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Warcraft

Warcraft is a series of computer games, novels, and a film set in a dystopian medieval fantasy universe created by Blizzard Entertainment. As the name implies, the dystopian Warcraft universe largely revolves around conflict.

Introduction

 * Old Man: (voice-over) We never paid any heed to the ancient prophecies. Like fools we clung to the old hatreds, and fought as we had for generations. Until the day the sky rained fire, and a new enemy came upon us. We stand now, upon the brink of destruction, for the reign of chaos has come at last.

Thrall's Vision

 * Medivh: The sands of time have run out, son of Durotan. The cries of war echo upon the winds. The remnants of the past scar the land, which is besieged once again by conflict. Heroes arise to challenge fate, and lead their brethren to battle. As mortal armies rush blindly towards their doom, the Burning Shadow comes to consume us all. You must rally the Horde and lead your people to their destiny! Seek me out...

The Warning

 * Ambassador 1: We've received reports that the orcs are regrouping.
 * Ambassador 2: Certainly the recent attacks against the internment camps are evidence enough.
 * Ambassador 3: Agreed, the Horde is on the move!
 * Ambassador 4: This is absurd. My nation will not stand by and watch as the Horde masses on our very doorstep!
 * Kirin Tor Ambassador: The orcs are not our primary concern here. How many times must I repeat myself? King Terenas, you must heed my warning! This plague that has gripped the northlands could have dire ramifications...
 * [The ambassadors are heard arguing, while a crow flies into the throne room]
 * Ambassador: Plague? You wizards are just being paranoid!
 * Ambassador: Let's keep all this in perspective. Even if this plague does pose a threat to us, what are you proposing that we do?
 * Kirin Tor Ambassador: It is simple. As I have said, the Kirin Tor are already prepared to place the villages under strict quarantine...
 * King Terenas: [interrupting] I will not institute quarantine without proof of your claims, ambassador. The people of Lordaeron have suffered enough without becoming prisoners in their own lands.
 * [The crow transforms, revealing itself to be Medivh.]
 * Medivh: Yet prisoners they are, good King.
 * Terenas: What is the meaning of this? Who are you?
 * Medivh: Humanity is in peril! The tides of darkness have come again, and the whole world is poised upon the brink of war!
 * Ambassador: Enough of this! Guards, remove this madman!
 * Medivh: Hear me! The only hope for your people is to travel west, to the forgotten lands of Kalimdor...!
 * [There is huge outrage by the ambassadors]
 * Ambassador: [astounded] Travel west?! Are you mad?
 * Terenas: Hold, ambassador. I don't know who you are or what you believe, but this is not the time for rambling prophets! Our lands are beset by conflict, but it shall be we who decide how best to protect our people, not you! Now, begone!
 * Medivh: I failed humanity once before, and I will not do so again. If you can not take up this cup, then I shall find another who will.
 * [He leaves.]
 * Medivh: (voice-over) The warning has been given. Their fate is now their own.

Arthas's Betrayal

 * Terenas: Ah, my son...
 * Arthas: (voice-over) You no longer need to sacrifice for your people. You no longer need to bear the weight of your crown.  I've taken care of everything.
 * [Arthas advances on the throne and grabs King Terenas.]
 * Terenas: What is this? What are you doing, my son?
 * Arthas: Succeeding you, father. [stabs him] This kingdom shall fall, and from the ashes shall arise a new order that will shake the very foundations of the world!

The Destruction of Dalaran

 * Archimonde: Azhir uval nutarus. Azhir mudas ethanul. Dalektharu il dask daku. Riftuuz e thara samanar utamus. Elas umanes azarathan rakas ibna. Belanora mordanos nenaar ila mornu farlos kada. (in the Eredar language: "Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world. From this seal shall arise the doom of men, who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our fire as their own. Blindly they build their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit. Now they shall be consumed by the very flame they sought to control. Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair.")

The Death of Hellscream

 * Mannoroth: So predictable. I knew you would come. And I see you've brought the mighty Hellscream. His blood is mine, as is your whole, misbegotten race!
 * [Thrall roars a challenge and hurls his hammer at the demon, to no avail.]
 * Mannoroth: A worthy effort, but futile!
 * [Mannoroth smashes Thrall aside, then turns to Grom, laughing.]
 * Mannoroth: The boy believed you could be saved, but he didn't know what burns within your soul! When in your heart, you know... we are the same!
 * Grom Hellscream: [enraged] NOOOOO!
 * [Grom charges Mannoroth and buries his axe in the demon's chest. Mannoroth explodes in a fiery blast that strikes Grom. He collapses to the floor, as Thrall moves over to him]
 * Grom: Thrall... the blood haze has lifted. The demon's fire has burnt out in my veins.  I have... freed myself. [dies]
 * Thrall: No, old friend. You've freed us all. [lets out a mighty roar of grief]

Eternity's End

 * Medivh: The roots will heal in time, as will the entire world. The sacrifices have been made.  Just as the orcs, humans, and night elves discarded their old hatreds and stood united against a common foe, so did nature herself rise up to banish the shadow...forever.  As for me, I came back to ensure that there would be a future, to teach the world that it no longer needed guardians.  The hope for future generations has always resided in mortal hands.  And now that my task is done, I will take my place amongst the legends of the past.

Dialogue
Uther: Ah, good timing, lad. I sent two of my best knights in to parley with the orc leader. They should be returning shortly. [two horses arrive without knights on them] Damn. These orcs will never surrender. Arthas: Then let's get in there and destroy the beasts! Uther: Remember, Arthas, we are paladins. Vengeance cannot be a part of what we must do. If we allow our passions to turn to bloodlust, then we will become as vile as the orcs. [a knight arrives] Arthas: Yes, Uther. [the knight leads the two horses away] Uther: Now, if you're feeling up to it, I want you to lead the attack. Arthas: Me? Well, of course! Uther: I'll remain here and ensure that none of the loathsome beasts threaten the camp. Arthas: I won't fail you. Uther: I know you won't, lad.  Medivh: You must be wiser than the king! The end is near! Antonidas: I told you before, I’m not interested in this nonsense! Medivh: Then I've wasted my time here. [transforms into a raven and flies away] Antonidas: You can show yourself now, Jaina. He's gone. [Jaina appears before Antonidas] Jaina Proudmoore: I'm sorry for eavesdropping, master, but-- Antonidas: It's your inquisitive nature that I've come to rely on, child. That crazed fool's convinced that the world is about to end. [teleports both himself and Jaina to another square in Dalaran] Jaina: I've heard the rumors of the plague spreading throughout the northlands. Do you truly believe that the plague is magical in nature? Antonidas: It's a strong possibility. That’s why I need you to travel there and investigate the matter. I’ve arranged for a special envoy to assist you. Jaina: Yes, master. I'll do my best. Antonidas: I know you will, child. Farewell.  Medivh: Greetings, young prince. We must talk. Arthas: I have no time for this! Medivh: Listen to me, boy. This land is lost! The shadow has already fallen, and nothing you do will deter it. If you truly wish to save your people, lead them across the sea... to the west. Arthas: Flee? My place is here, and my only course is to defend my people! Medivh: Then your choice is already made. Just remember, the harder you strive to slay your enemies, the faster you'll deliver your people right into their hands. [transforms into a raven and flies away] Jaina: [running toward Arthas] I'm sorry for concealing myself, Arthas. I just wanted to-- Arthas: Don't say it! Jaina: I sensed tremendous power about him, Arthas. Maybe he's right. Maybe he does know what will happen. Arthas: Nothing he can say will make me abandon my homeland, Jaina. I don't care if that madman has seen the future. Let's go.  Arthas: Glad you could make it, Uther. Uther: Watch your tone with me, boy. You may be the prince, but I'm still your superior as a paladin! Arthas: As if I could forget. Listen Uther, there's something about the plague you should know... [civilians begin entering a cursed sleep] Oh no. We're too late. These people have all been infected! They may look fine now, but it's just a matter of time before they turn into the undead! Uther: What? Arthas: This entire city must be purged. Uther: How can you even consider that? There's got to be some other way. Arthas: Damn it, Uther! As your future king, I order you to purge this city! Uther: You are not my king yet, boy! Nor would I obey that command even if you were! Arthas: Then I must consider this an act of treason. Uther: [astounded] Treason? Have you lost your mind, Arthas? Arthas: Have I? Lord Uther, by my right of succession and the sovereignty of my crown, I hereby relieve you of your command and suspend your paladins from service. Jaina: Arthas! You can't just-- Arthas: It's done! Those of you who have the will to save this land, follow me! The rest of you... get out of my sight! Uther: [some knights leave] You've just crossed a terrible threshold, Arthas. [Uther leaves] Arthas: [Jaina turns to leave] Jaina? Jaina: I'm sorry, Arthas. I can't watch you do this.  [Mal'Ganis teleports into Stratholme with his two ghouls.] Mal'Ganis: I've been waiting for you, young prince. I am Mal'Ganis. [Mal'Ganis and his ghouls destroy a nearby building and turn the occupants into zombies] As you can see, your people are now mine. I will now turn this city household by household, until the flame of life has been snuffed out... forever. Arthas: I won't allow it, Mal'Ganis! Better that these people die by my hand than serve as your slaves in death!  Arthas: We're going to finish this right now, Mal'Ganis. Just you and me. Mal'Ganis: Brave words. Unfortunately for you, it won't end here. Your journey has just begun, young prince. Gather your forces and meet me in the arctic land of Northrend. It is there that we shall settle the score between us. It is there that your true destiny will unfold. [teleports away] Arthas: I'll hunt you to the ends of the earth if I have to! Do you hear me? To the ends of the earth!  Jaina: So much death... I can't believe Arthas could've done this. Uther: [running toward Jaina] Jaina! Jaina Proudmoore! Jaina: Lord Uther? Uther: Ah, Jaina. I thought I might find you here. Where has he gone, girl? Where has Arthas taken the fleet? Jaina: He came to me before he left. I pleaded with him not to go. I told him it sounded like a trap! Uther: Where? [pause] Jaina: Northrend. He's gone to Northrend to hunt Mal'Ganis. Uther: Damn that boy! I've got to inform King Terenas. Don't be too hard on yourself, girl. You had nothing to do with this... slaughter. [leaves] [Medivh flies towards Jaina and turns into his human form.] Medivh: The dead in this land might lie still for the time being, but don't be fooled. Your young prince will find only death in the cold north. Jaina: You! Arthas is only doing what he believes is right! Medivh: Commendable as that may be, his passions will be his undoing. It falls to you now, young sorceress. You must lead your people west to the ancient lands of Kalimdor. Only there can you combat the shadow and save this world from the flame.  [The emissary arrives in a zeppelin with two footmen.] Luc Valonforth: I apologize, emissary, but the prince is away on an errand. What brings you to this desolate place? Emissary: By royal edict, you men are to return to Lordaeron immediately. Lord Uther has convinced the king to recall this expedition. [turns to his zeppelin] Luc Valonforth: [puzzled] We're to just pick up and leave? Emissary: That's correct. My men report that the roads from here to the shore are held by the undead. You'll need to find an alternate route back to your ships. [leaves] Luc Valonforth: To hell with the undead! We'll cut our way through the woods, men! [All of the footmen leave their post and head to the woods, then Arthas and Muradin return to find their post empty except 2 mortar teams.] Arthas: Captain, why are the guards not at their posts? Luc Valonforth: Well, milord, your father had our troops recalled at Lord Uther's request. Arthas: [shocked and furiously] Uther had my troops recalled? Damn it! If my warriors abandon me, I'll never defeat Mal'Ganis. The ships must be burned before the men reach the shore! Muradin: [two mortar teams approach them] Isn't that a bit much, lad? Arthas: [angrily] Burned down to their frames! No one goes home until our job here is done!  [Luc Valonforth and his forces clear through a forest and discover Arthas and the burning ships.] Luc Valonforth: Prince Arthas? Arthas: Quickly, my warriors! [The mercenaries approach] These murderous creatures have burned our ships and robbed you of your way home! Slay them all in the name of Lordaeron! Footman: Damn beasts! Knight: Kill them all! [Arthas and his forces kill the mercenaries] Footman: Our ships are ruined. What will we do now? Arthas: Listen to me, all of you! There is no way home for any of us, save through victory! In this land we will stand or fall together. Now, return to the base and man your posts.  Muradin Bronzebeard: [furious] You lied to your men and betrayed the mercenaries who fought for you. What's happening to you, Arthas? Is vengeance all that's important to you? Arthas: Spare me, Muradin. You weren't there to see what Mal'Ganis did to my homeland. [Scourge forces led by Mal'Ganis arrive and surround the camp.] Mal'Ganis: The Dark Lord said you would come. This is where your journey ends, boy. Trapped and freezing at the roof of the world, with only death to sing the tale of your doom. Muradin: This looks bad. We're completely surrounded. Arthas: There's still one chance. Help me claim Frostmourne! If it's as powerful as you said, it might tilt the scales in our favor! Muradin: I have a bad feeling about this, lad. But I promised I'd see this through. Arthas: Captain, I'll leave you to organize our defense. Let's move out. [Arthas, Muradin and several of their units exit the camp and travel through a Way Gate.]  [Arthas, Muradin and their units find revenants guarding the entrance to the cave.] Guardian: Turn back, mortals. Death and darkness are all that await you in this forsaken vault. Arthas: I doubt there is anything down here more terrifying than what we've faced already. Guardian: Believe what you will, boy. You shall not pass.  Guardian: [defeated] Turn away... before it's... too late. Arthas: Still trying to protect the sword, are you? Guardian: No... trying to protect you... from it. [dies]  [Arthas and Muradin enter Frostmourne Cavern.] Arthas: Behold, Muradin, our salvation, Frostmourne. Muradin: Hold, lad. There's an inscription on the dais. It's a warning. It says, "Whomsoever takes up this blade shall wield power eternal. Just as the blade rends flesh, so must power scar the spirit." Oh, I should've known. The blade is cursed! Let's get the hell out of here! Arthas: I would gladly bear any curse to save my homeland. Muradin: Leave it be, Arthas. Forget this business and lead your men home. Arthas: Damn the men! Nothing shall prevent me from having my revenge, old friend. Not even you. [begins casting] Now, I call out to the spirits of this place. I will give anything or pay any price, if only you will help me save my people. [''The ice around Frostmourne shatters, knocking down Muradin. Arthas drops Light's Vengeance and takes up Frostmourne. Sometime later, Arthas emerges from a Way Gate.''] Falric: Prince Arthas! Where is Muradin? We can't hold out for much longer! Arthas: Muradin is dead. But take heart, Captain. The enemy will not stand long against the might of Frostmourne!  Mal'Ganis: So, you've taken up Frostmourne at the expense of your comrades' lives, just as the Dark Lord said you would. You're stronger than I thought. Arthas: You waste your breath, Mal'Ganis. I heed only the voice of Frostmourne now. Mal'Ganis: You hear the voice of the Dark Lord. He whispers to you through the blade you wield. What does he say, young human? What does the Dark Lord of the Dead tell you now? Arthas: [hearing whispers] He tells me that the time for my vengeance has come. Mal'Ganis: [deceived] What? He can't possibly mean to-- [Arthas strikes him down with Frostmourne] Arthas: It is finished. [wanders off into the snow]  Uther: Your father ruled this land for seventy years, and you've ground it to dust in a matter of days. Arthas: Very dramatic, Uther. Give me the urn, and I'll make sure you die quickly. Uther: The urn holds your father's ashes, Arthas! What, were you hoping to piss on them one last time before you left his kingdom to rot? Arthas: [chuckles] I didn't know what it held. Nor does it matter. I'll take what I came for, one way or another.  Uther: [his last words] I dearly hope that there's a special place in hell waiting for you, Arthas. Arthas: We may never know, Uther. I intend to live forever.
 Arthas: I salute your bravery, elf, but the chase is over. Sylvanas Windrunner: Then I'll make my stand here, butcher. Anar'alah belore! [Arthas duels Sylvanas and soon deals her a mortal wound] Finish it! I deserve...a clean death. Arthas: [hatefully] After all you've put me through, woman, the last thing I'll give you is the peace of death! [Arthas begins to perform necromancy] Sylvanas: [horrified] NO! You wouldn't dare...! [Sylvanas is resurrected as a banshee]

 * Archimonde: [upon being summoned into the mortal realm] Tremble, mortals and despair! DOOM HAS COME TO THIS WORLD!

 * Tyrande Whisperwind: Archimonde! After ten thousand years, how is it possible?
 * Archimonde: [cackles] The Legion has returned to consume this world, woman...and this time, your troublesome race will NOT stop us!

 Furion: You've changed, Tyrande. There is little mercy left in you. Tyrande: I have not had the luxury of sleeping through thousands of years of turmoil. Furion: If your eternal vigil has hardened you, my love, it must be part of your goddess' plan.
 [Tyrande and Furion wait in a glade while Medivh, in raven form, flies overhead.] Tyrande: We have no time for this, Furion! What are we doing out here? Furion: Last night in a dream, a great raven spoke to me and summoned me to this place. [Thrall and Jaina arrive at the glade.] Thrall: We were summoned here as well. Furion: Who are you, outlanders? Thrall: I am Thrall, son of Durotan, Warchief of the Horde. Jaina: And I am Jaina Proudmoore, leader of the human survivors of Lordaeron. Tyrande: You are not welcome here! [Medivh lands and transforms into his human form.] Medivh: [to Tyrande] Peace, Priestess. They've come to aid you against the Legion. Furion: It was you in my dream! But who are you to make such an offer to us? Medivh: I... am the reason for the Legion's return. [flashback begins in which he opens the Dark Portal, allowing the orcs to enter Azeroth] Years ago, I brought the orcs into this world, and by doing so, I opened a path for the demons as well. [flashback shifts to Alliance forces killing him] For my sins, I was murdered by those who I cared for most. [flashback shifts again to the renewed war between the orcs and the humans] Despite my death, war raged across the lands of the east for many long years, leaving entire kingdoms devastated in its wake. [the scene shifts back to the glade at the present day] Now, at long last, I have returned to set things right. I... am Medivh, the Last Guardian. I tell you now, the only chance for this world is for you to unite in arms against the enemies of all who live!
 Archimonde: You are very brave to stand against me, little human. If only your countrymen had been as bold, I would have more fun scouring your wretched nations from the world! Jaina: Is talk all you demons do? [she teleports to safety] Archimonde: STORMRAGE! Show yourself! Or do you intend to have mortal girls do all your fighting for you?
 Archimonde: You orcs are weak and hardly worth the effort! I wonder why Mannoroth even bothered with you! Thrall: Our spirit is stronger than you know, demon! If we are to fall, then so be it! At least now we are free! [Thrall blasts Archimonde with a spell and then teleports to safety] Archimonde: The wretched little whelp actually hurt me! Ha-ha-ha-ha... Are there none left to stand against the Legion? This is almost too easy! If I had known that this mortal resistance would be so weak, I would have launched this invasion centuries ago!
 Furion: Archimonde's victory here has made him overconfident. He will not see the trap I have laid for him...until it is too late. Archimonde: At last! The way to the World Tree is clear! Witness the end, mortals! The final hour has come! Tyrande: The outlanders held him back as long as they could. Were you successful in planning the summit's defence? Furion: Yes. Now our victory is assured.

Introduction
Illidan Stormrage: Betrayer. In truth, it was I who was betrayed. Still, I am hunted. Still, I am hated. Now, my blind eyes see what others cannot. That sometimes the hand of fate must be forced! [The Naga arise from the depths] Now, go forth. Unleash the tides of doom. Upon all those who would oppose us!

Finale: Arthas' Ascension

 * [Arthas ascends the spire of Icecrown Glacier. His thoughts are flooded with memories of comrades long past.]
 * Uther: ...to turn to bloodlust, we will become as vile as the orcs.
 * Uther: You are not my king yet, boy!
 * Muradin Bronzebeard: Forget this business and lead your men home.
 * Uther: Nor would I obey that command even if you were!
 * Arthas: Damn it, Uther! As your future king, I order you to purge this city!
 * Uther: Have you lost your mind, Arthas?
 * Arthas: Then I must consider this an act of treason.
 * Uther: ...and you've ground it to dust in a matter of days.
 * Muradin: You lied to your men and betrayed the mercenaries who fought for you. What's happening to you, Arthas?
 * Medivh: Your young prince will find only death in the cold north.
 * [Arthas reaches the Frozen Throne.]
 * Ner'zhul: Return the blade. Complete the circle.  Release me from this prison!
 * [Arthas cries out and strikes the block of ice. It shatters to the sound of a screech of joy, and Ner'zhul's helm falls to the ground.  Arthas dons it, and his eyes move about rapidly under their lids.  His eyes open, and glow with radiant blue light.]
 * Lich King: Now, we are one.
 * [Arthas is last seen seated atop the Frozen Throne.]

Individuals

 * Balnazzar: The lich, Kel'Thuzad is far too loyal to betray his master. But you, on the other hand...
 * Sylvanas Windrunner:...hate him. I have my own reasons for seeking vengeance. Arthas murdered my people and turned me into this...monstrosity!

 * Sylvanas Windrunner: [having shot Arthas with an arrow] You walked right into this one, Arthas. It's time to even the scales.
 * Arthas: Traitor! What have you done to me?!
 * Sylvanas Windrunner: It's a special poisoned arrow I made just for you. The paralysis you're experiencing now is but a fraction of the agony you've caused me!
 * Arthas: [defiant] Finish me, then!
 * Sylvanas Windrunner: A quick death... like the one you gave me? No. You're going to suffer as I did. Thanks to my arrow, you can't even run. Give my regards to hell, you son of a bitch.
 * Kel'Thuzad: [arriving with an army to intervene] Back, you mindless ones! You shall not fall today, my king! [he and his men drive off Sylvanas and her minions]
 * Sylvanas Windrunner: [as she flees] This isn't over, Arthas! I'll never stop hunting you!

 * Banshee: You seem troubled, mistress.
 * Sylvanas Windrunner: Aren't you, sister? Only days ago, we were the Lich King's slaves. We existed only to slaughter in his name. And now, we are...free.
 * Banshee: I don't understand, mistress. I thought you'd be overjoyed.
 * Sylvanas Windrunner: What joy is there in this curse? We are still undead, still...monstrosities. What are we if not slaves to this torment!!

 * Maiev Shadowsong: I am the Hand of Justice, Illidan. Long ago, I swore an oath to keep you chained, and by the Gods, I shall!

 * Sylvanas Windrunner: The Capital City is ours. But we are no longer part of the Scourge. From here on out, we shall be known as the Forsaken. We will find our own path in this world, Dreadlord, and slaughter anyone who stands in our way!

 * Arthas: [snidely] Are you still upset that I took Jaina from you, Kael?
 * Kael'thas: You've taken everything from me, Arthas. Vengeance is all I have left now.

Cinematics
Four years have passed since the mortal races banded together and stood united against the might of the Burning Legion. Though Azeroth was saved, the tenuous pact between the Horde and the Alliance has all but evaporated. The drums of war thunder once again.
 Imprisoned for ten thousand years... banished from my own homeland... and now you dare enter my realm? You are not prepared... YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!!!
 My son, the day you were born, the very forests of Lordaeron whispered the name Arthas. My child, I watched with pride as you grew into a weapon of righteousness. Remember, our line has always ruled with wisdom and strength. And I know you will show restraint when exercising your great power. But the truest victory, my son, is stirring the hearts of your people. I tell you this, for when my days have come to an end, you shall be King.
 It's begun. Young heroes, I was once like you. You have come to this place seeking to bring judgement upon the damned. You will venture deep into forgotten lands. You will see wonders beyond imagining. But, be warned. The land itself will rise up against you. Long forgotten terrors will smother your courage. Sacrifice everything as the final darkness falls... In the end, all that awaits you is death. Only then will you understand, you've been following in my footsteps all along. So come then, you heroes! Come in all your power and glory! For in the final hour, all must serve the one... true... king...
 Did you think we had forgotten? Did you think we had forgiven? Behold now, the terrible vengeance of the Forsaken! Death to the Scourge! And death to the Living! ... Now, all can see. This is the hour of the Forsaken!
 Terenas Menethil II: Can you feel it, my son, closing in all around you? The Light's justice has been awakened. The sins of the past have finally caught up to you. You will be called to account for all the atrocities you committed, the unspeakable horrors you have let loose upon this world, and the dark, ancient powers you have enslaved. Though my soul was one of the first to be devoured by your evil, there are thousands more bound within this blade, and they cry out... for release. Look now to your defenses, my son, for the champions of justice gather at your gates! Lich King: Let them come. Frostmourne hungers!
 Lich King: So the Light's vaunted justice has finally arrived? Shall I lay down Frostmourne and throw myself at your mercy, Fordring? Tirion Fordring: We'll grant you a swift death, Arthas. More than can be said for the thousands you've tortured and slain. Lich King: You'll learn of that first hand. When my work is complete, you will beg for mercy -- and I will deny you. Your anguished cries will be testament to my unbridled power... Tirion Fordring: So be it. Champions, attack! [The Lich King freezes Tirion in a solid block of ice] Lich King: I'll keep you alive to witness the end, Fordring. I would not want the Light's greatest champion to miss seeing the world remade in my image. * World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King patch 3.3 cutscene

 * Maiev Shadowsong, World of Warcraft opening cinematic
 * Illidan Stormrage, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade opening cinematic
 * King Terenas Menethil II, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King cinematic
 * The Lich King, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King trailer
 * Grand Apothecary Putress at the Wrathgate
 * World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King patch 3.3 trailer
 * [Arthas lies broken and dying on the floor. As he gasps in pain, the shade of his father appears over him]
 * Arthas: Father? Is it... over? [Terenas's shade takes his son's hand]
 * Terenas Menethil II: At long last. No king rules forever, my son.
 * Arthas: I see... only darkness... before me... [Arthas's eyes roll up in his head and he dies. Terenas closes his son's eyes and turns to the waiting Tirion Fordring]
 * Terenas Menethil II: Without its master's command, the restless Scourge will become an even greater threat to this world. Control must be maintained... There must always be... a Lich King... [Terenas's ghost vanishes. Tirion picks up Arthas's crown, the Helm of Domination]
 * Tirion Fordring: [solemn] The weight of such a burden... ... it must be mine, for there is no other to--
 * Bolvar Fordragon: Tirion... You hold a grim destiny in your hands, brother ... but it is not your own.
 * Tirion Fordring: Bolvar... [horrified, as he sees Bolvar] By all that is holy...
 * [Bolvar is revealed to be burned, scarred, decrepit and corpse-like, as a result of what he suffered at the battle at the Wrathgate]
 * Bolvar Fordragon: The dragons' flame... sealed my fate... The world of the living can no longer comfort me. Place the crown upon my head, Tirion. Forevermore - I will be the jailer of the damned.
 * Tirion Fordring: NO, old friend... I cannot...
 * Bolvar Fordragon: DO IT, TIRION! You and these brave heroes have your own destinies to fulfill. This last act of service... is mine.
 * Tirion Fordring:[solemn] You will not be forgotten... brother.
 * Bolvar Fordragon: [insistent] I MUST be forgotten, Tirion! If the world is to live free from the tyranny of fear - they must never know what was done here today.
 * [Tirion nods and slowly lowers the crown onto Bolvar's head. For a moment, there is silence, then the chamber starts to shake. Bolvar lifts up his head and opens his eyes; there is a flash of golden light, and Bolvar's eyes, and the crown itself, gleam with golden yellow light. As Tirion backs away, ice begins to form around the Frozen Throne]
 * Bolvar Fordragon: Tell them only that the Lich King is dead... [his voice acquires the characteristic echo of the Lich King] and that Bolvar Fordragon died with him... [the throne freezes over, completely encasing Bolvar in ice]
 * The Lich King: NOW GO. LEAVE THIS PLACE - AND NEVER RETURN.

 Pain... Agony... My hatred burns through the cavernous deeps. The world heaves with my torment. Its wretched kingdoms quake beneath my rage... But at last... The whole of Azeroth will break... And all will burn beneath the shadow of my wings...
 To ask why we fight... ... is to ask why the leaves fall. It is in their nature. Perhaps, there is a better question. Why do we fight? To protect home, and family... to restore balance, and bring harmony. For my kind, the true question is: what is worth fighting for?
 [Thrall is standing before Garrosh Hellscream, the Warchief of the Horde, at the Inner Sanctum below Orgrimmar] Thrall: It is not too late, Garrosh. Lay down the mantle of Warchief. We can end this here, now, with no more bloodshed. Garrosh: Ha! Do you remember nothing of Honor? Of glory on the battlefield? You who would parlay with the humans, who allowed warlocks to practice their dark magics right under our feet. You are weak. We are the Orcish Horde, the True Horde. We die, bloody and thrashing on the field of battle, like true orcs SHOULD. You are an Orc no longer, and speak for none but yourself. You betrayed our people to forge your fragile alliances, and I will take great pleasure in tearing them apart. Thrall: Then you have forced my hand. I will correct the mistake I made long ago. Spirits of the wind, the earth, the water, hear my call! Come to my aid! [calls the elements to his side, but is surrounded by a dark void] Garrosh: [laughs] Fool. My Dark Shaman have twisted and tortured the elements for miles around. They cannot hear you now. Once again you prove too weak and powerless to do anything. Thrall: [casting thunderstorm to escape the void] Never powerless Garrosh. And never alone. Garrosh: [walking toward Thrall] So, you wish to face off against a real Orc Warchief. So be it. [''Thrall charges at Garrosh. Garrosh parries Thrall's attacks and cleaves him with his axe, Xal'atoh, into the front of the room. Thrall falls to the floor injured'']
 [''Garrosh lies prone on the ground, defeated. Thrall approaches him''] Thrall: You disappoint me, Garrosh. [Garrosh attempts to rise and looks at him, the Tusks of Mannoroth slipping from his shoulders] You are not worthy of your father's legacy. [''Thrall raises his Doomhammer with both hands and then swings at Garrosh. However, the swing is blocked by Varian Wrynn's sword Shalamayne''] Varian: His punishment is not for you alone to decide. Thrall: I won't let you take him. Taran Zhu: We have all suffered from his atrocities. [approaches Thrall and Varian as Lorewalker Cho watches in the background] My people, more than any other. Let him stand trial in Pandaria. There, we will mete out justice for all. [''Varian and Thrall lower their weapons and step back. Taran Zhu binds Garrosh's wrists in chains and leads him away'']
 [''Varian approaches the Horde contingent. All he can see at the moment are the backs of gathered orc soldiers''] Varian: [to the soldiers] I will speak to your Warchief! [''The orc soldiers step aside, revealing Vol'jin, the new Warchief, in the center, with Thrall off to his left and behind him. Varian looks surprised''] Vol'jin: I speak for the Horde. [Varian looks at Thrall for a moment, and then returns his attention toward Vol'jin] Varian: Very well. The Horde has committed heinous crimes, Vol'jin. [thrusts Shalamayne to the ground and then approaches Vol'jin] But some among you fought against Garrosh's tyranny. For that, I am willing to end this bloodshed. But know this... [turns and walks back to Shalamayne] If your Horde fails to uphold honor, as Garrosh did... [pulls Shalamayne out of the floor and turns back to Vol'jin] We will end you.
 We will never be slaves! But we will be conquerors.
 [Thrall and Garrosh Hellscream walk toward each other at the Stones of Prophecy in Nagrand.] Thrall: You must answer for your crimes, Garrosh. [''The fight begins with Garrosh charging at Thrall. They exchange blows.''] Garrosh Hellscream: All I did, I did... FOR THE HORDE! Thrall: You've failed the Horde! [Garrosh throws Gorehowl at Thrall, which he deflects, then leaps onto him, landing a punch and grabbing him by the prayer beads.] Garrosh: You made me warchief... [lands another punch at Thrall, breaking his prayer beads and knocking away his Doomhammer; continues beating him] ...you left me to pick up your pieces... [grabs Thrall] ...YOU FAILED... ME! [throws Thrall down; Thrall gets up and stares at him] You never had the strength of a true warrior. Thrall: I do not rely on strength alone, Garrosh. My power is all around you. [''Thrall gets up and hits Garrosh with a fireball, launching him into the air, and then slams Garrosh down into the ground with air manipulation. He finally holds Garrosh with a fist made from earth.''] Garrosh: THRALL! YOU made me what I am! Thrall: No... You chose your own destiny. [''Thrall casts down a bolt of lightning at Garrosh, who screams as he is electrocuted and killed. Afterward, Thrall looks off into the distance, picks up Doomhammer and walks away.'']
 My son, a terrible darkness has returned to our world. As before, it seeks to annihilate all that we hold dear. I go to face it, knowing I may not return. All my life, I have lived by the sword. I have seen kingdoms burn and watched brave heroes die in vain. It’s been difficult for me to trust after losing so much. But from you, I have learned patience, tolerance, and faith. Anduin, I now believe as you do that peace is the noblest aspiration. But to preserve it, you must be willing to fight!
 [Defeated, Kil'jaeden falls to his knees on the deck of his command ship.] Kil'jaeden: Our fates are now one. [The ship begins descending towards Argus' surface] Argus will be your tomb. Khadgar: At least we will have died fighting. Illidan Stormrage: Our war isn't over yet. [holds up the Sargerite Keystone and charges it] Not while we hold the key to all worlds. [sends the Keystone floating into the Nether; the Keystone warps the space around it before exploding, opening a rift between Argus and Azeroth] Khadgar! Take us home! [''Khadgar channels his teleportation spell. Velen approaches Kil'jaeden.''] Kil'jaeden: I... was always.. envious of you. Your gift. Your faith. Your vision. I never believed... that Sargeras could be stopped. Perhaps... you will prove me wrong. Khdagar: Everyone! Get ready! [''Velen puts a hand on Kil'jaeden's forehead before Khadgar teleports him back to Azeroth. The fel scars on Kil'jaeden's face spread and then ignite, destroying him and his ship. Meanwhile, Khadgar, Illidan and Velen arrive in Azsuna.''] Khadgar: Is everyone all right? [''A rumbling sound catches Illidan's and Velen's attention. Khadgar follows their gaze, his expression turning into horror as the rift created by the Keystone expands, leaving Argus in the sky above Azeroth.''] Khadgar: [to Illidan] What have you done?! Illidan: Sometimes the hand of fate... must be forced.
 Aman'Thul: You have done well, mortals. Eonar: It is time. Aman'Thul: We must gather our strength. Return home, children of Azeroth. [The Vindicaar'' is seen teleporting Magni away with Velen watching. Velen turns toward Illidan.''] Velen: Illidan... we've done all we can. Illidan: [staring at the empty throne belonging to Sargeras] Every choice, every sacrifice has led me to THIS moment. To face HIM once again. Velen: You... are not coming with us? Illidan: The hunter is nothing without the hunt. [turns toward Velen] Did you not see this fate, Prophet? Velen: Fate? Our survival was never in fate's hands. [after smiling at him, Illidan approaches the empty throne] Light be with you, Illidan Stormrage. [is teleported away] [The Vindicaar'' leaves the Seat of the Pantheon and travels through the rift back to Azeroth. The Pantheon seat themselves on their thrones and channel their powers, creating a beam that passes the Vindicaar and breaks through the dark cloud surrounding Azeroth.''] Aman'Thul: Brother! Your crusade is over! [''Sargeras is pulled from the dark cloud, roaring with rage, as Magni, Velen and Khadgar watch. Sargeras glares at the beam pulling at him.''] Sargeras: NO! [''Sargeras summons a massive sword and stabs it through the atmosphere of Azeroth and deep into its surface as the pull of the Pantheon strengthens. As he is pulled away, he tries to grab the Vindicaar without success before he is teleported into his throne at the Seat of the Pantheon. Illidan stands before him, readying his blades.''] Illidan: At last... [''Meanwhile, the rift between Argus and Azeroth created by the Sargerite Keystone closes, leaving a blinking star in the sky above Azeroth. Velen closes his eyes and sighs. Back on Azeroth, the sword of Sargeras stands above the wound in the world it created in Silithus.'']
 My father once told me that peace was like a dream... Beautiful. Ephemeral. Unattainable. I didn't listen. No one listened. We've made kindling from our suffering. Stirred the embers of resentment. Just waiting for a single spark to set the whole world aflame. As the Alliance returns to forgotten kingdoms, the Horde seeks the might of an ancient empire. We cannot dream any longer. The time has come to call on allies, willing to join the fight. To rally beneath the banners of a World... ...at War.
 [Varok Saurfang, Thrall, Anduin Wrynn, Saurfang's loyalists and Alliance forces reach the front gate of Orgrimmar.] Thrall: Varok... it's time. Varok Saurfang: Those who defend Orgrimmar are Horde as well. Our brothers and sisters. Thrall: These warriors have sworn to fight. For you. Many lives will be lost. Varok: Or perhaps... just one. [walks toward the gate] Sylvanas Windrunner! I challenge... Mak'gora! [''The gate opens. Sylvanas Windrunner, the Warchief of the Horde, and her Forsaken banner-carrier walk out through the gate and stop in front of Varok.''] Sylvanas Windrunner: A traitor leading traitors. Why should I accept your challenge? Varok: You want to make me suffer. [''Sylvanas orders her banner-carrier to hand her two daggers. Thrall hands Varok his axe, Dra'gora.''] Thrall: Brother... you cannot win. Varok: [places his hand on Thrall's left shoulder] My old friend. You... and I... Thrall: We don't get to hide. [Varok nods and looks at Anduin, who approaches him.] Anduin Wrynn: I set you on this path. Varok: And we knew where it could lead. Walk with me the rest of the way. [''Anduin unsheathes his sword, Shalamayne, and he takes the sword with his right hand. He then walks toward Sylvanas, with Anduin following. Zekhan runs toward Varok but is stopped by Thrall.''] Varok: Let it be finished. [''Varok charges toward Sylvanas to begin the battle. Sylvanas wounds Varok with several slashes from her daggers. Varok falls to his knees.''] Sylvanas: The High Overlord falls. I trusted you. [Thrall and Zekhan look at Varok] And so did they. Death comes old soldier. And all their hope dies with you. Varok: You cannot kill hope. [gets up] You tried at Teldrassil. You failed. [begins swinging at Sylvanas, but is parried each time] Hope remains. You set us to kill each other at Lordaeron. You failed. Here we stand. You just keep failing. The Horde will endure. The Horde is strong. [''Sylvanas knocks back Varok, who then splits Shalamayne into Shalla'tor and Ellemayne. He disarms Sylvanas of her right dagger and then slices at her right eye.''] Sylvanas: [recoiling from the attack] The Horde is nothing! [her banner-carrier looks at her] You are all nothing! Varok: [charges at Sylvanas] For Azeroth! [Sylvanas drops her left dagger and unleashes a stream of dark magic at him, killing him instantly] Sylvanas: If you could see yourselves as I see you. Toy soldiers in tin plate. Beasts who howl for honor. Standing as one. Savor it... Nothing lasts. [shadowy smoke surrounds her as she transforms into a banshee and flies away] [Zekhan and Thrall walk toward Varok's corpse.] Zekhan: What... do we do now? Thrall: We bring him home. [''Anduin, Thrall and Zekhan lift up Varok's corpse. They turn toward the banner-carrier, who stamps her banner into the ground. The gates open, and Anduin, Thrall and Zekhan carry Varok's corpse into Orgrimmar. Other banner-carriers stamp their banners.'']
 Sylvanas Windrunner: Icecrown. A monument to our suffering. [ascends Icecrown Citadel] The veil between life and death... where a usurper sits on a Frozen Throne. [reaches the Frozen Throne, where Bolvar Fordragon, the Lich King, sits] But no king rules forever. [''The Lich King stands, and his eyes change from red to blue as he prepares for battle. The duel between Sylvanas and the Lich King ensues, which ends with Sylvanas subduing the Lich King.''] Sylvanas: You are unfit to wear this crown... [removes the Lich King's crown, the Helm of Domination, from Bolvar, whose eyes turn from blue to red] ...to wield so much power. Bolvar: That power... will be your prison. Sylvanas: This world... is a prison. [splits the crown in half, creating a rift in the sky above] And I will set us all... ...free.
 The Jailer of the Damned. A grim task... ...which I have failed. Now the eternal veil screams, torn asunder... by her. Within the Realm of Shadow lies the darkest of terrors... ...which should never be set free. The Shadowlands are infinite. Their terrors and beauty were never meant for mortal eyes. I wonder if they can bear to behold all that awaits them. The denizens of this realm are the key to restoring the balance between life and death... ...if their trust can be earned. Death comes. And the end of everything... ...is just the beginning.
 [''The Arbiter's orb is taken out of her body, with what's left of it being pulled into the orb. Zovaal, the Jailer, reaches with his hand for the orb while Sylvanas Windrunner lands in front of him.''] Zovaal: At long last, the final key... [the orb, displaying an infinity symbol, inserts itself into his chest] ...is once again... mine. [the giant portal opens behind him] Now... Kneel. [Zovaal channels an orb of power in his right hand and subdues Bolvar Fordragon, Thrall and Jaina Proudmoore with Domination chains, causing them to drop their weapons and their eyes to turn blue.] Sylvanas Windrunner: [enraged] The way is open, Zovaal! We already have what we need! Zovaal: Too long I endured the makers' flawed design. [begins looking at the orb in his right hand] I will forge a new reality, where all shall serve... [Sylvanas closes her eyes as the word "serve" echoes in her mind, back to when the Lich King and Arthas used that word] ...me. [''Sylvanas opens her eyes and fires an arrow at Zovaal, who catches it with his left hand. The arrow dissipates as Zovaal turns toward Sylvanas.''] Sylvanas: I will never "serve". Zovaal: [after a brief pause] Pity. [Anduin Wrynn, under the Domination of Zovaal, draws his sword, Kingsmourne, and holds Sylvanas at bladepoint; Sylvanas looks at Anduin] Still chained by mortality. [Sylvanas looks again at him] You did help restore something stolen from me. [opens a small portal and pulls Sylvanas' soul fragment crystal from it] Allow me to repay you... [smashes the crystal] ...in kind. [blasts the soul fragment into Sylvanas; Sylvanas drops her bow and falls to her knees] I leave you to their mercy. [the chains around Thrall, Bolvar and Jaina fade as do their blue eye glow; to Anduin] Come. Be the first to witness reality's end. [''Zovaal turns and exits through the portal, Anduin following. Anduin drops his father's compass with his portrait on it. The portal closes. Thrall, Bolvar and Jaina walk toward Sylvanas, who is on her hands and knees. Her eyes have turned blue.''] Sylvanas: [weakly] C-cannot let him reach the... [grunts and falls to her side]
 [Anduin Wrynn, under the Domination of Zovaal, the Jailer, swings his sword, Kingsmourne,, destroying the barrier Jaina has erected to protect herself, Uther and Sylvanas Windrunner.] Zovaal/Anduin Wrynn: Do you not understand? This one is bound to me. [Anduin plunges Kingsmourne into the ground, releasing a cloud of black smoke that surrounds him.] Sylvanas Windrunner: [running towards Anduin] Anduin! [''In the smoke, Anduin continues to hold a shaky grip on Kingsmourne. The blue orb on the blade glows.''] Zovaal: Fulfill your final purpose: Annihilation. [Kingsmourne drains the energy from Anduin's face] The fate of all who carry my blade. [Varian Wrynn places his hand on his son's left shoulder.] Varian Wrynn: My son. [Anduin looks up at him] This blade does not belong to darkness. It was forged by valor. [Varok Saurfang places his hand on Anduin's right shoulder.] Varok Saurfang: And also... [Anduin looks at him] by honor. Varian: Its legacy, and ours, are with you, even here. [Varian and Varok grasp Kingsmourne's hilt.] Varok: Now, let it be finished. [''The hands of Varian and Varok disappear, leaving only Anduin's hands on Kingsmourne. Anduin screams as he splits apart Kingsmourne, restoring it into Shalla'tor and Ellemayne. As he kneels, having returned to normal, his Domination armor fades into smoke. The orb contained in Kingsmourne, a fragment of Arthas Menethil's soul, hovers in front of him. Jaina kneels behind Anduin, placing her hand on his shoulder.''] Anduin: Arthas... [Sylvanas and Uther walk up to the soul fragment as well.] Jaina Proudmoore: Is this all that remains of him? Uther: The last flicker of his scarred spirit, consumed in the forges of the Jailer. Sylvanas: No crown. No throne. Not even a soul left for judgement. I hated you, hunted you, and with each selfish act... became you. That is my burden to bear. But your legacy... is at an end. Begone then, Arthas Menethil. May the last whisper of your name fade... and be forgotten. [''The soul fragment shrinks and eventually fades away. Uther closes his eyes and Jaina lowers her head.'']
 Can your mortal minds fathom how long I have waited? Every event set in motion. Every pawn put into play. All to claim the power slumbering within your world. The soul of Azeroth, wounded, vulnerable, yet teeming with potential. Potential that I will use to eradicate this flawed reality. Death claims the soul of your world. Now bear witness, mortals, to eternity's end.
 [''After being defeated at the Heart of Eternity, Zovaal, the Jailer, falls to his knees and grunts in pain as his visor starts to melt away like smoke. As Zovaal speaks, images flash by of the rift in the sky above Icecrown Citadel and Zovaal in the Crucible after the death of the Arbiter.''] Zovaal: This... must... not... be... [The flashback begins in which Zovaal, who is chained and not yet covered in Domination runes, is put on trial in the Crucible.] Kyrestia: [in flashback] You... [camera shifts to Zovaal's perspective, showing her overhead] have betrayed your duty as Arbiter... [in the present day, Zovaal twists on the ground as more of his armor melts away] and shall be bound forevermore. Winter Queen: [in flashback] Your madness... [flashback resumes, showing her from Zovaal's perspective] has threatened the cycle of life and death entire. [Back in the present day, Zovaal's skin also starts to melt away from his chest, hand and face, gradually reversing to a metallic lifeless vessel.] Denathrius: [in flashback] You could have sought another way, brother. [flashback continues, showing Denathrius stretching down an open hand to Zovaal] Imagine what we could have accomplished together. [closes his fist] Primus: [in flashback] Why, Zovaal? What drove you to this end? Zovaal: [in flashback, angrily] You preserve that which is doomed. [concerned] A cosmos divided... will not survive... [flashback ends; in the present day, he has reverted to a lifeless vessel] what is... to come. [''The blue light on Zovaal's eyes fade away. The sigil in the hole at the center of his chest also loses the light, fading into an inert orb. On Azeroth, the light beam shooting up from Icecrown Citadel disappears while the rift in the sky closes quickly until the sky is once again intact.'']
 Pelagos: Sylvanas Windrunner... The time for your judgment is at hand. [Sylvanas walks toward him, looking at Tyrande Whisperwind, Shandris Feathermoon and Maiev Shadowsong along the way] There can be no true justice without compassion... and I can see your deeds bear the mark of the Jailer's influence. [looks at the projections of Kyrestia and the Winter Queen beside him] An influence we failed to contain. Sylvanas Windrunner: The Jailer did not control me. My actions were mine alone and I accept their consequences. Pelagos: Then... you know in your heart, to whom you must answer. Sylvanas: I submit to the judgment... [looks at Tyrande] of Tyrande Whisperwind. [''The crowd gasps. A few onlookers make confused gestures''] Pelagos: Entrusting justice to your most fervent adversary. Are there any gathered here who object to this fate? [''pause. Anduin Wrynn looks conflicted as he stares down while Jaina Proudmoore and Thrall look away''] So be it. [Tyrande walks toward Sylvanas and raises her blade to Sylvanas' throat.] Tyrande Whisperwind: What game do you play now, Banshee? The Sylvanas I hunted would never submit to the blade of her enemy. Sylvanas: Death would be a merciful end, Tyrande. And I do not expect your mercy. Tyrande: [lowering her blade] Your newfound remorse might be genuine... but it can never erase all you have done. There will be no peace for you, Windrunner... until there is peace for the souls of your victims. [walking toward the exit portal, to Shandris and Maiev] The prisoner is in my charge now. Bring her! [Maiev and Shandris walk up to Sylvanas]
 [''Sylvanas Windrunner is standing at the edge of the Soul Pillar. Tyrande Whisperwind is seen walking towards the edge as her owl, Dori'thur, circles overhead''] Tyrande Whisperwind: Below lies the Maw. An unjust fate to which you doomed so many. [stops at the edge] And it will be there... that your penance begins. [begins walking around Sylvanas] Every soul lost in its depths, betrayed or condemned... you shall find and send forth to the Arbiter to be judged with the compassion all souls deserve. You will toil there, under Dori'thur's watchful eye, scouring every darkened reach, until the final soul is free, and you are all that remains. [walks back toward the others] This... is how you shall bring renewal to your victims, and my people. Sylvanas Windrunner: However long it takes... it shall be done. [Tyrande holds out her arm and Dori'thur lands on it.] Tyrande: [to Dori'thur] Andu-falah-dor, old friend. Watch her well. [''Dori'thur takes flight from Tyrande and begins flying around the Soul Pillar. Sylvanas faces the pillar and then turns toward her sisters. She then leaps into the pillar, with Dori'thur diving down beside her as they both disappear into the Maw.'']
 * World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King patch 3.3 cutscene
 * Deathwing, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm opening cinematic
 * Chen Stormstout, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria opening cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria patch 5.4 cutscene
 * World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria patch 5.4 cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria patch 5.4 cinematic
 * Grommash Hellscream, World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor opening cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor cinematic
 * Varian Wrynn, World of Warcraft: Legion opening cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Legion patch 7.2 cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Legion patch 7.3 cinematic
 * Jaina Proudmoore, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth trailer
 * World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth patch 8.2 cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Shadowlands opening cinematic
 * Bolvar Fordragon, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands trailer
 * World of Warcraft: Shadowlands patch 9.1 cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Shadowlands patch 9.2 cinematic
 * Zovaal, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands patch 9.2 cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Shadowlands patch 9.2 cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Shadowlands patch 9.2 cinematic
 * World of Warcraft: Shadowlands patch 9.2 cinematic

In-Game Quotes
His name brought light to darkest Azeroth. His valor tore the walls of mis'ry down. The Silver Hand would ne'er do better more than give the world the knight who'd give himself. His fame was not that which he sought to grow. Nor was the lordship over his own kind. Instead he chose to fight for Lordaeron to hope his kin would have to fight no more. The tragic tale of this most holy knight will never end with his unholy death. We honor him, and we shall give him thanks! Uther always shall know glory and light!
 His name will not die. His sacrifice will always serve to show the way. Shackles once that choked the inhale of honor's breath no longer bind us. Can you hear his scream? A battle wail for the Horde: Victory or death! We must remember his strength in the face of death. His dream, reality. Dangers are abound. Enemies seek to bring us back to the shackles. When we fight, think of he who did what must be done. Grom Hellscream, forever!
 You no take candle! I am he who watches they. I am the fist of retribution. That which does quell the recalitrant. Dare you defy the Warchief? Dare you face my merciless judgement?
 * For the Light!, in-game book
 * The Horde's Hellscream, in-game book
 * Kobolds
 * High Overlord Saurfang, in Orgrimmar
 * Anar'alah, anar'alah belore (By the light, by the light of the sun)
 * Sin'dorei (Children of the blood)
 * Shindu fallah na (Our enemies are breaking through)
 * Sin'dorei (Children of the blood)
 * Anar'alah (By the light)
 * Shindu sin'dorei (Failing children of the blood)
 * Shindu fallah na (Our enemies are breaking through)
 * Sin'dorei (O' Children of the blood)
 * Anar'alah belore (By the light of the sun)
 * Shindu sin'dorei (Failing children of the blood)
 * Shindu fallah na (Our enemies are breaking through)
 * Sin'dorei (O' children of the blood)
 * Anar'alah belore (By the light of the sun)
 * Belore (The sun)

 * Lady Sylvanas Windrunner singing the 'Lament of the Highborne'
 * Hi's planning to take over the world, would you help?.

Popular/Famous Lines
Too soon! You have awakened me too soon, Executus! What is the meaning of this intrusion?
 You are not prepared!
 Don't look so smug. I know what you're thinking, but Tempest Keep was merely a setback! Did you honestly believe I would trust the future to some blind, half night-elf mongrel? Hahahaha...oh no no no, he was merely an instrument, a stepping stone to a much larger plan! It has all led to this...and this time, you will not interfere!
 Interlopers! You mortals who dare to interfere with my sport will pay. Wait...you...I remember you...in the mountains! But you...what is this?
 '''We named him Draenosh. It means "heart of Draenor" in orcish.''' I would not let the warlocks take him. My boy would be safe, hidden away by the elders of Garadar. I made a promise to his mother before she died, that I would cross the Dark Portal alone - whether I lived or died, my son would be safe...untainted. Today, I fulfill that promise.
 * Ragnaros, upon being summoned in the Molten Core
 * Illidan, Burning Crusade opening cinematic
 * Kael'thas Sunstrider, as a boss encounter for the second time, after being previously killed by players.
 * Thorim, referring to a previous quest chain in which he was helped by the player. His disorientation is due to the corrupting influence of Yogg-Saron.
 * Varok Saurfang, upon encountering his son forcibly resurrected into the service of the Lich King. This speech (more than a minute in length) became infamous during the Icecrown Citadel raid as it was unskippable for any and every attempt on the subsequent boss encounter.

title: Warcraft


text:
Talk:Burt Rutan

Dear Mr. Rutan, My name Is Stephen Bachner I had made sketches of a hover car that I designed. I wanted to Know An address that I could send the sketches and Ideas to you. If you looked at them I would really appreciate that. My email address is s.e.Bachner@charter.net I want you to look through them because they might be something you like. I love engineering and I have so many experiences with it. Please email me back s.e.Bachner@charter.net

Thank you, Stephen Bachner

P.S. congradgulations on winning the X prize

Dear Burt Rutan
My name is Matt and I am 15 years old. I just thought that I would let you know that I fully intend to be your biggest competitor when I grow up, because I believe that I will be able to design better airplanes than you. I have some questions for you though, so if you have the time to write me at vulcancountry5@yahoo.com, I would greatly appreciate it.

Matt

P.S. have you read the book "Atlas Shrugged"?

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Thanks
Thanks for deleting the colons (":") from the section header guidelines on the Templates page! I had forgotten I had even put them there. ~ Kalki 22:24, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Here are a couple of replies to some of your comments that I haven't already addressed on my talk page:

Up until now I have generally constrained myself from greeting new users on their talk pages unless I felt that there was some specific issue that needed to be addressed. We probably should create a template of preliminary pointers for people who wish to be greeters to use, as a welcoming formality, perhaps based on some of those that have been used on the Wikipedia.

On the search funcitons: I am not a developer of the software, and I am not exactly sure of how the Google searches were set up here, but it has generally been an alternative when normal search functions were for some reason down. ~ Kalki 23:40, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Templates
Hi, I made a template list Template messages. Would you like to merge it with your User:RoboAction/templates or to keep it for your personal use? I found your page occasionally to check speedy deletion candidates ... ;-) --Aphaia 00:21, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of requested films
I was wondering if you would mind if I change the two-article structure of List of films and List of films/requested to a single list like Television shows, where the requested titles are in a separate section at the bottom. I seem to be doing most of the transfers between the two lists, and I've found that the other method is more convenient, without sacrificing the clarity of a live-article section. — Jeff Q (talk) 03:12, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Jeff, what a coincidence that today is my first log-in after a solid break only to find a message from today -- as to your specific inquiry, making dual style film lists into one I have no objections; first I must apologize for leaving you with the burden of updating the list, but if you find the other method (TV list) more user friendly than by all means please incorporate it into the film list.

 * On a side note, I am excited on the vast growth wikiquote is experiencing... the quality (as in expanding the stubs) will eventually follow. ~ RoboAction 08:15, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * P.S. for the user ... who was asking about the 'redirect' check out Predator and notice how the tag:
 *   is used, and vice-versa:
 *  placed on wikipedia

No problem about the "burden". One thing I really like about wikis is that you come and go as you can and wish to. There are no mandatory schedules, there's always other people to take up the slack, and things will get done sooner or later. ☺ And thanks for the tip on wikiquotepar! — Jeff Q (talk) 08:23, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
Hi, RoboAction, are you interested to be an admin here? --Aphaia 15:53, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * If you are, I would second Aphaia's nomination. — Jeff Q (talk) 08:49, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Vladimir Lenin

"One man with a gun can control 100 without one"
I've seen this quote pop up a lot, but have never seen a credible source to back it up. Did Lenin really say this?

terrorism
how about "the purpose of terrorism is to terrorise" ??? - Google brings up supposedly attributed to Lenin ......

Do you have a source for it? What is the source of google?

The telegram
Why is this telegram about hanging kulaks published here? okay it may be fact that the telegram has been send by Lenin, but why put it here on the quotes section? if you want to quote telegrams, please not only quote the "negative" telegrams, but also the "positive". To me this seems like clear bourgeois selective media (only showing the little negative sides of a thing that is acually good and helpfull, to make it look evil and distructive, or the other way around). One of the many tactics in the bourgeois armory of media and thought conrtoll. I have removed the telegram from the main page and put it here. By: Bobby Siecker.

 * Welcome to the Internet, Bobby. Around here, we let the good and the bad sit side by side.  There'll be no 1930s style Soviet censorship around here. --Nikolaus Maack 15:20, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

The telegram (removed from main page, see topic above for details)
The following is a telegram sent by Lenin to the communist authorities in Nizjnij-Novgord, 11 August 1918. Source: Library of Congress exhibition.
 * "Товарищи! Восстание пяти волостей кулачья должно повести к беспощадному подавлению. Этого требует интерес всей революции, ибо теперь взят "последний решительный бой" с кулачьем. Образец надо дать. 1) Повесить, (непременно повесить, чтобы народ видел) не меньше 100 заведомых кулаков, богатеев, кровопийц. 2) Опубликовать их имена. 3) Отнять у них весь хлеб. 4) Назначить заложников — согласно вчерашней телеграмме. Сделать так, чтобы на сотни верст кругом народ видел, трепетал, знал, кричал: душат и задушат кровопийц-кулаков. Телеграфируйте получение и исполнение. Ваш Ленин. P.S. Найдите людей потверже."
 * Translation: "Comrades! The revolt by the five kulak volost's must be suppressed without mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this, because we have now before us our final decisive battle "with the kulaks." We need to set an example. 1) You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the public sees) at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers. 2) Publish their names. 3) Take away all of their grain. 4) Execute the hostages - in accordance with yesterday's telegram. This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out: let's choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks. Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this. Yours, Lenin P.S. Use your toughest people for this."

Not sure
I thought I read in a history manual that "where there's a will, there's a way" was Lenin's.

-- I am removing all of the quotes that have no reference. These would not be tolerated elsewhere, so I dont see why they should be here, esp when the majority are highly dubious, to say the least!

--

What the?!
What have you done? you removed all the quotes without putting them in a "misatrubuted" section! This is just bloody vandalism! Dubious?! Lenin's Quotes Dubious? Are you out of your mind? In my opinion I have rarely seen such accurate and sharp quotes as with Lenin!

I'm working on to get the quotations back now...

Damn! Wikipedia a free encyclopedia? Yeah right... Bourgeois cencorship EVERYWHERE!

O, by the way... the telegram... I'm not shure whether it is really Lenin's for it is sourced from an american state library... have not yet found it in the collected lenin works... I keep looking.

Bobby Siecker.

Wrong translation
4) Назначить заложников — согласно вчерашней телеграмме

is translated as

4) Execute the hostages - in accordance with yesterday's telegram.

That's silly because назначить means "to designate" in Russian. Anyone can check this in any dictionary.
 * Yes, I second it. The phrase means "designate hostages" (select some people as hostages)--Nekto 16:19, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I second it. The phrase means "designate hostages" (select some people as hostages)--Nekto 16:19, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Can we make this article not sound so negative?
First of all, let me make it clear that I do not advocate censorship in any form unless for if it is saving lives.

The sentiment in this article is very clearly anti-Lenin. I know that nowadays people do not respect him for his politics, but I think we can all agree he was a very smart man. As such, I believe it's unfair and biased to have the article consist almost entirely of "negative" quotes that make it seem as though he is an advocate of needless bloodshed and totalitarianism (in truth he was an extremely ardent supporter of workers' council democracy, though Stalin destroyed the seeds of democracy and replaced them with bloated bureaucracies.) In order for this article to be halfway decent and informative, we need to replace most of these with his "positive" quotes -- quotes that actually show what he stood for, that will be recognized by people familiar with his work, and that demonstrate what he did with his life. He didn't spend his days signing death warrents and taking political prisoners, though the bourgeois mass media would certainly like for people to think that. He was a revolutionary and extraordinary visionary.

I have a lot of books and pamphlets written by Lenin and would be glad to do this work, though it would be very nice if other people also contribute to reconstructing this article. I'd like to get a couple comments on this idea before I start replacing quotes in the article, though. I won't meddle with it if people are vehemently against what I say here, and don't want to be accused of vandalism. 71.198.98.233 04:43, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * To make a balanced article, it would be better to add quotes rather than subtract them. Balance results from quotations which give us, in total, a more complex portrait.  Subtracting quotations, especially sourced ones, provokes edit wars.  There are some legitimate reasons for deleting quotations, but not many.  There are editors who, in their zeal to make a case against someone, will add dozens of quotes making the same point many times over. They will demonstrate, for example, that someone was bigoted by finding as many statements of this bigotry as possible. In such a case it would be sensible to eliminate the redundancies.  If you believe that the current quotations about Lenin are belabored, you could make such a case before proceeding to remove some of them.  But it would be preferable, as mentioned, simply to add the quotations which will give us a more balanced view.  - InvisibleSun 06:13, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Mussolini Quote
The Mussolini Quote is deliberately misleading to make people believe that Lenin advocated a fascist Mussolini to take power. There should be a date added to this quote immideatly, to distinguish the socialist Mussolini that Lenin refers to from the later and more famous fascist Mussolini.

Moreover I find this article to focus purely on Lenin's negative quotes. Lenin's humanist elements and deeply complex political ideas are entirely missed here. This is a bad article and needs improvement.

Falsified Source
''You must...instantly introduce mass terror, shoot and transport hundreds of prostitutes who get the soldiers drunk, ex-officers, etc. Not a minute to be wasted...You must act at full stretch: mass searches. Executions for possession of weapons. Mass deportations of Mensheviks and unreliable elements.'' Telegram of 9 August, 1918. Collected Works: Volume 28 (1965), p. 142.

This quotation is nowhere to be found in the collected works. It will be removed. http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/cw/volume28.htm

REPLY: It is from Richard Pipes' book, The Russian Revolution, page 817. He in turn provides the following citation: "Lenin, PSS, XXXVI, 142."

Attributed quotes
Quotations by partisan sources such as Volkogonov, Leggett, and "The Black Book" are not acceptable because they are selective in their quotations and take them out of context. The only acceptable quotations are those published in Lenin's collected works. Added by 204.102.211.115, 21:29, 19 December 2007

 * That is not the policy here. We accept quotations from all reliable sources.  If something is out of context, please add some context but do not remove sourced material.--Cato 22:17, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Actually, you removed more than 10 quotations [ One such quote, "catch and shoot Astrakhan speculators" is blatantly selective. Another quotation from the polemical "Black Book of Communism" takes Lenin's writing on the term 'dictatorship' out of context. Out of Lenin's 50 volume collected works, the call to use violence against opponents is found in maybe 10 pages. Yet the version of the article that you submitted has a majority of quotations in such a situation. My version is proportional, as it comprises Lenin's call to crush the White Czechs and to deport prostitutes in Nizhni. Curiously, your version does not include the statement "Violence is of course alien to our ideals" which effectively contradicts many of the quotations attributed to Lenin by certain polemecists.. Added by 204.102.211.115, 22:31, 19 December 2007

It is not my version. If you wish to add properly sourced quotes, please do so. However, please do not remove properly sourced material. If you keep doing so, I shall have to block you from editing.--Cato 22:37, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Material that is taken deliberately taken out of context and material that is selective will be removed. This article is hardly representative of Lenin's works. It's interesting that while you accuse me of removing sourced material, you just submitted a version that deleted ten of my quotes.

Telegram
Is there any particular reason why a single telegram deserves from 11 August 1918 deserves to be given a degree of emphasis that exceeds any other quote? There is nothing outstanding about this particular document, as about half a dozen similar documents can be found in Lenin's published Collected Works including the telegram about the suppression of the White Czechs and the deportation of prostitutes. Unless a sufficient explanation is provided, it is headed straight to the trash bin.

Distorted and Selective Quotations
The polemical Black Book of Communism allegedly quotes Lenin as having said: *"Dictatorship is rule based directly on force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained through the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws."**Stephan Courtois,

However, this is taken out of context. It is impossible to reconcile with the following quote:

''*From the vulgar bourgeois standpoint the terms of dictatoship and democracy are mutually exclusive. Failing to understand the theory of class struggle and accustomed to seeing in the political arena the petty squabbling of the various bourgeois circles and coteries, the bourgeois understands by dictatorship the annulment of all liberties and guarantees of democracy, arbitrariness of every kind, and every sort of abuse of power, in a dictator's personal interests.''

Yeltsin's partner Volkogonov, who is not a historian, quotes Lenin as having said:

*"... catch and shoot the Astrakhan speculators and bribe-takers. These swine have to be dealt [with] so that everyone will remember it for years."

However, this quotation is selective and fails to provide context. Hence, it will be removed.

*"Let them shoot on the spot every tenth man guilty of idleness." This cannot be found in Lenin's Collected Works. Without a source or even context, this cannot be included.

 * This quote can be found in "How to Organise Competition?" In this translation it appears as "In a fourth place, one out of every ten idlers will be shot on the spot." https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/dec/25.htm

*"Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror." This is another deceptive, selective quotation by Vologonov who is not a historian.

*You must...instantly introduce mass terror, shoot and transport'' hundreds of prostitutes who get the soldiers drunk, ex-officers, etc. Not a minute to be wasted...You must act at full stretch: mass searches. Executions for possession of weapons. Mass deportations of Mensheviks and unreliable elements.'' This is a selective quotation which does not mention the first sentence about a revolt in Nizhni. This cannot be included.

*"Surely you do not imagine that we shall be victorious without applying the most cruel revolutionary terror?" This cannot be found in Lenin's collected works.

*"Until we apply terror to speculators - shooting on the spot - we won’t get anywhere." Leggett takes this out of context which refers to a chronic food shortage. [Edit made 23:21, 19 December 2007 by 204.102.211.115--Cato 20:13, 22 December 2007 (UTC)]

 * If a quote exists in different versions in different sources, please give both forms with approipriate references. If there is evidence that a particular quote was not said by Lenin, please cite it.--Cato 20:13, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Name?
I have a problem with the way Lenin's name is quoted at the top of this article : Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов). Lenin was the secret party name of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, which is the Russian name quoted here. I'm not sure that his given name and the patronymic were ever used with his party name, but if they were, it was a bit of a bastardisation of the two different names that he went under during his life. In any case I think it is misleading to say that Vladimir Ilyich Lenin translates into Russian as Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов, because it doesn't. It translates into Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ленін. So, in my view the name should read : Lenin (Russian: Ленін), secret name of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов). --Recoloniser 19:11, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to revert this, but our normal policy would be to use the name by which someone is generally known. All the standard reference works, e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, do call him Vladimir Ilich Lenin.--Cato 20:17, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Kazan Czechs
Leggett misuqotes Lenin. The version found in Lenin's collected works is different

Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

 * These are simply variant translations of the message, and I have placed the other one below this on the page. ~ Kalki 23:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Collective Works
It is doubtful to cite the Collective Works as a source, although they are the primary source for many quotes. The collective works were censored and altered under the ruel of Stalin, to make Stalin the obvius heir of Lenin. It should be considered an 'unsure' or direct false source. I suggest that the qoutes from there is labeled as 'Doubtful' or 'Unsure'
 * Are you retarded? This is the single most useful primary source on Lenin.

Falsified quotations
A stern warning to User:76.182.185.249: do not vandalize this article with manipulative and distorted quotations. You have cited academically bankrupt hacks like Volkogonov, who was not even a professional historian. Do not continue to hijack and provoke an edit war for propaganda purposes.

One of your phony quotations reads as if Lenin specifically called for these acts: "The killing of spies, policemen, gendarmes, the blowing up of police stations... [must start] at a moment’s notice."

In fact, Lenin was describing what had occurred in peripheral regions of Russia: "The killing of spies, policemen, gendarmes, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising—such operations are already being carried    out wherever insurrection is rife, in Poland and in the Caucasus"

 * I have restored unwarranted deletions you just attempted under very false pretexts, implying they were all from "unreliable sources" and extended the quote you here question for proper context, as it appears at the source you provided, which does reveal the selective editing of the quote had severely mangled it. When such distortions are perceived to occur, it is usually best to provide the full context, rather than simply removing the quote. ~ Kalki 12:33, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

 * I have again restored or extended some quotes, and arranged the currently dated quotes chronologically by original source, which is one of the preferred arrangements on all pages here, in response to an editor or editors making removals with largely deficient comments like "Another dishonest, selective quote" while themselves make extremely selective edits, which include highly selective additions which ignore much of the content and context of Lenin's statements, while apparently attempting to expurgate anything that might further tarnish his less than sterling reputation as a political leader. The article exists neither to whitewash nor to blacken Lenin's politics or policies, but to present quotations by or about him which people find notable, for various reasons, and it is to be expected that there will be people who find different things more interesting or notable than others. I actually have very little time to spend on this matter or many others at Wikiquote currently, and am not likely to have much more time for at least another week. ~ Kalki 19:21, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

 * This page needs much work, with more dates provided of original sources and material arranged chronologically based on these sources, as this is the standard for pages for specific authors. Where dates of production or publication are known, other arrangements merely based on editor preferences should never supersede these, and contested material should not simply be removed without a general agreement that the removal is appropriate. ~ Kalki 22:58, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * what would u expect on wikiquote, nothin good!lol :
 * I actually expect a lot of good here, but I don't expect much good to normally come of remarks of idiotic trolls. May you come to see how idiotically time and life wasting your activities are, and actually begin to engage in something that is truly constructive with your life. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * i cant believe THIS IDIOT LIKES TO FALL INTO TRAPS BY SIMPLY REPLYING, HE KEEPS ON REPEATING SAME BS, SHAME! BUT WHEN HE IS INCORRECT SOMEHOW IN HIS MIND HE IS CORRECT, WHAT HYPOCRITE, WRITES QUOTES BUT NEVER FOLLOWS EM!

 * Unlike many idiots, I am willing to allow most idiots to make their most absurd assertions to the fullest extent they wish to — and then I might choose to be silent, or make such responses as skewer their presumptions to the fullest extent possible, and let the verdicts of Time and Eternity gradually reveal who has made the most idiotic and closed-minded of assertions. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:55, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Medicine
Often attributed to Lenin is some variant on the following: Medecine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Can somebody find a source and add it to the wiki? Thank you.

 * The quote you are probably referencing is: "Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialized state."  For a variety of reasons, it is suspect.  However, I do agree it needs to be addressed either way. --Surv1v4l1st 19:54, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Here is an interesting link that argues the quote was essentially "made up" by a PR firm employed by the American Medical Association in the 1940's. The book is called "The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office", by Blumenthal and Morone. Link is here: http://books.google.com/books?id=UEGLO9YUecEC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&#v=onepage&q&f=false on page 92. At the least, the quote is suspect. 134.193.172.127 20:55, 11 October 2013 (UTC)GJW

 * Thank you for that useful information. I have listed the fake Lenin quote under Misattributed. ~ Robin Lionheart (talk) 17:34, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

On sources
Quotations with citations from Volkogonov, Pipes, and other polemically motivated works will be removed due to dubious reliability. For example, this work says about Volkogonov:

*"Автор выдавал себя за ученого, за исследователя. (Posing as a scientific researcher)

*" А книга Д. Волкогонова лжива от начала до конца. С лжи он начинает, ложью и заканчивает. (Volkogonov's book is misleading from start to finish. He begins with lies and ends with a lie.)

 * This assertion is absurdly presumptive. The removal of quotes from widely published sources (and even the removing them to disputed sections), would require more than a general and automatic indictment of anything as quoted by some author or authors as merely polemical distortions. Most people are quite aware that all manner of distortions occur for various reasons, and to merely cite a statement that someone's book is "misleading from start to finish…He begins with lies and ends with a lie" no more automatically disqualifies quotations from such a work or author than the reliability of some assertion is guaranteed because it was published in the pages of Pravda (Truth). ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:48, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

 * The alleged quotes are not widely published, but are limited to the methodologically flawed and partisan works of propagandists like Volkogonov and controversial historians like Pipes. The quotes inserted by the anon user seek to re-insert deceptive quotes that were corrected earlier on this talk page. Reliable sources should not be extensively criticized the way Pipes has been. Volkogonov cannot even begin to be taken seriously as a scholar, as he was nothing of the kind, but rather a propagandist. There are dozens of fine scholars who have produced excellent scientific works on Russian history, but Volkogonov and Pipes are hardly representative of the scholarly community's views.

 * For example, the anon user adds this totally distorted quote that changes the context:
 * Use] rifles, revolvers, bombs, knives, knuckle-dusters, sticks, rags soaked in kerosene for starting fires... barbed wire, nails (against cavalry)… or acids to be poured on the police... The killing of spies, policemen, gendarmes, the blowing up of police stations... [must start] at a moment’s notice.”

 * In fact, the source describes revolutionary actions that had already been carried out by the spontaneous masses rather than as a terrorist conspiracy.

 * The quotes you are removing are simply quotes that present Lenin in an unflattering light, and include those in works published by Yale University Press, HarperCollins, and the authoratative Collected Works — simply objecting to such unflattering quotes as probably "cherry-picked" by someone hostile to Lenin, no more disqualifies then from inclusion than quotes cherry-picked from the same or other sources to present more flattering impressions. That you object to the general tenor of the authors who produce these quotes does not automatically disqualify these quotes as from published sources of some notability. Any valid objections you can make to any of the specific quotes could be noted in commentary, but they should not simply be removed. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:10, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

 * Volkogonov was not a historian from a respected institution of higher education, but was a political hack whose work, as shown above, is not taken seriously. Pipes' book on Lenin is very controversial, which a leading scholarly journal Russian Review concludes is part of his "longstanding crusade to demonize Lenin." Had they been reliable source, they would not have encountered such controversy.

 * Nor am I removing quotations that portray Lenin in an unflattering light, as this article has plenty of them. I simply object to the highly tendentious series of edits by the anon.

 * Wheres the quote where Lenin said to the Russians don't make Stalin leader.

The quotes in question are again being removed, and with no further reason given than that an anonymous editor from an IP asserts that these quotes from major publishers, such as Yale University Press, HarperCollins, and the authoratative Collected Works deserve no presentation, and that some of them are by historians the anonymous editor would assert are "political hacks" — I see no reason to remove any of these merely in response to such opinionated assertions and am restoring them once again. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:45, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Attempts at further removal of quotes have continued to this point from . I have left this message on this IP's talk page:
 * As noted previously, the removal from the Vladimir Lenin page of long standing sourced quotes from published sources without discussion is not welcome. I have retained your "alternative" suggestions, and can welcome further additions — but the removals you have made are such as I have reverted. The page needs much dating and linking of souce documents available and further additions are welcome, but deletions are not.

 * The removals have been made with such comments as "Already several quotes like this" — which might be argued for many quotes of many people, but that doesn't make them necessarily less notable historically; "Poorly organized" — this actually was a valid criticism of a quote in three parts, which could be to some extent edited better, which I did; and "Questionable source Volkgonov removed" — whatever one's opinions of Dmitri Volkogonov's opinions he was a major historian, widely respected by many, despite rejection or opposition to his assessments by others, and there is no reason provided why his citations of quotes of Lenin should be considered unreliable. I have restored MOST but not all of the quotes removed, because one quote from a section of a document already quoted did seem relatively minor in its points — but of the rest have been restored, though some were moved to places where they were variant translations of the same document. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:21, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

 * I have now done an extensive cleanup on the page, as there had been MANY sloppy additions and deletions made since the last general editing of page with recognition of normal requirements — and I have organized Lenin's quotes along standard chronological arrangements, with the exception of the Collected Works section — which is at least now arranged by volume, and I might gradually further date and arrange these by dates in coming weeks. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 13:18, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Praxis is superior to Knowledge (theoretical), because it have not just the dignity of universality, but also of the immediate reality.
 * I think I have found an adequate source: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ch03.htm
 * Real quote: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
 * The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

"Destroy the family...."
There's a very popular quotation on the American right wing -- the assertion that Lenin said, "Destroy the family and you destroy the country" (or "...and you destroy the society"). My Google search for +Lenin +"destroy the family" yielded 35,000 hits. I checked about half a dozen of them and none of them offered any source.

In view of its popularity, it would be great if we could either find a source and add the quotation, or debunk it. If it seems not to be valid, we might include it in the "Misattributed" section, or we might start a "Disputed" section for apparent apocrypha, as is done in the Abraham Lincoln article. Jim Lane 00:07, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

The Government of the proletarian dictatorship, together with the Communist Party and trade unions, is of course leaving no stone unturned in the effort to overcome the backward ideas of men and women, to destroy the old un-communist psychology. In law there is naturally complete equality of rights for men and women. And everywhere there is evidence of a sincere wish to put this equality into practice. We are bringing the women into the social economy, into legislation and government. All educational institutions are open to them, so that they can increase their professional and social capacities. We are establishing communal kitchens and public eating-houses, laundries and repairing shops, nurseries, kindergartens, children’s homes, educational institutes of all kinds. In short, we are seriously carrying out the demand in our programme for the transference of the economic and educational functions of the separate household to society. That will mean freedom for the woman from the old household drudgery and dependence on man. That enables her to exercise to the full her talents and her inclinations. The children are brought up under more favourable conditions than at home. — Vladimir Lenin, quoted by Clara Zetkin in "Lenin on the Women’s Question", My Memorandum Book, 1920.Guarapiranga (talk) 05:09, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Verification and citation work needs to be done.
This article needs considerable work. For one thing, photographs at the right side of the page are captioned with unsupported "quotations" with no citations. There are also many quotations floating around the Internet right now (e.g., "Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism") that need to be researched and either included in the page with correct citations, or debunked in the "Misattributed" section. - Embram (talk) 16:13, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice
This quote is popularly attributed to Lenin but I haven’t been able to find the source. The inverse of this quote (i.e. heart on ice and brain on fire) can be found in romance novels from the 19th and early 20th centuries. If this was a common saying, Lenin may have just adapted it. Here is what I’ve found so far: --Silver&Gold (talk) 06:25, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * “A revolutionary is a comrade with a heart of fire and a brain of ice.”
 * John Rodden, Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995 (Oxford University Press, 2002), Google Books.
 * “Brains like ice and hearts of fire...”
 * Michael Foote, Armistice, 1918-39 (London: G. G. Harrap & Co., 1940), 20, Google Books.
 * “A heart on fire and a brain of ice.”
 * Colin Bingham, ed., Wit and Wisdom: A Public Affairs Miscellany (Melbourne University Press, 1982), 133, Google Books.

power lying in the streets
I've seen several versions of a quote attributed to Lenin in 1917, "We found power lying in the streets of St Petersburg, and we simply picked it up". But haven't found a clear source. Any help is appreciated, thank you. -- Yardenac (talk) 09:00, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

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Heinz Barwich

Heinz Barwich (July 22, 1911 – April 10, 1966) was a German nuclear physicist. He was deputy director of the Siemens Research Laboratory II in Berlin. At the close of World War II, he followed the decision of Gustav Hertz, to go to the Soviet Union for ten years to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, for which he received the Stalin Prize. He was director of the Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung (Central Institute for Nuclear Research) at Rossendorf near Dresden. For a few years he was director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. In 1964 he defected to the West.

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 * Unser ganzes Elend kommt vom Mangel an Zivilcourage.
 * literally: All our misery comes from a deficiency in civil courage.
 * adapted translation: All our suffering comes from a deficiency to stand up for our beliefs.
 * explaining why he defected the Soviet Bloc, as quoted by Egon Vacek in Die Flucht des Atomforschers, Die Zeit, October 29, 1965, Nr. 44.

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