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Training Day

Training Day is a 2001 film starring Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris, a corrupt Los Angeles police officer, and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, a new recruit looking to become a part of Harris's elite narcotics unit. The entire movie takes place over a single, intense 24-hour period that forever changes the lives of both officers.
 * Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Written by David Ayer

The only thing more dangerous than the line being crossed, is the cop who will cross it. (taglines)

Alonzo Harris

 * The shit's chess, it ain't checkers!
 * To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.
 * It's not what you know; it's what you can prove.
 * You wanna go to jail or you wanna go home?
 * [singing] Oh where, oh where has my little Jake gone? Oh where, oh where can he be?
 * Fuck him and everybody who looks like him.
 * You know I'm surgical with this bitch Jake!
 * Shit gets deeper... You get the picture?
 * [Jake leave with Alonzo's pay-off for the Russian Mob.] What? Oh no you didn't. Wait a minute, no you didn't, aye aye Jake! Hey! Jake! Jake! Jake! Come back here! Jake! You disloyal fool-ass bitch-made-punk. Jake! I need my money! Jake! Awwww, you motherfuckers. Okay. All right. I'm putting cases on all of you bitches! Huh. You think you can do this shit? Jake! You think you can do this to me?! You motherfuckers will be playin' basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you! SHU program, nigga! 23 hour lockdown! I'm the man up in this piece! You'll never see the light of - who the fuck do you think you're fuckin' with? I'm the police! I run shit here! You just live here! Yeah, that's right, you better walk away! Go on and walk away, 'cause I'm gonna burn this motherfucker down. King Kong ain't got shit on me! That's right, that's right. Shit, I don't fuck. I'm winnin' anyway, I'm winnin'. I'm winnin' any motherfuckin' way, I can't lose. Shit, you can shoot me, but you can't kill me. Hahahahaha, shit! Haha, oh what a day! What a motherfucking day! Haha, hahaha.

Smiley

 * Three of a kind beats two pair, you fucking dumb truck.
 * Alonzo, he's a hothead. Last week in Vegas some Russian starts talking shit and Alonzo he just snapped.  Beat his ass to death.  Turns out that Russian is a somebody and now Alonzo, he's into the Russians for a million.

Moreno

 * Hey pig, you ever had your shit pushed in? Your shit pushed in.  Simple question.

Dialogue

 * Hoyt: This car is NOT from the motor pool.
 * Alonzo Harris: No it's not. Sexy though, isn't it?

 * Alonzo Harris: But I don't believe you. You tapped that ass didn't you. You did! You put her in the back seat- BAM- Code X!
 * Hoyt: Nah man, I got a wife.
 * Alonzo Harris: You got a dick. You do have a dick, don't you? OK, the dick lines up straight like that right? To the right of it and to the left of it are pockets, right? In those pockets are money. Look in either one of 'em - pay the bill.

 * [Alonzo forces Hoyt to smoke the weed at gunpoint.]
 * Alonzo Harris: Left that out your service jacket. Yeah, I know you got secrets. Everybody got secrets. Didn't know you liked to get wet, dog.
 * Jake Hoyt: What's "wet"?
 * Alonzo Harris: Butt-naked. Ill. Sherms. Dust. PCP. Primos. P-Dog. That's what you had. That's what you were smoking, you couldn't taste it?
 * Jake Hoyt: No, I've never done it.
 * Alonzo Harris: You have now. I haven't, but you have.
 * Jake Hoyt: Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Man, I'm gonna get piss-tested, and then I'm gonna get fired!
 * Alonzo Harris: Lieutenant's got our back. We know a week before we piss.
 * Jake Hoyt: Oh, shit. Shit!
 * Alonzo Harris: Boom!
 * Jake Hoyt: Why did you do this to me?
 * Alonzo Harris: Nobody told you to smoke that thing. You made the decision. Live with your decision. Ain't like I put a gun to your head.

 * Alonzo: It behooves you not to dick around on this one. Justifiable homicide in the line of duty? What happened was...
 * Jake: What happened was murder... and armed robbery. Wait, we had badges, so it's different?
 * Alonzo: Open your eyes, son. Can't you see?
 * Jake: That man was your friend, and you killed him like a fly.
 * Alonzo: Why is he my friend, because he knows my first name? Roger sold dope to kids. The world is a better place without him. This man was the biggest major violator in Los Angeles. This is the game. I'm playing his ass. That's my job. That's your job. I watched that cocksucker operate with impunity for over 10 years, and now I got him. The shit's chess, it ain't checkers. What, we all of a sudden gonna roll up in a black-and-white? Come on, man, take the money.
 * Jake: I told you, I'm *not* gonna take that money.
 * Alonzo: All right, burn it, barbecue it, fish-fry it, I don't give a fuck. But the boys'll feel better about it.
 * Jake: *Fuck* their feelings.
 * Alonzo: You're not making them feel like you're part of the team.
 * Jake: The team? You guys are fuckin' insane. All right, I'll go back to the Valley. I'll cut parking tickets. Why does it have to be this way?
 * Alonzo: I'm sorry I exposed you to it, but it is. It's ugly, but it's necessary... Sometimes you gotta have a little dirt on you for anybody to trust you.

Cast

 * Denzel Washington — Detective Alonzo Harris
 * Ethan Hawke — Jake Hoyt
 * Scott Glenn — Roger
 * Tom Berenger — Stan Gursky
 * Harris Yulin — Detective Doug Rosselli
 * Raymond J. Barry — Captain Lou Jacobs
 * Cliff Curtis — "Smiley"
 * Dr. Dre — Detective Paul
 * Snoop Dogg — Blue
 * Macy Gray — "Sandman"'s wife
 * Charlotte Ayanna — Lisa Hoyt
 * Eva Mendes — Sara
 * Nick Chinlund — Detective Tim

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Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent

Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place from the 12th to the 16th centuries, though earlier Muslim conquests made limited inroads into modern Afghanistan and Pakistan as early as the time of the Rajput kingdoms in the 7th century. With the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate, Islam spread across large parts of the subcontinent.

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 * Mahmud utterly ruined the prosperity of the country, and performed there wonderful exploits, by which the Hindus became like atoms of dust scattered in all directions, and like a tale of old in the mouth of the people. Their scattered remains cherish, of course, the most inveterate aversion towards all Muslims.... Hindu sciences have retired far away from those parts of the country conquered by us, and have fled to places which our hand cannot yet reach, to Kashmir, Benaras and other places. And there the antagonism between them (the Hindus) and all foreigners receives more and more nourishment both from political and religious sources
 * Alberuni, Alberuni's India, vol. I, p. 22. Also quoted (in part) in Jain, Meenakshi (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts.

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 * Its water is dark; its fruit is bitter and poisonous; its land is stony, and its earth is saltish. A small army will soon be annihilated there...
 * Anonymous, Chachnama. Hakim's report about Hind and Sindh to Caliph Uthman who thought about invading North-western India. Quoted in R. Misra,  Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders up to 1206 AD (2005), p. 17
 * Also translated as: Water is scarce, the fruits are poor, and the robbers are bold; if few troops are sent, they will be slain, if many, they will starve to death. Elliot and Dowson, The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, Vol. 1, 116. quoted in Balakrishna, S. Invaders and infidels: From Sindh to Delhi : the 500- year journey of Islamic invasions. New Delhi : BloomsBury, 2021.
 * Also translated as: “Its water is dark and dirty. Its fruit is bitter and poisonous. Its land is stony and its earth is salt. A small army will soon be annihilated there, and a large one will soon die of hunger.” —V. S. Naipaul, Among the Believers (Vintage, 1982)

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 * Hindostan was overthrown by a fierce race of men, who in their rapid course of conquest, exerted the most furious efforts in leveling every monument of worship and taste. They massacred the priests and plundered the temples, with a keenness and ferocity, in which their first chiefs might have gloried. A people thus crushed, groaning under the load of oppression, and dismayed at the sight of incessant cruelties, must soon have lost the spirit of science, and the exertion of genius; especially as the fine arts, were so blended with their system of religion, that the persecution of the one, must have shed a baneful influence on the existence of the other. To decide on, or affix, the character of the Hindoo, from the point of view in which he is now beheld, would, in a large degree, be similar to the attempt of conveying an exact idea of ancient Greece, from the materials now presented by the wretched country.…
 * Forster, George, A Journey From Bengal To England, 2 vols., Languages Department, Punjab, 1970, first published 1808. quoted from Jain, M. (editor) (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. Volume IV

G

 * Having lifted Islam to the head, You have engulfed Hindustan in dread.... Such cruelties have they inflicted, and yet Your mercy remains unmoved.... Should the strong attack the strong the heart does not burn. But when the strong crush the helpless, surely the One who was to protect them has to be called to account.... O' Lord, these dogs have destroyed this diamond-like Hindustan, (so great is their terror that) no one asks after those who have been killed, and yet You do not pay heed...
 * Guru Arjan, Guru Granth Sahib, Mahla 1, 360, quoted in Arun Shourie, "The Litmus Test of Whether Your History is Secular"  and in Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins, 2014)

 * Having subjugated Khuraasaan, Babar terrified Hindustaan So that blame does not come on Him, the Creator has sent the Mughal as the messenger of death So great was the slaughter, such the agony of the people, even then You felt no compassion, Lord? If some powerful man strikes another, one feels no grief But when a powerful tiger slaughters a flock of helpless sheep, its master must answer This jewel of a country has been laid waste and defiled by dogs, so much so that no one pays heed even to the dead… Guru Nanak proceeds to describe how the oppressors shaved off the maidens, their ‘heads with braided hair, with vermillion marks in the parting’; how ‘their throats were choked with dust’; how they were cast out of their palatial homes, unable now to sit even in the neighbourhood of their homes; how those who had come to the homes of their husbands in palanquins, decorated with ivory, who lived in the lap of luxury, had been tied with ropes around their necks; how their pearl strings had been shattered; how the very beauty that was their jewel had now become their enemy – ordered to dishonour them, the soldiers had carried them off. ‘Since Babar’s rule has been proclaimed,’ Guru Nanak wrote, ‘even the princes have no food to eat.’
 * Guru Granth Sahib, quoted from Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers.

N

 * It was narrated that Thawban, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah, said: "The Messenger of Allah said: 'There are two groups of my Ummah whom Allah will free from the Fire: The group that invades India (taghzoo al-hind), and the group that will be with 'Isa bin Maryam, peace be upon him.'"
 * Ghazwa-e-hind. Al-Nasa'i, Al-Sunan al-Sughra (one of the six major hadiths). Sunan an-Nasa'i 1:25:3177 (hasan) from The Book of Jihad, chapter "Invading India"

U

 * The blood of the infidels flowed so copiously at Thanesar that the stream was discoloured, notwithstanding its purity, and people were unable to drink it. The Sultan returned with plunder which is impossible to count.
 * Tarikh-i-Yamini of Utbi the sultan's secretary written in the 11th century

W

 * But so far as the Hindus are concerned, this period was a prolonged spell of darkness which ended only when the Marathas and the Jats and the Sikhs broke the back of Islamic imperialism in the middle of the 18th century. The situation of the Hindus under Muslim rule is summed up by the author of Tãrîkh-i-Wassãf in the following words: “The vein of the zeal of religion beat high for the subjection of infidelity and destruction of idols… The Mohammadan forces began to kill and slaughter, on the right and the left unmercifully, throughout the impure land, for the sake of Islãm, and blood flowed in torrents. They plundered gold and silver to an extent greater than can be conceived, and an immense number of precious stones as well as a great variety of cloths… They took captive a great number of handsome and elegant maidens and children of both sexes, more than pen can enumerate… In short, the Mohammadan army brought the country to utter ruin and destroyed the lives of the inhabitants and plundered the cities, and captured their off-springs, so that many temples were deserted and the idols were broken and trodden under foot, the largest of which was Somnãt. The fragments were conveyed to Dehlî and the entrance of the Jãmi‘ Masjid was paved with them so that people might remember and talk of this brilliant victory… Praise be to Allah the lord of the worlds.”
 * Wassaf quoted in Sita Ram Goel, The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India (1994)

A

 * There can be no doubt that the fall of Buddhism in India was due to the invasions of the Musalmans. Islam came out as the enemy of the 'But'. The word 'But' as everybody knows, is the Arabic word and means an idol. Thus the origin of the word indicates that in the Moslem mind idol worship had come to be identified with the Religion of the Buddha. To the Muslims, they were one and the same thing. The mission to break the idols thus became the mission to destroy Buddhism. Islam destroyed Buddhism not only in India but wherever it went.
 * B. R. Ambedkar, "The decline and fall of Buddhism," Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Vol. III, Government of Maharashtra. 1987, p. 229-30

 * The real problem introduced by the Mussalman conquest was not that of subjection to a foreign rule and the ability to recover freedom, but the struggle between two civilisations, one ancient and indigenous, the other medieval and brought in from outside. ... That which rendered the problem insoluble was the attachment of each to a powerful religion, the one militant and aggressive, the other spiritually tolerant indeed and flexible (...)
 * Sri Aurobindo, Foundations of Indian Culture, quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 476

B

 * [the Muslims] could not rule the country, except by systematic terror. Cruelty was the norm -- burnings, summary executions, crucifixions or impalements, inventive tortures. Hindu temples were destroyed to make way for mosques. On occasion there were forced conversions. If ever there were an uprising, it was instantly and savagely repressed: houses were burned, the countryside was laid waste, men were slaughtered and women were taken as slaves. [...Islamic rule in India as a] colonial experiment [was] extremely violent.
 * Fernand Braudel, "A History of Civilizations", 1995.

D

 * From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of 'a holy war' of their faith, of their sole God, that the barbarians have destroyed civilizations, wiped out entire races. Mahmoud Ghazni was an early example of Muslim ruthlessness, burning in 1018 of the temples of Mathura, razing Kanauj to the ground and destroying the famous temple of Somnath, sacred to all Hindus. His successors were as ruthless as Ghazni: 103 temples in the holy city of Benaras were razed to the ground, its marvelous temples destroyed, its magnificent palaces wrecked.
 * Alain Danielou: Histoire de l' Inde

 * The first phase of the Muslim conquest of North India was a splendid ghazi adventure of looting, shooting, and smashing up the gods of Hindu idolators. The new kings of Dehli, however, imposed civil order on the conquered areas and created a structure of despotism designed to tax rather than slaughter the native peasantry.
 * Ross E. Dunn, The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century (2012, University of California Press) Chapter 9

 * The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
 * Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, p. 459

 * This is the secret of the political history of modern India. Weakened by division, it succumbed to invaders; impoverished by invaders, it lost all power of resistance, and took refuge in supernatural consolations; it argued that both mastery and slavery were superficial delusions, and concluded that freedom of the body or the nation was hardly worth defending in so brief a life. The bitter lesson that may be drawn from this tragedy is that eternal vigilance is the price of civilization. A nation must love peace, but keep its powder dry.
 * Will Durant and, , Book I, Our Oriental Heritage (1935) VI. The Moslem Conquest

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 * For its sheer magnitude in scope and death toll, coupled with its occasional (though not continuous) intention to exterminate entire Hindu communities, the Islamic campaign against Hinduism, which was never fully called off since the first naval invasion in 636 CE, can without exaggeration be termed genocide. ... There is no official estimate of the total death toll of Hindus at the hands of Islam. A first glance at important testimonies by Muslim chroniclers suggests that, over 13 centuries and a territory as vast as the Subcontinent, Muslim Holy Warriors easily killed more Hindus than the 6 million of the Holocaust. Ferishtha lists several occasions when the Bahmani sultans in central India (1347-1528) killed a hundred thousand Hindus, which they set as a minimum goal whenever they felt like "punishing" the Hindus; and they were only a third-rank provincial dynasty. The biggest slaughters took place during the raids of Mahmud Ghaznavi (ca. 1000 CE); during the actual conquest of North India by Mohammed Ghori and his lieutenants; and under the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526). The Moghuls (1526-1857), even Babar and Aurangzeb, were fairly restrained tyrants by comparison. Prof. K.S. Lal once estimated that the Indian population declined by 50 million under the Sultanate, but that would be hard to substantiate; research into the magnitude of the damage Islam did to India is yet to start in right earnest.. The Islamic campaign against Hinduism, which has never been fully called off since the first naval invasion in 636 AD, may only occasionally have taken the form of a genocide stricto sensu, but considering its sheer magnitude in scope and death toll, coupled with its occasional intention to exterminate entire Hindu communities, we may deem its characterization as a "genocide" somewhat imprecise, but not really unjust.
 * Koenraad Elst, "Was There an Islamic "Genocide" of Hindus?" and in    Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". 827 ff.

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 * Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
 * Mahatma Gandhi. 25 December 1947, in reaction to an Urdu poem protesting against the planned rebuilding of the Somnath temple and calling for "a new Ghaznavi to avenge the renovation of the Somnath temple", quoted by Rajmohan Gandhi: Revenge and Reconciliation, p. 237 and quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa.

 * The magnitude of crimes credited to Muslim monarchs by the medieval Muslim historians, was beyond measure. With a few exceptions, Muslim kings and commanders were monsters who stopped at no crime when it came to their Hindu subjects. But what strikes as more significant is the broad pattern of those crimes. The pattern is that of a jihãd in which the ghãzîs of Islam 1) invade infidel lands; 2) massacre as many infidel men, women, and children, particularly Brahmins, as they like after winning a victory; 3) capture the survivors to be sold as slaves; 4) plunder every place and person; 5) demolish idolatrous places of worship and build mosques in their places; and 6) defile idols which are flung into public squares or made into steps leading to mosques. Still more significant is the fact that this is exactly the pattern 1) revealed by Allah in the Quran; 2) practised, perfected and prescribed by the Prophet in his own life-time; 3) followed by the pious Khalifas of Islam in the first 35 years of Islamic imperialism; 4) elaborated in the Hadis and hundreds of commentaries with meticulous attention to detail; 5) certified by the Ulama and the Sufis of Islam in all ages including our own; and 6) followed by all Muslim monarchs and chieftains who aspired for name and fame in this life, and houris and beardless boys hereafter.
 * Goel, S. R. (2001). The story of Islamic imperialism in India. New Delhi: Voice of India.

The answer is provided by the Muslim historians of medieval India. They painted their heroes in the indelible dyes of Islamic ideology. They did not anticipate the day when Islamic imperialism in India will become only a painful memory of the past. They did not visualise that the record of Islam in India will one day be weighed on the scales of human values. Now it is too late for trying to salvage Islam in medieval India from its blood-soaked history. The orthodox Muslim historians are honest when they state that the medieval Muslim monarchs were only carrying out the commandments of Islam when they massacred, captured, enslaved, and violated Hindu men, women and children; desecrated, demolished, and destroyed Hindu places of worship; and dispossessed the Hindus of all their wealth. The Aligarh “historians” and their secularist patrons are only trying to prop up imposters in place of real and living characters who played life-size roles in history.
 * One may very well ask the purveyors of this puerile propaganda that if the record of Islam in medieval India was so bright and blameless, where is the need for this daily ritual of whitewashing it. Hindu heroes like Chandragupta Maurya, Samudragupta, Harihar, Bukka, Maharana Pratap, and Shivaji, to name only a few of the notables, have never needed any face-lift. Why does the monstrous men of an Alauddin Khalji, a Firuz Shah Tughlaq, a Sikandar Lodi, and an Aurangzeb, to name only the most notorious, pop out so soon from the thickest coat of cosmetics?
 * Sita Ram Goel: The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India

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 * From 986 CE, the Muslim Turks started raiding northwest India from Afghanistan, plundering western India early in the eleventh century. Forced conversions to Islam were made, and Buddhist images smashed, due to the Islamic dislike of idolatry. Indeed in India, the Islamic term for an 'idol' became 'budd'.
 * Peter Harvey (2013). An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices. Cambridge University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-521-85942-4.

 * The Moslems who invaded India brought with them the idea of a God who was not the order of the army of being, but its general. Bhakti towards this despotic person was associated with wholesale slaughter of Buddhists and Hindus. Similarly bhakti towards the personal God of Christianity has been associated, throughout the history of that religion, with the wholesale slaughter of pagans and the retail torture and murder of heretics. It is the business of the rational idealist to harp continually upon this all-important fact. In this way, perhaps, he may be able to mitigate the evil tendencies which history shows to be inherent in the way of devotion and the correlated belief in a personal deity.
 * Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

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 * Viewed from the larger historical and geographical perspective, in fact, it would be fair to claim that it was the Muslim states which formed the most rapidly expanding forces in world affairs during the sixteenth century. Not only were the Ottoman Turks pushing westward, but the Safavid dynasty in Persia was also enjoying a resurgence of power, prosperity, and high culture, especially in the reigns of Ismail I (1500–1524) and Abbas I (1587– 1629); a chain of strong Muslim khanates still controlled the ancient Silk Road via Kashgar and Turfan to China, not unlike the chain of West African Islamic states such as Bornu, Sokoto, and Timbuktu; the Hindu Empire in Java was overthrown by Muslim forces early in the sixteenth century; and the king of Kabul, Babur, entering India by the conqueror’s route from the northwest, established the Mogul Empire in 1526. Although this hold on India was shaky at first, it was successfully consolidated by Babur’s grandson Akbar (1556–1605), who carved out a northern Indian empire stretching from Baluchistan in the west to Bengal in the east. Throughout the seventeenth century, Akbar’s successors pushed farther south against the Hindu Marathas, just at the same time as the Dutch, British, and French were entering the Indian peninsula from the sea, and of course in a much less substantial form. To these secular signs of Muslim growth one must add the vast increase in numbers of the faithful in Africa and the Indies, against which the proselytization by Christian missions paled in comparison.
 * Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 (1988)

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 * The conquests so exultantly referred to by the court chroniclers of the Sultanate had an Indian side of the picture. It was one of ceaseless resistance offered with relentless heroism; of men, from boys in teens to men with one foot in the grave, flinging away their lives for freedom [emphasis added]; of warriors defying the invaders from fortresses for months, sometimes for years, in one case, with intermission, for a century; of women in thousands courting fire to save their honour; of children whose bodies were flung into the wells by their parents so that they might escape slavery; of fresh heroes springing up to take the place of the dead and to break the volume and momentum of the onrushing tide of invasion.
 * K.M. Munshi, “Foreword,” in The History and Culture of the Indian People, Vol. 5, ed. R.C. Majumdar (Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2015), xv. quoted in Balakrishna, S. Invaders and infidels: From Sindh to Delhi : the 500- year journey of Islamic invasions. New Delhi : BloomsBury, 2021.

 * The conquest of India is the conquest of culture by those who lacked it.
 * K. M. Munshi, Somanatha: The Shrine Eternal (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1965), p. 32, quoted in Sandeep Balakrishna, Invaders and Infidels (Bloomsbury India, 2020)

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 * I can see how what I said then could be misinterpreted. I was talking about history, I was talking about a historical process that had to come. I think India has lived with one major extended event, that began about 1000 AD, the Muslim invasion. It meant the cracking open and partial wrecking of what was a complete cultural, religious world until that invasion. I don't think the people of India have been able to come to terms with that wrecking. I don't think they understand what really happened. It's too painful. And I think this BJP movement and that masjid business is part of a new sense of history, a new idea of what happened. It might be misguided, it might be wrong to misuse it politically, but I think it is part of a historical process. And to simply abuse it as Fascist is to fail to understand why it finds an answer in so many hearts in India. .... It could become that. And that has to be dealt with. But it can only be dealt with if both sides understand very clearly the history of the country. I don't think Hindus understand what Islam means and I don't think the people of Islam have tried to understand Hinduism. The two enormous groups have lived together in the sub-continent without understanding one another's faiths.
 * V.S. Naipaul 'Hindus, Muslims have lived together without understanding each other's faiths', interview by Rahul Singh, The Times of India, Jan 23, 1998.

 * The great invasions spread very far South, spreading to, you know, even Mysore. I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th Century or earlier time disfigured, defaced, you know that they were not just defaced for fun: that something terrible happened. I feel that the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions. And I would like people, as it were, to be more reverential towards the past, to try to understand it; to preserve it; instead of living in its ruins. The old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. The ancient Hindu India was destroyed. .... So new people come up and they begin to look at their world and from being great acceptors, they have become questioners. And I think we should simply try to understand this passion. It is not an ignoble passion at all. It is men trying to understand themselves. Do not dismiss them. Treat them seriously. Talk to them.... I think it will keep on increasing as long as you keep on saying it is wicked and that they are wicked people. And if we wish to draw the battleline, then of course, you get to battle. If you try to understand what they are saying, things will calm down.
 * V.S. Naipaul "The truth governs writing", an interview by Sadanand Menon, The Hindu, July 5, 1998  (also in V.S. Naipaul Interview with V.S. Naipaul)

 * The invasions are in all the school books. But I don't think people understand that every invasion, every war, every campaign, was accompanied by slaughter, a slaughter always of the most talented people in the country. So these wars, apart from everything else, led to a tremendous intellectual depiction of the country. I think that in the British period, and in the 50 years after the British period, there has been a kind of recruitment or recovery, a very slow revival of energy and intellect. This isn't an idea that goes with the vision of the grandeur of old India and all that sort of rubbish. That idea is a great simplification, and it occurs because it is intellectually, philosophically and emotionally easier for Indians to manage... What they cannot manage, and what they have not yet come to terms with, is that ravaging of all the north of India by various conquerors. That was ruin not by an act of nature, but by the hand of man. It is so painful that few Indians have begun to deal with it. It's much easier to deal with British imperialism. That is a familiar topic, in India and Britain. What is much less familiar is the ravaging of India before the British. What happened from 1 000 A.D. on, really, is such a wound that it is almost impossible to face. Certain wounds are so bad that they can't be written about. You deal with that kind of pain by hiding from it. You retreat from reality. I wrote a book about that, and people thought I meant that India hasn't really a civilization, or India can't go ahead. What I was saying is that you cannot deal with a wound so big. I do not think, for example, that people like the Incas of Peru or the native people of Mexico have ever got over their defeat by the Spaniards. In both places, the head was cut off...
 * V.S. Naipaul, A Million Mutinies, V.S. Naipaul, India Today Date: August 18, 1997

 * "Fractured past" is too polite a way to describe India’s calamitous millennium. The millennium began with the Muslim invasions and the grinding down of the Hindu-Buddhist culture of the north. This is such a big and bad event that people still have to find polite, destiny-defying ways of speaking about it. In art books and history books, people write of the Muslims "arriving"in India, as though the Muslims came on a tourist bus and went away again. The Muslim view of their conquest of India is a truer one. They speak of the triumph of the faith, the destruction of idols and temples, the loot, the carting away of the local people as slaves, so cheap and numerous that they were being sold for a few rupees. The architectural evidence-the absence of Hindu monuments in the north-is convincing enough. This conquest was unlike any other that had gone before.
 * V.S. Naipaul, Interview in Outlook India 'Christianity Didn't Damage India Like Islam' 15 November 1999. Outlook India.

 * A century or so after Muhammad bin Qasim’s jihad in Sindh, words were put into the mouth of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, emphasizing the importance of jihad in India. Abu Huraira, one of Muhammad’s companions, is depicted in a hadith as saying: “The Messenger of Allah promised that we would invade India.” In another hadith, Muhammad himself says: “There are two groups of my Ummah whom Allah will free from the Fire: The group that invades India, and the group that will be with Isa bin Maryam [Jesus Christ], peace be upon him.”
 * Abu Abdur Rahman Ahmad bin Shu’aib bin ‘Ali an-Nasa’i, Sunan an-Nasa’i, translated by Nasiruddin al-Khattab, bk. 25, ch. 41, no. 3175-7 (Darussalam, 2007). As quoted in Spencer, Robert (2018). The history of jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS.

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 * The immense and uncontrollable blood-baths, the brutality with which civilian populations were massacred and women and girls were dragged into harems which to the Hindus appeared as no better than brothels, the introduction of a slave trade in which thousands of people including children were sold; all these generated a hatred for foreigners.. The hatred was increased by the shameless way in which the foreigners destroyed holy places after having first defiled them in the most senseless way.
 * Wilhelm von Pochhammer, India's Road to Nationhood. Quoted in Harsh Narain, The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources

 * The conquering army burnt villages, devastated the land, plundered people’s wealth, took Brahmins and children and women of all classes captive, flogged with thongs of raw hide, carried a moving prison with it, and converted the prisoners into obsequious slaves.
 * Hindu sage Padmanabha described in his Kanhadade Prabandha in 1456 AD the story of the Muslim invasion of Gujarat of 1298 AD

 * Writing about the Sultanate period, Ishwari Prasad says: 'There was persecution, partly religious and partly political, and a stubborn resistance was offered by the Hindus' The state imposed great disabilities upon the non-Muslims' Instances are not rare in which the non-Muslims were treated with great severity' The practice of their religious rites even with the slightest publicity was not allowed, and cases are on record of men who lost their lives for doing so.'
 * Ishwari Prasad, History of Medieval India (Allahabad, 1940 Edition), pp.509-513. Quoted in K.S. Lal, Legacy of Muslim rule in India

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 * [Qutub-ud-din Aibak] was a typical specimen of the ferocious Central Asian warriors of the time, merciless and fanatical. His valour and profuse liberality to his comrades endeared him to the bloodthirsty historian of his age, who praises him as having been a ‘beneficent and victorious monarch….’ His gifts were bestowed by hundreds of thousands, and his slaughters likewise were by hundreds of thousands. All the leaders in the Muslim conquest of Hindostan similarly rejoice in committing wholesale massacres of Hindu idolaters, armed or unarmed.... The modern reader of the panegyrics recorded by Muslim authors in praise of ‘beneficent’ monarchs who slaughtered their hundreds of thousands with delight often longs for an account of their character as it appeared to the friends and countrymen of the victims. But no voice has come from the grave, and the story of the Muhammadan conquest as seen from the Hindu point of view was never written, except to some extent in Rajputana.
 * Vincent A. Smith, The Oxford History of India (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1919), 223. quoted in Balakrishna, S. Invaders and infidels: From Sindh to Delhi : the 500- year journey of Islamic invasions. New Delhi : BloomsBury, 2021.

 * And, above all, don't let us forget India, the cradle of the human race, or at least of that part of it to which we belong, where first Mohammedans, and then Christians, were most cruelly infuriated against the adherents of the original faith of mankind. The destruction or disfigurement of the ancient temples and idols, a lamentable, mischievous and barbarous act, still bears witness to the monotheistic fury of the Mohammedans, carried on from Mahmud the Ghaznevid of cursed memory down to Aureng Zeb, the fratricide, whom the Portuguese Christians have zealously imitated by destruction of temples and the auto da fe of the inquisition at Goa.
 * Arthur Schopenhauer The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Translated By T. Bailey Saunders

 * According to A.L. Srivastava the Sultanate of Delhi was an Islamic State, pure and simple, and gave no religious toleration to the Hindus and indulged in stifling persecution. About the Mughal times his conclusion is that barring the one short generation under Akbar when the moral and material condition of the people was on the whole good, the vast majority of our population during 1526-1803 led a miserable life.
 * A.L. Srivastava, The Mughal Empire (Agra, 1964), p.568-571. Quoted in K.S. Lal, Legacy of Muslim rule in India.

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 * What is called the Mohammedan invasion, conquest or colonisation of India means only this that under the leadership of Mohammedan Turks, who were renegades from Buddhism, those sections of the Hindu race who continued in the faith of their ancestors were repeatedly conquered by the other section of that very race, who also were renegades from Buddhism of the Vedic religion and served under the Turks, having been forcibly converted to Mohammedanism by their superior strength.
 * Swami Vivekananda : Works Of Swami Vivekananda Vol VII, p. 395, quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa.

 * Wave after wave of barbarian conquest has rolled over this devoted land of ours. "Allah Ho Akbar!" has rent the skies for hundreds of years, and no Hindu knew what moment would be his last. This is the most suffering and the most subjugated of all the historic lands in the world. Yet we still stand practically the same race, ready to face difficulties again and again if necessary; and not only so, of late there have been signs that we are not only strong, but ready to go out, for the sign of life is expansion.
 * Swami Vivekananda. Complete Works (vol 3. pp 369-70)

 * Wave after wave had flooded the land, breaking and crushing everything for hundreds of years. The sword had flashed, and “Victory unto Allah” had rent the skies of India, hut these floods subsided, leaving the national ideals unchanged.
 * Swami Vivekananda. Complete Works (vol 4. page 159)

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 * From the seventh century onwards and with a peak during Muhammad al-Qasim's campaigns in 712-713 a considerable number of Jats [Hindus] was captured as prisoners of war and deported to Iraq and elsewhere as slaves.
 * Andre Wink, Al Hind, Vol. I, p. 161


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There's an oft-cited quote by Chekhov which goes something along the lines of "I am utterly astounded whenever I encounter a cultivated man who holds to religon" - or something like that. Does anyone know the one I'm talking about or have a source? 61.9.153.63 05:35, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Checkov's Gun
I'm not an editor here, I don't know the rules, so I won't take on the liberty of editing it (I know, anyone can edit, but I don't have time to read guidelines on a new wiki), but the wikipedia article for Checkhov's Gun has a source for the statement, which is currently listed as unsourced:

"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there." From Gurlyand's Reminiscences of A. P. Chekhov, in Teatr i iskusstvo 1904, No 28, July 11, p. 521.’ footnote: In 1889, twenty-four-year old Ilia Gurliand noted these words down from Chekhov's conversation: "If in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act". Donald Rayfield, Anton Chekhov: A Life, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997, ISBN 0-8050-5747-1, 203. Ernest.J.Simmons says that Chekhov repeated the point later (which may account for the variations). Ernest J. Simmons, Chekhov: A Biography, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1962, ISBN 0-226-75805-2, 190.

Anyway, hope that helps. If you need to contact me I'm on wikipedia as user Kuronue. 152.13.250.178 15:30, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Anton Chekhov. --Antiquary 19:31, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Literature is my legal wife and medicine my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. (mangled quote, correct version found in letter section)

 * Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. (This one has been shown to be a misattribution)

 * It’s immoral to steal, but you can take things.
 * Out Beggary (existence of this story unconfirmed)

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Talk:Jonas Salk

Anyone know anything about this quote (source etc.)?
 * If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within fifty years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within fifty years all forms of life would flourish.

i heard it today on a video at TED.com - a video of Sir Ken Robinson on education system. he mentioned the source as Jonas Salk. when i checked on the net, i found 3-4 references which confirmed this. however, what i didnot find was, when and where Salk said this.(biren shah)

I'd say it's probably not him, it's completely unsourced and just look at every other sourced quote by him, they aren't even slightly in alignment with this view, they seem very humanist to me and trusting in humanity.

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Jonas Salk. --Antiquary 18:33, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * We need a large overarching perspective.
 * Personal conversation with Dionysios (this alone does not qualify as a sourced comment by Wikimedia and Wikiquote standards)

Check a similar quote by E.o. Wilson
 * Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do or what not to do.

"Nightmares" quote
To wit: "I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams." The source currently given is "As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang." Uh, yeah. Does anyone have a source that does not involve an unsubstantiated claim by a new age guru? I found the book on Google Books and he provides no source. Tualha (talk) 21:23, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Though it is desirable to find the earliest and most direct sources possible, it is not a requirement. If there is strong evidence provided he never said such a thing, in any of his many interviews or appearances, rather than unsubstantiated implications that such a comment would be entirely alien to his attitudes and assertions, it could be moved into a disputed section, and if ever sufficient evidence of dishonesty or other actual error was proven in Larry Chang's attribution, it could be moved to a "Misattributed" section. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:42, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Found it (without any attribution at all) in Dictionary of Proverbs (2005); and (attributed, but without a source) in What Now?: Words of Wisdom for Life After Graduation and, earliest (also attributed without a source) How to find the work you love (1996). It's certainly a popularly attributed quote. -- JesseW (talk) 04:50, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

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Rutgers University VFD

 * I think you need to reconsider your Votes for deletion nomination of the Rutgers University Wikiquote article Votes_for_deletion, first re-reading the Wikiquote article and realizing that LrdChaos jumped the gun by VfDing a page only minutes after it was started with no consideration that a.) it was a work in progress, and b.) it will be more than it appears, and c.) sometimes things interfere with the quick completion of one's work. —ExplorerCDT 18:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

You don't need to make your arguments to me personally; I watch VfD very carefully. I apologize if we seem a bit hasty to delete here. Clearly Rutgers University is not in the same class as most VfD'd articles, as the institution is clearly notable and has potential as a solid quote article. But we have a lot of experience with new editors creating articles with infrastructure but no acceptable quotes, and never returning. This would not be a problem if we had a million editors like Wikipedia, but we typically have only a few dozen active ones at any given time — at best! — to review thousands of articles, so the mood among the active editors is generally to delete problem stubs and wait for someone who demonstrates their commitment to the subject by collecting the quotes before they create the article.

Of course, there are many opportunities for "jumping the gun" in this practice, and "Rutgers" may be one of them. The problem here is one that isn't made clear in WQ:WQ, but is in What Wikiquote is not — that Wikiquote, just like any professional quote compendium, does not collect entire source copies of anything, copyrighted or no. That is Wikisource's realm. You seem to think that just because something is old, it is automatically no longer copyrighted. Consider that the song "Happy Birthday to You", whose melody was written in 1935, but has rights that don't expire until 2030. The only thing currently clear in U.S. copyright law (which we must follow) is that works created before 1923 are no longer copyrighted. Wikimedia Foundation projects cannot take a chance on unsourced claims that material is in the public domain. (French Wikiquote was shut down over a single similar copyright issue, and has yet to be restored.) But even if every single song was not copyrighted, their entire lyrics should be added to Wikisource, not Wikiquote.

The quickest way to get editors to change their votes here would be to trim the current complete lyrics of the listed songs down to a few pithy lines each. This would remove the complete-work issue. There would remain the need to source the material, and the argument of relevance. The current mood seems to be that it's not enough for something to be somehow connected to the subject; it must be fundamentally about the subject. Thus, the school song would be relevant, but songs merely written by alumni, or songs that might be used elsewhere, would not. You will probably be asked to prove each song's relevance. We just finished reviewing another college article, University of Texas at Austin, that had only two quotes tangentially related to UTA. (I highly recommend that you read this VfD. The article creator decided to take a stand instead of taking the simple advice I gave to source the famous phrase "Hook 'em horns", which would have created an unassailable stub, after which there would be only content issues. I can't speak for the other participants, but that 5-minute effort would have changed my vote.) I suspect the quick nomination and voting on "Rutgers" was to prevent a sudden peak in collegiate promotion (rather than concise quoting) that it and a few related articles seemed to be leading to.

Regardless of these problems, there are two things to keep in mind. First, even the deletionists here welcome interesting, sourced quotes fundamentally about a notable subject. I'll give you the same advice I did unsuccessfully for the "UTA" creator: add those quotes (which surely must abound), and the deletes will go away without prompting. Once the article passes VfD, you've got plenty of time to work out content issues. Second, even if the article is deleted, it can be recreated when such material is established upon creation. Any recreated article about a clearly notable subject will be given at least two weeks (and often much more) to justify itself. But it's best to use the next 11 days to scare up some uncontestable quotes (rather than flesh out song lyrics that will have to go to Wikisource anyway) to prevent this article's deletion.

I want you to realize that I am being so verbose because I want this article to meet Wikiquote standards. (I could probably save it myself in 5 minutes, but I've taken this time to convince you to do so, so Wikiquote will gain one more valuable contributor.) I am an inclusionist by nature, but a deletionist by practice simply because most creators of VfD'd article refuse to learn Wikiquote's purposes and practices or even to take shorthand advice (not like mine!) on how to get articles to meet standards. I can assure you that no VfD participant wants a potentially useful article like "Rutgers" to be deleted. You just need to give them a reason to change their votes, by addressing the issues in the article content. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Cbazan~enwikiquote

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User talk:Aponkye

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User talk:Rwassiem~enwikiquote

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User talk:John Quiggin

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User talk:Jxreport~enwikiquote

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User talk:Arpanau42

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User talk:Pegua

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User talk:Qp10qp

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User talk:John Lake~enwikiquote

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User talk:Xobxela

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User talk:BILLY BOB WHITE SHOES

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User:Avatari~enwikiquote

Italic textBold text Take the thoughts of the sand and consider them as gold, then you'll discover that the fact of gold is the wisdom of the sand == ==

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Billy Connolly

Sir William Connolly, CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, presenter, actor, and artist. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname "The Big Yin" ("The Big One", a reference to his 6' height).

An Audience with Billy Connolly

 * Don't vote, it just encourages them.

 * I know at least... oh my God, at least 127 words. And I still prefer "Fuck".

 * Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, "Did you fall?" He said, "No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket."

Billy Connolly at the Royal Albert Hall, 1987

 * That man (Ronald Reagan, who was President of the USA at the time), he sits at that desk in the White House, and the button is there that can end the world: BOOM! My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television!

Whoopi Goldberg presents Billy Connolly, 1990

 * I came here on Concorde today... and I arrived before I fucking left!
 * People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.

An Audience With Billy - 1985

 * Toblerones! It's impossible to eat a fucking Toblerone without hurting yourself!
 * Look at this way: if we all ate one person, the problem would be halved over-night. Think about it: I could eat someone you don't like, you could eat someone I don't like... where's the fucking damage?
 * I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
 * Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved, so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you.
 * There is no such thing as bad language: it's just our morals that are fucked.
 * I leave you with a complaint. Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... well, it's because the national anthem is boring.
 * Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
 * The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.
 * (To audience members who were arriving late) You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here.
 * The working classes, the ones they refer to in those political programmes as "the ordinary people"
 * You've made a happy man very old.

Billy Connolly: "Too Old To Die Young" Live in New York, 2005

 * Recently, I turned 60... and even more recently, I turned 62. That was a bastard, I don't even remember the 61.

 * I'm a huge filmstar... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first fifteen fucking minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a fucking Muppet movie.

 * Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life.

 * My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.

Billy Connolly Live: Was It Something I Said?, 2007

 * I was always confused with what was near-sight and what was far-sight. Now I'm not confused at all: I've got both, I don't give a fuck which is which.
 * No children were abused in the making of this show. No one was hurt and no Islamic cartoons were used. You know, for those of you that can't take a fucking joke.
 * There's nothing better than a fight, especially when you're watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he's a big Jessie!
 * Apparently the only way to avoid a sudden agonising death, is to walk around in tights with a bottle of vinegar. I'd rather be fucking dead!
 * "I stood on a stone fish once." "Oh yeah, how was it?" "Worst fucking pain known to man." "Have you known a lot of pain?" "Aye, I fell off my bike once."
 * Christians shouldn't be allowed near rock and roll. It's not for them! It's not fucking for them! They should all join the Brothers of the Beige or some fucking thing - "The Beige Sisters of Premenstrual Agony." The fucking...! You see them - Christian rock! Is there such a fucking absurdity in the world? [makes screeching noises imitating a metal guitar, then speaks quietly] "He is my saviour!" That's not rock and roll! That's Youth Club Table Tennis fucking crap! Rock and roll is [shrieking] "I AM THE DEVIL AND I WANNA FUCK YOUR MOTHER!"
 * Suicide fucking bombing, there's a bright idea! Every time there's a bang, the world's a wanker short! Fucking idiots! I want to see the instructor: "Right, lads, I'm only going to show you this once..." Fucking pricks! And it depends on what newspaper you read, how many virgins you get for blowing yourself up. How are you gonna shag them when you're now flying mince?!
 * 53 fucking virgins! [laughs] The very thought of 53 fucking virgins, it's a nightmare! It's not a fucking present, it's not a prize - it's a punishment! Give me two fire-breathing whores any day of the week! I'm a slut man!
 * Your parents choosing your fucking marriage partner - don't be ridiculous! Fucking stupid! "That's her over there, son." "Which one? They're all the fucking same, dad! Black with a wee fucking window!"
 * [stamps his foot, which knocks his drink over] Oh fuck, I did this last night as well!
 * Who the fuck are you? Get out of my house...and take that fucking bulldozer with you.
 * My wife said "I want to sell the house and buy a yacht". I said "What?! You do realise I live here? Comedian, Scottish guy. There's 3 kids over there, each have their own rooms. C'mon, I'll show you, they live here too."
 * [to the front of audience] What was I talking about? Can you remember, eh? What? [to audience at the back] Shut the fuck up, I'm talking to someone! [to front again] Button your cardigan, I can see your cleavage.
 * You said, "If you're ever in Los Angeles we must have dinner"- well, he's here. That's not an invitation! Translated, it means: "You're a boring piece of shit, I'm off, I've had enough of you!"
 * [Singing] "Oh, the big fire engine goes ding-a-ling-a-ling." No, it fucking doesn't. It used to.
 * We all know that at 5 in the morning the lanes behind hotels are full of children, especially wee blind ones who can't see fucking trucks coming.
 * Poos himself on stage, classic Billy

Book Sources

 * I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing, so get yourself a sexy raincoat and live a little.
 * Billy Connolly
 * Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
 * Billy Connolly by Nigel Huddleston, published June 2004.
 * Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.
 * Billy Connolly by Nigel Huddleston, published June 2004.

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