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Báb

The Báb باب [Siyyid `Alí Muhammad سيد علی محمد ] (20 October 1819 – 9 July 1850) the founder of Bábism, was a merchant from Shiraz, Persia, who at the age of twenty-four claimed to be a new and independent Manifestation of God and the promised Qá'im (or Mahdí). After his declaration he took on the title of the Báb meaning the "Gateway", by which he is primarily known. Several years after the Báb's execution by firing squad Bahá'u'lláh claimed to fulfill his prophecy of "He whom God shall make manifest " and founded the Bahá'í Faith.

 * See also: Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'u'lláh

Tablet to ‘’

 * This is an epistle from this lowly servant to the All-Glorious Lord — He Who hath been aforetime and will be hereafter made manifest. Verily He is the Most Manifest, the Almighty.

 * Glorified is He before Whom all the dwellers of earth and heaven bow down in adoration and unto Whom all men turn in supplication. He is the One Who holdeth in His grasp the mighty kingdom of all created things and unto Him shall all return. He is the One Who revealeth whatsoever He willeth and by His injunction ‘Be Thou’ all things have come into being.

 * This is an epistle from the letter ‘Thá’ unto Him Who will be made manifest through the power of Truth — He Who is the All-Glorious, the Best Beloved — to affirm that all created things as well as myself bear witness for all time that there is none other God but Thee, the Omnipotent, the Self-Subsisting; that Thou art God, there is no God besides Thee and that all men shall be raised up to life through Thee.

 * From all eternity I have indeed recognized Thee and unto all eternity will ever do so through Thine Own Self and not through any one else besides Thee. Verily Thou art the Source of all knowledge, the Omniscient. From everlasting I have besought and unto everlasting will beseech forgiveness for my limited understanding of Thee, aware as I am that there is no God but Thee, the All-Glorious, the Almighty.

 * I beg of Thee, O my Best Beloved, to pardon me and those who earnestly seek to promote Thy Cause; Thou art indeed the One Who forgiveth the sins of all mankind.

 * I bear witness that Thou art the Most Manifest, the Omnipotent, the Ever-Abiding; that of all things that exist on earth and in the heavens nothing whatsoever can frustrate Thy purpose and that Thou art the Knower of all things and the Lord of might and majesty.

 * Every Manifestation is but a revelation of Thine Own Self, with each of Whom we have truly appeared and we bow down in adoration before Thee. Thou hast been, O my Best Beloved, and shalt ever be my witness throughout bygone times and in the days to come. Verily, Thou art the All-Powerful, the Ever-Faithful, the Omnipotent.

 * I have testified to Thy oneness through Thine Own Self before the dwellers of the heavens and the earth, bearing witness that, verily, Thou art the All-Glorious, the Best Beloved. I have attained the recognition of Thee through Thine Own Self before the dwellers of the heavens and the earth, bearing witness that Thou art in truth the Almighty, the All-Praised.

 * I have extolled Thine overpowering majesty through Thine Own Self before the dwellers of the heavens and the earth, bearing witness that, verily, Thou and Thou alone art the Lord of might, the Eternal One, the Ancient of Days. Hallowed and glorified art Thou; there is none other God but Thee and in truth unto Thee do we all return.

Second Tablet to ‘Him Who Will Be Made Manifest’

 * He is God, no God is there but Him, the Almighty, the Best Beloved. All that are in the heavens and on the earth and whatever lieth between them are His. Verily He is the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

 * This is a letter from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, unto God, the Almighty, the Best Beloved, to affirm that the Bayán and such as bear allegiance to it are but a present from me unto Thee and to express my undoubting faith that there is no God but Thee, that the kingdoms of Creation and Revelation are Thine, that no one can attain anything save by Thy power and that He Whom Thou hast raised up is but Thy servant and Thy Testimony.

 * Thou art verily the Lord of grace abounding. Thou dost indeed suffice every created thing and causest it to be independent of all things, while nothing in the heavens or on the earth or that which lieth between them can ever suffice Thee. Verily Thou art the Self-Sufficient, the All-Knowing; Thou art indeed potent over all things.

Tablet to the First Letter of the Living

 * This is that which We have revealed for the First Believer in Him Whom God shall make manifest, that it may serve as an admonition from Our presence unto all mankind.

 * In the Name of the Almighty, the Best Beloved. Lauded and glorified is He Who is the sovereign Lord of the kingdoms of heaven and earth and whatever is between them. Say, verily unto Him shall all return, and He is the One Who guideth at His Own behest whomsoever He pleaseth. Say, all men beseech His blessings and He is supreme over all created things. He is indeed the All-Glorious, the Mighty, the Well-Beloved.

 * God hath in truth testified in His Book and so also have testified the company of His angels, His Messengers and those endued with divine knowledge, that thou hast believed in God and in His signs and that everyone is guided aright by virtue of thy guidance. This is indeed a boundless grace which God, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, hath graciously conferred upon thee aforetime and will confer hereafter. And since thou didst believe in God before the creation, He hath in truth, at His own behest, raised thee up in every Revelation. There is no God but Him, the Sovereign Protector, the All-Glorious.

 * It behooveth you to proclaim the Cause of God unto all created things as a token of grace from His presence; no God is there but Him, the Most Generous, the All-Compelling.

 * Say: All matters must be referred to the Book of God; I am indeed the First to believe in God and in His signs; I am the One Who divulgeth and proclaimeth the Truth and I have been invested with every excellent title of God, the Mighty, the Incomparable. Verily I have attained the Day of the First Manifestation and by the bidding of the Lord and as a token of His grace, I shall attain the Day of the Latter Manifestation

 * I render thanks and yield praise unto God for having been chosen by Him as the Exponent of His Cause in bygone days and in the days to come; there is none other God save Him, the Glorified, the All-Praised, the Ever-Abiding. Whatever is in the heavens and on the earth is His and through Him are we guided aright.

Epistle to Muhammad Sháh

 * I am one of the sustaining pillars of the Primal Word of God. Whosoever hath recognized Me, hath known all that is true and right, and hath attained all that is good and seemly; and whosoever hath failed to recognize Me, hath turned away from all that is true and right and hath succumbed to everything evil and unseemly.

 * By My life! But for the obligation to acknowledge the Cause of Him Who is the Testimony of God … I would not have announced this unto thee... All the keys of heaven God hath chosen to place on My right hand, and all the keys of hell on My left...

 * I swear by God, the Peerless, the Incomparable, the True One: for no other reason hath He — the supreme Testimony of God — invested Me with clear signs and tokens than that all men may be enabled to submit to His Cause.

 * God beareth Me witness, I was not a man of learning, for I was trained as a merchant. In the year sixty God graciously infused my soul with the conclusive evidences and weighty knowledge which characterize Him Who is the Testimony of God — may peace be upon Him — until finally in that year I proclaimed God’s hidden Cause and unveiled its well-guarded Pillar, in such wise that no one could refute it. ‘That he who should perish might perish with a clear proof before him and he who should live might live by clear proof.’

 * He who doeth good unto Me, it is as if he doeth good unto God, His angels and the entire company of His loved ones. He who doeth evil unto Me, it is as if he doeth evil unto God and His chosen ones. Nay, too exalted is the station of God and of His loved ones for any person’s good or evil deed to reach their holy threshold. Whatever reacheth Me is ordained to reach Me; and that which hath come unto Me, to him who giveth will it revert. By the One in Whose hand is My soul, he hath cast no one but himself into prison. For assuredly whatsoever God hath decreed for Me shall come to pass and naught else save that which God hath ordained for us shall ever touch us. Woe betide him from whose hands floweth evil, and blessed the man from whose hands floweth good. Unto no one do I take My plaint save to God; for He is the best of judges. Every state of adversity or bliss is from Him alone, and He is the All-Powerful, the Almighty.

 * Were I to remove the veil, all would recognize Me as their Best Beloved, and no one would deny Me. Let not this assertion astound Your Majesty; inasmuch as a true believer in the unity of God who keepeth his eyes directed towards Him alone, will regard aught else but Him as utter nothingness. I swear by God! I seek no earthly goods from thee, be it as much as a mustard seed. Indeed, to possess anything of this world or of the next would, in My estimation, be tantamount to open blasphemy. For it ill beseemeth the believer in the unity of God to turn his gaze to aught else, much less to hold it in his possession. I know of a certainty that since I have God, the Ever-Living, the Adored One, I am the possessor of all things, visible and invisible...

 * In the Name of God, the Most Exalted, the Most Holy. All praise and glory befitteth the sacred and glorious court of the sovereign Lord, Who from everlasting hath dwelt, and unto everlasting will continue to dwell within the mystery of His Own divine Essence, Who from time immemorial hath abided and will forever continue to abide within His transcendent eternity, exalted above the reach and ken of all created beings. The sign of His matchless Revelation as created by Him and imprinted upon the realities of all beings, is none other but their powerlessness to know Him. The light He hath shed upon all things is none but the splendour of His Own Self. He Himself hath at all times been immeasurably exalted above any association with His creatures. He hath fashioned the entire creation in such wise that all beings may, by virtue of their innate powers, bear witness before God on the Day of Resurrection that He hath no peer or equal and is sanctified from any likeness, similitude or comparison. He hath been and will ever be one and incomparable in the transcendent glory of His divine being and He hath ever been indescribably mighty in the sublimity of His sovereign Lordship. No one hath ever been able befittingly to recognize Him nor will any man succeed at any time in comprehending Him as is truly meet and seemly, for any reality to which the term ‘being’ is applicable hath been created by the sovereign Will of the Almighty, Who hath shed upon it the radiance of His Own Self, shining forth from His most august station. He hath moreover deposited within the realities of all created things the emblem of His recognition, that everyone may know of a certainty that He is the Beginning and the End, the Manifest and the Hidden, the Maker and the Sustainer, the Omnipotent and the All-Knowing, the One Who heareth and perceiveth all things, He Who is invincible in His power and standeth supreme in His Own identity, He Who quickeneth and causeth to die, the All-Powerful, the Inaccessible, the Most Exalted, the Most High. Every revelation of His divine Essence betokens the sublimity of His glory, the loftiness of His sanctity, the inaccessible height of His oneness and the exaltation of His majesty and power. His beginning hath had no beginning other than His Own firstness and His end knoweth no end save His Own lastness.
 * I, 1

 * No doubt is there that the verses of God are verses that shine forth from this Tree, for the Eternal Essence has ever existed in His state of singleness, whereas the verses are a matter for creativity, which is the work of the Primal Will, in whom none can be seen save God alone. Although, in this day men do not look upon the verses of God, yet before long these same verses shall be recited in the most exalted manner and Bayans worth one thousand mithqals of gold shall be written; men shall pride themselves thereon and regard themselves as related to God.
 * II, 3

 * The revelation of the Divine Reality hath everlastingly been identical with its concealment and its concealment identical with its revelation. That which is intended by ‘Revelation of God’ is the Tree of divine Truth that betokeneth none but Him, and it is this divine Tree that hath raised and will raise up Messengers, and hath revealed and will ever reveal Scriptures. From eternity unto eternity this Tree of divine Truth hath served and will ever serve as the throne of the revelation and concealment of God among His creatures, and in every age is made manifest through whomsoever He pleaseth. At the time of the revelation of the Qur’án He asserted His transcendent power through the advent of Muḥammad, and on the occasion of the revelation of the Bayán He demonstrated His sovereign might through the appearance of the Point of the Bayán, and when He Whom God shall make manifest will shine forth, it will be through Him that He will vindicate the truth of His Faith, as He pleaseth, with whatsoever He pleaseth and for whatsoever He pleaseth. He is with all things, yet nothing is with Him. He is not within a thing nor above it nor beside it. Any reference to His being established upon the throne implieth that the Exponent of His Revelation is established upon the seat of transcendent authority... He hath everlastingly existed and will everlastingly continue to exist. He hath been and will ever remain inscrutable unto all men, inasmuch as all else besides Him have been and shall ever be created through the potency of His command. He is exalted above every mention or praise and is sanctified beyond every word of commendation or every comparison. No created thing comprehendeth Him, while He in truth comprehendeth all things. Even when it is said ‘no created thing comprehendeth Him’, this refers to the Mirror of His Revelation, that is Him Whom God shall make manifest. Indeed too high and exalted is He for anyone to allude unto Him.
 * II, 8

 * In these different worlds his (the disbeliever's) clothes are fire, even if they are of silk, and the place of his sojourn is fire, even if he is on the highest throne on the Earth, and his food is likewise fire. The clothes of others (of the believers) are made of what is created in Paradise, their seat is the highest seat of Paradise, and their food is the most succulent fruits of Paradise, even if they are clothed only with cotton, if they associate only on the bare soil, if they feed only on leaves of lettuce
 * II, 9

 * It is better to guide one soul than to possess all that is on earth, for as long as that guided soul is under the shadow of the Tree of Divine Unity, he and the one who hath guided him will both be recipients of God’s tender mercy, whereas possession of earthly things will cease at the time of death. The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. This hath been God’s method in the past, and shall continue to be in the future!
 * II, 16

 * There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul than to be exposed to God’s Manifestation in His Day, to hear His verses and believe in them, to attain His presence, which is naught but the presence of God, to sail upon the sea of the heavenly kingdom of His good-pleasure, and to partake of the choice fruits of the paradise of His divine Oneness.
 * II, 16

 * If He [whom God shall manifest] shall appear in the number of Ghiyath and all shall enter in, not one shall remain in the Fire. If He tarry until [the number of] Mustaghath, all shall enter in, not one shall remain in the Fire, but all shall be transformed into His light.
 * II, 17

 * I swear by the most sacred Essence of God that but one line of the Words uttered by Him is more sublime than the words uttered by all that dwell on earth. Nay, I beg forgiveness for making this comparison. How could the reflections of the sun in the mirror compare with the wondrous rays of the sun in the visible heaven? The station of one is that of nothingness, while the station of the other, by the righteousness of God — hallowed and magnified be His Name — is that of the Reality of things...
 * III, 12

 * If in the Day of His manifestation a king were to make mention of his own sovereignty, this would be like unto a mirror challenging the sun, saying: ‘The light is in me’. It would be likewise, if a man of learning in His Day were to claim to be an exponent of knowledge, or if he who is possessed of riches were to display his affluence, or if a man wielding power were to assert his own authority, or if one invested with grandeur were to show forth his glory. Nay, such men would become the object of the derision of their peers, and how would they be judged by Him Who is the Sun of Truth!
 * III, 12

 * On the Day of Resurrection God will ask everyone of his understanding and not of his following in the footsteps of others. How often a person, having inclined his ears to the holy verses, would bow down in humility and would embrace the Truth, while his leader would not do so. Thus every individual must bear his own responsibility, rather than someone else bearing it for him.
 * IV, 18

 * I swear by the most holy Essence of God — exalted and glorified be He — that in the Day of the appearance of Him Whom God shall make manifest a thousand perusals of the Bayán cannot equal the perusal of a single verse to be revealed by Him Whom God shall make manifest.
 * V, 8

 * Know thou of a certainty that every letter revealed in the Bayán is solely intended to evoke submission unto Him Whom God shall make manifest, for it is He Who hath revealed the Bayán prior to His Own manifestation.
 * V, 8

 * God desireth not to see, in the Dispensation of the Bayán, any soul deprived of joy and radiance. He indeed desireth that under all conditions, all may be adorned with such purity, both inwardly and outwardly, that no repugnance may be caused even to themselves, how much less unto others.
 * V, 14

 * There is no paradise, in the estimation of the believers in the Divine Unity, more exalted than to obey God’s commandments, and there is no fire in the eyes of those who have known God and His signs, fiercer than to transgress His laws and to oppress another soul, even to the extent of a mustard seed. On the Day of Resurrection God will, in truth, judge all men, and we all verily plead for His grace.
 * V, 19

 * The One true God may be compared unto the sun and the believer unto a mirror. No sooner is the mirror placed before the sun than it reflects its light. The unbeliever may be likened unto a stone. No matter how long it is exposed to the sunshine, it cannot reflect the sun.
 * VI, 4

 * On that Day whatever cause prompteth the believer to believe in Him, the same will also be available to the unbeliever. But when the latter suffereth himself to be wrapt in veils, the same cause shutteth him out as by a veil. Thus, as is clearly evident today, those who have set their faces toward God, the True One, have believed in Him because of the Bayán, while such as are veiled have been deprived because of it.
 * VI, 4

 * God hath, at all times and under all conditions, been wholly independent of His creatures. He hath cherished and will ever cherish the desire that all men may attain His gardens of Paradise with utmost love, that no one should sadden another, not even for a moment, and that all should dwell within His cradle of protection and security until the Day of Resurrection which marketh the dayspring of the Revelation of Him Whom God will make manifest.
 * VI, 16

 * Worship thou God in such wise that if thy worship lead thee to the fire, no alteration in thine adoration would be produced, and so likewise if thy recompense should be paradise. Thus and thus alone should be the worship which befitteth the one True God. Shouldst thou worship Him because of fear, this would be unseemly in the sanctified Court of His presence, and could not be regarded as an act by thee dedicated to the Oneness of His Being. Or if thy gaze should be on paradise, and thou shouldst worship Him while cherishing such a hope, thou wouldst make God’s creation a partner with Him, notwithstanding the fact that paradise is desired by men. Fire and paradise both bow down and prostrate themselves before God. That which is worthy of His Essence is to worship Him for His sake, without fear of fire, or hope of paradise.
 * VII, 19

 * The most acceptable prayer is the one offered with the utmost spirituality and radiance; its prolongation hath not been and is not beloved by God. The more detached and the purer the prayer, the more acceptable is it in the presence of God.
 * VII, 19

 * The acts of Him Whom God shall make manifest are like unto the sun, while the works of men, provided they conform to the good-pleasure of God, resemble the stars or the moon... Thus, should the followers of the Bayán observe the precepts of Him Whom God shall make manifest at the time of His appearance, and regard themselves and their own works as stars exposed to the light of the sun, then they will have gathered the fruits of their existence; otherwise the title of ‘starship’ will not apply to them. Rather it will apply to such as truly believe in Him, to those who pale into insignificance in the day-time and gleam forth with light in the night season. Such indeed is the fruit of this precept, should anyone observe it on the Day of Resurrection. This is the essence of all learning and of all righteous deeds, should anyone but attain unto it. Had the peoples of the world fixed their gaze upon this principle, no Exponent of divine Revelation would ever have, at the inception of any Dispensation, regarded them as things of naught. However, the fact is that during the night season everyone perceiveth the light which he himself, according to his own capacity, giveth out, oblivious that at the break of day this light shall fade away and be reduced to utter nothingness before the dazzling splendour of the sun.
 * VIII, 1

 * The light of the people of the world is their knowledge and utterance; while the splendours shed from the glorious acts of Him Whom God shall make manifest are His Words, through whose potency He rolleth up the whole world of existence, sets it under His Own authority by relating it unto Himself, then as the Mouthpiece of God, the Source of His divine light — exalted and glorified be He — proclaimeth: ‘Verily, verily, I am God, no God is there but Me; in truth all others except Me are My creatures. Say, O My creatures! Me alone, therefore, should ye fear’.
 * VIII, 1

 * The Day of Resurrection is a day on which the sun riseth and setteth like unto any other day. How oft hath the Day of Resurrection dawned, and the people of the land where it occurred did not learn of the event. Had they heard, they would not have believed, and thus they were not told!
 * ** VIII, 9

 * When the Apostle of God appeared, He did not announce unto the unbelievers that the Resurrection had come, for they could not bear the news. That Day is indeed an infinitely mighty Day, for in it the Divine Tree proclaimeth from eternity unto eternity, ‘Verily, I am God. No God is there but Me’. Yet those who are veiled believe that He is one like unto them, and they refuse even to call Him a believer, although such a title in the realm of His heavenly Kingdom is conferred everlastingly upon the most insignificant follower of His previous Dispensation.
 * VIII, 9

 * Consider with due attention, for the path is very strait, even while it is more spacious than the heavens and the earth and what is between them.
 * IX, 3

Dalá’Il-I-Sab‘ih
The Seven Proofs

 * Thou hast asked concerning the fundamentals of religion and its ordinances: Know thou that first and foremost in religion is the knowledge of God. This attaineth its consummation in the recognition of His divine unity, which in turn reacheth its fulfilment in acclaiming that His hallowed and exalted Sanctuary, the Seat of His transcendent majesty, is sanctified from all attributes. And know thou that in this world of being the knowledge of God can never be attained save through the knowledge of Him Who is the Dayspring of divine Reality.

 * In every nation thou beholdest unnumbered spiritual leaders who are bereft of true discernment, and among every people thou dost encounter myriads of adherents who are devoid of the same characteristic. Ponder for a while in thy heart, have pity on thyself and turn not aside thine attention from proofs and evidences. However, seek not proofs and evidences after thine idle fancy; but rather base thy proofs upon what God hath appointed. Moreover, know thou that neither being a man of learning nor being a follower is in itself a source of glory. If thou art a man of learning, thy knowledge becometh an honour, and if thou art a follower, thine adherence unto leadership becometh an honour, only when these conform to the good-pleasure of God.

 * Thy letter hath been perused. Were the truth of this Revelation to be fully demonstrated with elaborate proofs, all the scrolls that exist in the heaven and on the earth would be insufficient to contain them. However, the substance and essence of the subject is this, that there can be no doubt that from everlasting God hath been invested with the independent sovereignty of His exalted Being, and unto everlasting He will remain inaccessible in the transcendent majesty of His holy Essence. No creature hath ever recognized Him as befitteth His recognition, nor hath any created being ever praised Him as is worthy of His praise. He is exalted above every name, and is sanctified from every comparison. Through Him all things are made known, while too lofty is His reality to be known through anyone but Him. The process of His creation hath had no beginning and can have no end, otherwise it would necessitate the cessation of His celestial grace. God hath raised up Prophets and revealed Books as numerous as the creatures of the world, and will continue to do so to everlasting.

 * If thou art sailing upon the sea of God’s Names, which are reflected in all things, know thou that He is exalted and sanctified from being known through His creatures, or being described by His servants. Everything thou beholdest hath been called into being through the operation of His Will. How can such a created thing, therefore, be indicative of His essential oneness? God’s existence in itself testifieth to His Own oneness, while every created thing, by its very nature, beareth evidence that it hath been fashioned by God. Such is the proof of consummate wisdom in the estimation of those who sail the ocean of divine Truth.

 * If, however, thou art sailing upon the sea of creation, know thou that the First Remembrance, which is the Primal Will of God, may be likened unto the sun. God hath created Him through the potency of His might, and He hath, from the beginning that hath no beginning, caused Him to be manifested in every Dispensation through the compelling power of His behest, and God will, to the end that knoweth no end, continue to manifest Him according to the good-pleasure of His invincible Purpose.

 * In the time of the First Manifestation the Primal Will appeared in Adam; in the day of Noah It became known in Noah; in the day of Abraham in Him; and so in the day of Moses; the day of Jesus; the day of Muḥammad, the Apostle of God; the day of the ‘Point of the Bayán’; the day of Him Whom God shall make manifest; and the day of the One Who will appear after Him Whom God shall make manifest. Hence the inner meaning of the words uttered by the Apostle of God, ‘I am all the Prophets’, inasmuch as what shineth resplendent in each one of Them hath been and will ever remain the one and the same sun.

The Kitáb-I-Asmá

 * The Book of Names

 * Say, He Whom God shall make manifest is indeed the Primal Veil of God. Above this Veil ye can find nothing other than God, while beneath it ye can discern all things emanating from God. He is the Unseen, the Inaccessible, the Most Exalted, the Best Beloved.
 * XVI, 17

 * O ye that are invested with the Bayán! Denounce ye not one another, ere the Day-Star of ancient eternity shineth forth above the horizon of His sublimity. We have created you from one tree and have caused you to be as the leaves and fruit of the same tree, that haply ye may become a source of comfort to one another. Regard ye not others save as ye regard your own selves, that no feeling of aversion may prevail amongst you so as to shut you out from Him Whom God shall make manifest on the Day of Resurrection. It behooveth you all to be one indivisible people; thus should ye return unto Him Whom God shall make manifest.
 * XVI, 19

 * Those who have deprived themselves of this Resurrection by reason of their mutual hatreds or by regarding themselves to be in the right and others in the wrong, were chastised on the Day of Resurrection by reason of such hatreds evinced during their night. Thus they deprived themselves of beholding the countenance of God, and this for no other reason than mutual denunciations.
 * XVI, 19

 * O ye that are invested with the Bayán! Ye should perform such deeds as would please God, your Lord, earning thereby the good-pleasure of Him Whom God shall make manifest. Turn not your religion into a means of material gain, spending your life on vanities, and inheriting thereby on the Day of Resurrection that which would displease Him Whom God shall make manifest, while ye deem that what ye do is right. If, however, ye observe piety in your Faith, God will surely nourish you from the treasuries of His heavenly grace.
 * XVI, 19

 * Beware lest ye suffer one another to be wrapt in veils by reason of the disputes which may, during your night, arise among you as a result of the problems ye encounter or in consideration of such matters as your loftiness or lowliness, your nearness or remoteness. Thus have We firmly exhorted you — a befitting exhortation indeed — that haply ye may cleave tenaciously unto it and attain thereby salvation on the Day of Resurrection.
 * XVI, 19

 * Should a person lay claim to a cause and produce his proofs, then those who seek to repudiate him are required to produce proofs like unto his. If they succeed in doing so, his words will prove vain and they will prevail; otherwise neither his words will cease nor the proofs he hath set forth will become void. I admonish you, O ye who are invested with the Bayán, if ye would fain assert your ascendancy, confront not any soul unless ye give proofs similar to that which he hath adduced; for Truth shall be firmly established, while aught else besides it is sure to perish.
 * XVII, 11

 * Wert thou to open the heart of a single soul by helping him to embrace the Cause of Him Whom God shall make manifest, thine inmost being would be filled with the inspirations of that august Name. It devolveth upon you, therefore, to perform this task in the Days of Resurrection, inasmuch as most people are helpless, and wert thou to open their hearts and dispel their doubts, they would gain admittance into the Faith of God.
 * XVII, 15

 * Take heed to carefully consider the words of every soul, then hold fast to the proofs which attest the truth. If ye fail to discover truth in a person’s words, make them not the object of contention, inasmuch as ye have been forbidden in the Bayán to enter into idle disputation and controversy, that perchance on the Day of Resurrection ye may not engage in argumentation, and dispute with Him Whom God shall make manifest.
 * XVII, 16

 * On the Day of Resurrection when He Whom God will make manifest cometh unto you, invested with conclusive proofs, ye shall hold His Cause as being devoid of truth, whereas God hath apprised you in the Bayán that no similarity existeth between the Cause of Him Whom God will make manifest and the cause of others. How can anyone besides God reveal a verse such as to overwhelm all mankind? Say, great is God! Who else but Him Whom God will make manifest can spontaneously recite verses which proceed from His Lord — a feat that no mortal man can ever hope to accomplish?
 * XVIII, 3

 * How great hath been the number of those who have falsely laid claim to a cause within Islám, and ye followed in their footsteps without having witnessed a single proof. What evidence can ye then produce in the presence of your Lord, if ye do but meditate a while? Take ye good heed in your night lest ye be a cause of sadness to any soul, whether ye be able to discover proofs in him or not, that haply on the Day of Resurrection ye may not grieve Him within Whose grasp lieth every proof. And when ye do not discern God’s testimony in a person, he will verily fail in manifesting the power of Truth; and God is sufficient to deal with him. Indeed on no account should ye sadden any person; surely God will put him to the proof and bring him to account. It behooveth you to cling to the testimony of your own Faith and to observe the ordinances laid down in the Bayán.
 * XVIII, 3

 * O ye unto whom the Bayán is given! Be ye vigilant lest in the days of Him Whom God shall make manifest, while ye consider yourselves as seeking God’s pleasure, in reality ye persist in that which would only displease Him, even as did those who lived in the days of the Primal Point, to whom it never occurred that they were seeking things which ran counter to that which God had purposed.
 * XVI, 13

 * O ye who are invested with the Bayán! Regard not yourselves as being like unto the people to whom the Qur’án or the Gospel or other Scriptures of old were given, since at the time of His manifestation ye shall stray farther from God than did they. If ye happen to shut yourselves out it would never cross your minds that ye were shut out from Him. It behooveth you to consider how the people unto whom the Qur’án was given were debarred from the Truth, for indeed ye will act in a like manner, thinking that ye are doers of good. If ye perceive the degree of your deprivation of God, ye will wish to have perished from the face of the earth and to have sunk into oblivion. The day will come when ye will earnestly desire to know that which would meet with the good-pleasure of God but, alas, ye shall find no path unto Him. Ye, even as camels that wander aimlessly, will not find a pasture wherein ye may gather and unite upon a Cause in which ye can assuredly believe. At that time God shall cause the Sun of Truth to shine forth and the oceans of His bounty and grace to surge, while ye will have chosen droplets of water as the object of your desire, and will have deprived yourselves of the plenteous waters in His oceans.
 * XVI, 13

 * Let no one among you say that God hath withheld the outpouring of His bounty unto you, for assuredly God’s mercy unto those to whom the Bayán is given hath been fulfilled and completed until the Day of Resurrection. Would that ye might believe in the signs of God.
 * XVI, 13

 * Since thou hast faithfully obeyed the true religion of God in the past, it behooveth thee to follow His true religion hereafter, inasmuch as every religion proceedeth from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

 * I swear by the life of Him Whom God shall make manifest! My Revelation is indeed far more bewildering than that of Muḥammad, the Apostle of God, if thou dost but pause to reflect upon the days of God. Behold, how strange that a person brought up amongst the people of Persia should be empowered by God to proclaim such irrefutable utterances as to silence every man of learning, and be enabled to spontaneously reveal verses far more rapidly than anyone could possibly set down in writing. Verily, no God is there but Him, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
 * XVI, 18.

 * As to those who have debarred themselves from the Revelation of God, they have indeed failed to understand the significance of a single letter of the Qur’án, nor have they obtained the slightest notion of the Faith of Islám, otherwise they would not have turned away from God, Who hath brought them into being, Who hath nurtured them, hath caused them to die and hath proffered life unto them, by clinging to parts of their religion, thinking that they are doing righteous work for the sake of God.
 * XVII, 2

 * Ye spend all your days contriving forms and rules for the principles of your Faith, while that which profiteth you in all this is to comprehend the good-pleasure of your Lord and unitedly to become well-acquainted with His supreme Purpose.
 * XVII, 2

 * On that Day ye will continue to rove distraught, even as camels, seeking a drop of the water of life. God will cause oceans of living water to stream forth from the presence of Him Whom God shall make manifest, while ye will refuse to quench your thirst therefrom, notwithstanding that ye regard yourselves as the God-fearing witnesses of your Faith. Nay, and yet again, nay! Ye will go astray far beyond the peoples unto whom the Gospel, or the Qur’án or any other Scripture was given. Take good heed to yourselves, inasmuch as the Cause of God will come upon you at a time when you will all be entreating and tearfully imploring God for the advent of the Day of His Manifestation; yet when He cometh ye will tarry and will fail to be of those who are well-assured in His Faith. Beware lest ye grieve Him Who is the Supreme Manifestation of your Lord; verily, He can well afford to dispense with your allegiance unto Him. Be ye careful and bring not despondency upon any soul, for surely ye shall be put to proof.
 * XVII, 2

 * Say, He Whom God shall make manifest will surely redeem the rights of those who truly believe in God and in His signs, for they are the ones who merit reward from His presence. Say, it is far from the glory of Him Whom God shall make manifest that anyone should in this wise make mention of His name, if ye ponder the Cause of God in your hearts. Say, He shall vindicate the Cause through the potency of His command and shall bring to naught all perversion of truth by virtue of His behest. Verily God is potent over all things.

 * Fear ye God that ye may not identify yourselves with aught but the truth, inasmuch as ye have been exalted in the Bayán for being recognized as the bearers of the name of Him Who is the eternal Truth.
 * XVII, 4

 * Verily God is able to convert light into fire whenever He pleaseth; surely He is potent over all things. And were He to declare a person whom ye regard alien to the truth as being akin thereto, err not by questioning His decision in your fancies, for He Who is the Sovereign Truth createth things through the power of His behest. Verily God transmuteth fire into light as He willeth, and indeed potent is He over all things. Consider ye how the truth shone forth as truth in the First Day and how error became manifest as error; so likewise shall ye distinguish them from each other on the Day of Resurrection.
 * XVII, 4

title: Báb


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Catherine II of Russia

Catherine II of Russia or Catherine the Great (Екатерина II Алексеевна [Yekaterína II Alekséyevna] (21 April 1729 {2 May O.S.} – 6 November 1796 {17 November O.S.}) reigned as Empress of Russia for more than three decades; born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst. She was the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Joanna Elisabeth of Golstein-Gottorp.

Quotes

 * I like to praise and reward, to blame quietly.
 * As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423
 * Variant: I praise loudly. I blame softly.
 * As quoted in The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham, p. 367

 * I will live to make myself not feared.
 * As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423

 * The Governing Senate. . . has deemed it necessary to make known... that the landlords' serfs and peasants . . . owe their landlords proper submission and absolute obedience in all matters, according to the laws that have been enacted from time immemorial by the autocratic forefathers of Her Imperial Majesty and which have not been repealed, and which provide that all persons who dare to incite serfs and peasants to disobey their landlords shall be arrested and taken to the nearest government office, there to be punished forthwith as disturbers of the public tranquillity, according to the laws and without leniency. And should it so happen that even after the publication of the present decree of Her Imperial Majesty any serfs and peasants should cease to give the proper obedience to their landlords . . . and should make bold to submit unlawful petitions complaining of their landlords, and especially to petition Her Imperial Majesty personally, then both those who make the complaints and those who write up the petitions shall be punished by the knout and forthwith deported to Nerchinsk to penal servitude for life and shall be counted as part of the quota of recruits which their landlords must furnish to the army. And in order that people everywhere may know of the present decree, it shall be read in all the churches on Sundays and holy days for one month after it is received and therafter once every year during the great church festivals, lest anyone pretend ignorance.
 * Decree on Serfs (1767) as quoted in A Source Book for Russian History Vol. 2 (1972) by George Vernadsky

 * Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.
 * As quoted in Woman Through the Ages (1908) by Emil Reich, p. 155

 * Your wit makes others witty.
 * Letter to Voltaire, as quoted in Short Sayings of Great Men : With Historical and Explanatory Notes (1882) by Samuel Arthur Bent, and Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) revised and enlarged by Kate Loise Roberts

 * A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
 * As quoted in Daughters of Eve (1930) by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 192

 * Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
 * As quoted in And I Quote : The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, p. 278

 * You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
 * Letter to Denis Diderot, as quoted in The Affairs of Women : A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham

Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)

 * Documents of Catherine the Great: The Correspondence with Voltaire and the Instruction of 1767 in the English Text of 1768 (1931) translations by W. F. Reddaway

 * The Sovereign is absolute; for there is no other Authority but that which centers in his single Person, that can act with a Vigour proportionate to the Extent of such a vast Dominion. The Extent of the Dominion requires an absolute Power to be vested in that Person who rules over it. It is expedient so to be, that the quick Dispatch of Affairs, sent from distant Parts, might make ample Amends for the Delay occasioned by the great Distance of the Places. Every other Form of Government whatsoever would not only have been prejudicial to Russia, but would even have proved its entire Ruin.

 * It is better to be subject to the Laws under one Master, than to be subservient to many.

 * What is the true End of Monarchy? Not to deprive People of their natural Liberty; but to correct their Actions, in order to attain the supreme Good. The Form of Government, therefore, which best attains this End, and at the same Time sets less Bounds than others to natural Liberty, is that which coincides with the Views and Purposes of rational Creatures, and answers the End, upon which we ought to fix a steadfast Eye in the Regulations of civil Polity.

 * The Intention and the End of Monarchy, is the Glory of the Citizens, of the State, and of the Sovereign. But, from this Glory, a Sense of Liberty arises in a People governed by a Monarch; which may produce in these States as much Energy in transacting the most important Affairs, and may contribute as much to the Happiness of the Subjects, as even Liberty itself....

 * The Laws ought to be so framed, as to secure the Safety of every Citizen as much as possible.

 * The Equality of the Citizens consists in this; that they should all be subject to the same Laws. This Equality requires Institutions so well adapted, as to prevent the Rich from oppressing those who are not so wealthy as themselves, and converting all the Charges and Employments intrusted to them as Magistrates only, to their own private Emolument....

 * In a State or Assemblage of People that live together in a Community, where there are Laws, Liberty can only consist in doing that which every One ought to do, and not to be constrained to do that which One ought not to do.

 * A Man ought to form in his own Mind an exact and clear Idea of what Liberty is. Liberty is the Right of doing whatsoever the Laws allow: And if any one Citizen could do what the Laws forbid, there would be no more Liberty; because others would have an equal Power of doing the same.

 * The political Liberty of a Citizen is the Peace of Mind arising from the Consciousness, that every Individual enjoys his peculiar Safety; and in order that the People might attain this Liberty, the Laws ought to be so framed, that no one Citizen should stand in Fear of another; but that all of them should stand in Fear of the same Laws....

 * The Usage of Torture is contrary to all the Dictates of Nature and Reason; even Mankind itself cries out against it, and demands loudly the total Abolition of it.

 * That Law, therefore, is highly beneficial to the Community where it is established, which ordains that every Man shall be judged by his Peers and Equals. For when the Fate of a Citizen is in Question, all Prejudices arising from the Difference of Rank or Fortune should be stifled; because they ought to have no Influence between the Judges and the Parties accused.

 * No Man ought to be looked upon as guilty, before he has received his judicial Sentence; nor can the Laws deprive him of their Protection, before it is proved that he has forfeited all Right to it. What Right therefore can Power give to any to inflict Punishment upon a Citizen at a Time, when it is yet dubious, whether he is Innocent or guilty?

 * A Society of Citizens, as well as every Thing else, requires a certain fixed Order: There ought to be some to govern, and others to obey. And this is the Origin of every Kind of Subjection; which feels itself more or less alleviated, in Proportion to the Situation of the Subjects.And, consequently, as the Law of Nature commands Us to take as much Care, as lies in Our Power, of the Prosperity of all the People; we are obliged to alleviate the Situation of the Subjects, as much as sound Reason will permit. And therefore, to shun all Occasions of reducing People to a State of Slavery, except the utmost Necessity should inevitably oblige us to do it; in that Case, it ought not to be done for our own Benefit; but for the Interest of the State: Yet even that Case is extremely uncommon. Of whatever Kind Subjection may be, the civil Laws ought to guard, on the one Hand, against the Abuse of Slavery, and, on the other, against the Dangers which may arise from it.

 * It seems too, that the Method of exacting their Revenues, newly invented by the Lords, diminishes both the Inhabitants, and the Spirit of Agriculture in Russia. Almost all the Villages are heavily taxed. The Lords, who seldom or never reside in their Villages, lay an Impost on every Head of one, two, and even five Rubles, without the least Regard to the Means by which their Peasants may be able to raise this Money. It is highly necessary that the Law should prescribe a Rule to the Lords, for a more judicious Method of raising their Revenues; and oblige them to levy such a Tax, as tends least to separate the Peasant from his House and Family; this would be the Means by which Agriculture would become more extensive, and Population be more increased in the Empire.

Memoirs

 * Quotes from Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II (1859) published by D. Appleton & Co., and The Memoirs of Catherine the Great  as translated by Markus Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom (2005) (hardcover, ISBN 0679642994; 2006 (paperback, ISBN 0812969871

1728—43 Peter III’s childhood and education...

 * They raised the Prince for the throne of Sweden in a court that was too large for the country in which it was located and that was divided into several factions, which hated each other and vied to control the Prince’s mind, which each faction wanted to shape. As a result, these factions inspired in him the reciprocal hatred they felt against the individuals they opposed.

 * From the age of ten, Peter III was partial to drink.

 * The education of Peter III was undermined by a clash of unfortunate circumstances. I will relate what I have seen and heard, and that in itself will clarify many things. I saw Peter III for the first time when he was eleven years old, in Eutin at the home of his guardian, the Prince Bishop of Lübeck. Some months after the death of Duke Karl Friedrich, Peter III’s father, the Prince Bishop had in 1739 assembled all of his family at his home in Eutin to have his ward brought there. My grandmother, mother of the Prince Bishop, and my mother, sister of this same Prince, had come there from Hamburg with me. I was ten years old at the time.... It was then that I heard it said among this assembled family that the young duke was inclined to drink, that his attendants found it difficult to prevent him from getting drunk at meals, that he was restive and hotheaded, did not like his attendants and especially Brümmer, and that otherwise he showed vivacity, but had a delicate and sickly appearance. In truth, his face was pale in color and he seemed to be thin and of a delicate constitution. His attendants wanted to give this child the appearance of a mature man, and to this end they hampered and restrained him, which could only inculcate falseness in his conduct as well as his character.

1744 Catherine’s arrival in Russia...

 * The Grand Duke appeared to rejoice at the arrival of my mother and myself. I was in my fifteenth year. During the first ten days he paid me much attention. Even then and in that short time, I saw and understood that he did not care much for the nation that he was destined to rule, and that he clung to Lutheranism, did not like his entourage, and was very childish. I remained silent and listened, and this gained me his trust. I remember him telling me that among other things, what pleased him most about me was that I was his second cousin, and that because I was related to him, he could speak to me with an open heart. Then he told me that he was in love with one of the Empress’s maids of honor, who had been dismissed from court because of the misfortune of her mother, one Madame Lopukhina, who had been exiled to Siberia, that he would have liked to marry her, but that he was resigned to marry me because his aunt desired it. I listened with a blush to these family confidences, thanking him for his ready trust, but deep in my heart I was astonished by his imprudence and lack of judgment in many matters.

1752
 * To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited. Flight alone is, perhaps, the only remedy; but there are cases and circumstances in which flight becomes impossible, for how is it possible to fly, shun, or turn one's back in the midst of a court? The very attempt would give rise to remarks. Now, if you do not fly, there is nothing, it seems to me, so difficult as to escape from that which is essentially agreeable. All that can be said in opposition to it will appear but a prudery quite out of harmony with the natural instincts of the human heart; besides, no one holds his heart in his hand, tightening or relaxing his grasp of it at pleasure.

Misattributed

 * The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
 * Widely attributed to Catherine II online, this has been attributed to Confucius in published books, but no print sources attribute this to Catherine.

Quotes about Catherine II

 * This princess seems to combine every kind of ambition in her person. Everything that may add luster to her reign will have some attraction for her. Science and the arts will be encouraged to flourish in the empire, projects useful for the domestic economy will be undertaken. She will endeavor to reform the administration of justice and to invigorate the laws; but her policies will be based on Machiavellianism; and I should not be surprised if in this field she rivals the king of Prussia. She will adopt the prejudices of her entourage regarding the superiority of her power and will endeavor to win respect not by the sincerity and probity of her actions but also by an ostentatious display of her strength. Haughty as she is, she will stubbornly pursue her undertakings and will rarely retrace a false step. Cunning and falsity appear to be vices in her character; woe to him who puts too much trust in her. Love affairs may become a stumbling block to her ambition and prove fatal for her peace of mind. This passionate princess, still held in check by the fear and consciousness of internal troubles, will know no restraint once she believes herself firmly established.
 * Baron de Breteuil as quoted in A Source Book for Russian History Vol. 2 (1972) by George Vernadsky

 * Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.
 * Celia Brayfield, English writer and journalist, co-founder of the UK's National Academy of Writing, as quoted in Women's Wicked Wit : From Jane Austen to Roseanne Barr (2001) by Michelle Lovric

 * As a ruler, Catherine professed a great contempt for system, which she said she had been taught to despise by her master Voltaire. She declared that in politics a capable ruler must be guided by "circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
 * "Catherine II" article in The Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition (1910), Vol. V, p. 527; What here appears as a paraphrased statement was later quoted as if it were a direct quote in Thesaurus of Epigrams (1948) by Edmund Fuller, and One Thousand Sayings of History Presented as Pictures in Prose (1971) by Walter Fogg: "In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."

 * History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun. How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history? There is a thirst out there both for knowledge and to be entertained, and the market has responded with enthusiasm.
 * Margaret MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History (2008)

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title: Catherine II of Russia


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That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana

That's So Raven --- Checking Out

 * Raven: (upon entering the Tipton) Ooh swaaanky!
 * Moseby: Thank you. We take pride in our "swank." Welcome to the Tipton. Do you have your reservation?
 * Raven: Actually, yes I do.

 * Raven: (Upon finding out that her Secretech messed up the shoot) I ruined everything. EVERYTHING!!!

 * Tyler: (on the phone) This is Tyler, yes, I read it. It was garbage. Of course I'll do it.
 * Raven: Hey guys! Put your hands here.
 * Cody: Why?
 * Raven: Just do it!! [Tyler falls, the twins caught her, averting Raven's vision]
 * Tyler: You saved me! (Gives Zack and Cody hugs.) Thank you.
 * Cody: (dreamily) No! Thank you!
 * Zack: [Zack smells her hair]
 * Tyler: Eww!
 * Zack: [to Raven] Hey, how'd you know that she was gonna fall?
 * Raven: [hesitantly, to cover up her psychic secret] Don't y'all watch the news lately? There's been an epidemic...of falling stars lately. It's creepy.
 * Cody: Oh, good to know. I'm Cody and this is Zack.
 * Raven: Hi, I'm Raven.''
 * Cody: And if there's anything we can do for you, we've got your back.
 * Raven: Really? Hey, do you know how to work a Secretech?[the boys laugh]
 * Zack: Nobody does.

 * Raven: [To Zack and Cody] You're Juan, and you're Kveld.
 * Cody: Actually he's Juan and I'm Keveld.

 * Raven: Oh snap.

 * Pistache: [seeing Donna and Raven dressed like her] What is this? And this? Are you here to mock me?
 * Donna: No. We don't mock. I am Donna Cabonna and this is my assistant Raven.
 * Raven: Yes, Raven Baxter. We are dressed like this to, uh [pause, thinking] ...honor your great genius.
 * Donna nods in agreement
 * Pistache: This I can understand. If I were not me, I would want to be me too.
 * Donna: Touche.

 * Pistache: [spotting Zack and Cody] This [pause] is not Juan and Keveld.
 * Donna: Raven, you're fired.
 * Raven: Yeah, I kind of figured that.
 * Pistache: They are even better.
 * Donna: Raven you're re-hired.
 * Raven: Sweet!

 * (a dismayed Raven finds out her Secretech did not wake her up in time for her flight and she has to stay at least one more night)
 * Moseby: Wake-up call this time.
 * Raven: (being driven off in a luggage cart) Yes, please.

 * (Pistache directs Zack and Cody in such a way as their backs are to the camera)
 * Zack: But you can't even see our faces.
 * Pistache: Exactement, that is the genius of [pause, turning around] Pistache.

 * Chelsea: [using the paddleball] I'm trying to do like Mr. B but the ball keeps getting in the way.
 * Cory: Well, she's a natural.
 * Chelsea: You guys, stop teasing me. It's not easy as it looks.
 * Eddie: No, Chelsea, you're doing it right. You're supposed to hit the ball.
 * Chelsea: Well, on that case, Mr. B, you stinks.
 * Victor: After I warmed it up for you. Show-off.

 * Chelsea:[after tricking Stanley into stopping giving her the world record for paddleball use] I just destroyed a young man's faith in humanity.
 * Eddie: And restored it in two others [dancing]
 * Chelsea: You guys, I can't do this. There's only one way to wipe the conscience clean. [take the cheque from Cory and give it to Stanley]: Stanley! I want you to have all the money. [Stanley smiles]
 * Cory and Eddie: [chorus] NO!!!
 * Chelsea: Yes! Stanley was the only one who was honest and he should be rewarded for that.
 * Stanley: Thank you, Red. I guess there's still good left in the world. [turn to Cory and Eddie] Gentlemen, [waves cheque in front of Cory and Eddie's faces] It's been real. [leaves].
 * Cory: NO!!! [hit the door]
 * Eddie: Did you see what he just did?
 * Cory: He just scammed you!
 * Chelsea: I don't feel scammed. I feel good. I mean, I got the title. And Stanley got the money and we all got we wanted.
 * Cory: We didn't get what we wanted!
 * Chelsea: [with a knowing smile] No, but you got what you deserved.
 * Cory: Nothing?
 * Chelsea: Exactly. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to set the record behind my back [playing paddleball behind her back].

The Suite Life --- That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana

 * Irene: I'm sorry but your flight has been canceled.
 * Raven: No!
 * Irene: Yes.
 * Raven: No.
 * Irene: Yes.
 * Raven: NO!
 * Irene: Yes.
 * Raven: NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! ''[leaving]

 * [after Raven has a vision] Zack: Hey Raven, you OK? You had this weird look on your face. Raven: No, I didn't. Cody: Yes, you did. You were doing this [makes Raven's  vision face] Raven: I've never made that face before in my life.

 * Raven: [after she has the vision of one of the twins] Okay, I don't know how to tell you this but I had this feeling that one of you is going to be in trouble. Zack: Trouble for us isn't exactly "breaking news". [quotes "breaking news" with his fingers, while Cody nod])

 * Raven: [to Cody] Well, uh. If you hear a bell or a sneeze [pause] you should run. Cody: Why are you looking at me? Raven: (to Zack) Um, do you wear sweater vests? Zack: (laughs) No. Raven: Well, nice knowing you, Cody. [Cody feels afraid and brinks]

 * Raven: You cool with London Tipton? Maddie: Are you kidding? [giggles] We're like sisters. Except that she's rich, famous and she thinks algebra is a Greek island.

 * Zack: Hey, Mom, what are you cooking? Is that oatmeal? Cause I hear that it helps people over a certain age stay regular. Carey: I'll have you know I am nowhere near 'a certain age'. In fact, some people consider me to be quite young. Cody: Yeah, people who are quite old. [Zack and Cody begin walking away] Carey: Mom says, "Have kids, they're a joy!" Yeah, right.

 * Arwin: [talking through the pipe to Moseby] It's Carey's birthday present. Don't tell her what it is. Moseby: [talking through the pipe to Arwin] I wouldn't be able to if I tried.

 * Carey: Life is full of risks but you can't spend your whole life hiding. Cody: Easy for you to say. Most of your life is over.

 * Zack and Cody: (singing) Your body may be sagging, but we can still be bragging. Cody: Don't need to make no drama- Zack: [continues] You're still the coolest mama. Cody: So eat some cake and ROCK OUT! Zack: We wanna hear you all shout! [Moseby shakes his head] Zack and Cody:Have a very very happy birthday Mom! Zack: [to Moseby after singing] So do you think Mom will like our birthday present? Moseby: You guys are broke, aren't you? [Cody nods]

 * [After putting on Cody's vest] Zack: Oh no!! Cody: What? Zack: I look like a dork.

 * Zack: [when Carey is crying at the party] Oh, Mom, Mom, don't cry. We were just kidding about you being old. Cody: Yeah! We were torturing you to make you think that we didn't care, so you would be that much happier when we surprised you! Huh? Huh? [pushing at her arms] (Carey sobs louder) Cody: It was Zack's idea. (pushes Zack in front of him)

 * After Zack falls on the cake Cody: Dude, you were right! I had nothing to worry about! ''[Zack raises his head, looks at Cody and shakes his head slowly in icing-covered disgust].

 * London: [finding out that Maddie switched labels with another's to trick her into wearing Raven's dress] Wait a minute, I'm wearing something made by somebody who's ... not famous? I've never done that before! Even my diapers were designed!

 * Zack: At least Mom liked our dance. Cody: Well, with flood, fire, and runaway robot. Let's just say she was just glad to get out of there alive.

 * Arwin: [after seeing Hannah Montanna] You're Hannah Montana! Oh, I almost passed out. (freezes and falls to the ground sideways)

 * Cody: You're Hannah Montana! Hannah: And you're wearing cake. [takes a bit from Zack's shirt] Mmm, vanilla, my favorite.

 * Raven: She has that state name... New Jersey, Nebraska, Arizona... Maddie: Montana! Raven and Maddie: Hannah Montana! Ahhhhh! [they run, screaming, towards her] London: Hey, Hannah! I haven't seen you since my sang at my birthday party last year. Hannah:Yeah, I had a blast. By the way, y'all still haven't paid me for that. Maddie: Well, that's how the rich stay rich. Raven: You know that's right. Hannah: I love your dress. London: This thing? [pointing at Raven's dress] Hannah: Where'd you get it?  Raven: That's me, Raven Baxter. [pointing at herself] Hannah: I'm hosting an awards show next week. Can you make me another one?  London: Sorry, this is a one-of-a-kind. It was made for me and only me. Maddie: I thought you didn't like it. London: A girl can really change her mind, can't she?  Hannah: Well, I want a Raven original. Let me have a look at it. Hannah: Oh, hold on a second. My ring's stuck to it. London: Hey, what are you doing? Hannah, let go! Hannah: Oh, like I have a choice. Seriously, stop! Raven: Oh, my goodness! Oh, my goodness! Oh, my goodness! I can't believe it! London Tipton and Hannah Montana are having a catfight over my dress! [squealing] This is the best day of my life! Dress rips off-camera.  London: Hey, you ripped it! Hannah: No, you ripped it! Raven: (looking grim) Oh, no she didn't. She and Maddie walk in the direction of the other two.

 * Maddie: (trying to ask the mirror) so, these are the nicest things I own. what do you think of this one?  Mirror: Eh
 Maddie: This one?
 Mirror: Ha, I don't think so
 Maddie: Yeah well, that frame makes you look fat. uh-huh.
 Mirror: Well, I kinda like your shoes.
 Maddie: Really?
 Mirror: No, Psych! *laughs*
 Maddie: Y'know the mirror in Hat World is alot nicer than you
 Mirror: Hey honey! the 80's called, they want their clothes back! *laughs*

Hannah Montana --- On the Road Again

 * Roxy: Excuse me Miss Montana, there's this girl who wants to see you. Claims she's Maddie from the candy counter. Want me to tell her you're not here? Maddie and Hannah appear bewildered.
 Maddie: But she's standing right there! I can see her! Roxy: Not if her bodyguard says you can't!!!

 * Maddie: Sorry, Hannah, can't see you!(whispering)By the way, love the top. Hannah/Miley: It's okay, Roxy. She's a friend of mine, you can let her in. Roxy: You're in luck, she's here. Hey, I got my eyes on you!!!

 * Hannah: Hey Maddie, just the tush I'd been looking for. Can you close my suitcase?
 Maddie: What 'til I tell my friends that I sat on Hannah Montana's suitcase! Ahh!

 * Maddie: (listening to Robby sing) You know that sounds just like the singer my Mom used to listen to. What did they call him? The Honkytonk Heartthrob.
 Hannah: Oh, you mean Robby Ray. Maddie: Yeah that's the guy. He had a couple of Top 10 songs. Robby: Actually three Number 1's, two Top 5's, Music Video of the Year, but who's counting?

 * Maddie: Oh, my gosh! You're Robby Ray! My Mom thought you were dead. She's going to be so excited you're alive!
 Robby: I'm kinda happy about that myself.

 * Jackson: You guys, you gotta check this out! (Holds up videotape) It's labeled "Robbiepalooza."
 Miley: Oh! Dad had his own Palooza.

 * Lily: Before your Dad was a Dad he was cool. Before my Dad was a Dad he was an accountant.

 * Lily: (to Miley) You have a great voice. Your Dad is awesome. (to Jackson) What's your talent? Jackson: Well I don't like to brag but...(puts hand underneath armpit and begins making squishing and popping noises that sound like flatulence). Miley and Lily: Ooh (in disgust) Jackson: And when I'm clammy I can do it behind my knees. (demonstrates to the disgust of the girls) Robby: (entering the room) Slow down, son. You don't want to get another rash.

 * Lily: Mr. Stewart you were awesome. What happened? Robby winces as Lily realizes how it sounded Lily: I mean why aren't you still performing? Robby: I have all my time with Miley and Sir Toots-a-lot.

 * Robbie: Sweetheart, that was ten years ago. I bet my old manager doesn't even remember my name.
 Doorbell rings,as if on cue. Marty: Robbie Ray, open this door!
 Miley: Oh, is that your old manager, Marty Klein? Jackson: I believe it is. Lily: What a weird co-in-ky-dink.
 Robby: You guys are smooth.

 * Marty: And look, there's handsome, young Jackson. And pretty, little Miley, who I have not spoken to or had contact with in any way whatsoever... especially on the phone. Miley: It's okay, Marty. He knows I called you.
 Marty: Good, 'cause I'm a terrible liar.

 * Robby: (politely declining the services of Jackson's Swedish nannies) I'm sorry ladies. I appreciate this but this is not going to work out? Takker De all for å komme. [Thank you all for coming.] (to Miley) Robbie Ray was huge in Sweden. Inga: Robby Ray!! Helga: Honkytonk Heartthrob! Uma: Ya! Ya!

 * Miley: (on Jackson's nannies) One thing, you only had one thing to get.
 Jackson: And I got three. Can I help it if I'm an overachiever?

 * Miley: But nothing, "but" is a word you use when you're afraid to try. That's something I learned that from my Daddy.
 Robby: Now you start listening to me.

 * Robby: (to Jackson's would-be young Swedish nannies) Tack så mycket för kommande. (to Miley) Robby Ray was huge in Sweden.

 * Roxy: Don't worry hot stuff. Roxy is going to take care of everything. You just go get your mullet back.

 * Miley: Roxy was like this all night. (snores) Hi yah! (snores) Hi yah! Oliver: Couldn't you tell her to lighten up?! Miley: Oh sure I tell her to lighten up she gets upset and leaves Dad has to come home early and once again I ruined his dream. Oliver: Why are we whispering? Miley: Cause Roxy's everywhere! Cause she has HER EYE'S ON MEEE! Oliver: Ok now your just paranoid. I don't see her anywhere. Miley: Oh no? Hit me with this magazine. Oliver: What? Miley: Come on just do it. I'll be perfectly fine. Oliver: Okay (almost hits her with the magazine) Roxy: HAAYYAH!! (Throws Oliver back) Oliver: AAHH!! Roxy: Roxy's everywhere!!

 * Miley: Roxy, I didn't think that the Marines did yoga!
 Roxy: Oh, I didn't learn this in the Corps. Mm-mmm. I learned it when I was touring India with world famous cellist, Yo-Yo Ma. He calls me his Yo-Yo Mama.

 * Jackson: 5 days? I can't take 5 more minutes. (sings) I want my Daddy back!

 * Roxy: You kids sure must love your Dad if you're willing to do six more weeks of ROXY time.

 * Miley: I'm sorry.
 Robby: For what? For crying? Hey, if you don't want me to go, just say so. Miley: Daddy, you gave up your whole life so I could have my dream. How can I stop you from having yours? Robbie: You kids are my dream. I didn't give up my career because I had to. I gave it up because I wanted to.

 * Maddie: Mom, quick! Get the curlers out of your hair! Robbie Ray is still here! Aah!!
 Roxy: Too close, candy girl! Aaah!! (chases Maddie off).

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Talk:Pornography

This seems slightly one sided.
 * Slightly? 25 out of 30 entries state the same idea "rape = pornography" and most of them are by the same author stating that same idea over and over.

Unsourced

 * No one knows what pornography is. Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thought, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thought. Hmm. Sounds like... every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial - I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, maybe that's the connection they're trying to make.
 * Bill Hicks

 * Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
 * attributed to Henry Miller

 * Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.
 * Nancy Reagan

 * Pornography is in the loin of the beholder.
 * Charles Rembar

 * When we fall for arguments against pornography or "obscenity", we hand repressive agents the tool for censoring our speech. It is not their speech – their remarkably sexist speech – that will be censored; it is our own. Because the view that women really do own, and have a right to control, our own bodies and our own sexuality is still a subversive and modern idea, and the legislators who support "decency" legislation don't like our idea very much. These are people who believe that women's liberation is the very Devil himself. Don't let them exploit your fears to fuel their repressions.
 * Avedon Carol

 * Feminists are often asked whether pornography causes rape. The fact is that rape and prostitution caused and continue to cause pornography. Politically, culturally, socially, sexually, and economically, rape and prostitution generated pornography; and pornography depends for its continued existence on the rape and prostitution of women.
 * Andrea Dworkin

 * Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
 * Andrea Dworkin

 * Pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women's bodies and souls; rape, battery, incest, and prostitution animate it; dehumanization and sadism characterize it; it is war on women, serial assaults on dignity, identity, and human worth; it is tyranny. Each woman who has survived knows from the experience of her own life that pornography is captivity -- the woman trapped in the picture used on the woman trapped wherever he's got her.
 * Andrea Dworkin

 * Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
 * Angela Lambert (1990)

 * The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
 * Gloria Leonard

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Talk:Erich Fried

erich fried.....colbert report laughs at him...because of his death

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User talk:S8rchic13

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User talk:Paweł ze Szczecina~enwikiquote

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The Boys from Syracuse

The Boys from Syracuse is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, based on William Shakespeare's play, The Comedy of Errors, as adapted by librettist George Abbott. The score includes swing and other contemporary rhythms of the 1930s. The show was the first musical based on a Shakespeare play.

Song lyrics

 * Falling in love with love Is falling for make believe. Falling in love with love Is playing the fool; Caring too much is such a juvenile fancy. Learning to trust is just For children in school. I fell in love with love one night When the moon was full, I was unwise with eyes Unable to see. I fell in love with love, With love everlasting, But love fell out with me.
 * Falling in Love with Love

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the second largest city on the East Coast of the United States, and the fifth-most-populous city in the United States. It is located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, and it is the only consolidated city-county in Pennsylvania. Popular nicknames for Philadelphia are Philly and The City of Brotherly Love, the latter of which comes from the literal meaning of the city's name in Greek "brotherly love", compounded from philos (φίλος) "loving", and adelphos (ἀδελφός) "brother").

Quotes

 * Philadelphia now has only two attractions left: the and myself.
 * , after learning that teammates Joe Bush,, and  had all been dealt to Boston by ; as quoted in "Yankees Get Bodie from Connie Mack," Long Branch Daily Record (March 8, 1918), p. 7

 * Everyone said that Philadelphia had once been a fortress of anarchism, having had a whole range of good orators in Yiddish and English. Comrades had been active. They had organized unions of cloak makers, bakers, vest makers, and other trades. They had held anarchist rallies close to City Hall every Sunday, attended by masses of people. Yiddish gatherings had been well attended.
 * Joseph Cohen "The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America" translated into English by Emil Kerenji

 * Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and what you are, in Philadelphia, now. He that can give to his city any blessing, he who can be a good citizen while he lives here, he that can make better homes, he that can be a blessing whether he works in the shop or sits behind the counter or keeps house, whatever be his life, he who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
 * Russell Conwell, Acres of Diamonds (1915), p. 59.

 * It is a handsome city, but distractingly regular. After walking about it for an hour or two, I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street. The collar of my coat appeared to stiffen, and the brim of my hat to expand, beneath its Quakerly influence.
 * Charles Dickens, American Notes (1842), ch. VII.

 * Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
 * W. C. Fields, this was an epitaph Fields proposed for himself in a 1925 article in Vanity Fair. It refers to his long standing jokes about Philadelphia (his actual birthplace), and the grave being one place he might actually not prefer to be. This is often repeated as "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.", or "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." which he might have stated at other times. It has also sometimes been distorted into a final dig at Philadelphia: "Better here than in Philadelphia." Fields' actual tomb at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California simply reads "W. C. Fields 1880–1946".

 * They say that the lady from Philadelphia who is staying in town is very wise. Suppose I go ask her what is best to be done.
 * Lucretia P. Hale, Peterkin Papers, Chapter I, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 594.

 * Hail! Philadelphia, tho' Quaker thou be, The birth-day of medical honors to thee In this country belongs; 'twas thou caught the flame, That crossing the ocean from Englishmen came And kindled the fires of Wisdom and Knowledge, Inspired the student, erected a college, First held a commencement with suitable state, In the year of our Lord, seventeen sixty-eight.
 * William Todd Helmuth, The Story of a City Doctor, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 594.

 * `Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom. From the day that I was born I've waved the flag. Philadelphia freedom took me knee-high to a man. Yeah gave me peace of mind my daddy never had. Oh Philadelphia freedom shine on me, I love you. Shine a light through the eyes of the ones left behind. Shine a light, shine a light Shine a light, won't you shine a light. Philadelphia freedom I love you, yes I do.
 * Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Philadelphia Freedom (1975)

 * Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.
 * Christopher Morley, Travels in Philadelphia (1920)

 * I imagine they'll boo me in Philadelphia just as they did in Boston. That can be a rough town. I read where they even booed there.
 * Dick Stuart, as quoted in "Stuart Terms Trade to Phils 'Lopsided'" by Milton Richman (UPI), The Boston Globe (November 30, 1964), p. 34

 * Philadelphia fans don't discriminate enough. They boo everybody. In Boston and Pittsburgh, they only booed me.
 * Dick Stuart, circa 1965; as quoted in "Stuart's Quip High on List" by Harold Kaese, in The Boston Globe (December 30, 1965), p. 17.

 * Why, this is the finest city in the state of Maryland!
 * Colonel Thomas Cresap, 1736: Exclaimed, while marched as a prisoner into Philadelphia, during Cresap's War, a 1730–1767 border dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania;

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Toys (film)

Toys is a 1992 film about a very large family-owned toy company whose change of management threatens to make it a factory dedicated to producing only violent and war related toys.

General Leland Zevo

 * The future is anarchy! I'm talking about lawlessness.  I'm talking about the Lebanons of the future.  I'm talking about the breakdown of the whole system.  The military defending people against people.  You won't get your appropriations waving that flag.  There's no glory in that kind of warfare.

Leslie Zevo

 * He better be making something really cute, or I'm gonna be pissed.
 * commenting on the absurd amount of space the General is taking up for his "production"

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User talk:68.149.160.217

A link to Wikipedia made like this: The Money Masters   will produce this :  The Money Masters.

Two "single quotemarks" at the beginning and end of words and phrases produces italics, such as are used in titles. ~ Kalki 06:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:JaseFace

You seem to be adding many quotes from the The Money Masters. As this counts as is a definite source, although a secondary and therefore more dubious one, these should go chronologically in the "Sourced" sections of articles, with a date of 1995, like this:

 * Particular quote from The Money Masters. (a line with one "*" at its start produces a "Bulletted" line)
 * The Money Masters (1995) - Online video ( line with two "**" at its start directly below a bulleted line produces an indented bullet)

This should create quotes that are formatted properly for most articles. The quotes used from this work thus far seem mostly accurate, but it is much preferable that the original sources be sought, as I have already done with the Jefferson qoute that you have added. ~ Kalki 07:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Many thanks, I've been trying to find supporting references for many of these quotes myself. I was concerned that the authenticity of The Money Masters was in doubt, so was trying to respect the 'undetermined nature' of it as a source. I'm glad someone is checking up on me and has cleared up the confusion. I shall return to edit my other posts, as those quoted in the film are wide ranging in nature.

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Existenz

eXistenZ is a 1999 science fiction/thriller film about a game designer on the run from assassins who must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
 * Directed by and written by David Cronenberg.

Play Or Be Played taglines

Allegra

 * [after killing Ted] Have I won? Have I won the game? Have I won?
 * You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game.

Ted

 * Allegra, what if we're not in the game anymore?
 * I want to put the game on pause. The game can be paused, can't it? I mean, all games can be paused, right?

Dialogue

 * Ted: Free will is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours.
 * Allegra: It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting.

 * Ted: It hurts. I think it's infected.
 * Allegra: No, it's not infected. It's just excited. It wants action.
 * [Allegra licks her finger and sticks it into his bio port]
 * Ted: But I really don't think I want action! Me, I mean. The bearer of the excited bio-port.

 * Ted: I don't like it here. I don't know what's going on. We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly undecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces we don't understand!
 * Allegra: That sounds like my game, all right.
 * Ted: It sounds like a game that's not gonna be easy to market.
 * Allegra: But it's a game everybody is already playing.

Taglines

 * Play Or Be Played
 * Play it. Live it. Kill for it.
 * Where does reality stop. And the game begin?

Cast

 * Jennifer Jason Leigh — Allegra Geller
 * Jude Law — Ted Pikul
 * Oscar Hsu — Chinese Waiter

title: Existenz