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Paulo Freire

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (September 19, 1921 – May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and theorist of critical pedagogy.

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

 * Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed.

Chapter 1

 * Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.'
 * The Banking Concept of Education

 * The oppressors, who oppress, exploit, and rape by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the oppressed or themselves.
 * on the oppressors

 * The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors

 * They have no consciousness of themselves as persons or as members of an oppressed class.

 * The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

 * The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
 * on the oppressed

 * The oppressor, who is himself dehumanized because he dehumanizes others, is unable to lead this struggle.

 * This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.

 * How can the oppressed, as divided unauthentic beings, participate in the pedagogy of their liberation?

 * As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to to be like, and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible.

 * Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.
 * on the oppressed

 * Discovering himself to be an oppressor may cause considerable anguish, but it does not necessarily lead to solidarity with the oppressed.

 * True solidarity is found only in the plenitude of this act of love, and in its existentiality, in its praxis.
 * on the oppressors

 * A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

 * It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

 * The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

 * Money is the measure of all things, and profit the primary goal. For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more—always more—even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have.

 * For them, having more is an inalienable right.
 * on the oppressors

 * Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

 * Our converts, on the other hand, truly desire to transform the unjust order; but because of their background they believe that they must be the executors of the transformation.

 * A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle.

 * The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors.

 * They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen.

 * Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.

 * Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation.

 * In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.

 * Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

 * It is necessary to trust in the oppressed and in their ability to reason.

 * While no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others.

 * The correct method lies in dialogue. The conviction of the oppressed that they must fight in their liberation is not a gift bestowed by the revolutionary leadership, but the result of their own conscientização.

 * It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.

Chapter 2

 * Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

 * Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.

 * Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning.

 * Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

 * It is not surprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

 * Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

 * In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

 * Indeed, some revolutionaries brand as innocents, dreamers, or even reactionaries; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men.

 * Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

 * In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they existin the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.

 * Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

 * Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.

 * Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

 * Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings, and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world. They must abandon the educational goal of deposit-making and replace it with the posing of the problems of human beings in their relations with the world.

 * A deepened consciousness of their situation leads people to apprehend that situation as an historical reality susceptible of transformation."
 * page 253

 * Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.

 * Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

 * Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

 * Someone who cannot acknowledge himself to be as mortal as everyone else still has a long way to go before he can reach the point of encounter."

 * Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

 * Founding itself upon love, humility, and faith, dialogue becomes a horizontal relationship of which mutual trust between the dialoguers is a logical consequence.

 * Trust is established by dialogue.

 * The dialogical character of education as the practice of freedom does not begin when the teacher-student meets with the students-teachers in pedagogical situation, but rather when the former first asks herself or himself what she or he will dialogue with the latter about.

Chapter 3

 * The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
 * on dialogue.

 * The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people—not to win them over.

 * For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

 * Those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo.
 * on the oppressive status quo

 * Thematic investigation thus becomes a common striving towards awareness of reality and towards self-awareness, which makes this investigation a starting point for the educational process or for cultural action of a liberating character.

 * Reflection upon situationality is reflection about the very condition of existence: critical thinking by means which people discover each other to be 'in a situation.'

 * The more educators and the people investigate the people's thinking, and are thus jointly educated, the more they continue to investigate.

 * Critical perception cannot be imposed.

 * The basic thing, starting from the initial perception of these nuclei of contradictions (which include the principal contradiction of society as a larger epochal unit) is to study the inhabitants' awareness of these contradictions.

 * One might say they failed to perceive the untested feasibility lying beyond the limit-situations which engendered their needs.

 * Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

 * The thematics which have come from the people return to them—not as contents to be deposited, but as problems to be solved.

Chapter 4

 * Some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. There is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.

 * It is when the majorities are denied their right to participate in history as Subjects that they become dominated and alienated.

 * People will be truly critical if they live in the plenitude of the praxis, that is, if their action encompasses a critical reflection which increasingly organizes their thinking and thus leads them to move from a purely naive knowledge of reality to a higher level, one which enables them to perceive the causes of reality.

 * To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

 * Scientific and humanist revolutionary leaders, on the other hand, cannot believe in the myth of the ignorance of the people.

 * The task of revolutionary leaders is to pose as problems not only this myth, but all the other myths used by the oppressor elites to oppress.

 * In a dynamic, rather than static, view of revolution, there is no absolute 'before' or 'after,' with the taking of power as the dividing line.

 * The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
 * on revolution

 * The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given—something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

 * It is accomplished by the oppressors depositing myths indispensable to the preservation of the status quo.
 * Conquest

 * As the oppressor minority subordinates and dominates the majority, it must divide it and keep it divided in order to remain in power.

 * The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

 * People are fulfilled only to the extent that they create their world (which is a human world), and create it with their transforming labor. The fulfillment of humankind as human beings lies, then, in the fulfillment of the world.  If for a person to be in the world of work is to be totally dependent, insecure, and permanently threatened—if their work does not belong to them—the person cannot be fulfilled.  Work that is not free ceases to be a fulfilling pursuit and becomes an effective means of dehumanization.
 * Divide and Rule

 * For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in a revolution. Whether one calls this correct thinking 'revolutionary consciousness' or 'class consciousness,' it is an indispensable precondition of revolution. The dominant elites are so well aware of this fact that they instinctively use all means, including physical violence, to keep people from thinking.

 * One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

 * Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.
 * Manipulation

 * For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

 * The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in school, where students soon discover that (as in the home) in order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have been set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

 * The participants begin to realize that if their analysis of the situation goes any deeper they will either have to divest themselves of their myths, or reaffirm them. Divesting themselves of and renouncing their myths represents, at that moment, an act of self-violence. On the other hand, to reaffirm those myths is to reveal themselves.

 * The culture of the dominant class hinders the affirmation of men as beings of decision.

 * I interpret the revolutionary process as dialogical cultural action which is prolonged in 'cultural revolution' once power is taken. In both stages a serious and profound effort at conscientização—by means of which the people, through a true praxis, leave behind the status of objects to assume the status of historical Subjects—is necessary.

 * Finally, cultural revolution develops the practice of permanent dialogue between leaders and people and consolidates the participation of the people in power.

 * The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.
 * Cultural Invasion

 * The object of a dialogical-libertarian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reality. On the contrary, the object of dialogical action is to make it possible for the oppressed, by perceiving their adhesion, to opt to transform an unjust reality.

 * In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.
 * Unity for Liberation

 * Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task.

 * Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people—they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
 * Organization

 * This work deals with a very obvious truth: just as the oppressor, in order to oppress, needs a theory of oppressive action, so the oppressed, in order to become free, also need a theory of action.

 * Only in the encounter of the people with the revolutionary leaders—in their communion, in their praxis—can this theory be built.
 * Cultural Synthesis

Education as the Practice of Freedom (1974)

 * First published in Portuguese in 1967.
 * Page numbers refer to Education for Critical Consciousness as published by Bloomsbury Academic Press (2021)

 * Integration with one's context, as distinguished from adaptation, is a distinctively human activity. Integration results from the capacity to adapt oneself to reality plus the critical capacity to make choices and to transform that reality. To the extent that man loses his ability to make choices and is subjected to the choices of others, to the extent that his decisions are no longer his own because they result from external prescriptions, he is no longer integrated. Rather, he has adapted. He has "adjusted." Unpliant men, with a revolutionary spirit, are often termed "maladjusted."
 * p. 4

 * The integrated person is person as Subject. In contrast, the adaptive person is person as object, adaptation representing at most a weak form of self-defense. If man is incapable of changing reality, he adjusts himself instead. Adaptation is behavior characteristic of the animal sphere; exhibited by man, it is symptomatic of his dehumanization.
 * p. 4

 * Unfortunately, what happens to a greater or lesser degree in the various "worlds" into which the world is divided is that the ordinary person is crushed, diminished, converted into a spectator, maneuvered by myths which powerful social forces have created. These myths turn against him; they destroy and annihilate him. Tragically frightened, men fear authentic relationships and even doubt the possibility of their existence.
 * p. 5

 * Men are defeated and dominated, though they do not know it; they fear freedom, though they believe themselves to be free. They follow general formulas and prescriptions as if by their own choice. They are directed; they do not direct themselves. Their creative power is impaired. They are objects, not Subjects.
 * p. 16

 * The excess of power which has characterized our culture from the start created on the one hand an almost masochistic desire to submit to that power and on the other a desire to be all-powerful. This habit of submission led men to adapt and adjust to their circumstances, instead of seeking to integrate themselves with reality. Integration, the behavior characteristic of flexibly democratic regimes, requires a maximum capacity for critical thought. In contrast, the adapted man, neither dialoguing nor participating, accommodates to conditions imposed upon him and thereby acquires an authoritarian and acritical frame of mind.
 * p. 21

Extension or Communication (1974)

 * First published in Spanish in 1969.
 * Page numbers refer to Education for Critical Consciousness as published by Bloomsbury Academic Press (2021)

 * Knowing, whatever its level, is not the act by which a subject transformed into an object docilely and passively accepts the contents others give or impose on him or her. Knowledge, on the contrary, necessitates the curious presence of subjects confronted with the world. It requires their transforming action on reality. It demands a constant searching. It implies invention and reinvention. It claims from each person a reflection on the very act of knowing.
 * p. 89

 * Knowing is the task of Subjects, not of objects. It is as a subject, and only as such, that a man or woman can really know. In the learning process the only person who really learns is s/he who appropriates what is learned, who apprehends and thereby re-invents that learning; s/he who is able to apply the appropriated learning to concrete existential situations. On the other hand, the person who is filled by another with "contents" whose meaning s/he is not aware of, which contradict his or her way of being in the world, cannot learn because s/he is not challenged.
 * p. 89

 * The best student in physics or mathematics, at school or university, is not one who memorizes formulae but one who is aware of the reason for them. For students, the more simply and docilely they receive the contents with which their teachers "fill" them in the name of knowledge, the less they are able to think and the more they become merely repetitive. The best philosophy student is not one who discourses, "ipsis verbis," on the philosophy of Plato, Marx, or Kant but one who thinks critically about their ideas and takes the risk of thinking too.
 * p. 109

 * If education is the relation between Subjects in the knowing process mediated by the knowable object, in which the educator permanently reconstructs the act of knowing, it must then be problem-posing. The task of the educator is to present to the educatees as a problem the content which mediates them, and not to discourse on it, give it, extend it, or hand it over, as if it were a matter of something already done, constituted, completed, and finished.
 * p. 134

The Politics of Education (1985)

 * Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
 * Chapter 10, page 122

Pedagogia da indignação (Pedagogy of Indignation) (2000, English trans. 2004)

 * It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.
 * p. 47 [32]

Quotes about Paulo Freire

 * (What do you think Paulo Freire would say about how his theories are used today?) I think he would be generally appalled by the current teach-to-test doctrines. (What do you think a Freirean university would look like today?) Instruction should reject the notion of education as pouring water into a vessel, in favor of engaging students in an active quest for understanding in a faculty-student cooperative environment. To a significant extent something like that is true of science teaching, at its best, sometimes elsewhere. (If students took just one thing away from reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed what would you hope it would be?) They should recognize that education should be a process of self-discovery, of developing one's own capacities and pursuing interests and concerns with an open and independent mind, all in cooperation with others.
 * Noam Chomsky in Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition (2018)

 * In our culture, so often, people teach beliefs, values, ideas, that have no relationship to how they live their lives. And each of the many times that I saw Paulo, I saw him exemplify again and again a unity between theory and praxis. And that has inspired me both as an intellectual and as a teacher to want to have that kind of unity, to believe and to know that it’s not a dream or a fantasy, but that you can teach by being in the world as much as you can by the books you write.
 * bell hooks, interview with Democracy Now (1997)

 * I urge my students que se aprovechen el momento of their college years; to look beyond conventional career-oriented concerns toward something deeper, toward the discomfort and wonder of real conciencia, which comes, as the educator Paulo Freire understood, through a self-determined, self-defined education.
 * Cherríe Moraga A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (2011)

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John A. Macdonald

Sir John A. Macdonald (11 January 1815 – 16 June 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada. Macdonald served 19 years as Canadian Prime Minister, second to only William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Dated

 * He hoped that Britain and Canada would have "a healthy and cordial alliance. Instead of looking upon us as a merely dependent colony, England will have in us a friendly nation, a subordinate but still a powerful people to stand by her in North America in peace or in war."
 * 1865, quoted on page 394 of Canadian Constitutional Development: Shown by Selected Speeches and Dispatches, with Introductions and Explanatory Notes published 1907

 * the Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics .. the cross of those races, like the cross of the dog and the fox, is not successful; it cannot be, and never will be.
 * speaking about the Chinese, debating the 1885 Electoral Franchise Act in the House of Commons, Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada (Ottawa: Maclean, Roger & co, 1885) (Henceforth, Commons Debates), 18, May 4, 1885, 1582.
 * page 82 of Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians quotes this
 * same 1885 speech, quoted in 2012 Macleans article

 * As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born — a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the ‘veiled treason’ which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.
 * February 3, 1891 as the 1891 election was called, fought largely over the issue of free trade with the United States; reported at Historic Canada.

Undated

 * Let us be English or let us be French, but above all let us be Canadians
 *

 * Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk to George Brown sober.
 * Responding to a heckler. (from John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard J. Gwyn).

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John Prescott

The Right Honourable John Leslie Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British Labour Party politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and First Secretary of State from 1997 to 2007. He is notable for being a northern-accented Cabinet minister of working class origins, and is well known for the mangled syntax that he often employs while speaking.

1978–2000

 * There are, I believe, two grounds for rejecting the EMS. The first is economic. It is based, I believe, upon a false analysis of the cause of inflation and the lack of growth, which are essential components in the creation of unemployment. The second ground is political. It is equally as important as the first, and is not simply a political aspect. Acceptance of the EMS is a first essential step towards economic and monetary union, which is at the heart of a federal Europe.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (29 November 1978)

 * I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.
 * BBC Radio 4 Today program interview (12 April 1996)

 * I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.
 * As quoted in "Prescott points buses to fast lane" by Paul Brown, in The Guardian (6 June 1997), p. 10.

 * The Green Belt is a Labour achievement — and we mean to build on it.
 * Remark on BBC Radio (19 January 1998), quoted in "Passing Comment", The Times (31 January 1998)

 * Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?
 * Comment on ITN news when asked why he had taken a car 250 yards from his hotel to the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, instead of walking (30 September 1999), as quoted in "Prescott walks it like he talks it " BBC News online (30 September 1999)

2001–2006

 * We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.
 * As quoted in "Prescott triumphs on slippery slopes of syntax" by Simon Hoggart (10 June 2004); Hansard rendered this as "we now have a satisfactory solution for not only coalition forces, but the Iraqi authorities".

 * This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February ...
 * As quoted in "Prescott triumphs on slippery slopes of syntax" by Simon Hoggart (10 June 2004); Hansard rendered this as "The document was released in February. A great deal of fuss was made that it had not been given a public release, but it was released in February."

 * It is a fact that homelessness has continued to rise. It doubled under the previous Administration, but that does not help us. The Government intend to reduce — and probably eliminate — the homeless by 2008. [Interruption.] I am sorry, but the House knows that I have problems with English. I did not go to public school, so there is a limit to what I am able to say. Opposition Members can be such twits. We believe that we can eliminate the problem of homelessness by providing more resources, which is precisely what we are doing.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (13 July 2004); Hansard, House of Commons, 6th Series, vol. 423, col. 1268

 * Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled, we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have. I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us, the Germans are better than us, the French are better than us — well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them. I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity, remember Mr Howard, I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering, it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?
 * A statement made in Witham, Essex during the 2005 general election, as quoted in "Ducking and diving, ageing prize-fighter still fears the sucker punch" by Ben Macintyre, The Times (13 April 2005), p. 23

 * When I see that man on the telly — 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!
 * Referring to the slogan used by Michael Howard during the 2005 General Election campaign, as quoted in "Election 2005: Aggressive and voluble — but the real thing" by Oliver Burkeman, in The Guardian (21 April 2005), p. 6

 * I notice from the papers and on television today that the Tories have now brought in a new person to get people to vote Tory, and I could not help noticing that the person is named, as I saw on the website, "Mr. Tosser". I do not know which person on the Front Bench this man is modelled on, but let me tell the right hon. Gentleman that I always thought that his party was full of them, and that is why they have lost three elections.
 * Statement in the House of Commons (29 November 2006)

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Bobby Fischer

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9 1943 – January 17 2008) was a US-born chess Grandmaster who later renounced his US citizenship and became an Icelandic citizen in March 2005. He was World Chess Champion from 1972 to 1975.

1960s

 * In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
 * A bust to the King's Gambit (1960)

 * White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.
 * On his eponymous defense to the King's Gambit. A bust to the King's Gambit (1960)

 * They can't concentrate, they don't have stamina, and they aren't creative. They are all fish.
 * On women chess players, in 1961, as quoted in "He was more fun when he was in the pawn squad", The Guardian (22 April 2007)

Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master", Harper Magazine (January 1962)
 * You don't learn anything in school. It's just a waste of time. You lug around books and all and do homework. They give too much homework. You shouldn't be doing homework. Nobody's interested in it. The teachers are stupid. They shouldn't have any women in there. They don't know how to teach. And they shouldn't make anyone go to school. You don't want to go, you don't go, that's all. It's ridiculous. I don't remember one thing I learned in school. I don't listen to weakies. My two and a half years in Erasmus High I wasted. I didn't like the whole thing. You have to mix with all those stupid kids. The teachers are even stupider than the kids. They talk down to the kids. Half of them are crazy. If they'd have let me, I would have quit before I was sixteen.

 * I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

 * Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.

 * They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

 * I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

 * Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

 * Part Jewish. My mother is Jewish.
 * responding to the question "You're Jewish, aren't you?"

 * I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

 * I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

 * They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.

My 60 Memorable Games (1969)

 * When I was eleven, I just got good.

 * Tactics flow from a positionally superior game.

 * Best by test.
 * On 1.e4

 * I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
 * On 1.d4

 * Patzer sees a check, gives a check.

1970s

 * I'll play a lot, stake matches. Not like the Russians. They win the championship and then hide for three years. Every few months, anyway twice a year, I'd like to get up a purse and meet a challenger. It's good for the game, keeps up interest in chess, and it's good for the bank account. I want to get some money together. Like take professional football. All these athletes making hundreds of thousands of dollars. Contracts, endorsements. If there's room for all of them, there ought to be room for one of me. I mean, after all, I'm a great goodwill ambassador for the United States!
 * Interview by Brad Darrach for Life Magazine, 1971

 * I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
 * In Chess Digest Magazine, Vol. 4 (1971), p. 263

 * I have a minus score (against Spassky). I lost 3 and drew 2. I was better than him when I lost those games. I pressed for the win. My overall tournament record is much better than his. I'm not afraid of him, he's afraid of me.
 * Interview prior to world championship match, 1972

 * I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
 * Interview by William Lombardy, 1972

BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)
Interview for Ambassador Report, 1977 BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT!
 * Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

 * Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

 * I had some personal problems, and I started listening to a lot of radio ministers. I listened every Sunday all day, flipping the dial up and back. So, I heard just about every guy on Sunday. And then I heard Mr. Armstrong, and I said, "Ah, God has finally shown me the one, I guess."

 * Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

 * (The Worldwide Church of God) cleaned my pockets out frankly. I have some money left, but not that much. I've got some assets. It's amazing they didn't get everything. Now my only income is a few royalty checks from my books. I was really very foolish, but I thought I was doing what I had to do. When I sent those checks off, I really didn't have the slightest qualms, no regrets, not the slightest. I don't really regret it that much, to tell you the truth, even now.

 * I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost.

 * Church members shouldn't let themselves be confused. They begin not trusting in their own judgment, and then they're finished. That's a terrible, terrible thing. First, they get conducted in with a nice sweet program, no money, everything free, free, free. And then they get sucked in, and suddenly a few lies get mixed in. They are told that their human nature is wicked and these nice people who gave them all these things wouldn't be lying to them, would they? And then I think once you start distrusting your own mind you're finished. From there you just get more and more confused. Once you think that your own mind is not your friend any more-your own conscience and your own mind is not your friend-then I think you are on your way to insanity. You have been stripped bare. All your defenses are gone.

1984 letter to Encyclopedia Judaica

 * Knowing what I do about Judaism, I was naturally distressed to see that you have erroneously featured me as a Jew .. I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
 * from 1st paragraph, verified page 137 of "White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard" by Daniel Johnson, published 2008

 * I suggest rather than fraudulently misrepresenting me to be a Jew .. you try to promote your religion on its own merits--if indeed it has any!
 * from 2nd paragraph, verified December 2014 article by Saul Jay Singer of JewishPress.com

1990s

 * "I don't know when, but I think we are approaching that [the end of chess] very rapidly. I think we need a change in the rules of chess. For example, I think it would be a good idea to shuffle the first row of the pieces by computer ... and this way you will get rid of all the theory. One reason that computers are strong in chess is that they have access to enormous theory ... I think if you can turn off the computer's book, which I've done when I've played the computer, they are still rather weak, at least at the opening part of the game, so I think this would be a good improvement, and also just for humans. It is much better, I think, because chess is becoming more and more simply memorization, because the power of memorization is so tremendous in chess now. Theory is so advanced, it used to be theory to maybe 10 or 15 moves, 18 moves; now, theory is going to 30 moves, 40 moves. I think I saw one game in Informator, the Yugoslav chess publication, where they give an N [theoretical novelty] to a new move, and I recall this new move was around move 50. ... I think it is true, we are coming to the end of the history of chess with the present rules, but I don't say we have to do away with the present rules. I mean, people can still play, but I think it's time for those who want to start playing on new rules that I think are better."
 * Press Conference, (September 1, 1992)

 * Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!
 * Press Conference, September 1 1992

 * First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
 * Press Conference, September 1 1992

 * What is going on is I am being persecuted night and day by the Jews, for telling it like it is. They want to put me in jail, they're robbing me of everything I have, they're continuously lying about me. I've had enough of this shit. The latest thing they've done is I had some stuff in storage back in Pasadena for 12 years, spent a fortune on storage fees, a fortune on safes... and these God-damn Jews in America have just gone and grabbed it all.
 * Radio Interview, January 13 1999

 * They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
 * Radio Interview, March 10 1999

 * My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
 * Radio Interview, March 10 1999

 * I have a crazy quirk, Eugene. I like to say what I think. And if you're gonna work for the Jews, you can no longer say what you think. You can't say the holocaust never happened, for example. That is an absolute no-no. You can't say that circumcision is a crime. There are so many things you cannot say once you get on the Jewish bandwagon. … There used to be a lot of people like me, but little by little the Jewish spirit seems to be conquering all.
 * Speaking to Eugene Torre on Bombo Radyo Philippines, May 24 1999

 * I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
 * Radio Interview, May 24 1999

 * America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia... The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense are dirty Jews.
 * Radio Interview, May 24 1999

 * The Jews have been hardened against Christ, against decency for thousands of years... They're gonna have to be annihilated, Eugene.
 * Speaking to Eugene Torre, Radio Interview, May 24 1999

 * I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.
 * Radio Interview, June 27 1999

 * I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerrandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerrandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorization and prearrangement like it is today.
 * Radio Interview, June 27 1999 (see 2:18 - 3:03) (also see here from 39:04 - 39:49)

 * The United States is supposed to be a government of laws, not people. But that's a lot of shit. The United States is totally controlled by dirty Jews. And these are ruthless, lawless, criminal people. They've been mutilating their kids for thousands of years, cutting off a piece of their penis. That's illegal too, but that never stopped the dirty Jews.
 * Radio Interview, June 27 1999

 * They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
 * Radio Interview, October 16 1999

2000s

 * I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
 * Radio Interview, July 6 2001

 * I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
 * Radio Interview, July 6 2001

 * I'm very concerned because I think the Jews want to drive the elephants to extinction because the trunk of an elephant reminds them of an uncircumcised penis. I'm absolutely serious about that... Jews are sick, they're mental cases.
 * Radio Interview, July 6 2001

 * Look at all I've done for the US. Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me, I really believe this. When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. I turned all that around single-handedly, right? But I was useful then because there was the Cold War, right? But now I'm not useful anymore, you see, the Cold War is over, and now they want to wipe me out, steal everything I have, put me in prison, and so on.
 * Radio Interview, September 11 2001

 * Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country.
 * Radio Interview, September 11 2001

 * You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
 * Radio Interview, January 27 2002

 * I follow the old chess, I follow all the pre-arranged matches, like the last Kramnik-Kasparov match. At the highest level it is all pre-arranged, move by move. You have very interesting, beautiful pre-arranged games being created by very intelligent players, working with computers, working in teams. I have no objections to people creating such games, but they must say these are pre-arranged games, but they must not claim that they are finding the moves over the board.
 * Radio Interview, January 27 2002

 * * "The old chess is you're banging your head against the wall with this theory. (...) You were trying to find some little improvement on move 18 or 20. It's ridiculous. It gets harder and harder and harder. You need more and more computers. You need more and more people working for you." 2005
 *

 * I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
 * Radio Interview, January 27 2002

 * Jews hate nature and the natural order, because it's pure and beautiful, and also because it's bigger and stronger than they are, and they feel that they can not fully control it. Nature's beauty and harmony stands in stark contrast to their squalidness and ugliness, and that makes them hate it all the more. Jews are destroyers. They are anti-humans.
 * Radio Interview, February 19 2005 Kasparov-12.jpgChessStartingPosition.jpg

 * I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
 * Interview en-route to Iceland, March 24, 2005

 * Bobby Fischer was asked about his arrest in Japan. He responded: "This was not an arrest. This was a kidnapping. This was all cooked up by Bush and Koizumi. They are all war criminals. They should be hung."
 * Interview en-route to Iceland from Japan, March 24 2005

 * The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.
 * Interview en-route to Iceland, March 24 2005

 * The United States is evil. The United States has this 'axis of evil', blah blah blah. What about the 'allies of evil' – What about the United States, England, Japan, Australia and so on? These are the evildoers.
 * Press conference in Iceland, March 25 2005

 * Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
 * Radio Interview, May 15 2005

 * In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings. You cannot compare the playing strength, you can only talk about natural ability. Memorization is enormously powerful. Some kid of fourteen today, or even younger, could get an opening advantage against Capablanca, and especially against the players of the previous century, like Morphy and Steinitz. Maybe they would still be able to outplay the young kid of today. Or maybe not, because nowadays when you get the opening advantage not only do you get the opening advantage, you know how to play, they have so many examples of what to do from this position. It is really deadly, and that is why I don’t like chess any more.
 * Radio Interview, October 16 2006

 * [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
 * Radio Interview, October 16 2006

 * Morphy and Capablanca had enormous talent, they are two of my favorites. Steinitz was very great too. Alekhine was great, but I am not a big fan of his. Maybe it’s just my taste. I’ve studied his games a lot, but I much prefer Capablanca and Morphy. Alekhine had a rather heavy style, Capablanca was much more brilliant and talented, he had a real light touch. Everyone I’ve spoken to who saw Capablanca play still speak of him with awe. If you showed him any position he would instantly tell you the right move. When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since. Capablanca really was fantastic. But even he had his weaknesses, especially when you play over his games with his notes he would make idiotic statements like 'I played the rest of the game perfectly.' But then you play through the moves and it is not true at all. But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt.
 * Radio Interview, October 16 2006

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 * Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
 * in the only meeting with FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, responding to the latter advocating "step by step" changes mindful of the heritage of chess (between September 1, 1992 and 2002) Gligorić (2002), p. 71.

Quotes about Fischer

90s

 * So why the unfair and out-of-line hysteria about Bobby? Well, it turns out that Bobby, an independent thinker in other fields than chess is definitely not Politically Correct. Apparently, even chess players are not allowed to stray beyond the narrow bounds of PC without being severely punished.
 * Murray Rothbard, in Bobby Fischer: The Lynching of the Returning Hero (October 1992)

 * Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of the earth.
 * Yasser Seirawan, No Regrets: Fischer-Spassky 1992. Seirawan, Yasser; Stefanovic, George (1992), No Regrets: Fischer-Spassky 1992, International Chess Enterprises, ISBN 1-879479-09-5, p. 291 Instant Fischer (1993), Edward Winter, chesshistory.com

 * Fischer has become more virulently anti-Jewish since ceasing to play competitive chess. In denying himself chess, therefore, is he, in fact, denying his own Jewishness? As Cockburn writes: 'No player has ever been such a walking advertisement for the Freudian interpretation of chess.'
 * The Observer (9 May 1999)

2000s

 * Bobby is a tragic personality... He is an honest and good natured man. Absolutely not social. He is not adaptable to everybody’s standards of life. He has a very high sense of justice and is unwilling to compromise as well as with his own conscience as with surrounding people. He is a person who is doing almost everything against himself. I would not like to defend or justify Bobby Fischer. He is what he is. I am asking only for one thing. For mercy, charity. If for some reason it is impossible, I would like to ask you the following: Please correct the mistake of President François Mitterand in 1992. Bobby and myself committed the same crime. Put sanctions against me also. Arrest me. And put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set.
 * Boris Spassky [] in an appeal to George W. Bush, August 7 2004 Fischer is said to have responded to news of this letter with "I don't want him in my cell. I want a chick in my cell."

 * What I admired most about him was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.
 * Magnus Carlsen, commenting on Fischer's death (January 17, 2008), as quoted by ChessBase News.

 * Fischer’s beautiful chess and his immortal games will stand forever as a central pillar in the history of our game.
 * Garry Kasparov, 'statement on the death of Bobby Fischer', January 18, 2008.

 * Among this year’s worst news, for me, was the death of Bobby Fischer. Telling a friend this, I got, “Are you out of your bloody mind? He was a Nazi-praising raving lunatic and anti-Semite. Death is too good for him.” He did, indeed, become all that. But none of it describes the man I knew. Towering genius, riches, international fame and a far from normal childhood might be too heady a mix for anyone to handle. For him they proved fatal. I’m still sad about his death. In our three encounters on my late-night show, I became quite fond of him.
 * Dick Cavett, in "Was It Only a Game?" in The New York Times (8 February 2008)

 * It must seem strange to people too young to remember that there was once a chess champion – of all things – who became arguably the most famous celebrity on earth. And that his long-anticipated match against the reigning Russian champion, Boris Spassky, was broadcast and watched worldwide as if it were the Super Bowl, except that chess drew a much bigger audience. … We ordinary mortals can only try to imagine what it might feel like to be both young and so greatly gifted at a complex art. And to be better at it than any other living being, past or present. There are plenty of geniuses and lots of famous people, but few are both. Is anyone really capable of surviving such a double burden? We assume that geniuses are blessed creatures who don’t have to work hard to achieve their goals. Hard for us, easy for them. But Bobby as a kid – IQ pushing 200 – put in 10 to 15 hours a day of brain power and heavy concentration that would kill an ordinary person. (Or at least me.) The chess world was already well aware of this kid prodigy. But they were unprepared for him to suddenly go up against the acknowledged top player of the day in the United States Chess Championship. And win – at the age of thirteen. When asked what happened, he said, “I got better.”
 * Dick Cavett, in "Was It Only a Game?" in The New York Times (8 February 2008)

 * The most individualistic, intransigent, uncommunicative, uncooperative, solitary, self-contained and independent chess master of all time, the loneliest chess champion in the world. He is also the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived.
 * Larry Evans, as quoted in 'Bobby and You' (22 February 2008)

 * It is difficult to play against Einstein’s theory.
 * Mikhail Tal, after his first loss to Fischer, as quoted in 'The Wonder Match' (28 December 2008)

 * In his play, Fischer was amazingly objective, long before computers stripped away so many of the dogmas and assumptions humans have used to navigate the game for centuries. Positions that had been long considered inferior were revitalized by Fischer’s ability to look at everything afresh. His concrete methods challenged basic precepts, such as the one that the stronger side should keep attacking the forces on the board. Fischer showed that simplification—the reduction of forces through exchanges—was often the strongest path as long as activity was maintained. The great Cuban José Capablanca had played this way half a century earlier, but Fischer’s modern interpretation of “victory through clarity” was a revelation. His fresh dynamism started a revolution; the period from 1972 to 1975, when Fischer was already in self-exile as a player, was more fruitful in chess evolution than the entire preceding decade. Despite the ugliness of his decline, Fischer deserves to be remembered for his chess and for what he did for chess. A generation of American players learned the game thanks to Fischer and he should continue to inspire future generations as a model of excellence, dedication, and achievement. There is no moral at the end of the tragic fable, nothing contagious in need of quarantine. Bobby Fischer was one of a kind, his failings as banal as his chess was brilliant.
 * Garry Kasparov, 'The Bobby Fischer Defense', 10 March 2011.

 * Mr Fischer is a fugitive from justice
 * US state department spokesman Bobby Fischer arrives in Iceland (2005)

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Citations of quotes
Though Fischer's anti-semitism is well attested to, and I do not greatly doubt he would make such a remark as this article began with, I think strongly derogatory comments attributed to anyone about anyone should be provided with a source, or ommitted--- at the very least they should be clearly labelled as "attributed". ~ Achilles 03:53, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree, thus I have placed these very EXTREME comments in the talk page:
 * 1) "I want to kill everyone! The world must burn!"
 * 2) "Hitler is my hero. I love him."
 * once a source is found, they may be corrected and placed back PEACE ~ RoboAction 07:46, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ginzburg quotes
Fischer denied he said the things that Ginzburg claimed that he said. There's no independent confirmation for what Ginzburg wrote. Ginzburg portrayed Fischer as boastful and rude, which doesn't match up with other accounts of the young Fischer. The Washington Post discussed Ginzburg in this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070601724_pf.html, characterized him as self-promoting, described how he was found guilty of libelling Barry Goldwater and described how Ginzburg was a convicted felon and pornographer. He made his career on sensationalism and self-promotion. I call into question his credentials as a journalist, his integrity and honesty, and the truth of the article that he published. Quotes from the article should not be presented at face value.74.196.205.92 22:11, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Reorganisation
This may be controversial, but I tried to organise things a bit more chronologically. I'm not trying to bury Fischer's views on Jews, the US, Russians, Kasparov but he first became famous as a chess player, so I thought his views on chess should come first. Also, and this is in no way a defence of his views, a more chronological listing might allow people to see how his views have developed. There is a case to be made that his bizarre and offensive personality traits were encouraged and allowed to develop unchecked after he was catapulted to international fame at the age of 13.

Ewen

Citizenship
The title says that Fischer is an "American chess player", despite the fact of receiving the full Icelandic citizenship a year ago. I know that he will always be associated to be an american, but shouldn't the term be corrected nonetheless?

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 * Chess is life.
 * My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.
 * When I was eleven, I just got good.
 * The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
 * All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
 * All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
 * I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.
 * I like to make 'em squirm.
 * I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
 * There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.
 * You can only get good at chess if you love the game.
 * Chess demands total concentration and a love for the game.
 * I give 98 per cent of my mental energy to chess. Others give only two per cent.
 * Your body has to be in top condition. Your chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind.
 * I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
 * Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
 * People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
 * It's just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something.
 * Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.
 * I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
 * You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances.
 * That's chess, you know. One day you give a lesson, the next day your opponent gives you a lesson.
 * (1992, after Spassky had beaten him in game 4 of their rematch).
 * I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it.
 * You know, I can beat all those guys.
 * There's no one alive I can't beat.
 * Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.
 * I add status to any tournament I attend.
 * Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
 * If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
 * Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it.
 * Chess is a matter of delicate judgment, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
 * I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good chess.
 * I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
 * It's pretty tough because of all the tension and all the concentration, sitting there hour after hour. It's...exhausting.
 * Theoretically, I think the game is a definite draw.
 * I wanted to give them something to think about when they prepare for me in future tournaments. (on why he played 1.d4, 1.c4 & 1.Nf3 a few times)
 * It's just a matter of throwing in a few sacrifices, then checkmate! (on playing against the Sicilian Dragon)
 * For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.
 * Advice to his biographer, Frank Brady, who had asked for chess lessons
 * Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
 * My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration.
 * It's like taking a five hour final examination.
 * Different people feel differently about resigning.
 * It doesn't pay to be petty like they are.
 * I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!
 * The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
 * Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway! (on My 60 Memorable Games)
 * I don't need them to correct anything for me, even with the help of computers. Of course the book has mistakes, but I can correct them myself. They changed my things on purpose. (on changes made to the new edition of My 60 Memorable Games)
 * The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
 * I don't play the old chess. But obviously if I did, I would be the best.
 * I don't play the old chess any more. The old chess is dead, it's been played out.
 * I'm finished with the old chess, it's rotten to the core
 * I love chess, and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it.
 * ...People don't know how utterly corrupt it [chess] is, and has been for many years...Just like when you go to watch a wrestling match, right? Saturday night wrestling. They are very good wrestlers, but anybody with half a brain knows it's almost all prearranged.
 * You know, up until now they [the Jews] have more or less been satisfied to kind of attack my name, to exploit my name, to violate my rights, to violate my intellectual property rights, to violate my contracts; now, this is a new level, they're just stealing my belongings. Stuff worth millions, tens of millions, maybe even hundreds of millions of dollars, they just went and stole it.
 * The US government and American Jewry are virtually interchangeable.
 * There is no United States as people think of it. It's just a puppet in the Jew's hands. It's a plaything for the Jews.
 * The Jews don't want me to succeed in any of my projects. They want me to be a failure.
 * They want to utterly destroy my reputation for all time. Jews are vicious rats.
 * Because I beat the Jews in chess. I beat them badly too, I beat them very badly... Plus, on top of that I exposed them as cheating in chess! As outright crooks. Plus, I exposed the holocaust as never happened. Totally made up. The Jews are goddamn liars. There is not a shred of truth to this holocaust.
 * — On why he is being persecuted by the Jews

 * Morphy was really the world champion. That's also a Jewish conspiracy, because he was a Catholic and they tried to say he wasn't the world champion so they could promote Steinitz, who was a Jew, as the first world champion... There was a huge conspiracy against Paul Morphy... He has no stamp! Paul Morphy has no stamp. This Jewish bitch I Love Lucy. She got a stamp! And nobody compared to Paul Morphy. All kind of Jewish actors, comedians, doctors... but Paul Morphy has never gotten a stamp. Obviously the Jews have an insane hatred toward him.
 * — On the great 19th century American chess player Paul Morphy

 * Almost everyone who has been around me turned out to be a secret agent working for the Jews, working for the CIA... The Jews have planted so many of their Jew agents and CIA rats all around me. So many people... Girlfriends, lawyers, everybody almost, turned out to be working for the CIA and the Jews! Unbelievable but true.
 * My basic thesis is that the Jews are a criminal people, and the Jews completely control the United States, and the Jews are using the United States as a vehicle to take over the World.
 * — On being asked what he hoped to achieve by giving radio interviews

 * I'd like to see all Jews be lesbians and homos. That would solve the problem with the Jews, there'd be no more Jews, no?
 * They are jealous of me in every way! They're jealous of my talent, they're jealous of my looks, they're jealous of my potency, they're jealous of my chess! They're just jealous bastards. They are ugly, they are jealous...I was over in Israel, I went to a change room a few times. I saw their penises...they are pitiful, they are small, they are just...dry, you know, all of them circumsized. Just very sad. I understand they're jealous.

"When you talk about Americans, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity. " Who the hell made this edit? Huh? Filthy liars. He never said such things. He said JEWS are subhuman, not Americans. Probably a Jew edit.

 * Some of the ones on this list appear at http://www.renegadetribune.com/bobby-fischer-speaks-jews/ so they're certainly sourced. The problem is that this list isn't exactly precise because only some of them have dates, and I don't know if RT is reliable or not. 70.51.193.44 08:17, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Relevance
Fischer was a great chess player who happened to be mentally ill and paranoid, against the Jews and America. Why does 99% of this page are worthless nonsense statements by a mad man about something that has nothing to do with his speciality and why do i have to scroll the whole page to maybe find a statement about chess? This is absolutely ridiculous. What can anybody learn from these quotes? Nothing. Fischer has said an enormous amount of very interesting stuff about chess, and a lot of paranoid garbage that can only prove that he was crazy. Great. We knew that already. Apparently a statement that is outrageously racist or shocking is interesting in itself even when it is pronounced by someone out of his mind. Who cares about chess! This article is an absolute disgrace.--212.183.128.131 15:13, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's any scholarly consensus that Fischer's anti-semitism arose from mental illness. Fischer, despite his genius, was an extremely prejudiced man, and while I agree that most of this article should be dedicated to chess, notorious quotes should also be included. --Tryst (talk) 15:21, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree that some of the more notorious remarks and views Fischer developed should be included, but also will note that more quotations on Chess or other aspects of Fischer's thoughts than those provided by the editors who have thus far contributed to this page are very welcome. ~ ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, there is no "scholarly consensus", but it happened that Fischer was mad, and that he was a Jew himself. You don't need to be a scholar to get that his racist rants are completely irrational. But that's not even the point. The point is that Wikipedia page about Bobby Fischer starts with "Bobby Fischer was an american chess grandmaster" and not "Bobby Fischer was a notorious paranoid racist". One or two quotes about his political / racial opinions are fine, because let's say that it's part of who he was and what he became after he stopped playing, but 90% of a page dedicated to a chess player being about his outrageous and irrational claims from two radio interviews thirty years after he retired is just plain ridiculous. Now you have to think what you want wikiquote to be: an overview of a public figure by quote that bring something (because let's be clear you don't learn anything at all from those twelve zillion quotes except that he really was very crazy after his retirement) or a compilation of scandalous tabloid-like rants. If what makes a sentence "quotable" is that it is ridiculously racist or shocking rather than being informative, creative or enlightening, well, then wikiquote is really not an interesting project. Because see, I'm pretty sure there is more interesting in what Bobby Fischer said in his life than the "Jewnited States of America". Stuff about chess, competition, strategies, other players, FIDE, openings, mental strength, world champion condition, etc... I am not a regular contributor, I came here because I am into chess, but I have to say that I just found this page outrageous.--90.40.11.170 18:27, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * If you are offended at the amounts or proportion of lamentable invective in the quotes which others have added, it would be more conducive to correcting that imbalance by adding more material on Chess or less offensive remarks. Though they certainly do make some indelible but dubious contributions, the most zealous advocates of ethnic, religious, political or racial bigotries of various sorts, like deliberate vandals, usually do not long get much traction amidst the Wikimedia projects — they usually attempt to befoul things to the extent they can, often sincerely believing themselves correct in spreading seeds of various forms of intolerance and resentments and then leave — as they tend to find few converts or allies when various views of many sorts are available to confound and refute many of their simplistic assertions. Nervously timid paranoid fantasists and vicious bullies of more subtle and sly and well-camouflaged varieties often have a bit more success for a time — for they are often quite skilled at manipulating and abusing human customs and rules in ways detrimental to general liberty and respect for all humanity and the most subtle and sublime forms of philosophical thought, but I am confident that even their often pervasive and pernicious influence can and shall gradually or rapidly diminish once certain levels of awareness and appreciation of some simple facts become even slightly more common than they presently are. Until such a time, there are often many imbalances and injustices that must be borne by various people, as many of more shallow perceptions often believe the answer dwells in developing more rules or stronger and more stringently adhered to and restrictive rules than those already misused with skill by many — which rule mongers and rule manipulators generally delight in agreeing with — as they often provide even more subtle and powerful tools for corrupting the integrity of individuals and societies they resent or belittle with irrelevancies, and ignoring things of vital importance. No rules devisable by mortal minds can substitute for active and conscientious involvement in many things with an openness to many perspectives — and that is what many of the very worst of the lazy arrogant rule- mongers generally seek to suppress, drive away and find ways to confound and punish, whenever they can find allies and pretexts by which to operate in comfortable dulness or even with malice aforethought. I might attend to a long needed cleanup of this article sometime in the next month or so, if I have the time — but like most people here, I have not examined it closely in some time, have MANY other things to do, and would not be resentful if anyone got around to organizing this better before me. ~ ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:09, 1 May 2012 (UTC) + tweaks

The article is immensely unbalanced. The quotes from the post-1992 Fischer far outnumber the quotations from when he was an active and important chess player. A representative sample of his raving quotations is all that's necessary. The article gives prominent place to quotes from Ginzburg's article, which are spurious. Fischer denied saying those; Ginzburg is a libelist and convicted felon and not a reliable source.2602:304:6EAF:CED0:1942:E2F7:7EB7:1BF7 08:13, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Removed per WP:UNDUE
Removed much of the section on Bobby Fischer's feelings about the Jews. It is in violation of wp:UNDUE. He was a chess player NOT a famous Nazi. It is giving wp:UNDUE weight to his anti-semetic sentiments. 69.183.158.52 18:33, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Please check User talk:Jimbo Wales own words. He seems to agree it is wp:UNDUE. Mugginsx (talk) 18:49, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

If you are so certain of your opinions why just create User:Tarc for this purpose only? Mugginsx (talk) 18:52, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

 * That's a dumb comment to make, first of all. Just because I am primarily of enwiki doesn't mean I do not have standing here to make edits.  Bobby Fischer made very numerous and very infamous antisemitic rants, on camera, in front of a very wide audience.  These rants specifically have been the focus of in-depth and reliable source coverage in the media.  I'm sure we're all sorry that a once-famous chess player's gameplay has been overshadowed by their late-in-life antics, but we're a) not gong to whitewash history and b) not going to self-censor ourselves just because there's mean and dirty words/rhetoric in the quotes themselves.  If you find what Fischer said to be offensive, that's kinda too bad. Tarc (talk) 18:55, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

 * And FYI, Wales just hatted that convo with a summary of "I do think Wikiquote should of course include quotes from Bobby Fischer which demonstrate his racism against Jewish people. I also think that it is valid to consider, within the context of broader Wikiquote policies, questions about WP:UNDUE weight of including a lot of them, when we include, it is claimed, fewer from him on the subject of Chess. But that's a wikiquote issue". Tarc (talk) 18:58, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

 * You should read better. This is what he said AFTER he said that anti-semetic quotes are allowed on Wikipedia:
 * He states: I also think that it is valid to consider, within the context of broader Wikiquote policies, questions about WP:UNDUE weight of including a lot of them, when we include, it is claimed, fewer from him on the subject of Chess. But that's a wikiquote issue.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 18:43, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Now do you get it? What he is saying is that although the quotes are of course admissable on Wiki, the amount of quotes ARE MORE THAN HIS OPINIONS ON CHESS.  THAT IS WHAT UNDUE SAYS.  If the article was about a famous Nazi, his opinions would not be UNDUE weight, but as a CHESS PLAYER, you are giving his opinions on Jews MORE WEIGHT than his opinions on CHESS.  Almost Twice as many as a matter of fact.  This should be obvious and it is strange to me that it is not obvious to you. Mugginsx (talk) 19:27, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Why don't you use some more CAPS, I can't quite HEAR YOU. The issue is one to discuss on this project, not to pretend that one has some sort of rubber stamp form en.wikipedia that enables you to come here and strip sourced content from an article.  I'm sorry, but Bobby Fischer's chess accomplishments in his youth are simply less notable than his eccentric and bizarre outbursts and antics in later life, many of which included antisemitism.  Jeremy Schaap's won an Emmy for an expose on an attempted interview with Fischer in 2005, it was quite ugly. Tarc (talk) 19:46, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

 * I've removed a few of the quotes to balance the article (as Jimbo obviously wishes), but I agree with Tarc that we should give significant weight to his anti-semitism, which, although it does not overshadow his chess, received a lot of media attention during his lifetime. --Tryst (talk) 19:49, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

 * Yes, I see you have 16 in the JEWS section and 16 in the CHESS section AND you have an EXTRA anti-semitic remark in the U.S. section now. This is still wp:UNDUE in my view and still very strange that we, as experienced Wikipedia editors, should have to be in disagreement over this.  To me, and many other people (who lived in the time) he was nothing more than a champion chess player.  You seem to think his anti-semitic remarks are EQUAL to his chess career.  What next?  Errol Flynn - Wasn't he supposed to be pro-Nazi?  Are we going to go through all of the idiot actors and celebrities who before or after the war thought to be pro-Nazi was fashionable.  I think if you will read your history on this general subject you will find this is UNDUE.  I have searched and do not find a great many Headline Newspapers that have a story on Fischer anti-semitic's views.
 * One more thing - What makes it any different if I revert content from this article or any other article if it is covered by a valid Wiki Guideline violation? See: About. Mugginsx (talk) 20:36, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The best solution is for more chess quotes to be added. I'll work on it. --Tryst (talk) 06:42, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Muggins, there is no guideline violation here, first of all. It is not undue to give weight to a very well-known and infamous chapter of this man's life.  I'm sorry you weren't able to find anything in "the headline newspapers", whatever that means, but 5 seconds of searching over here nets a feature story in The Atlantic, for starters.  To Tryst...trimming is fine if warranted, I was just against wholesale, white-washy deletion.  If there are notable chess-related quotes, I'm fine with those going in as well, but let's be careful about including just for the sake if inclusion or out of a "we must balance the negative" mindset.  Uninteresting or tangential comments he made about chess won't make a better article. Tarc (talk) 12:25, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree. The thing about Fischer's antisemitic rants is that, while they're notable, he's essentially repeating the same drivel time and time again, so there's no need to have more than a representative sample. It would be inappropriate to white-wash them, of course. The page should give a balanced picture of Fischer, and if that end product looks unbalanced to someone unfamiliar with Fischer's views on matters unrelated to chess, so be it. --Tryst (talk) 13:48, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The article is much more balanced now. I respectfully disagree that it was balanced before.  If the title were: Bobby Fischer's Anti-Semitism comments, chess and other things  I would agree.  However, everyone has acted in good faith and as far as I am concerned the subject is closed and the UNDUE problem has been resolved. Oops, someone slipped two anti-semitic remarks in the "Other Players" section.  Removed one, left one.  Probably unintentional.Mugginsx (talk) 14:18, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Chess time limit
Ok when Ms Fischer the day when man vs computer was viewed to the public the time when Ms fischer got up and walked out did he before exiting lay his KING down. Ok so if he did game over now if he didn't how could this man had lost. I no of chess games by individuals that continued in time of over weeks.so was the game of chess with this one individual and the other AI was time of any factor of deciding either victory. All I am going off of is the action from other view of the game because I never seen it on TV or read about it and from ever one that told of me there opinion this event? Toms mustang (talk) 01:47, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Any source for flavor?
Quote: I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorization and prearrangement like it is today.

Apparently source is 'Radio Interview, June 27 1999'

http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_08_3.MP3

but yahoo japan is dead?

Edit: Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fischer_random_chess&type=revision&diff=1087110622&oldid=1081800892

Thewriter006 (talk) 12:09, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

 * @Thewriter006: Hi, I know pretty close to nothing about this topic, but I am curious to find out what was the purpose of your posting this message.
 * It appears you have dug out a quote by Bobby Fischer and you are not sure how to proceed? Am I correct? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 13:01, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Yeah basically the source for it is dead. Thewriter006 (talk) 13:28, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Thewriter006, Thanks for replying. Are you saying that the geocities source is dead? If so, have you tried the internet archive or ocities? Ottawahitech (talk) 14:14, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

 * THANK YOU. I just assumed people would've changed it if the link died. Ok I'll do it myself. (Note: This was posted last week but I forgot to sign. I'll just sign now.) Thewriter006 (talk) 12:20, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Thewriter006, Hi again. I see that you have been maintaining a large pool of Fisher quotes at Fischer_random_chess. Just curious why you are not here at WQ doing this? Ottawahitech (talk) 20:32, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * hello again. wassup. idk. they were just already there so i figured to just continue there. what did you have in mind? create like a whole page for 9LX on wikiquote? Thewriter006 (talk) 10:24, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * update: now it's on wikiquote :D https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess Thewriter006 (talk) 16:27, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Why did UDScott remove references section and the quote I added re Kirsan Ilyumzhinov?
'"Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?" in the only meeting with FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, responding to the latter advocating "step by step" changes mindful of the heritage of chess[1]' - reference is 'Gligorić (2002), p. 71.'

So UDScott wants a screenshot / photo of the page? here you go https://imgur.com/a/RE3fCY2 Thewriter006 (talk) 11:58, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Bobby Fischer


text:
Talk:John Kerry

Information boxes
Information boxes look good, and provide a good summary of facts, which is a plus, but they can be confusing and discouraging to new users when they attempt to edit a page. Though I like their appearance, after thinking upon the matter a bit, I think they should not be used here, so that people can add quotations with greater ease, and less intimidating confrontation with html code. I think pictures should be avoided, because currently they need to be uploaded in addition to any that exist at Wikipedia, and I think such redundancy is wasteful of Wikimedia server space. I would rather wait until such a time as Wikimedia-wide image links are available before adding any pictures to articles here. ~ Achilles 06:33, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree, they should not be used here. We should stick to quotes, and not copy wikipedia information to here. ~ Stevesliva 16:07, 5 Aug 2002

Sourcing quotes
I've created a new "Unsourced" section and moved most of the former "Sourced" quotes there because they don't adequately specific a source that may be checked by editors. Magazines should include exact dates and article titles. Speeches must include a reliable source for the text. (Wikisource is not a reliable source by Mediawiki standards, for the same reason Wikipedia isn't — in short, anyone can edit it, and there is no editorial board to back up its claims with a professional reputation.)

Source lines should also be explicit about their sources. Bare links and URLs should be converted into proper source statements, including the author, title, article name/chapter/etc., date, ISBN (for books), and other info. (See cite book, cite news, cite web, and cite journal for some of the information that can be added. These templates can be used to standardize the citations' appearance.) The goal is to make it relatively easy for Wikiquotians to verify the quote. Asking them to read an entire book or magazine issue to find a quote is not reasonable. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:04, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Last quote under listing: "Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn't cover it quite as much. People wouldn't know what's going on. On terrorism — Press Availability in Dhaka, Bangladesh (29 August 2016)." Source is broken, I question the context.

Unsourced

 * Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war".

 * If [George H.W.] Bush is shot, the Secret Service has orders to shoot Dan Quayle.
 * Joke, businessmen's breakfast in East Lynn, Massachusetts, November 15, 1988

 * I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.
 * Senate debate on using military force against Iraq, October 9, 2002

 * What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.
 * Boston Globe, April 3, 2003

 * I wish they had a delete button on LexisNexis.
 * The Washington Post, May 30, 2003

 * I have always fought for the right of people to be able to be treated equally in America. Long before there was a television show or a march in Washington. In 1985, I was the sole sponsor of the Civil Rights Act to make sure we enforced that in America. I am for partnership rights. I am for civil union. I am for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. I am for the hate crimes legislation.
 * November 5, 2003

 * I think we can reduce the size of Washington. Get rid of the Energy Department. Get rid of the Agriculture Department, or at least render it three-quarters the size it is today; there are more agriculture bureaucrats than there are farmers in this country.
 * Washington Times, Jan 16, 2004

 * I oppose the death penalty other than in cases of real international and domestic terrorism.
 * Associated Press policy Q&A January 25, 2004

 * Our country is defined by the rights we protect, and those of us who fought for freedom and put our lives on the line defended the right of people to do things that we disagree with. I would not be pleased to see someone burning the flag because I love the flag, but the Constitution that I fought for preserves the right of free expression.
 * January 25, 2004

 * I will be a commander in chief who will never mislead us into war.
 * Acceptance Speech at Democratic National Convention, July 29, 2004

 * The United States of America never goes to war because we want to, we only go to war because we have to.
 * Acceptance Speech at Democratic National Convention, July 29, 2004

 * The future doesn't belong to fear; it belongs to freedom.
 * Acceptance Speech at Democratic National Convention, July 29, 2004

 * I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
 * Acceptance Speech at Democratic National Convention, July 29, 2004

 * I think I know what happens.
 * On the question why he won't watch "Inside the Bubble", a documentary about his failure in 2004 presidential run
 * TIME Europe, October 24, 2005

Quotes about Kerry

 * Lt. Kerry's devotion to duty, courage under fire, outstanding leadership, and exemplary professionalism directly contributed to the success of this operation and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the Unites States Naval Service.
 * Admiral Zumwalt (Commander U. S. Naval Forces, Vietnam) in Kerry's Silver Star citation (Wikisource)

 * "Lt. Kerry's calmness, professionalism and great personal courage under fire were in keeping with the highest traditions of the US Naval Service.
 * Admiral Zumwalt, in Kerry's Bronze Star citation

Common quotes used in EVERY Bronze and Silver Star citation--172.4.152.168 23:36, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals.

 * George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.

 * George W. Bush. The "W" stands for "wrong".

 * I did my best to express my vision and my hopes for America. We worked hard and we fought hard, and I wish that things had turned out a little differently. But in an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans.

 * I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.
 * In reference to George W. Bush's domestic policies

 * I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

 * I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

 * I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.

 * No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

 * There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

 * This president has created an economy that feeds the special interests, the powerful and the corporate power, and he has not helped the average American worker advance their cause. I will.

 * When will this government admit that I was wrong — I mean that they were wrong.

title: Talk:John Kerry


text:
Evan Schoenberg

Evan Schoenberg is a computer programmer who is the co-developer of Adium''

Quotes

 * All women love a good geek, and those who tell you otherwise are lying.
 * "Evan Schoenberg of Adium X", interview on DrunkenBlog (2004-07-15)

title: Evan Schoenberg


text:
User talk:Krik~enwikiquote

I can see that the changes going on are probably necessary for other language wikiquotes to be developed, but the number and types of broken links is disconcerting.

I don't wish to interrupt too much with whatever is being done, because I don't have much of a clue as to why things are proceeding as they are. I can see major restructuring is going on, which has broken many of the links that had existed within wikiquote, and this is problem enough, but why have all the links to "wikipedia:en:" been broken as well? They show up now as links to "Wikipedia:En:" without any existing target. What should a proper link to the english Wikipedia now be? Where is information available of what changes are occuring? I am curious, and a bit puzzled. ~ Kalki 12:50, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm Not sure why the Wikipedia links have been broken either, but it seems that English Wikipedia articles can still be linked with "w:en", Eg Wikiquote.

 * (diff) (hist) . . Wikiquote:Themebot moved to Wikiquote:Themebot; 12:32 . . Krik (Talk)
 * (diff) (hist) . . Wikiquote:Vote moved to Wikiquote:Vote; 12:31 . . Krik (Talk)
 * (diff) (hist) . . Wikiquote:History of Wikiquote moved to Wikiquote:History of Wikiquote; 12:30 . . Krik (Talk)
 * (diff) (hist) . . Wikiquote talk:FAQ moved to Talk:Wikiquote:FAQ; 12:29 . . Krik (Talk)
 * (diff) (hist) . . Wikiquote:FAQ moved to Wikiquote:FAQ; 12:29 . . Krik (Talk)
 * (diff) (hist) . . Wikiquote:Issues moved to Wikiquote:Issues; 12:28 . . Krik (Talk)
 * (diff) (hist) . . Wikiquote:Utilities moved to Wikiquote:Utilities; 12:27 . . Krik (Talk)
 * (diff) (hist) . . Wikiquote talk:Wikiquotians moved to Talk:Wikiquote:Wikiquotians; 12:25 . . Krik (Talk)

Dude that was seriously uncool. You turned a minor problem into a somewhat less minor one. When all the pages in a namespace move from one place to another, you should report the problem and get a developer to move them all back. Doing it yourself causes problems. -- Tim Starling 02:18, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Wikiquote:Quick index
Thank you for importing the very useful tool from the Wikipedia. I hadn't even known about the Quick Index myself. ~ Kalki 01:37, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Blocking notice
This account is now permanently blocked because of its use for vandalism. - InvisibleSun 03:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
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