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Romania

Romania (Romanian: România) is a country located in eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and to the northeast and east, and Bulgaria to the south. At 238,391 square kilometres (92,043 sq mi), Romania is the eighth largest country of the European Union by area, and has the seventh largest population of the European Union with 20,121,641 people (20 October 2011). Its capital and largest city is Bucharest – the sixth largest city in the EU. It is also a member of NATO.

Modern Romania was formed by the personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859, and it gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. It expanded its territory after joining the Allies during World War I, gaining Bukovina, Bessarabia, and Transylvania. However, it lost Bessarabia and North Bukovina to the Soviet Union during World War II, attempted reoccupying it by allying with Nazi Germany and joining the Axis invasion of the USSR, and then got defeated and occupied by the USSR itself. It remained under a Communist satellite government until the Revolutions of 1989, which allowed it to transition to capitalism and liberal democracy.

Romania's current head of state is President Klaus Iohannis of the National Liberal Party, and its current head of government is Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu of the Social Democratic Party.

A

 * Because of its lack of geographical unity, Romania is a place full of contrasts.
 * The Automobile Association, Foreign Touring Guide, p. 434, 1931

B

 * Every time I come to Romania, I'm impressed again at just how much progress you've made. In a single generation your country has risen from tyranny to join the ranks of the world's free nations, the European Union, and the most powerful alliance in human history, the NATO alliance.
 * Joe Biden, Remarks by vice President Joe Biden and Romanian President Traian Basescu in a Joint Press Statement, May 21, 2014

 * Romania has made a remarkable journey from tyranny to freedom, from captive nation to NATO ally -- and it happened, it's happened in the space of a single generation.
 * Joe Biden, Remarks by vice President Joe Biden to Romanian Civil Society Groups and Students, May 24, 2014

 * There is no timeless Romania, however. It is my view that the country's distinctive characteristics are to be explained by history and by the current social situation. Today's Romania does not much resemble yesterday's. Nor will the Romania of tomorrow be much like that of today.
 * Lucian Boia, Romania: borderland of Europe (translated by James Christian Brown), p. 10, 2001

 * The Romanian constitution of 1866 was simply an imitation of the Belgian one of 1833. This was a remarkable performance: Romania was an agrarian country of rural-patriarchal type, while Belgium was one of the most industrialized and bourgeois countries on the continent. Given all the constitutions available to choose from, the Romanians opted for the most advanced and liberal of them all!
 * Lucian Boia, Romania: borderland of Europe (translated by James Christian Brown), p. 86, 2001

C

 * We must make cleverness our national trait... Stop showing a sullen, frowning face and clenched fist to the West. Start making it feel compassion for us, and you'll see how fast Western boycotts change into magnanimity. Let's present Romania as a Latin island in the Slavic sea... Our millenia-old traditions of independence are now up against Moscow's political centrism... A pawn between two superpowers.
 * Nicolae Ceaușescu, as quoted in Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa (1987) Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (Regnery Gateway, p. 8), ISBN 0895265702

 * Who was your geography teacher? Romania lies in Europe, in France...
 * CIA chief (played by Bryan Jardine), Garcea și oltenii, 2001

 * America knows that Romania's destiny lies in an undivided, democratic, peaceful Europe, where every nation is free, and every free nation is the partner of the United States. To all the people of Romania who love freedom so dearly: I come to Romania because of all you have already done. I come because I know what you still can do. I come because of all that we must do together to achieve your destiny in the family of freedom.
 * Bill Clinton, Remarks by President Clinton and President Constantinescu to Citizens of Romania, July 11, 1997

 * The values that govern Romania today -- liberty, openness, tolerance, free markets -- these are values shared by the community of democracies Romania is joining.
 * Bill Clinton, Remarks by President Clinton and President Constantinescu to Citizens of Romania, July 11, 1997

 * After I had told them about my country for so long, stories both true and imagined, my family and friends wanted to hear for themselves what the new story was. One day, I told everyone, we will all go to Romania to eat plums from apple trees, pears from poplars, honey from streams. Romania was more fairy tale than real place to them; but now a miracle had taken place, and the fairy tale had sprung to life.
 * Andrei Codrescu, The Hole in the Flag, p. 54, 1991

 * Situated at the very center of the ancient spice routes of the Orient, Romania was the golden apple that made everyone's mouth water, and consequently, everyone, the Goths, Visigoths, Huns, Slavs, Austrians, and Soviets, tried to swallow it whole. Amazingly enough, it survived the battering rams of a ceaselessly hostile history for hundreds of years until the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu began accomplishing in a few years what the combined horrors of numberless invaders were unable to.
 * Andrei Codrescu, The Hole in the Flag, p. 165, 1991

 * There is an untranslatable Romanian word that expresses with great precision the kind of unbearable longing and nostalgia that grips one's heart when thinking of home. That word is dor. I have felt it many times. Nostalgia for the medieval squares of Sibiu steeped in golden light, longing for the outdoor cafés of Bucharest, drinking new wine, all of us young, intoxicated with poetry and song. I missed the smells of flowering linden trees, the blue reflections of deep mountain snow in the evenings, the old peasant villages that Ceaușescu's insanity almost wiped off the face of the earth. I missed the real fairy tales I was raised on. The story of the waters of life and death, youth without age, the tale of the sheep Mioritza that recites the cosmic poetry of the sky, the story of the poplars that grew pears...
 * Andrei Codrescu, The Hole in the Flag, p. 177, 1991

 * In days too long ago now to remember, Romania was a breadbasket and among the largest corn producers in the world, and Bucharest was lush with fruits, vegetables and every delicacy.
 * Andrei Codrescu, The Prisoner of Pork, Titled as The "New" Romania on page 2 of the same issue of the magazine, under the "Traveling Fare" section, Issue 167, p. 70, Vegeterian Times, July 1991

 * Driving through the Rumanian countryside I found was an unmixed pleasure. The landscape is very beautiful, and entirely unspoiled. The roads are either Roman and straight, or romantic and devious and narrow. There is little traffic, and one moves fast.
 * Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter, volume 21, p. 96, 1963

 * România este stat național, suveran și independent, unitar și indivizibil.
 * Romania is a sovereign, independent, unitary and indivisible National State.
 * Constitution of Romania, 2003 amended version

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 * Madam President, I was a student leader in Ireland 30 years ago and, inspired by the heroism of Romanian students and workers, I travelled to Bucharest and Timișoara and spent over a month there in the midst of those revolutionary days. I have to say that it was one of the most defining experiences of my youth to witness the overthrow of Ceaușescu's brutal totalitarian regime, an elite which enriched themselves at the expense of the population and developed a vicious secret police and state apparatus to do so. It was an absolutely incredible experience. To feel the hopes of the population for the future, for democracy, for a say in their lives and for a more stable economic experience was very humbling. But we have to be honest as well, because what did they get? In many ways they got much of the same elite in new clothes, combined also with a new elite – a new neoliberal elite – and many people have unresolved issues there. We have to ask why Romania has got the second biggest diaspora in the world, second only to Syria – five million driven out of that country. There is a lot of corruption still to tackle. So I stand continually in solidarity with those people. The revolution has not been completed there.
 * Clare Daly, Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Romanian revolution of December 1989 debate in the European Parliament, Strasbourg, December 16, 2019

 * Romania is the only country in Europe between the two great regions of instability and uncertainty -- the former Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union. For the sake of ourselves and Europe we need to remain politically stable. We need NATO more than any other country in Europe.
 * Constantin Degeratu, as quoted in Robert D. Kaplan, The Fulcrum of Europe, The Atlantic, September 1998

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 * Romania had reaped a handsome territorial dividend from her wartime sufferings, acquiring Bessarabia (from Russia), Bukovina (from Austria), southern Dobruja (from Bulgaria) and Transylvania (from Hungary). But the effect was that nearly one in three inhabitants of the country was not Romanian at all: 8 per cent were Hungarians, 4 per cent Germans, 3 per cent Ukrainians - in all there were eighteen ethnic minorities recorded in the 1930 census. The preponderance of non-Romanians was especially pronounced in urban areas. Even the Romanians themselves were divided along religious lines, between the Uniate Christians of Transylvania and the Orthodox Christians of the Romanian heartland, the Regat.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), pp. 164-166

 * Once Caspian Sea oil starts flowing to Europe across the Black Sea, Romania's international-security profile will grow. Romania is no longer on the periphery of Europe. It is in the middle of a volatile new region between Europe and the Caspian.
 * Iulian Fota, as quoted in Robert D. Kaplan, The Fulcrum of Europe, The Atlantic, September 1998

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 * The subject of opening diplomatic relations with Roumania and Servia, now become independent sovereignties, is at present under consideration, and is the subject of diplomatic correspondence. There is a gratifying increase of trade with nearly all European and American countries, and it is believed that, with judicious action in regard to its development, it can and will be still more enhanced, and that American products and manufactures will find new and expanding markets.
 * Rutherford B. Hayes, President's annual address to Congress, December 1, 1879

 * When Nicolea Ceausescu was asked by a foreign journalist why Romanians were not allowed to leave the country when such a right was guaranteed by the constitution, the communist leader responded that the constitution also guaranteed people the right to a safe and prosperous country. By allowing some Romanians to leave, he meant, it risked the prosperity and safety of others.
 * David Hutt, "Migration throws Laos’ communist government a lifeline", Radio Free Asia (October 28, 2023)

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 * [Mădălina Dumitru in her book "The Broken Flight"] raises the difficult question of why [the Movement of Spiritual Integration into the Absolute] was subject to such extraordinary persecution in Romania. She identifies two reasons. One is the Communist legacy. Alternative spirituality and its leaders, including [MISA's founder Gregorian] Bivolaru, started being persecuted during the Ceaușescu regime, and several police officers and prosecutors of Communist times kept their positions in democratic Romania. The second is the attempt of corrupted politicians, including social-democrat Prime Minister, who ended up in jail, to divert the public’s attention from political scandals by having the media focusing on “cults” in general and the juicy sex-connected story of MISA in particular. Politicians were also accused of tolerating very real human trafficking of minors forced into prostitution, and prosecuting MISA for its non-existing human trafficking gave the impression they were “doing something” about the issue.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "MISA, Gregorian Bivolaru, and Persecution: A New Book by Mădălina Dumitru", Bitter Winter (February 24, 2024)

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 * Of the Balkan states, Romania made the greatest advances. Food processing, with the emphasis on flour and sugar, was the major industry. At the beginning of the twentieth century the oil of the Ploești region began to be exploited. Nevertheless, the country remained predominantly agricultural. In 1914 only 1.5 percent of the national wealth was in industry; agricultural products accounted for 75.7 percent of the exports. Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece, of course, retained their strongly agrarian structures.
 * Barbara Jelavich, History of the Balkans, Volume II: Twentieth Century, p. 21, 2006 [1983]

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 * In Romania, hitchhiking is not the daring means of travel it is in the United States. The shortage of cars and the collapse of the intercity bus system under the Draconian fuel rationing of the late dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, forged an informal, nationwide car-pool network. In the countryside, everyone hitches, including old ladies with shopping bags, and most drivers are obliging. Since I was intent on trekking some of the time, it was frustrating to have a car pull up even when I didn't have my finger out. The custom is to pay the driver about 10 percent of the taxi rate for the distance. But when drivers learned that I was an American journalist, they usually refused to take money. Off the beaten path, meeting a westerner is still a novel experience for Romanians. I was anxious for a ride up the pass, however, and was soon picked up by a man driving a Dacia, Romania's homemade car, which even by Communist standards is barely functional.
 * Robert D. Kaplan, Romania's Changeless Land, the New York Times Magazine, October 21, 1990

 * Romania is a less extreme version of Egypt, with a mass of peasantry and a precocious consumer class that is limited mainly to a few districts of the capital. As my train entered Bucharest from the north, I saw miles of corrugated-metal squatter settlements as bad as many in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
 * Robert D. Kaplan, The Fulcrum of Europe, The Atlantic, September 1998

 * Rumania's actual Latin origins are somewhat obscure, for the region was virtually lost to recorded history for a millennium between the end of Roman and the onset of Turkish dominion.
 * Donald Kirk, Not So Liberal Rumania, p. 8, in Worldview Magazine (Carnegie Council), Volume 22, No. 4, April 1979

 * To the foreigner who visits Rumania for the first time this country and its mixed population seems full of inexplicable and insoluble contradictions.
 * C. Kormos, Rumania, British Survey Handbooks (Cambridge University Press), p. 1, 1944

 * Greater Rumania was primarily an agricultural country, but its industry held an important place in the economy of South-Eastern Europe. With its fertile soil, great reserves of mineral resources and considerable water-power Rumania could have been one of the richest countries of Europe. But while the land was full of natural wealth the standard of living of the people remained a low one. Only a small part of Rumania's resources was exploited, and an even smaller part for the benefit of her inhabitants.
 * C. Kormos, Rumania, British Survey Handbooks (Cambridge University Press), p. 52, 1944

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 * This so-called maverick policy of foreign policy has lured the United States into an unsavory courtship of Romania. Moreover, there is a great deal of evidence that this idea of Romanian foreign policy independence is more fiction than fact, more perception than reality, and should not be used to gloss over their tragic record on human rights.
 * Jeri Laber, op-ed in the Washington Post, via Human rights in Romania and its implications for U.S. policy and most favored nation status, June 24, 1987

 * At least 1 million people left Ukraine so far and have crossed our borders. And Romania has welcomed almost 150,000 people and provided them with food and shelter. Romanians have given such a moving example to the world. As the war started, Romanians were rushing in droves to the Vama Siret crossing point to welcome refugees with food, water, blankets and baby milk. People are opening their homes for families. They are organising collections and fund-raising on social media. Romania has really stepped up to welcome the refugees and I really thank you for that. But Romania is not only welcoming the refugees, it is also helping their neighbours, like Moldova. You provided electricity generators, for example, which is extremely important for Moldova. Romania provided medicines to Ukraine. You are a shining example of European solidarity and I really want to commend and thank you for that.
 * Ursula von der Leyen, Statement by President von der Leyen at the joint press conference with Romanian President Iohannis, March 3, 2022

M

 * For much of Rumania's charm is to be found in her mountains. Unforgettable is the first sight of the Carpathians, so thickly, richly wooded that, at a distance, it seems impossible that there could be roads or even paths piercing the greenness.
 * May Mackintosh, Rumania, p. 15, 1963

 * Indeed Rumania is full of song: the epic songs sung in country inns and roadside halts; ancient versions of the “walling-in sacrifice” and the Icarus myth; ballads of the Turkish occupation; the haiducks’ songs of revolt and battle; the slow, long-drawn out melody of the doina.
 * May Mackintosh, Rumania, p. 85, 1963

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 * Maize and vine thrive wonderfully in Roumania, and even the fig-tree and the almond bear in the open air under favourable conditions. The soil is extremely fertile, so fertile, indeed, that it is almost impossible to come across a piece of hopelessly barren ground. Very rarely is it necessary to use any manure, which the peasants do not often know how to get rid of. It may be said that manure is valuable everywhere.
 * J. W. Ozanne, Three Years in Roumania, p. 116, 1878

 * Formerly, the whole of Bessarabia belonged, as I have already said, to Moldavia; and it was not until the year 1812 that it was unjustly ceded to Russia. The Czar would therefore have performed a graceful act had he given back the remainder of Bessarabia to his Roumanian friends. Instead, however, of behaving with generosity, or even with ordinary fairness, the Czar put in a claim for Roumanian Bessarabia in exchange for the useless Dobrudja. Never, it is commonly allowed, was perpetrated a deed of more flagrant ingratitude; and, to make matters worse, when the Roumanian Government refused the complimentary offer, a Russian army proceeded to occupy the country, extending its ramifications, as reinforcements arrived, in every conceivable direction. Roumania is now in the position of a woman who, having deserted her husband, is herself abandoned by the man with whom she eloped. Roumania has behaved very badly; it has offended against the public law of Europe; it has sinned against every principle of generous honour; and this is Russia's return. To what purpose was all this sacrifice of blood and treasure? It is all in vain. Better far to have joined with Turkey, as honesty, always the true policy, recommended, in expelling the intruder from its gates. Loudly do the Moldo-Wallachians now cry out against the perfidy of their quondam allies.
 * J. W. Ozanne, Three Years in Roumania, pp. 223–224, 1878

P

 * Romania, bridge between East and West, crossroads between Central and Eastern Europe, Romania, traditionally called by the beautiful title: "Garden of Mary", I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and of the Blessed Virgin. On the threshold of a new millennium, once again set your future firmly on the rock of the Gospel. With Christ's help you will play a leading role in a new season of enthusiasm and courage. You will be a prosperous nation, a fertile land of goodness, a united people and peacemakers.
 * Pope John Paul II, Holy Father's address on his arrival in Bucharest, May 7, 1999

 * Rumania is "the land of the Romans," and the Rumanians proudly trace their ancestry to Trajan's Roman legionaries who settled Dacia, a Roman province roughly corresponding to modern Rumania, in the second century A.D.
 * Mario Pei, The Story of Language, p. 62, 1949

 * Ah, this is Romania. MeToo is like 50 years away.
 * Darius Popescu (played by Alex Dobrenko), Kimi, 2022

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 * Rumania is essentially an agricultural country. The ores of the Carpathians are not utilised, for there are no roads which give access to them.
 * Élisée Reclus, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: Europe, Vol. I, p. 167, 1882

 * history of dictatorships that began with the withdrawal of the Roman legions in the third century. Some 23 million people, 6 million more than the population of Texas, live on a land mass about one third the size of Texas. On every side Romania is surrounded by countries in turmoil—Bulgaria to the south, Yugoslavia to the west, Hungary to the northwest, and the Soviet Union to the north and northeast. Hardship is nothing new to Romania. It is as though time stopped after World War II. Factories are lit by skylights because there aren’t enough Romanian-standard forty-watt bulbs to go around. In one village a woman said that this was the first Easter in eighteen years that her family had had eggs. “We decorated them so beautifully,” she said, tears drenching her lined face. Poverty and squalor are everywhere, from the center of Bucharest, where many of the country’s 20,000 orphans live in horrific orphanages, to the countryside where gypsies and farmers travel in ox-drawn carts as if they have just stepped out of the fifteenth century.
 * Jan Jarboe Russell, Howdy, Comrades! Let's Do a Deal, Texas Monthly, Vol. 18, Issue 8, pp. 68–69, 94, August 1990

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 * Bucharest was a constant irritant inside Comecon and the Warsaw Pact. Romania’s ambitious industrial plans remained in place. Ceaușescu also reinforced the collective-farm system. Like Khrushchëv earlier, he bulldozed villages and brought peasants together in new rural townships. The rationale for this was the zeal to bring concrete-slab, multi-storey buildings, tractors and electric light to the countryside. National pride was asserted and the Hungarian Autonomous Region was abolished. Opposition was vigorously suppressed by the security police. Ceaușescu was determined to secure his regime from internal subversion as well as external interference. What saved Romania from being invaded by its allies in the Warsaw Pact was its retention of the one-party, one-ideology communist state. Ceaușescu's friendliness to the powers of the West was irritating but not a casus belli. Adoption of party pluralism and capitalist economics would have been an entirely different matter.
 * Robert Service, Comrades: A History of World Communism (2009)

 * To my mind, imperialism is something very simple and clear and it exists as a fact when one country, a large country, seizes a certain strip of territory and subjects to its laws a certain number of men and women against their will. Soviet policy after the beginning of the second world war was precisely this. There is no difficulty in pointing this out, but the difficulty lies in the fact that when one quotes from memory one will forget one or other argument. Because the Russians, thanks to the second world war, have quite simply annexed the three Baltic States, taken a piece of Finland, a piece of Rumania, a piece of Poland, a piece of Germany and, thanks to a well thought-out policy composed of internal subversion and external pressure, have established Governments justifiably styled as Satellites, in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, Tirana and East Berlin - I except Belgrade where the regime is unique thanks to the energy and courage of Marshal Tito. If all this does not constitute manifestations of imperialism, if all this is not the result of a policy consciously willed and consciously pursued, an imperialist aim, then indeed we shall have to start to go back to a new discussion and a new definition of words.
 * Paul-Henri Spaak, "The Atlantic Alliance and its Future," 14 September 1957

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 * The legendary ballads and national songs of Roumania are almost unknown in Europe; they are scarcely more familiar to the higher classes of their native country; but the old superstitions and weird fantastic creeds—many of them of pagan origin—have been perpetuated and kept alive amongst the peasantry of the mountain districts, from whom they were, with long and patient research, at length collected in a chaplet of exquisite little poems by the native poet Alecsandri, who also published, a few years later, an admirable French translation.
 * Mary Adelaide Walker, Untrodden Paths in Roumania, p. 33, 1888

 * But the case of Roumania was far different. She knew with a terrible certainty that the moment she entered the war she would be the target for attack on a frontier over twelve hundred kilometres long. The world criticized her for remaining neutral, and yet one wonders how many countries would have staked their national future as Roumania did when she entered the war. In a short fourteen months she has seen more than one half of her army destroyed, her fertile plains pass into the hands of her enemies, and her great oil industry almost wiped out. Today her army, supported by Russians, is holding with difficulty hardly twenty per cent of what, before the war, was one of the most fertile and prosperous small kingdoms of Europe.
 * Stanley Washburn, The Tragedy of Roumania, The Atlantic, December 1917

 * Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
 * Woodrow Wilson, 14 Points, 1918

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 * Life must go on and trust me The world will change The lights in the darkness will shine for the people in Russia Europe will win, Perestroika from Poland to Romania The lights in the darkness will shine There's no reason to cry all day Millions of people are dreaming to live like you The better way
 * David Hasselhoff, Lights in the Darkness, Crazy for You, 1990

 * Got to get there just as fast I can A pink carnation on a mystery man A rendezvous in Romania Double agents in Australia
 * The Outfield, Mystery Man, Play Deep, 1985

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The Tick (1994 TV series)

The Tick is 1994 animated television series based on the comedic superhero comic of the same name created by Ben Edlund in 1986.

The Tick vs. The Idea Men [1.1]

 * Arthur: I think I'm going crazy.
 * The Tick: You're not going crazy, Arthur. You're going sane in a crazy world!

The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale [1.2]

 * Chairface: I haven't always had friends like you, because I was born...different. Because I didn't fit in, society shunned me.  All my life, the world's tried to forget my face, but after tonight, they will never forget my name!

 * The Tick: The party's over, Chairface! Give up, or we'll write this place off the face of the Earth!
 * Chairface: [anticlimactically] Okay.

The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil [1.3]

 * Arthur: This cake is delicious, Dot. What is it?
 * Dot: Chocolate.

The Tick vs. Mr. Mental [1.4]

 * Mr. Mental: You know what I miss? I miss the old days, when I'd think up a sinister scheme for world domination and you'd show a little emotional support.

 * Mr. Mental: Don't mess with me, fool! I'm cooking with gas!

The Tick vs. The Breadmaster [1.5]

 * [Stuart's store has been destroyed by the Breadmaster]
 * Arthur: It must be quite a shock!
 * Stuart: I'll say, I don't have bread insurance.
 * The Tick: Don't despair, Stuart. You can rebuild! Here! Start with these. Cottony swabs.

The Tick vs. El Seed [1.6]

 * Bee Twins: Hey, what kind of corn soldiers are you?
 * Arthur: Uh... We're colonels [kernels]!

The Tick vs. The Tick [1.7]

 * Barry Hubris: Where's the jerk who calls himself the TICK?!
 * The Tick: I am that jerk!

 * The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight: And so he says to me, he says, “You want to be a baaaaad guy?!” and I say, “Yeah, baby! I want to be bad!” I says, “Surf's up, Space Ponies! I'm making gravy without the lumps!” Ah ha ha ha ha haaaaa!

 * Big Shot: As everyone knows, I used to be a very violent person. I tried to resolve all of my problems with [twitches psychotically] GUNS! But I've been going to therapy and it's turned my life around.

 * Arthur: What are you...doing?
 * The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight: Hi! I just, uh, I just, uh, wanted to use, the, uh, – and so he says, “Evil's okay in my book! What about yours?!” And I go, “Yeah, baby, yeah! Yeah!” – I just wanted to, uh, wash my hands.
 * Arthur: Oh, uh, okay. But why does your bag say "bombs" on it?
 * The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight: Oh, that's just, uh – Boom, baby, boom! I'm the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight!
 * Arthur: Oh great.
 * The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight: Eat my smoke, copper! [laughs maniacally]

 * Barry Hubris: Say uncle!
 * The Tick: Okay. Uncle.
 * Barry Hubris: No, no! You know, I mean renounce your name and call me the Tick!
 * The Tick: You...are...Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry

The Tick vs. The Uncommon Cold [1.8]

 * Thrakkorzog: Hey! What's happening here?
 * Thrakkorzog's roommate: The little bunny guy was chafing himself on the ropes, so I loosened them up a bit.
 * Thrakkorzog: You WHAT? He's a moth guy! And how many times do I have to say it? Don't touch my stuff! This is my side of the living room and that is your side of the living room! And must you drink milk straight out of the milk carton? It's DISGUSTING!

 * [The Tick is trying to determine the real Arthur from an evil clone]
 * Arthur: Remember that time my sister gave me that V neck sweater vest for my birthday and we tried to return it to the store and they'd only give me credit and I was so upset and then at lunch they put onions on my cheeseburger after I expressly asked the waitress not to. Do you remember that day, Tick?
 * The Tick: Indeed I do. Now your turn.
 * Arthur clone: I Arthur.
 * The Tick: I can't argue with that.

 * The Tick: It's your turn now, Thorace-bog.
 * Thrakkorzog: It's Thrakkorzog. Thrakkorzog. With a K.
 * The Tick: We're only serving humble pie, Whatchamazog.
 * Thrakkorzog: For the last time, it's...
 * The Tick: Thorax-and-a-bog. Four-yacks-and-a-dog.
 * Thrakkorzog: No.
 * The Tick: Ah, laxative-log.
 * Thrakkorzog: No, no, no.
 * The Tick: Sapsucker-frog.
 * Thrakkorzog: Thrakkorzog!
 * The Tick: Susan?
 * Thrakkorzog: Now you're doing it on purpose. How juvenile.

The Tick vs. Brainchild [1.9]

 * Brainchild: Dog! In the morning, you're gonna fetch me a microwave oven! The dimwits that manufactured it have no idea of its many evil settings.

The Tick vs. Pineapple Pokopo [1.10]

 * Pineapple Air steward: Would anyone care for some complimentary tap water?

The Tick vs. The Proto-Clown [1.12]

 * The Tick's Mind: Sorry I haven't been around much lately. I'm easily distracted by shiny objects.
 * The Tick: Yeah, shiny objects are nice.

 * [They have approached a giant statue called Tick's self-image]
 * The Tick's Mind: This is our chance to delve deep into our psyche and find the immutable truth! You can only it one and only one question.
 * The Tick: Okay okay, one question, check. [Clears throat] How ya doing?
 * [Tick's self-image gives a thumbs up]
 * The Tick's Mind: Oh great. That's your big question? That's your big truth? You goober!
 * The Tick: Look, thumbs up! We're doing fine!

 * The Tick's Mind: Tick, there's only one way out of this predicament. Tick, why are you here?
 * The Tick: Wait, I know this one. Now, don't tell me...I'm here because...a big clown hit me!
 * [He finally returns to reality]

The Tick vs. Arthur's Bank Account [1.13]

 * The Tick: Step one: We must choose battle cries. You know, the cries we always emit just before leaping into battle.
 * Arthur: Oh, you mean like, "Not in the face! Not in the face!"
 * The Tick: Lacks force, chum. No, more like, more like... [He sees his reflection in the spoon] SPOON!

 * Arthur: Get out! Get out of my apartment!
 * The Tick: What?
 * Arthur: Get out of my apartment! No, no...get out of my life!

Alone Together [2.2]

 * [The Tick erased the C in the "CHA" on the moon, leaving only "HA"]
 * American Maid: At least he got rid of the C.

Evil Sits Down for a Moment [2.7]

 * Airplane Pilot: [The airplane approaches a fight on a flying carpet] And towards the front of the plane you might be able to make out five people in costumes having a fight with some dining room furniture.

The Tick Loves Santa! [2.10]

 * Santa Claus: Merry Christmas! ... Spoon!

Grandpa Wore Tights [2.13]

 * The Living Doll: You can't catch me, I'm filled with tinier men!

Tick vs. Science [3.8]

 * Dr. Mung Mung: Oh don't worry about Tongue Tongue he's just tasting you. On the other hand, don't resist, he can crush you quite easily. The tongue is the strongest organ in the human body. I'm Doctor Mung Mung.

 * Dr. Mung Mung: Release the nice moth man Tongue Tongue; here is an individually wrapped slice of processed cheese.

 * Chrome Dome: You're not mad scientists, you're a bunch of hippies!

 * Chrome Dome: What good is science if no one gets hurt?

 * Chrome Dome: WANNABES! All of you, spitpolishing your prosthetic limbs, and whitewashing your liverspots for this wretched back-patting, smarty-party! The true mad scientist does not make public appearances! He does not wear the "hello my name is” badge. He STRIKES from below like a viper! Or on high like a PENNY, dropped from the tallest building around! He has only one purpose: do bad things, to good people, MIT SCIENCE!

Tick vs. Education [3.10]

 * Uncle Creamy: I'm not a villain. I'm vanilla.

Recurring lines

 * The Tick: SPOON!

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Talk:Ludwig van Beethoven

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable!
it goes around online, but i cannot find any source for this. maybe someone who speaks german can find the original?

--Attila.lendvai (talk) 11:11, 17 April 2014 (UTC) Falsche Noten zu spielen, ist unbedeutend. Ohne Leidenschaft zu spielen, ist unentschuldbar.

 * My guess is that it's made up. The earliest match I can find is from a 1997 magazine for school bands in the US:  "Wrong notes are of little consequence, but to play without passion is inexcusable". Grover cleveland (talk) 15:44, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

 * Not a direct quote, but Beethoven did say something along those lines ... according to this reddit discussion. Ferdinand Ries wrote about his experiences taking lessons from Beethoven.  Look for (ctrl+F) 'fehlerhaftem Klavierspiel' (faulty piano performance) on this page and you'll see the exact excerpt in both English and German. --IIBewegung (talk) 05:22, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

It was in a piano tutoring scene from the 1994 Movie "Immortal Beloved".

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
I've seen this quoted in a few places, but no idea about a source. NoldorinElf (talk)

 * This quote was attributed to Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe, May 28, 1810. See Goethe's Correspondence with a Child (1837) — I've added it to the main page. ~ DanielTom (talk) 22:12, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

What you are, you are by accident of birth...
"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

Is this genuine?

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington.

Quotes

 * I don't know where it's going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.
 * When questioned as to the future of jazz, as quoted in Jet magazine (March 31, 1960), p. 30

Monk: Did you make the arrangement? It was crazy. Feather: No. Monk: It was a bunch of musicians who were together, playing an arrangement. It sounded so good, it made me like the song better! Solos ... the trombone sounded good ... that was a good lead trumpet player too ... I don't know how to rate it, but I'd say it was top-notch.
 * : You liked the arrangement?
 * Reviewing 's arrangement of Monk's "Straight, No Chaser"—featuring trombonist and trumpeter John Audino—from Here and Now! (Bold, Swinging Big Band Ideas), for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test" (c. 1966); reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 31

 * Which is the way to the toilet?
 * Reviewing "Easy Listening Blues" from 's , for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test" (c. 1966); reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 30

 * It reminded me of, and that's got to be good. Rhythm section has the right groove, too. Drummer made me think of . Hey, play that again. (Later.) Yeah! He sounds like a piano player! (Hums theme.) You can keep changing keys all the time doing that. Sounds like something that was studied and figured out. And he can play it; you know what's happening with this one. Yeah, he was on a Bobby Timmons kick. He knows what's happening.
 * Reviewing "Carole's Garden" from 's Carnival, for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test" (c. 1966); reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 30

Monk: Life in general. Interviewer: What do you do about it? Monk: Keep breathing. Interviewer: What do you think the purpose of life is? Monk: To die.
 * Interviewer: What other interests do you have?
 * Interview in DownBeat magazine (October 28, 1971)

 * All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
 * Interview in DownBeat magazine (28 October 1971)

Monk: Why did we stop? Technician: I thought you were rehearsing. Monk: Aren't we always?
 * Monk enters the studio and starts playing, the rest of the musicians join him. After few minutes of play the technician from his room shouts and stops the band.]
 * Thelonious Monk Documentary DVD.

 * The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
 * Attributed by WKCR jazz host Phil Schaap, after a guest commented on how Monk played a lot of "wrong" notes. (March 1976)

Quotes about Monk

 * I know this from somewhere—it seems as though every time I turn on the radio this seems to slip in; and I've always liked it. It's cute, real cute; and although it's sort of not in my department and I don't know too much about that type of music, I like it an awful lot. Wonderful piano ...
 * Count Basie reviewing "Four in One" from ' for DownBeats "Blindfold Test" (c. early 1950s); reproduced in "The Encyclopedia of Jazz (1960) by Leonard Feather, p. 480.

 * Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way — through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all.
 * John Coltrane, in "Coltrane on Coltrane" in DownBeat (September 29, 1960)

 * Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
 * John Coltrane, in "Coltrane on Coltrane" in DownBeat (September 29, 1960).

 * I don't see how a record company can record something like that. You know the way Monk plays—he never gives any support to a rhythm section. When I had him on my date, I had him lay out until the ensemble. I like to hear him play, but I can't stand him in a rhythm section unless it's one of his own songs ... I can't understand a record like this.
 * Miles Davis, speaking with ', c. mid-1950s, about Monk's recording of "" on '; as quoted in The Encyclopedia of Jazz (1960) by Leonard Feather, p. 480.

 * Pianistically, I don't think has anything to worry about, but if he (Monk) gets that stride thing going a little faster, I don't know... Maybe  will have to come back. Pianistically, he's beautiful. (A promoter I know uses that phrase; I guess he likes the way it rolls off his tongue.) But Thelonious is pianistically beautiful. He approaches the piano somehow from an angle, and it is the right angle.  He does the thing completely and thoroughly... He hasn't been influenced through the traditional techniques because he hasn't worked through the keyboard composers and, therefore, has his own complete approach of musical thinking. He is such a thinking musician, and I think this is something a lot of people forget about Monk. They somehow feel he's eccentric, but Monk knows exactly what he's doing. Structurally, and musically, he's very aware of every note he plays.
 * Bill Evans reviewing "Darkness in the Delta" from ' for DownBeats "Blindfold Test" (c. 1964); reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties'' (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 31.

 * Count Basie at Town Hall ... No, I'm only kidding; of course it was Thelonious Monk. There's been a lot of pro and con talk about Thelonious through the years, but from the beginning I was pro. I was fascinated, and I wondered how he arrived at these things. Eventually I found out, by studying and analyzing them. Now, he is not a virtuoso pianist, but there is real thought behind what he is composing. It's all very well laid out.
 * reviewing a live recording of Monk performing his composition, "Crepuscule with Nellie," for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test" (c. 1961); reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 30.

 * All I can say is, Monk writes some beautiful tunes. When it comes to being a piano player, I'll see you later.
 * reviewing "Rhythm-A-Ning" from  for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test" (c. 1963); reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 31.

 * That piano player sounded as honest as a little child. I think the left hand during the first part was a little hard. It could be Monk. Also it could be Mingus playing piano—sometimes he plays piano like that. I liked the record, the honesty of it and the good feeling it had. However, I think it could have been a little better; so I'll give it a three. I'd rather hear wrong notes being played by a person with good feeling than another person playing perfect, like a typewriter, and sound cold.
 * , c. 1965, reviewing an unaccompanied rendition of "" from ' for DownBeats "Blindfold Test"; reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties'' (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 31.

 * His is the sort of music that spans time ... it's something that's happening, and it always feels good to me. I can always readily identify with it, and it always has a freshness about it because of the way he constructs his phrases and the kinds of twists it has. I sometimes would like to hear him in a context with some more adventuresome musicians.
 * Charles Lloyd, c. 1966, from his review of "Light Blue" from ; excerpted in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 31.

 * A few weeks ago I made a call at his 63rd St apartment and found him practising very thoughtfully on his Klein piano. I felt pretty good when I realised how satisfied he was with his instrument. He invited me to try it out. First I played one of his compositions which I learned a few weeks ago at the Spotlite which he had played with "Hawk". Later I played some of my own tunes which he seemed to like. We promptly agreed to swap three piano arrangements of our tunes. I would arrange "Stratosphere," "Striving," and "Sailing" for him and he agreed to arrange "Ruby, My Dear," "Round Midnight" and another very expressive tune which he hadn't named or whose name he had forgotten. On the day of the proposed swap my tunes were the only ones completed. However, I haven't given up all hope of eventually learning his tunes which I will play morning, noon, and night.
 * Herbie Nichols "The Jazz Piano - Purist" Rhythm (July 1946) p. 11–12, 28

 * That I like. That's Monk ... I think Monk has developed a certain thing. It's not the ordinary left hand like and a lot of piano players used to use; he's done something different
 * , c. mid-1950s, unwittingly reviewing 's 1954 recording of "", from ' for DownBeats "Blindfold Test"; reproduced in "The Encyclopedia of Jazz (1960) by Leonard Feather, p. 480.

 * Unlike many piano players, I love Monk's playing very much. He was brought to my attention by Richard Abrams, a pianist in Chicago, and we used to analyse Monk's playing. We found that Monk's penchant for playing thee piano is not in velocity, and not in dynamics, but in sound and s. He has a lot of other devices for producing the "sound"—I've noticed a lot of times, playing in clubs, where the audience is inattentive, you play something of a Monk nature and use that sonority, automatically their ears respond to it. No other piano player has done more to find out the notes that really produce sound than Monk. To completely toss him aside as a pianistic influence is an asinine view.
 * Jack Wilson, c. 1964, from his review of "Oska T" from ; excerpted in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 31.

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John Rawls

John Bordley Rawls (21 February 1921 – 24 November 2002) was an American philosopher, and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University and the Fulbright Fellowship at Christ Church. His magnum opus, A Theory of Justice (1971), was hailed at the time of its publication as "the most important work in moral philosophy since the end of World War II, and is now regarded as one of the primary texts in political philosophy.

A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999)

 * This is a long book, not only in pages.
 * Preface, pg. viii

 * I am particularly grateful to Nozick for his unfailing help and encouragement during the last stages.
 * Preface, pg. xii

 * Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.
 * Chapter I, Section 1, pg. 3-4

 * The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.
 * Chapter I, Section 2, pg. 10

 * The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
 * Chapter I, Section 3, pg. 12

 * Social and economic inequalities, for example inequalities of wealth and authority, are just only if they result in compensating benefits for everyone, and in particular for the least advantaged members of society.
 * p. 14.

 * It may be expedient but it is not just that some should have less in order that others may prosper.
 * Chapter I, Section 3, pg. 15

 * A conception of justice cannot be deduced from self evident premises or conditions on principles; instead, its justification is a matter of the mutual support of many considerations, of everything fitted together into one coherent view.
 * Chapter I, Section 4, p. 21

 * Indeed, it is tempting to suppose that it is self evident that things should be so arranged so as to lead to the most good.
 * Chapter I, Section 5, pg. 25

 * An individual who finds that he enjoys seeing others in positions of lesser liberty understands that he has no claim whatever to this enjoyment.
 * Chapter I, Section 6, pg. 31

 * An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.
 * Chapter I, Section 8, pg. 41

 * We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.
 * Chapter I, Section 9, pg. 50

 * Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.
 * Chapter I, Section 9, pg. 52

 * Our concern is solely with the basic structure of society and its major institutions and therefore with the standard cases of social justice.
 * Chapter II, Section 10, pg. 58

 * The first statement of the two principles reads as follows. First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both(a)reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all.
 * Chapter II, Section 11, pg. 60

 * In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.
 * Chapter II, Section 12, pg. 73

 * A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.
 * Chapter II, Section 13, pg. 79

 * The even larger difference between rich and poor makes the latter even worse off, and this violates the principle of mutual advantage.
 * Chapter II, Section 13, pg. 79

 * In justice as fairness society is interpreted as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage.
 * Chapter II, Section 14, pg. 84

 * We may reject the contention that the ordering of institutions is always defective because the distribution of natural talents and the contingencies of social circumstance are unjust, and this injustice must inevitably carry over to human arrangements. Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if the refusal to acquiesce in injustice is on a par with being unable to accept death. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. Aristocratic and caste societies are unjust because they make these contingencies the ascriptive basis for belonging to more or less enclosed and privileged social classes. The basic structure of these societies incorporates the arbitrariness found in nature. But there is no necessity for men to resign themselves to these contingencies. The social system is not an unchangeable order beyond human control but a pattern of human action. In justice as fairness men agree to avail themselves of the accidents of nature and social circumstance only when doing so is for the common benefit. The two principles are a fair way of meeting the arbitrariness of fortune; and while no doubt imperfect in other ways, the institutions which satisfy these principles are just.
 * Chapter II, Section 14, pg. 87-88

 * Greater intelligence, wealth and opportunity, for example, allow a person to achieve ends he could not rationally contemplate otherwise.
 * Chapter II, Section 15, pg. 93

 * The difference principle, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged.
 * Chapter II, Section 16, pg. 95

 * No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
 * Chapter II, Section 17, pg. 102

 * If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.
 * Chapter II, Section 17, pg. 103

 * First of all, no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status; nor does he know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence and strength, and the like. Nor, again, does anyone know his conception of the good, the particulars of his rational plan of life, or even the special features of psychology such as his aversion to risk or liability to optimism or pessimism. More than this, I assume that the parties do not know the particular circumstances of their own society. That is, they do not know its particular economic or political situation, or the level of civilization and culture it has been able to achieve. The persons in the original position have no information as to which generation they belong.
 * p. 117

 * There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
 * Chapter III, Section 21, pg. 126

 * The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
 * Chapter III, Section 22, pg. 126

 * First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.
 * Chapter III, Section 23, pg. 131

 * The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.
 * Chapter III, Section 23, pg. 135

 * To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.
 * Chapter III, Section 24, pg. 141

 * I have assumed throughout that the persons in the original position are rational.
 * Chapter III, Section 25, pg. 142

 * Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society.
 * Chapter III, Section 26, pg. 151

 * Yet it seems extraordinary that the justice of increasing the expectations of the better placed by a billion dollars, say, should turn on whether the prospects of the least favored increase or decrease by a penny.
 * Chapter III, Section 26, pg. 157

 * We must not be enticed by mathematically attractive assumptions into pretending that the contingencies of men's social positions and the asymmetries of their situations somehow even out in the end. Rather we must choose our conception of justice fully recognizing that this is not and cannot be the case.
 * Chapter III, Section 28, pg. 171

 * When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them
 * Chapter III, Section 29, pg.177

 * Justice as fairness provides what we want.
 * Chapter III, Section 30, pg. 190

 * The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.
 * Chapter III, Section 30, pg. 190

 * Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.
 * Chapter IV, Section 31, pg. 197

 * Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.
 * Chapter IV, Section 32, p. 203

 * We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.
 * Chapter IV, Section 33, p. 209

 * The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.
 * Chapter IV, Section 33, p. 210

 * Let us now consider whether justice requires the toleration of the intolerant, and if so under what conditions. There are a variety of situations in which this question arises. Some political parties in democratic states hold doctrines that commit them to suppress the constitutional liberties whenever they have the power. Again, there are those who reject intellectual freedom but who nevertheless hold positions in the university. It may appear that toleration in these cases is inconsistent with the principles of justice, or at any rate not required by them.
 * p. 216

 * An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. … A person’s right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.
 * p. 217

 * Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence.
 * Chapter IV, Section 35, p. 218

 * Essentially the fault lies in the fact that the democratic political process is at best regulated rivalry; it does not even in theory have the desirable properties that price theory ascribes to truly competitive markets.
 * Chapter IV, Section 36, p. 226

 * The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.
 * Chapter IV, Section 37, p. 230

 * Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.
 * Chapter IV, Section 40, p. 256

 * A just system must generate its own support.
 * Chapter V, Section 41, p. 261

 * There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
 * Chapter V, Section 42, p. 268

 * Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.
 * Chapter V, Section 43, p. 284

 * Justice is happiness according to virtue.
 * Chapter V, Section 48, p. 310

 * The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.
 * Chapter VI, Section 59, pg. 388

 * Many conservative writers have contended that the tendency to equality in modern social movements is the expression of envy. In this way they seek to discredit this trend, attributing it to collectively harmful impulses.
 * Chapter IX, Section 82, p. 538

 * That persons have opposing interests and seek to advance their own conception of the good is not at all the same thing as their being moved by envy and jealousy.
 * Chapter IX, Section 81, p. 540

 * Men resign themselves to their position should it ever occur to them to question it; and since all may view themselves as assigned their vocation, everyone is held to be equally fated and equally noble in the eyes of providence.
 * Chapter IX, Section 82, p. 547

 * Being happy involves both a certain achievement in action and a rational assurance about the outcome.
 * Chapter IX, Section 83, p. 549

 * The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
 * Chapter IX, Section 83, p. 554

 * At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.
 * Chapter IX, Section 84, p. 558

 * The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
 * Chapter IX, Section 86, p. 577

 * I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.
 * Chapter IX, Section 87, p. 586

Political Liberalism (1993)

 * Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions: first, they are to be attached to positions and offices open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; and second, they are to be to the greatest benefit to the least-advantaged members of society.
 * p. 6

B

 * Why then in Britain has secularism become seen to be hostile to religion? Because neutrality is too often assumed to require the bleaching out of all traces of faith, excluding religious belief and discourse from public life. But it doesn't, and we can see why by appeal to the notion of public reason, articulated most clearly by the late political philosopher John Rawls. Rawls was quite clear that the religious have no obligation at all to keep their faith entirely to themselves. "Reasonable comprehensive doctrines, religious or non-religious, may be introduced in public political discussion at any time," he wrote, "provided that in due course proper political reasons – and not reasons given solely by comprehensive doctrines – are presented that are sufficient to support whatever the comprehensive doctrines are said to support."
 * Julian Baggini, in "Is religion really under threat?" in The Guardian (14 February 2012)

D

 * The key innovation in Rawl's scenario, designed to ensure that undue selfishness among the participants in this exercise in reflection cancels itself out, is what he calls the "veil of ignorance". Everyone gets to vote on a favored design of society, but when you decide which society you would be happy to live in and give your allegiance to, you vote without knowing your particular role or niche in it will be. You may be a senator or a surgeon or a street sweeper or a soldier; you don't get to find out until after you have voted. Choosing from behind the veil of ignorance ensures that people will give due consideration to the likely effects, the costs and benefits, for all the citizenry, including those worse off.
 * Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, p. 456

G

 * If the basic assumption of the theory of ideology is at all tenable, namely, that the general power relations embodied in our social structures can exert a distorting influence on the formation of our beliefs and preferences without our being aware of it, then we are definitely not going to put that kind of influence out of action by asking the agents in the society to imagine that they didn’t know their position. To think otherwise is to believe in magic: imagine you are “impartial” and you will be. In fact, doing that will be more likely to reinforce the power of these entrenched prejudices because it will explicitly present them as universal, warranted by reason, etc.
 * Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), pp. 88-89

 * The idea that seems to be presupposed by the doctrine of the veil of ignorance—namely, that one can in some way get a better grasp or understanding of the power relations in society and how they work by covering them up, ignoring them, or simply wishing them away—seems very naïve. … To think that an appropriate point of departure for understanding the political world is our intuitions of what is “just,” without reflecting on where those intuitions come from, how they are maintained, and what interests they might serve, seems to exclude from the beginning the very possibility that these intuitions might themselves be “ideological.”
 * Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 90

H

 * The ultimate merit of Rawls’s work did not lie only in his own theory, but in the extraordinarily broad discussion that it generated. Rawls’s work provided a framework for a flurry of counter-theories, such as G.A. Cohen’s in Rescuing Justice and Equality, which challenged Rawls from the left and advocated a stricter egalitarianism; and Robert Nozick’s sophisticated libertarian response in Anarchy, State, and Utopia; and Michael Walzer’s development, in Spheres of Justice, of a communitarian approach to the problem.
 * , The Ideal and the Real, The New Republic December 12, 2009.

 * Rawls challenged the view that utilitarianism, or some variant of social liberalism, was the only way to construct a social order. In A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, he laid out his alternative. Imagine, he postulated, that you have to make a choice about what social order you would want to be born into behind 'a veil of ignorance', in which you don't know beforehand your sex, skin colour, skills or the class of your parents. Your overriding concern would be to ensure that it was fair, because if you drew a short straw you would want to know that, as far as possible, society had structures that would redress the balance.
 * , Essential truths of a fair-minded man, The Observer, 1 December 2002.

 * This means society should build what Rawls calls an 'infrastructure of justice' that ensures everyone has access to key primary goods - some reasonable level of income and material wellbeing, opportunity and basic rights and liberties - which allow them to consider they have been given a proper chance to achieve full membership of society. Moreover, the rich must recognise that their incomes can only be allowed to reach the level consistent with ensuring that the position of the poor is the best it could possibly be, so that were the positions to be swapped, the rich could accept their reduced position as fair.
 * , Essential truths of a fair-minded man, The Observer, 1 December 2002.

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 * Rawls’ main interest was certainly not religion. It was social justice. He formulated two principles: first, that a just society should guarantee the basic liberties to all, including freedom of conscience; second, that social and economic inequalities are justified only if they work to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society. For him, the first principle prevailed over the second: it was not admissible to deny the basic liberties to promote social justice. The second principle embodied his criticism of both unregulated capitalism and Marxism. Economic inequalities, he believed, are natural and unavoidable, but they are not against social justice only if they are part of a system where they are made to work to also benefit those at the lower level of the social scale. Actually, the poor may and do benefit from the presence of the rich, who support social welfare with their taxes, create workplaces, and may spend their money to create institutions, including cultural and educational, that benefit everybody. The rich would not do so spontaneously only, Rawls believed, and may need some compulsion by the state. This is why he was after all a philosopher of the left, although calling him a socialist may be an exaggeration. …I was not myself a follower of Rawls and my own political and philosophical ideas were closer to the American conservatives he opposed. Yet, I found it interesting that even in the Democrat and liberal camp the most elegant theorist acknowledged the religious roots of the very idea of social justice and agreed that the American experiment, in all its possible versions, should affirm freedom of religion as fundamental.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "From John Rawls to Tai Ji Men: An Autobiographical Confession", Bitter Winter (February 2024)

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 * In the Rawlsian paradigm, such a person is likely to be a northwest European or North American with a certain way of asking and answering questions of this sort, even if deprived of self-knowledge of the more circumstantial kind. The liberalism that predictably results from such a mental experiment has always been vulnerable to the charge that it lacks purchase upon real-world challenges: it neither derives from present circumstances nor responds to past experience. Perhaps this would not matter if the Rawlsian approach to grounding liberal thought were primarily addressed to persons of a liberal predisposition. But that would be pointless. The test of such a theorem is how effective it is at convincing persons not already so disposed. And even then, the question remains of exactly how such liberals should act when dealing with persons and societies that do not correspond to their preferences. On this Rawls is by no means silent, but he is forced to introduce external considerations that cannot be derived from the model itself.
 * Tony Judt, in Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder, Thinking the twentieth century (2012), Ch. 8 : Age of Responsibility: American Moralist

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 * To make concrete what [Rawls's] theory regards as justice, compare two of our society's worst-off. The first, a mugger who has never held a job, is vicious when he can get away with it and spends his ill-gotten gains on drugs. The second, a mother of three, has been abandoned by her husband; she earns the minimum wage at a menial job and is trying hard to raise her children well. According to what Rawls calls justice, these two are entitled to the same resources from society simply because they are among the worst-off. The mugger's viciousness and lack of effort and the mother's decency and struggle create no morally relevant difference between them. [¶] Now change the scenario a bit. The mugger continues as before, but the mother's efforts have borne fruit. She has found a better job and is doing well at it. Her family now is moderately secure and comfortable but hardly affluent. On Rawls's view, justice requires taking some of the mother's resources in order to give them to the mugger. [¶] in deeming this blatant injustice just, Rawls repudiates the conception—accepted from the Old Testament to recent times—that justice consists in giving people what they deserve: reward for good conduct and punishment for bad. [...] Rawls is explicit about his repudiation...
 * , "Dangerous Egalitarian Dreams", City Journal, August 2001.

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 * One main problem in Rawl’s defense of “justice as fairness” is that Rawls believes that no one can deserve his or her advantages or assets in life—it’s all a matter of luck. As he puts it, “No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting point in society.” The reason? Because even a person’s character (i.e., the virtues he or she practices that may provide him with ways of getting ahead of others) “depends in large part upon fortunate family and social circumstances for which he can claim no credit”…
 * , “What is Morally Right With Insider Trading,” Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 10 (April 1996), pp.135-142.

 * Rawls' notion of liberty, however, is the impoverished notion of contemporary liberals, for whom liberty consists in the expressive or lifestyle freedom to say what one wants and have sexual relations with the species of one's choice. So, for example, being subject to a 75 percent tax on one's income or being subject to the seizure of 90 percent of one's peacefully acquired property does not count at all as an abridgment of liberty. Indeed, it is not really clear that chaining the talented and energetic to their desks should, for Rawls, count as an infringement of their liberty as long as these individuals are still permitted to express their views, cast their votes, meet with their chosen sexual partners, and, perhaps, are paroled on weekends to travel to their preferred cultural events. In any case, Rawls does not view anything the modern welfare state does in the name of income redistribution as an abridgment of liberty.
 * Eric Mack, "Blind Injustice", Navigator, July/August 2001

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 * When we make that basic criticism, however, we are not only following Rawls's methodological suggestion - that we search for reflective equilibrium by holding up theoretical alternatives to our own considered judgments, in Socratic fashion. We are also bringing one deep part of Rawls's own conception to bear against another, saying that the contract doctrine may not do full justice to the idea that each person has an inviolability based upon justice. Even in moving away from Rawls, we are fully engaged with him. Surely that is a sign of his work's depth and enduring significance.
 * Martha Nussbaum, "The Enduring Significance of John Rawls", The Chronicle of Higher Education (20 July 2001)

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 * Rawls’s analysis of fairness, justice, institutions and behaviour has illuminated our understanding of justice very profoundly and has played – and is still playing – a hugely constructive part in the development of the theory of justice. But we cannot make the Rawlsian mode of thinking on justice into an intellectual ‘stand-still’. We have to benefit from the richness of the ideas we have got from Rawls – and then move on, rather than taking a ‘vacation’. We do need ‘justitia’, not ‘justitium’.
 * Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice, Ch. 2. Rawls and Beyond

 * Rawls's work, for better or worse, is not inspired by this kind of epic ambition. His very modesty and lack of speculative curiosity are what exclude him from the ranks of the great philosophers. Rawls is not an Isaiah Berlin with his anguished sense of the conflict of goods which besets human life; nor is he a Leo Strauss with his vivid awareness of the forces of persecution with which philosophy has always to contend; nor is he a Michael Oakeshott with his diagnosis of the dangers posed by excessive rationalism to the goals of a free society. Rawls is a philosopher for our time. His desire is to render both theoretically and practically legitimate the redistributivist policies of the prosperous North Atlantic welfare states. There is already more than a whiff of nostalgia about this project. This is by no means a contemptible goal, but it is well to remember that this project of rationalization is one — but only one — way in which philosophy can be practiced.
 * Steven M. Smith, "The Philosopher of Our Times", The New York Sun (May 11, 2007)

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Warren Zevon

Warren William Zevon (24 January 1947 – 7 September 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.

Quotes

 * From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave — nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
 * As quoted in "Warren Zevon's Resurrection: How he saved himself from a coward's death" by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone (19 March 1981)

 * I'm insane. I'm fucked up. I have problems. But I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.
 * As quoted in Salon.com - "My Lunch with Warren Zevon" by David Bowman, at Salon.com (17 March 2000)

 * I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
 * As quoted in "My Lunch with Warren Zevon" by David Bowman,Salon.com (17 March 2000)

 * It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies … I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.
 * Answering the question "What led you to stake out the noir Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner genre?", in "My Lunch with Warren Zevon" by David Bowman,Salon.com (17 March 2000)

 * Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off.
 * The Late Show with David Letterman (30 October 2002)

 * You know, you put more value on every minute … I mean, I always thought I kind of did that. I really always enjoyed myself. But it's more valuable now. You're reminded to enjoy every sandwich, and every minute of playing with the guys, and being with the kids and everything.
 * Remarks on his attitude after discovering he had terminal mesothelioma, on The Late Show with David Letterman (30 October 2002)

 * Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence — helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
 * As quoted in "Warren Zevon Dies" by Andrew Dansby, in Rolling Stone (8 September 2003)

 * I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.
 * As quoted in "Warren Zevon: Singer-songwriter author of 'Werewolves of London'" by Spencer Leigh, The Independent (9 September 2003)

Song Lyrics

 * All songs written by Warren Zevon, except as noted.

Warren Zevon (1976)
He can't find the one who was his friend. So he's hanging on to half her heart. He can't have the restless part, So he tells her to hasten down the wind.
 * She's so many women,
 * "Hasten Down the Wind"

Poor, poor pitiful me. These young girls won't let me be. Lord have mercy on me. Woe is me.
 * Poor, poor pitiful me.
 * "Poor Poor Pitiful Me"

We both came down with an acute case. And when the lights came up at two, I caught a glimpse of you. And your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase
 * Loneliness and frustration,
 * "The French Inhaler"

I'll sleep when I'm dead. Saturday night I like to raise a little harm; I'll sleep when I'm dead.
 * So much to do, there's plenty on the farm;
 * "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"

I think I'm sinking down. And I'm all strung out on heroin On the outskirts of town.
 * Carmelita hold me tighter,
 * "Carmelita"

Like the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill. Don't the sun look angry through the trees? Don't the trees look like crucified thieves? Don't you feel like Desperados under the eaves? Heaven help the one who leaves.
 * And if California slides into the ocean
 * "Desperadoes Under the Eaves"

 * Except in dreams, you're never really free.
 * "Desperados Under the Eaves"

Excitable Boy (1978)
Norway's bravest son. Time, time, time For another peaceful war. But time stands still for Roland 'Til he evens up the score. They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun; In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun.
 * Roland the headless Thompson gunner,
 * "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", written by Warren Zevon and David Lindell

Excitable boy, they all said. And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home. Excitable boy, they all said.
 * He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom.
 * "Excitable Boy", written by Warren Zevon and LeRoy Marinell

Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain. He was looking for a place called Le Ho Fooks. Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein.
 * I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand,
 * "Werewolves of London", written by Warren Zevon, LeRoy Marinell, and Waddy Wachtel; this was voted best opening line of all time in a BBC radio poll

Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair. You better stay away from him. He'll rip your lungs out, Jim. Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor.
 * He's the hairy-handed gent, who ran amok in Kent.
 * "Werewolves of London"

Doing the werewolves of London. I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's... His hair was perfect.
 * I saw Lon Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen
 * "Werewolves of London"

Shadow love, Random love, And abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder
 * We made mad love:
 * "Accidentally like a Martyr"

The way I always do How was I to know She was with the Russians, too Dad, get me out of this!
 * Well, I went home with the waitress
 * "Lawyers, Guns And Money" · YouTube video
 * Send lawyers, guns and money.
 * "Lawyers, Guns And Money"

Somehow I got stuck Between the rock and the hard place And I'm down on my luck
 * I'm the innocent bystander
 * "Lawyers, Guns And Money"

I'm a desperate man Send lawyers, guns and money The shit has hit the fan
 * Now I'm hiding in Honduras
 * "Lawyers, Guns And Money"

The Envoy (1982)
'Cause I'd rather feel bad than not feel anything at all.
 * So I'm gonna hurl myself against the wall,
 * "Ain't That Pretty At All", written by Warren Zevon and LeRoy Marinell

Sentimental Hygiene (1987)
And do my job — whatever. I need some Sentimental Hygiene. Everybody's at war these days. Let's have a mini-surrender. I need some Sentimental hygiene
 * Every day I get up in the morning and go to work
 * "Sentimental Hygiene"

But the name of the game is be hit and hit back.
 * They made hypocrite judgments after the fact,
 * "Boom Boom Mancini"

Trouble waiting to happen. Should've quit while I was ahead; Trouble waiting to happen. I turned on the news to the Third World War, Opened up the paper to World War IV. Just when I thought it was safe to be bored, Trouble waiting to happen.
 * I woke up this morning and fell out of bed;
 * "Trouble Waiting to Happen", written by Warren Zevon and J. D. Souther

Transverse City (1989)
When I got older it was worse.
 * When I was young, times were hard.
 * "The Long Arm of the Law"

Mr. Bad Example (1991)
I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in I'm proud to be a glutton and I don't have time for sloth I'm greedy and I'm angry and I don't care who I cross.
 * I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins
 * "Mr. Bad Example"

I have a Craftsman lathe. Show it to the children When they misbehave.
 * Down in the basement
 * "Model Citizen", written by Warren Zevon, LeRoy Marinell, and Waddy Wachtel

Searching everyone. They say love conquers all. You can't start it like a car, You can't stop it with a gun.
 * And I'm searching for a heart,
 * "Searching For a Heart"

Mutineer (1995)
Beneath the vast indifference of heaven.
 * We contemplate eternity
 * "The Indifference of Heaven"

Life'll Kill Ya (2000)
That's what I said. Life'll kill ya, Then you'll be dead. Life'll find ya Wherever you go. Requiescat in pace That's all she wrote.
 * Life'll kill ya,
 * "Life'll Kill Ya"

But you won't want to look in the box when I do
 * I can saw a woman in two.
 * "For My Next Trick I'll Need A Volunteer"

And switch all my priorities around. Why don't you go pick on someone your own size instead?
 * You know I hate it when you put your hand inside my head
 * "I'll Slow You Down"

It had to happen to the best of us. The rich folk suffer like the rest of us, It will happen to you.
 * My shit's fucked up.
 * "My Shit's Fucked Up"

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Talk:Anatole France

Citizen
More context (I haven't checked the sources) on the sleeping under bridges quote:

google answers

Original: "Autre motif d’orgueuil, que d’être citoyen! Cela consiste pour les pauvres à soutenir et à conserver les riches dans leur puissance et leur oisivité.  Ils y doivent travailler devant la majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain."

In English: "Another reason for pride, that of being a citizen! For the poor citizenship consists of supporting and sustaining the power and idleness of the rich.  They must work for those goals before the majestic equality of the laws, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread."

I think this one is better with context, even if only key phrases are highly memorable. --Eli the Bearded 19:09, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Attributed Quote
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

I've seen this quote attributed to "Betrand Russell" on more than one occassion. Is there any source for this quote that anyone is aware of? --Crossmr 01:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I've found a source for the quote, and it's neither France nor Russell:
 * If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
 * W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (1949), entry for 1901
 * I've moved the version quoted here to "Misattributed" and included the details. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:51, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I suspect this may not be from France or if it is from France it is incorrect.
 * My main reason for suspecting this is that I remember first reading it as a section heading in The World of Mathematics, Neumann, ed., many years ago. I cannot locate the set right at the moment but I am almost certain that the version I read involved fifty thousand Frenchmen, a reference to "Fifty thousand Frenchmen can't be wrong."
 * The other reason to suspect it is that there is no original French version. JimCubb 20:13, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced or inadequately sourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Anatole France. --Antiquary 14:25, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

 * Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

 * Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

 * The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
 * Variant: The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
 * Variant: We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

 * The books that everybody admires are those nobody reads.

 * The impotence of God is infinite.

 * There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

 * Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Original please
I've added one of may favorite AF's quote to the Russian WQ. From Russian to English it can be translated as "I wanted to know everything. It was why I did not become a scientist". But I'd also like to supplement it with the original. It is definitely from France's letter to Albert Langen written in 1904. May be somebody knows how it sounds in French. I was unable to find this letter in Google at least. Thank you in advance.

People under the menace of war
Not only in "The New Age" (1914, vol. 14, p. 363 at MJP), but probably also in "The Indian Review" (1921, vol. 22, p. 594, see "Index" here: /  or  / ; unfortunately, full version is not currently available). --Djadjko (talk) 02:55, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Quote merge of Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened
@: At Special:Diff/3229035 you suggested merging the quote "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” if it could be cited from Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”. As the contribution was from an anon IP there is nothing to attribute apart from the generic "Anon IP". As the information is now here on the talk page and the source page has been poorly named it should not be retained. -- User:Djm-leighpark(a)talk 04:31, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

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Anke Engelke

Anke Engelke (born 21 December 1965) is a German comedian and actress.

Quotes

 * Ich bin so aufgeregt wie in meiner ersten Sendung. Da schließt sich der Kreis. Der Teufelskreis.
 * I am as excited as in my first show. There the circle closes itself. The Devil's circle.
 * On the last Anke Late Night show (21 October 2004)

 * Man soll aufhören, wenn es am schönsten ist - aber wir hatten nach der ersten Sendung nicht den Mut.
 * You should stop, when you're on top of your game — but we didn't have the courage after the first show.
 * On the last Anke Late Night show (21 October 2004)

 * Tonight, nobody could vote for their own country, but it is good to be able to vote and it is good to have a choice. Good luck on your journey, Azerbaijan. Europe is watching you!
 * "Heute Abend konnte niemand für sein eigenes Land abstimmen. Aber es ist gut wählen zu können, und es ist gut eine Wahl zu haben. Viel Glück auf Deiner Reise, Aserbaidschan. Europa beobachtet Dich!"
 * Anke Engelke's jab at Azerbaijan's dictatorship, while actually announcing the German vote in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Transmitted live on TV to 120 million viewers, including the Azerbaijan state TV. (May 26th, 2012).

Audiobooks

 * 2009: Heike Faller: Wie ich einmal versuchte, reich zu werden, publisher: Random House Audio, ISBN 978-3-8371-7610-0
 * 2013: Felix Salten: Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde, publisher: tacheles, ISBN 978-3864840289

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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange (1962) is a novel by Anthony Burgess.

Alex

 * There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

 * "The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence."

 * "One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts;I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.

Irish Drunk: Can you spare some cutter me brothers? Go on, do me in, you bastards like this, I don't want to live in a stinking old world like this."

Alex: "Oh? And What's so stinking about it?

Drunk: There is no law and order.

 * "What's it going to be then, eh?"
 * Source: Part 3, Chapter 01, sentence 01

 * "Come with uncle," I said, "and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited."

 * Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

 * Let's get things nice and sparkling clear. This sarcasm - if I may call it such, is very unbecoming of you oh my brothers

 * "Have you some new torture for me, you bratchny?"

 * "Oh bliss, bliss and heaven... Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... I knew such lovely pictures" (This was said while listening to a violin concerto by Geoffrey Plautus, played by Odysseus Choerilos)

 * "Initiative comes to them as wait."

 * Naughty, Naughty, Naughty you filthy ol' soomka!

 * "What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence."

 * You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!
 * "It’s funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."

 * "Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever."

 * "Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou."

 * "I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?'"

 * "Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name -A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?'

Minister of the Interior

 * "There was a man. . .a writer of subversive literature."

 * “Padre, these are subtleties. We’re not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime--and. . .with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons. He will be your true Christian: ready to turn the other cheek, ready to be crucified rather than crucify, sick to the very heart at the thought even of killing a fly! Reclamation! Joy before the angels of God! The point is that it works.”

 * "He's young, bold, vicious. Brodsky will deal with him tomorrow and you can sit in and watch Brodsky. It works all right, don't you worry about that. This young hoodlum will be transformed out of all recognition."
 * Source: Part 2, Chapter 2

Mr. Alexander

 * “The common people will let it go. Oh yes, they’ll sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be led, sir, driven, pushed!”

 * "The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen."
 * Source: Part 1, Chapter 02, sentence 23

P.R. Deltoid

 * "But I'm warning you, little Alex, being a good friend to you as always, the one man in this sore and sick community who wants to save you from yourself."

 * “We study the problem and we’ve been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies. You’ve got a good home here, good loving parents. You’ve got not too bad of a brain. Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?”

Prison Chaplain

 * "What's it going to be then, eh?"
 * Source: Part 2, Chapter 01, sentence 01

 * "A lot of idiots you are, selling your own birthright for a saucer of cold porridge! The thrill of theft! Of violence! The urge to live easy! Well, I ask you what is it worth when we have undeniable truth, yes, incontrovertible evidence that Hell exists."

 * "Don't you laugh, damn you, don't you laugh!"

 * "When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."

 * "Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
 * Source: Part 2, Chapter 03

 * Choice... He has no real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

Dim

 * [About Alex] What natural right does he have to think he can give the orders and tolchock me whenever he likes? Yarbles is what I say to him, and I'd chain his glazzies out soon as look.
 * [To Alex as a Police Officer] Long time is right, I don't remember them days too horrorshow. Don't call me Dim no more either, Officer call me.
 * Source: Part 3, Chapter 3

Quotes about

 * When I was in high school, my English teacher gave me a copy of Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. I was in awe of the use of slang and the portrayal of youth and violence. It was an example of what great fiction can do. I knew I would eventually want to write my own version of what it is like to be young and full of rage.
 * Lilliam Rivera Interview (2019)

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