Good design is also elegant, and does not look contrived. A map should be aesthetically pleasing, thought provoking, and communicative
 * Arthur H. Robinson (1953) Elements of Cartography p. 318

 * This is exactly the meaning of design: the conflict between form and content, form being the problem. [...] It is the coming together of form and content that is the realization of design.
 * Paul Rand (2008), Conversations with Students p. 32

S - Z

 * Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
 * Eliel Saarinen, as quoted in Time magazine (July 2, 1956).

 * I have always believed that fashion was not made only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
 * Yves Saint-Laurent, as quoted in "50 Days of Everyday Fashion" in Yours magazine.

 * Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state. Design, so construed, is the core of all professional training; it is the principal mark that distinguishes the professions from the sciences. Schools of engineering, as well as schools of architecture, business, education, law, and medicine are all centrally concerned with the process of design.
 * Herbert A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), p. 111.

 * Today, the problem is not to produce more so you can sell more. The fundamental question is that of the product's right to exist. And it is the designer's right and duty, in the first place, to question the legitimacy of the product, and that is how he too comes to exist. Depending on what answer he comes up with, one of the most positive things a designer can do is refuse to do anything,
 * Philippe Starck, Simone Philippi (eds.) (2000) Starck. Taschen

 * From a structural point of view, design is totally useless... I tried to give my products a little sense and energy. But even when I gave the best of myself, it was absurd.
 * Philippe Starck (2008) in: "Les doutes existentiels de Philippe Starck", Marie-Douce Albert, Le Figaro, March 28, 2008, p. 32

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Josip Broz (7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in German-occupied Europe. He also served as the president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 14 January 1953 until his death on 4 May 1980.

Speeches

 * No country of people's democracy has so many nationalities as this country has. Only in Czechoslovakia do there exist two kindred nationalities, while in some of the other countries there are only minorities. Consequently in these countries of people's democracy there has been no need to settle such serious problems as we have had to settle here. With them the road to socialism is less complicated than is the case here. With them the basic factor is the class issue, with us it is both the nationalities and the class issue. The reason why we were able to settle the nationalities question so thoroughly is to be found in the fact that it had begun to be settled in a revolutionary way in the course of the Liberation War, in which all the nationalities in the country participated, in which every national group made its contribution to the general effort of liberation from the occupier according to its capabilities. Neither the Macedonians nor any other national group which until then had been oppressed obtained their national liberation by decree. They fought for their national liberation with rifle in hand. The role of the Communist Party lay in the first place in the fact that it led that struggle, which was a guarantee that after the war the national question would be settled decisively in the way the communists had conceived long before the war and during the war. The role of the Communist Party in this respect today, in the phase of building socialism, lies in making the positive national factors a stimulus to, not a brake on, the development of socialism in our country. The role of the Communist Party today lies in the necessity for keeping a sharp lookout to see that national chauvinism does not appear and develop among any of the nationalities. The Communist Party must always endeavour, and does endeavour, to ensure that all the negative phenomena of nationalism disappear and that people are educated in the spirit of internationalism. What are the phenomena of nationalism? Here are some of them: 1) National egoism, from which many other negative traits of nationalism are derived, as for example — a desire for foreign conquest, a desire to oppress other nations, a desire to impose economic exploitation upon other nations, and so on; 2) national-chauvinism which is also a source of many other negative traits of nationalism, as for example national hatred, the disparagement of other nations, the disparagement of their history, culture, and scientific activities and scientific achievements, and so on, the glorification of developments in their own history that were negative and which from our Marxist point of view are considered negative. And what are these negative things? Wars of conquest are negative, the subjugation and oppression of other nations is negative, economic exploitation is negative, colonial enslavement is negative, and so on. All these things are accounted negative by Marxism and condemned. All these phenomena of the past can, it is true, be explained, but from our point of view they can never be justified. In a socialist society such phenomena must and will disappear. In the old Yugoslavia national oppression by the great-Serb capitalist clique meant strengthening the economic exploitation of the oppressed peoples. This is the inevitable fate of all who suffer from national oppression. In the new, socialist Yugoslavia the existing equality of rights for all nationalities has made it impossible for one national group to impose economic exploitation upon another. That is because hegemony of one national group over another no longer exists in this country. Any such hegemony must inevitably bring with it, to some degree or other, in one form or another, economic exploitation; and that would be contrary to the principles upon which socialism rests. Only economic, political, cultural, and universal equality of rights can make it possible for us to grow in strength in these tremendous endeavours of our community.
 * Concerning the National Question and Social Patriotism Speech held at the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences, November 26, 1948, Ljubljana

Writings
Nevertheless our optimism and faith have proved justified. The greatest gain of this conflict between democracy and fascism lies in the fact that it has drawn together everything that was good in humanity. The unity of the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain is the best guarantee to the peoples of the world that Nazi horrors will never again be repeated.
 * Our sacrifices are terrible. I can safely say that there is no other part of the world which has been devastated on a vaster scale than Yugoslavia. Every tenth Yugoslav has perished in this struggle in which we were forced to wrest armaments from our enemies, to freeze without clothing, and to die without medication.
 * “Our Optimism and Faith” Liberation magazine, page 3 (United Committee of South- Slavonic Americans, 1945)

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 * In the most trying hours, through dismal nights and endless interrogations and maltreatment, during days of killing solitude in cells and close confinement, we were always sustained by the hope that all these agonies were not in vain, that there was a strong and mighty country, however far away, in which all the dreams for which we were fighting had been fulfilled. For us it was the homeland of the workers, in which labour was honoured, in which love, comradeship, and sincerity prevailed. With what joy I had felt the strength of that country as, emerging from prison in 1934, I listened in the dead of each night to Radio Moscow and heard the clock of the Kremlin tower striking the hours, and the stirring strains of the 'International'.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 128.

 * I knew that many things were wrong... I witnessed a great many injustices... But it was my revolutionary duty at the time not to criticize and not to help alien propaganda against [the Soviet Union], for at that time it was the only country where a revolution had been carried out and where Socialism had been built. I considered that propaganda should not be made against that country; that my duty was to make propaganda in my own country for Socialism.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 142.

 * The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 155.

 * None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together, but we have to create our history — our Yugoslavian socialist history, that is unique, in the future — that is our path; not touching the national rights of the some republics to preserve their own traditions, not at the expense of, but in the interest of the whole community, to mutually complete each other. That is what we want, and not the destruction of our unity.
 * Frequently quoted fragment of Tito's speech in Split 1962 Source: YouTube

 * It will do for the moment.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 177.
 * Tito's answer to the Chetnik general Mihailović's question as to whether or not "Tito" was his only name.

 * Those Chetniks up there who are now firing on us will have joined us within a year.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 185.

 * We will liquidate the kulak, but not because he is a kulak but because he is a fifth columnist … The present struggle is national liberation in form, but class war in essence.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 188.

 * Today, 9 May, exactly forty-nine months and three days after the Fascist attack on Yugoslavia, the most powerful aggressive force in Europe, Germany, has capitulated.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 252.

 * Think well about this, dear brothers and sisters, and you will see that we should have been in a state of terrible chaos, in a fratricidal war, in a country which would no longer be Yugoslavia, but be only a group of petty little states fighting among themselves and destroying each other. But our people do not want that to happen.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 263.

 * The bishops play the hero and say they are ready to fight, even if it costs them their lives. The fight against whom? Against the people's government, of course, against our new democratic Yugoslavia … But how is it that the bishops did not issue this kind of pastoral letter, to be read in all the churches, in the days of Pavelić and the Germans, against those terrible massacres of Serbs in Croatia in which hundreds of thousands of women, children and menfolk lost their lives?
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 278.

 * Churchill, he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 323.

 * We have said, and we will always say again, that we are opposed to the intervention of foreign military forces. But which was the lesser evil? Chaos, civil war, counter-revolution, and a new world war, or an intervention by Soviet troops? … I say clearly that the first alternative was the worst thing that could have occurred, and the second, the intervention of Soviet troops, was a necessary evil.
 * Tito on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, as quoted in Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 342.

 * Comrade Khrushchev often repeats that Socialism cannot be built with American wheat. I think it can be done by anyone who knows how to do it, while a person who doesn't know how to do it cannot build Socialism even with his own wheat. Khrushchev says we live on charity received from the imperialist countries … What moral right have those who attack us to rebuke us about American aid or credits when Khruschev himself has just tried to conclude an economic agreement with America?
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 348-349.

 * To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle...  If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.
 * Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005), p. 592.
 * Message found among the personal effects of Joseph Stalin.

 * Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia
 * Tito, as quoted in Julie Mertus' Kosovo: how myths and truths started a war (University of California Press, 1999), p. 22
 * If you saw what I see for the future in Yugoslavia, it would scare you.
 * As said to former Foreign Minister Mirko Tepavac in 1971. (Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away, Dejan Jović, Purdue University Press, 2009, p.45)

Quotes about Tito

 * Alphabetized by author

 * It is difficult to know whether an independent Macedonian state would have come into existence had Tito not recognised and supported the development of Macedonian ethnicity as part of his ethnically organised Yugoslavia. He did this as a counter to Bulgaria, which for centuries had a historical claim on the area as far west as Lake Ohrid and the present border of Albania.
 * Eugene N. Borza, "Macedonia Redux", in "The Eye Expanded: life and the arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity", ed. Frances B Tichener & Richard F. Moorton, University of California Press, 1999

 * When Communist dictator Josip Broz Tito took over in 1945, he attempted to quash Serbian nationalism. He preached that there was no room for ethnic differences in the class struggle. But Serbs, suspicious of Tito's Croatian and Slovenian background, said he was giving them short shrift. To allay fears of anti-Serb chauvinism, Tito prohibited Albanian-language publications and gave Kosovo's most desirable jobs to Serbs. When Albanians staged protests in the late '60s, Tito attempted to pacify them by strengthening local government (largely dominated by Albanians) over local affairs and by restoring jobs. This satisfied no one: It was not enough to dent Albanian unemployment and just enough to rile Serbs. Following Tito's death in 1980, malcontents on both sides rioted.
 * Franklin Foer, Kosovo, Slate, March 15, 1998
 * Not all communists, however, fell into that sphere. Yugoslavia had been one of the Soviet Union's most reliable allies since the end of World War II, but its leader, Josip Broz Tito, had come to power on his own. He and his partisans, not the Red Army, had driven the Nazis out; unlike any of his other East European counterparts, Tito did not depend upon Stalin's support to remain in power. Efforts to subject him to Cominform orthodoxy caused Tito to bristle, and by the end of June, 1948, he had openly broken with Moscow. Stalin professed not to be worried. "I will shake my little finger, and there will be no more Tito." Much more than a finger shook within the Soviet Union and the international communist movement over this first act of defiance by a communist against the Kremlin, but Tito survived—and was soon receiving economic assistance from the United States. The Yugoslav dictator might be a “son-of-a-bitch,” the new American secretary of state, Dean Acheson, acknowledged astringently in 1949, but he was now “our son-of-a-bitch.”
 * John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (2005), p. 27

 * The views of Tito and his associates showed from the very beginning that they were far from being “hard-line Marxists”, as the bourgeoisie calls the consistent Marxists, but “reasonable Marxists”, who would collaborate closely with all the old and new bourgeois and reactionary politicians of Yugoslavia.
 * Enver Hoxha, Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice (Against the anti-socialist views of E. Kardelj'' in the book “Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration”), Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Tirana, 1978.

 * I must really say that he is a veteran Communist, this Herr Josip Broz, a consistent man. Unfortunately he is our enemy. He really has earned his title of Marshal. When we catch him we shall do him in at once; you can be sure of that; he is our enemy. But I wish we had a dozen Titos in Germany... The man had nothing at all. He was between the Russians, the British and Americans for a ride and to shit on them in the most comical way. He is a Moscow man … He has never capitulated.
 * Heinrich Himmler, as quoted in Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 247.

 * The emergence of the strong state went hand in hand with its increasing monopoly over the use of force and violence within its borders. If you refuse to pay taxes, set your neighbour’s house on fire or ignore the summons to do military service, a strong state will lay hands on you and often your property as well and you will be punished and even, sometimes, executed. The peoples of Yugoslavia lived together peacefully if not always happily under Tito’s firm rule because, as a Croat put it, ‘every hundred yards we had a policeman to make sure we loved each other very much’. When Tito died and his Communist Party fell to pieces, the different ethnicities in Yugoslavia, urged on by unscrupulous demagogues, turned on each other. We may see the state as oppression incarnate, but we should think for a moment what it is like to live where there is no state power. The Samoans and the New Guinea highlanders once knew that and the unfortunate people of the failed states of Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan know it today.
 * Margaret MacMillan, War: How Conflict Shapes Us (2020)
 * Can a convict like Josip Broz, who is listed with the Zagreb police under No.10434, alias leader of the Communists under the name of Tito, be compared with the Yugoslav army as a national fighter? … The plunderer of churches and convict Josip Broz, a locksmith's assistant?
 * Draža Mihailović, as quoted in Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 194.

 * It was from Tito that I drew inspiration while searching for the best road to take and when making crucial decisions during our liberation struggle. I often thought, what would Tito do at that moment?
 * Robert Mugabe, as quoted in Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 400.

 * Yugoslavia is, along with Iran, the only nation which, under difficult circumstances... stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unify the ethnic groups, to modernize a nation like Yugoslavia, and one must recognise that marshal Tito has fulfilled an extraordinary task. God willing, his successors will show themselves to be just as capable.
 * Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Réponse à l'Histoire (Albin Michel, 1979), p. 190.

 * Tito had not enjoyed living in Moscow, with the constant prospect that he might be the next Yugoslav Communist to be arrested; but one aspect of life in the Soviet Union appealed to him. He had found that in the higher ranks of the party it was possible to combine loyal service to the Communist cause with good living. The leading party officials indulged in heavy eating and drinking and loud parties, though Djilas may well be right in thinking that they drank as much as they did in order to forget their fears of the NKVD. He was said that in Stalin's circle of friends they all enjoyed wine and song, but not women. Tito wanted women as well as wine and song.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 152.

 * Tito did not like Ceauşescu personally, because when they went hunting wild boars together, Ceauşescu cheated and broke the rules. He once took a shot at a boar, and having missed it, fired at it a second time after the boar had moved out of Ceauşescu's and into Tito's field of fire. Tito then killed the boar with his first shot, but Ceauşescu falsely claimed that he too had hit the boar with his shot. 'In that case, your shot must have gone up the hole under the boar's tail,' said Tito sarcastically. When they went hunting together again a few year later, Ceauşescu again claimed to have killed a boar when it was in fact Tito who had shot it.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 353.

 * Since the recent events in Bosnia, Tito has sometimes been criticized for creating a Muslim nation. He had three reasons for doing so. It fitted in with his policy of checks and balances to strengthen the Muslims against the stronger power of the Serbs; it went well with his foreign policy of alliance with the Non-aligned Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa; and he hoped he could weaken Muslim fundamentalism if it became accepted that it was possible for a Muslim not to be a fundamentalist or indeed any kind of Muslim in religion, but a Communist atheist by doctrine and a Muslim by nationality. He knew that he would get no support from Muslim fundamentalism, even before the Ayatollah Khomeini denounced him as an atheist persecutor of Islam.
 * Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 400.
 * But the West has now tipped the balance very heavily against Serbia, as if she is to blame for everything. But it's not the Serbs or Croats or Bosnians who are guilty. In Yugoslavia the problems began for the same reason as in the U.S.S.R. The communists--they had Tito, we had Lenin and Stalin--charted out arbitrary, ethnically nonsensical and historically unjustifiable internal administrative boundaries, and for years moved inhabitants from one region to another. And when--also in the period of a few days--Yugoslavia began to fall apart, the leading powers of the West, with inexplicable haste and irresponsibility, rushed to recognize these states within their artificial borders. Therefore, for the exhausting, bloody war which is today convulsing the unfortunate peoples of the former Yugoslavia, the leaders of the Western powers must share the blame with Tito.
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the New Russia and Ukraine (May 1994), by Paul Klebnikov, in the (9 May 1994), issue of Forbes magazine

 * Because the Russians, thanks to the second world war, have quite simply annexed the three Baltic States, taken a piece of Finland, a piece of Rumania, a piece of Poland, a piece of Germany and, thanks to a well thought-out policy composed of internal subversion and external pressure, have established Governments justifiably styled as Satellites, in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, Tirana and East Berlin - I except Belgrade where the regime is unique thanks to the energy and courage of Marshal Tito.
 * Paul-Henri Spaak, "The Atlantic Alliance and its Future," 14 September 1957

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 * We have spilt an ocean of blood for brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy it from within.
 * Mi smo more krvi prolili za bratstvo i jedinstvo naših naroda. I nećemo nikome dozvoliti da na dira i da ruje iznutra, da se ruši to bratstvo i jedinstvo. (We have spilled oceans worth of blood for brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we will not allow anyone to ruin this from outside or within.)

 * No one questioned "who is a Serb, who is a Croat, who is a Muslim (Bosniak)", we were all one people, that's how it was back then, and I still think it is that way today.

 * None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

 * We study and take as an example the Soviet system, but we are developing socialism in our country in somewhat different forms.

 * I will give everything from myself to make sure that Yugoslavia is great, not just geographically but great in spirit, and that it hold firmly to its neutrality and sovereignty that has been established through great sacrifice in the last battle (referring to World War II).

 * A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to brotherhood and unity and a feeling of belonging to a single socialist self-managing society. This pleased me a lot.

 * To say the least - this is a disloyal, non-objective attitude towards our Party and our country. It's a consequence of a terrible delusion that has been blown up to monstrous dimensions in order to destroy the reputation of our Party and its leadership, to take away the glory of the Yugoslavian people and their struggle. To trample everything great that our nation achieved with great sacrifices and blood loss - in order to break the unity of our Party, which represents a guarantee for successful development of socialism in our country and for the establishment of happiness of our people.

 * Without a powerful and happy Yugoslavia, there cannot be a powerful and happy Croatia.

 * I will give everything from myself to make sure that Yugoslavia is great, not just geographically but great in spirit, and that it hold firmly to its neutrality and sovereignty that has been established through great sacrifice in the last battle (referring to the second World War).

 * A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to brotherhood and unity and a feeling of belonging to a single socialist self-managing society. This pleased me greatly.

 * Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim, Serb or Croat. Everyone can be what they feel that they are, and no one has a right to force a nationality upon them.

 * Bosnia and Herzegovina was once a seed of division between the Croat and Serb people. Officials in Zagreb and Belgrade brought forth decisions on Bosnia-Herzegovina - decisions involving its wealth and decisions to exploit the country even more; but they didn't care about what their decisions would do to the people living in Bosnia-Herzegovina. They, for the sake of achieving their goals, pitted one people against the other.

 * During the war, a battle was fought here, not only for the creation of a new Yugoslavia, but also a battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign republic. To some generals and leaders their position on this was not quite clear. I never once doubted my stance on Bosnia. I always said that Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot belong to this or that, only to the people that lived there since the beginning of time.

 * Dođe maca na vratanca. (The cat will come to the door.)

 * Radimo kao da ćemo sto godina živjeti, pripremamo se kao da će sutra rat. (We work like we will live for hundred years, we prepare like that tomorrow there will be a war.)

 * Our form of socialism comes out of the woods and hills of Yugoslavia and did not arrive prepackaged from Moscow.

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 * People like Tito or not. Some don’t. People like the 20th century or not. Some don’t. But they belong together, this man and this century.
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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 FirstPrinciples. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name FirstPrinciples~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 23:23, 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) 05:47, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:FirstPrinciples~enwikiquote