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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Urdu, Sindhi: محمد على جناح) (December 25, 1876 – September 11, 1948) was a Muslim politician in the Indian subcontinent and leader of the All-India Muslim League who founded Pakistan and served as its first Governor-General. He is officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam (Urdu: قائد اعظم — "Great Leader") and Baba-e-Qaum ("Father of the Nation"). His birth and death anniversaries are Holidays in Pakistan.

Quotes

 * "We are starting the state with no discrimination ... we should keep that in front of us as our ideal, and you will find that in course of time Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as the citizens of the nation.
 * Muhammad Ali Jinnah, on the day he was elected president of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly, Jinnah in a moving speech, quoted in M. J. Akbar, India: The Siege Within (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1985) p 34. As quoted from Ibn, W. (2004). Leaving Islam: Apostates speak out. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.

1935

 * I part company with the Congress and Mohandas K. Gandhi. I do not believe in working up mob hysteria. Politics is a gentleman's game.
 * Speaking to journalist Durga Das in London (December 1920) as quoted in Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity : The Search for Saladin (1997) by Akbar S. Ahmed, p. 67
 * Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics….Religion is merely a matter between man and God.
 * Address to the Central Legislative Assembly, 7 February 1935, also quoted in The Search for Saladin, p. 67

1941

 * Today, unfurling the Muslim League flag, I want to reaffirm with all the emphasis at my command that we stand for Pakistan and for faith, unity and discipline. I am confident that we will acquire a place in this land where we may live honourably according to Islamic tradition and culture and it is in your hands...!
 * Public address, Urdu Park in New Delhi, 23 October 1941

 * Islam stands for justice, equality, fair play, toleration and even generosity to non-Muslims who may be under our protection. They are like brothers to us and would be the citizens of the State.
 * Address at The Muslim University Union in Aligarh, 2 November, 1941

1943

 * There are millions and millions of our people who hardly get one meal a day. Is this civilization? Is this the aim of Pakistan? Do you visualize that millions have been exploited and cannot get one meal a day! If that is the idea of Pakistan. I would not have it.
 * Presidential Address Delivered at the Thirtieth Session of All-India Muslim League, 24 April 1943

1944

 * The Press is great power and it can do good as well as harm. If rightly conducted, it can guide and instruct public opinion.
 * Talk with Journalists of Kashmir, 23 May 1944

1945

 * Islam came in the world to establish democracy, peace and justice; to safeguard the rights of the oppressed. It brought to humanity the message of equality of the rich and the poor, of the high and the low. The Holy Prophet fought for these ideals for the major part of his life. Is it not, therefore, the duty of every Muslim, wherever he may be, to do his level best to preserve the great ideals and the glorious tradition of Islam, to fight for the equality of mankind, the achievement of man’s legitimate rights and the establishment of democracy? We in India believe that Pakistan is our legitimate demand, our birthright. We believe that it is in consonance with democratic principles and justice. We are, therefore, determined to fight for it and Inshaallah we shall win.
 * Message to editor Muslim Views, Colombo (Ceylon) on Holy Prophet’s birthday, Bombay, 5 February 1945

1946

 * Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans who look upon complete equality of manhood, Musalmans (Muslims) believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.
 * Speech at Kingsway Hall, London, 13 December 1946

1947

 * Pakistan is going to be a state in which all people will get their due share in all the amenities of life.
 * Address, Memon Chamber of Commerce, Bombay, 27 March 1947

 * Sooner you come down to reality the sooner you will solve the problem.
 * Address, Memon Chamber of Commerce, Bombay, 27 March 1947

 * We meet here today under the shadow of great events···. We are passing from crisis to crisis···. We have got to organize our own nation. Other communities may take offence. They may say it is communalism. The communities in India have existed for centuries, and they will live also for centuries. Pakistan is going to be a state in which all people will get their due share in all the amenities of life. Hence solve your problems now. Pakistan is a state where there is no question of caste or creed. Why should I grudge any community working for its own social, educational and economic uplift? There is no use saying that it is communalism. Sooner you come down to reality the sooner you will solve the problem.
 * Address, Memon Chamber of Commerce, Bombay, 27 March 1947

 * I am proud that I am not the Governor-General who was an agent of another power but a Governor-General who is chosen by the people…. It is our sacred duty to look after the poor and to help them.
 * Public address, Karachi Club, 9 August 1947

 * With determination, courage, solidarity and with the help of every citizen we shall make this state a real power.
 * Public address, Karachi Club, 9 August 1947

Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan

 * I cannot emphasise it too much. We should begin to work in that spirit and in course of time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities — the Hindu community and the Muslim community — because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans, Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and so on and among the Hindus you have Brahmins, Vashnavas, Khatris, also Bengalese, Madrasis and so on — will vanish.
 * Address to the First Constituent Assembly, 11 August 1947

 * If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well being of the people and especially of the masses and the poor.
 * Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, 11 August 1947

 * You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed, that has nothing to do with the business of State.
 * Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, 11 August, 1947

 * You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed, that has nothing to do with the business of State.
 * Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, 11 August, 1947

 * It should be our aim not only to remove want and fear of all types, but secure liberty, fraternity and equality as enjoined upon us by Islam.
 * Address, Karachi Municipal Corporation, 25 August 1947

 * God has given us a grand opportunity to show our worth as architects of a new State; let it not be said that we did not prove equal to the task.
 * Address to Civil, Military and Air Force Officers, 11 October, 1947

 * Never forget our motto "Unity, Discipline and Faith"
 * Speech from Radio Pakistan at Lahore, 30 October 1947

 * Work, work and work and we are bound to success.
 * Speech from Radio Pakistan at Lahore, 30 October 1947

1948

 * A nation can never progress unless it marches in one formation. We are all Pakistanis and citizens of the state and we should serve, sacrifice and die for the state so that we may make it the most glorious and sovereign state in the world.
 * Address to Bar Association of Karachi, 25 January 1948

 * We follow the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in right, dignity and self-respect. Consequently we have a special and very deep sense of unity.
 * Broadcast Talk to the People of Australia, 19 February, 1948

 * We are the inheritors of these glorious traditions and are fully alive to our responsibilities and obligations as framers of the future constitution of Pakistan.
 * Broadcast talk on Pakistan to the people of the United States of America, Karachi, 26 February 1948

 * In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state —to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-Muslims —Hindus, Christian and Parsis—but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan
 * Broadcast talk on Pakistan to the people of the United States of America, Karachi, 26 February 1948

 * If you build up yourself into a nation···. Give up this provincialism. Provincialism has been one of the curses; and so is sectionalism— Shia, Sunni, etc.
 * Public Address at Dacca, 21 March 1948

 * Brotherhood, equality and fraternity of man—these are all the basic points of our religion, culture and civilization. And we fought for Pakistan because there was a danger of denial of these human rights in this sub-continent.
 * Address to Public Reception in Chittagong, 26 March, 1948

 * If we begin to think of ourselves as Punjabis, Sindhis, etc. first and Muslims and Pakistanis incidentally, then Pakistan is bound to disintegrate. Do not think that this is some abstruse proposition: our enemies are fully alive to its possibilities which I must warn you that they are already busy exploiting.
 * Radio Broadcast from Dacca, 28 March 1948

 * Our duty to the State comes first; our duty to our province to your district, to our town and to our village and ourselves comes next. **Speech at Islamia College in Peshawar, 12 April 1948

 * Develop a sound sense of discipline, character, initiative and a solid academic background. You must devote yourself wholeheartedly to your studies, for that is your first obligation to yourselves, your parents and to the State. You must learn to obey, for only then you can learn to command.
 * Reply to the Address Presented by Islamia College Students, Peshawar, 12 April 1948

 * This is your government. It is quite different from its predecessors. Therefore, appreciate when a good thing is done. Certainly criticize fearlessly, when a wrong thing is done. I welcome criticism, but it must be honest and constructive.
 * Address at Edwards College in Peshawar, 18 April 1948

 * We are now all Pakistanis, not Balochis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on and as Pakistanis we must feel, behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.
 * Reply to the Civil Address Presented by the Quetta Municipality,15 June, 1948

 * Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
 * Address to the League Lucknow session in 1937, following elections held under the Government of India Act, as quoted in Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan (1976) by Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri, p. 1

 * When we say 'This flag (Muslim League's flag) is the flag of Islam' they think we are introducing religion into politics - a fact of which we are proud. Islam gives us a complete code. It is not only religion but it contains laws, philosophy and politics. In fact, it contains everything that matters to a man from morning to night. When we talk of Islam we take it as all embracing word. We do not mean any ill. The foundation of our Islamic code is that we stand for liberty, equality and fraternity.
 * Address to the Gaya Muslim League Conference (January 1938)

 * It is extremely difficult to appreciate why our Hindu friends fail to understand the real nature of Islam and Hinduism. They are not religions in the strict sense of the word, but are, in fact, different and distinct social orders, and it is a dream that the Hindus and Muslims can ever evolve a common nationality, and this misconception of one Indian nation has troubles and will lead India to destruction if we fail to revise our notions in time. The Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs, litterateurs. They neither intermarry nor interdine together and, indeed, they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their aspect on life and of life are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Mussalmans (Muslims) derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes, and different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other and, likewise, their victories and defeats overlap. To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built for the government of such a state.
 * Presidential Address to All India Muslim League.

 * I have always maintained that no nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
 * Speech at Islamia College for women (25 March 1940)

 * The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of historical achievements and traditions.
 * Speech (24 December 1940), published in Some Recent Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah (1947), Vol. 1

 * Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the ‘Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.
 * Message on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr (October 1941)

 * [Soon after the Muslim League had passed its resolution demanding Pakistan in 1940, the Dravidian ideologue E.V. Ramasamy Nayakar (popularly known as EVR) passed a similar resolution demanding a sovereign state, to be called Dravidistan. In 1941, at the twenty-eight Annual session of the Muslim League, Jinnah and EVR shared the dais and Jinnah extended full support to splitting off something called Dravidistan:] I have every sympathy and shall do all to help, and you establish Dravidistan, where the seven percent Muslim population will stretch its hand of friendship and live with you on lines of security, justice and fair play.
 * Jinnah, in Johari, J.C. Voices of Indian Freedom Movement. New Delhi: AnmolPublications, 1993 quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines

The Message on independence day of Pakistan, issued from Delhi (23 March 1943)
 * You have performed wonders in the past. You are still capable of repeating the history. You are not lacking in the great qualities and virtues in comparison with the other nations. Only you have to be fully conscious of that fact and to act with courage, faith and unity.

 * No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
 * Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarhn10 March 1944

 * Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but Muslims ideology which has to be preserved which has come to us a precious gift and treasure and which we hope, others will share with us.
 * Address to Frontier Muslim Students Federation 18 June 1945.

 * The Quran is the greatest honor and respect for the Muslims Muslims can also sacrifice their life for their religion a religious, social, civil, commercial, military, judicial, criminal, and penal code. It regulates every thing, from the ceremonies of religion to those of daily life, from the salvation of the soul to the health of the body, from the rights of all to those of each individual from morality to crime; from punishment here to that in the life to come, and our Holy Prophet Mohammad (Peace by upon Him) has enjoined on us that every Musalman should possess a copy of the Quran and be his own priest. Therefore, Islam is not merely confined to the spiritual tenets and doctrines or ritual and ceremonies. It is a complete code regulating the whole Muslim society, every department of life, collective and individual.
 * Eid-ul-Fitar message (September 1945)

 * You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your masjids or any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed. That has nothing to do with the business of the State.
 * Presidential address to the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Karachi (11 August 1947)

 * Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
 * Address in Lahore (15 August 1947)

 * We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
 * Address to Civil, Naval, Military, and Air Force Officers of Pakistan Government, Karachi 11 October 1947.

 * My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
 * Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation 24 October 1947.

 * That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.
 * Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore 30 October 1.

 * There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.
 * Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore 30 October 1947.

 * The weak and the defenceless, in this imperfect world, invite aggression from others. The best way in which we can serve the cause of peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think that we are weak and, therefore, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dares entertain any aggressive designs against us.
 * Address at the time of launching ceremony of PNS 'Dilawar' on (23 January 1948)

 * I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1300 years ago.
 * Address to Karachi Bar Association 25 January 1948.

 * As you may be aware, the Government has been making genuine efforts to allay the fears and the suspicions of the minorities and if their (Hindu minority's) exodus from Sindh still continues, it is Not because they are not wanted here, but because they are more prone to listen to people across the border who are interested in pulling them out. I am sorry for those misguided people for nothing but disillusionment awaits them in their 'PROMISED LAND'.
 * Reply to an address of the Welcome Note presented by the Parsi Community of Sindh, Karachi (3 February 1948)

 * Let me make it very clear to you, it is no doubt that the state language of Pakistan is going to be Urdu and no other language. Anyone who tries to mislead you is really the enemy of Pakistan. Without state language, no nation can remain tied up solidly together and function. Look at the history of every government judgement substitute language. Therefore, so far as the State language is concerned, Pakistan's state language shall be Urdu.
 * Address to a huge public rally in Dhaka, East Bengal (then the eastern wing of the Dominion of Pakistan and now the independent state of Bangladesh) (21 March 1948)

 * The constitution of Pakistan has yet to be framed by the Pakistan Constituent Assembly. I do not know what the ultimate shape of this constitution is going to be, but I am sure that it will be of a democratic type, embodying the essential principle of Islam. Today, they are as applicable in actual life as they were 1,300 years ago. Islam and its idealism have taught us democracy. It has taught equality of man, justice and fairplay to everybody. We are the inheritors of these glorious traditions and are fully alive to our responsibilities and obligations as framers of the future constitution of Pakistan. In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-Muslims — Hindus, Christians, and Parsis — but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan.
 * Broadcast to the people of the United States of America on Pakistan (February 1948)

 * I have one underlying principle in mind: the principle of Muslim democracy. It is my belief that our salvation lies in following the golden rules of conduct set for us by our great lawgiver, the Prophet of Islam.
 * Address to Darbar in Sibi, Balochistan (14 February 1948), as quoted in |title="World: South Asia Screening the life of Jinnah" in BBC News (13 September 1998)

 * The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.
 * Broadcast to the people of Australia (19 February 1948)

 * You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
 * Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi (21 February 1948)

 * Today we have forged a pistol, and are ready to use it.
 * in Road to Pakistan: The Life and Times of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, B. R. Nanda · 2013 also in quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 11

 * We shall have India divided, or we shall have India destroyed.
 * in Birth of Modern India - John M. Dunn · 2014, also quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp.11

 * The exploits of your leaders in many a historic field of battle; the progress of your Revolution; the rise and career of the great Atatürk, his revitalization of your nation by his great statesmanship, courage and foresight all these stirring events are well-known to the people of Pakistan.
 * Reply to the speech made by the first Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan at the time of presenting Credentials to the Quaid-i-Azam (4 March 1948)

 * The Story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.
 * Address to the people in Chittagong (23 March 1948)

 * Yet this is a truth people so easily seem to forget and begin to prize local, sectional or provincial interests above and regardless of the national interests. It naturally pains me to find the curse of provincialism holding sway over any section of Pakistan. Pakistan must be rid of this evil.
 * Reply to the Civic Address presented by the Quetta Municipality (15 June 1948)

 * We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.
 * Reply to the Civic Address presented by the Quetta Municipality (15 June 1948)

 * I shall watch with keenness the work of your Research Organization in evolving banking practices compatible with Islamic ideas of social and economic life. The economic system of the West has created almost insoluble problems for humanity and to many of us it appears that only a miracle can save it from disaster that is not facing the world. It has failed to do justice between man and man and to eradicate friction from the international field. On the contrary, it was largely responsible for the two world wars in the last half century. The Western world, in spite of its advantages, of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before in history. The adoption of Western economic theory and practice will not help us in achieving our goal of creating a happy and contended people. We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.
 * Address on occasion of opening of State bank of Pakistan (1 July 1948)

 * I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
 * Message to the Nation on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Pakistan (14 August 1948)

 * Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.
 * As quoted in Mohammad Ali Jinnah : A Political Study (1962) by M. H. Saiyid, p. 9

 * I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.
 * As quoted in Plain Mr. Jinnah : Selections from Quaid-e-Azam's Correspondence (1976)

 * [Any one could have thought that the limit of Muslim demands was reached and that the 1932 settlement was a final settlement. But it appears that even with this the Musalmans are not satisfied. A further list of new demands for safeguarding the Muslim position seems to be ready. In the controversy that went on between Mr. Jinnah and the Congress in the year 1938, Mr. Jinnah was asked to disclose his demands, which he refused to do. But these demands have come to the surface in the correspondence that passed between Pandit Nehru and Mr. Jinnah in the course of the controversy, and they have been tabulated by Pandit Nehru in one of his letters to Mr. Jinnah. His tabulation gives the following items as being matters of disputes and requiring settlement:—] [...]   (3) The share of the Muslims in the state services should be definitely fixed in the constitution by statutory enactment.    (4) Muslim personal law and culture should be guaranteed by statute.    (5) The Congress should take in hand the agitation in connection with the Sahidganj Mosque [a mosque in Lahore that was part of a Sikh-Muslim dispute] and should use its moral pressure to enable the Muslims to gain possession of the Mosque.    (7) Muslims should have freedom to perform cow-slaughter.    (8) Muslim majorities in the Provinces, where such majorities exist at present, must not be affected by any territorial re-distribution or adjustments.    (9) The 'Bande Mataram' song should be given up.    (10)  Muslims want Urdu to be the national language of India and they desire to have statutory guarantees that the use of Urdu shall not be curtailed or damaged.    (11)  Muslim representation in the local bodies should be governed by the principles underlying the Communal Award, that is, separate electorates and population strength.    (12)  The tricolour flag should be changed or alternately the flag of the Muslim League should be given equal importance.    (13)  Recognition of the Muslim League as the one authoritative and representative organization of Indian Muslims.
 * Quoted from B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946)

 * “In the North-West and North-East zones of India which are our homeland and where we are in a majority of 70% we say we want a separate State of our own. There we can live according to our own notions of life.  The differences between Hindus and Muslims are so fundamental that there is nothing that matters in life upon which we agree. “It is well known to any student of History that our heroes, our culture, our language, our music, our architecture, our jurisprudence, our social life are absolutely different and distinct.  We are told that the so-called one India is British-made.  It was by the sword.  It can only be held as it has been held.  Do not be misled by anyone saying that India is one and why, therefore, should it not continue to be one.  What do we want?  I tell you, Pakistan.  Pakistan presupposes that Hindustan should also be a free State. “What would Hindus lose?  Look at the map.  They would have three-quarters of India.  They would have the best parts.  They have a population of nearly 200,000,000.  Pakistan “is certainly not the best part of India.  We should have a population of 100,000,000, all Muslims. “On July the 27th, we decided to change our policy and to resort to “Direct Action”-a big change of policy-and we decided to tell our people this on August the 16th. “Reviewing the whole position, there is no other way but to divide India.  Give Muslims their homeland and give Hindus Hindustan.”
 * Quoted from Talib, S. G. S. (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947. Amritshar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.    p.12-13

 * “What we have done to-day is the most historic act in our history. Never have we in the whole history of the League done anything except by constitutional methods.  But now we are forced into this position.  Today we bid good-bye to constitutional methods.”.... “To-day we have forged a pistol and are in a position to use it.”... “We mean every word of it.  We do not believe in equivocation.”
 * Quoted from Talib, S. G. S. (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947. Amritshar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.    p.33

 * Mr. Jinnah in a statement issued from Bombay on September 11, 1946 offered to the Hindus the choice between creating Pakistan and forcing a Civil War in the country. Replying to a question seeking suggestions for the restoration of peace in India, he said:” “In view of the horrible slaughter in various parts of India, I am of the opinion that the authorities, both Central and Provincial, should take up immediately the question of exchange of population to avoid brutal recurrence of that which had taken place where small minorities have been butchered by the overwhelming majorities.”
 * Quoted from Talib, S. G. S. (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947. Amritshar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.    p.43

Address to the Constituent Assembly (1947)

 * Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (11 August 1947)

 * The Constituent Assembly has got two main functions to perform. The first is the very onerous and responsible task of framing the future constitution of Pakistan and the second of functioning as a full and complete sovereign body as the Federal Legislature of Pakistan.

 * This mighty sub-continent with all kinds of inhabitants has been brought under a plan which is titanic, unknown, unparalleled. And what is very important with regards to it is that we have achieved it peacefully and by means of an evolution of the greatest possible character.

 * The first and the foremost thing that I would like to emphasize is this — remember that you are now a sovereign legislative body and you have got all the powers. It, therefore, places on you the gravest responsibility as to how you should take your decisions. The first observation that I would like to make is this: You will no doubt agree with me that the first duty of a government is to maintain law and order, so that the life, property and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.

 * A division had to take place. On both sides, in Hindustan and Pakistan, there are sections of people who may not agree with it, who may not like it, but in my judgement there was no other solution and I am sure future history will record is verdict in favour of it. And what is more, it will be proved by actual experience as we go on that was the only solution of India's constitutional problem. Any idea of a united India could never have worked and in my judgement it would have led us to terrific disaster. Maybe that view is correct; maybe it is not; that remains to be seen.

 * Now, if we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor. If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed. If you change your past and work together in a spirit that everyone of you, no matter to what community he belongs, no matter what relations he had with you in the past, no matter what is his colour, caste or creed, is first, second and last a citizen of this State with equal rights, privileges, and obligations, there will be no end to the progress you will make. I cannot emphasize it too much. We should begin to work in that spirit and in course of time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities, the Hindu community and the Muslim community, because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans, Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and so on, and among the Hindus you have Brahmins, Vashnavas, Khatris, also Bengalis, Madrasis and so on, will vanish.

 * You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the State. As you know, history shows that in England, conditions, some time ago, were much worse than those prevailing in India today. The Roman Catholics and the Protestants persecuted each other. Even now there are some States in existence where there are discriminations made and bars imposed against a particular class. Thank God, we are not starting in those days. We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State.

 * In due course of time, Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims, not in a religious sense because that is the personal faith of an individual, but in a political sense as citizens of one state.

 * I shall always be guided by the principles of justice and fairplay without any, as is put in the political language, prejudice or ill-will, in other words, partiality or favouritism. My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest nations of the world.

Quotes about Jinnah

 * Alphabetized by author

 * This is not a letter on Pakistan. If it were, I could have written a small book entitled "Glimpses of Pakistan's history". Time does not permit it. The nation is gripped in her worst crisis, standing in the middle of the road between survival and disintegration. Since the birth of Pakistan, crisis has followed crisis in rapid escalation. Millions of lives were sacrificed to create this country. Pakistan is said to be the dream of Mohammad Iqbal and the creation of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-e-Azam. Was anything wrong with the dream or with the one who made the dream come true? Opinions have differed and continue to differ. The next few years will most probably decide the issue, perhaps once and for all, and not without bloodshed. This process is not inevitable but the present policies of the ruling junta are driving this country towards a sad inevitability
 * Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, letter to his daughter (1978), p. 37

 * The words are Jinnah’s; the thought and belief are an inheritance from the Prophet who said thirteen centuries before, “All men are equal in the eyes of God. And your lives and your properties are all sacred: in no case should you attack each other’s life and property. Today I trample under my feet all distinctions of caste, colour and nationality
 * The remarks of Hector Bolitho about Jinnah's address to the Constituent Assembly (1947)

 * Mr Jinnah, was great as a lawyer, once great as a Congressman, great as a leader of Muslims, great as a world politician and diplomat, and greatest of all as a man of action. By Mr. Jinnah's passing away, the world has lost one of the greatest statesmen and Pakistan its life-giver, philosopher and guide.
 * Sarat Chandra Bose, as quoted in My Brother (1987) by Fatima Jinnah, ISBN 969-413-036-0

 * Pakistan was founded in 1947 as a homeland for Muslims on the Indian subcontinent, born out of the partition of India, but it was also a home for many minorities. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the father of the nation, was a secular Shia who nominated other Shias and an Ahmadi Muslim to his cabinet. His first law minister was a Hindu, to make clear that laws were to be written by secular jurists, not clerics and theologians. In his first presidential address marking the birth of the nation, at midnight on August 11, 1947, Jinnah told his new compatriots “you are free to go to your temples, free to go to your mosques, or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or case or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state.” Jinnah had spelled out a vision for religious pluralism in a secular Muslim-majority democracy, where Muslims and non-Muslims were equal citizens. He did not speak of an Islamic state, not even of an Islamic republic. But his vision for tolerant diversity was never fulfilled. He died a year later, and though his successors tried to uphold this nuanced narrative, they soon fell back on the more straightforward raison d’être of the country: Islam.
 * Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (2020)

 * Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the greatest benefactor of Hindus in modern times, if he was not a Hindu in disguise.
 * Girilal Jain, in The Hindu Phenomenon (1994), p. 56, ISBN 81-86112-32-4

 * The Qaid-e-Azam had two sets of teeth in his mouth like that of a rogue elephant — one set was for show of beauty, and the other was for the real purpose of mastication. His first declaration from the throne of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan as its President was that the ‘The Hindus would cease to be Hindus and the Muslims would cease to be Muslims in matters of administration henceforth and thus form into a Pakistan Nation.’ ... This was the set of his outer teeth for show of beauty but the real teeth for mastication lay covered elsewhere within the mouth — nobody could see that; only the victims could feel and appreciate the monstrosity of them. The great leader Mr. Jinnah had the real teeth for mastication in his policy of internal administration which stood for chauvinistic aggressive Muslim nationalism.
 * Lahiry P. C. (1964). India partitioned and minorities in pakistan. (p.11-12) quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 11

 * Jinnah, at least in is later life put up a brave fight. It was, however, a fight not for the’ freedom of India, except in a very qualified sense, but for the freedom of the Muslims from the tyrannical yoke of the Hindus, as he put it. He won the fight ; the cult of violence decided the issue. To what extent Gandhi s cult of non-violence may claim credit for the freedom of India is a matter of opinion. But there is no doubt that the creation of Pakistan was the triumph of violence— in its naked and most brutal form-and of the leadership of Jinnah. Nobody can reasonably doubt that India would have surely attained independence, sooner or later, even without Gandhi, but it is extremely doubtful whether there would have been a Pakistan without Jinnah. So, if we are to judge by the result alone, the events of 1946-7 testify to the superiority of violence to non-violence in practical politics, and of Jinnah to the leaders of the Congress. But this affords an illustration of the blunder that is often committed by hasty inference drawn from the immediate result, apparently flowing from a certain course of action, without weighing the force of other circumstances. It ought to serve as a corrective to those who look upon Gandhi as having wrested independence from the British by waving his magic wand of Satyagraha. In any case Jinnah stands out as the most successful political leader of the period. Whatever the Hindus might think of Jinnah, he has secured a high place in the history of the Muslim nation, a term at which we can hardly cavil after the foundation of Pakistan. He carried to its logical consummation the work that was begun by Sir Syed Ahmad. (xxviii ff)
 * R.C. Majumdar. History of the Freedom Movement in India: Preface to Volume 3: R.C. Majumdar, Firma K.L Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta. also quoted in S. Balakrishna, Seventy years of secularism.

 * One of the most extraordinary men in history.
 * Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India, as quoted in Men Who Overturned Empires : Fighters, Dreamers, and Schemers (1987) by Hugh Tinker, p. 62

 * Gandhi died by the hands of an assassin; Jinnah died by his devotion to Pakistan.
 * Lord Pethick-Lawrence, as quoted in My Brother (1987) by Fatima Jinnah

 * In their game of divide and rule, the British supported Mr Jinnah, and I have still to find an Englishman who was not on Jinnah's side in the unfortunate Hindu-Muslim controversy that arose and created Pakistan.
 * Sri Prakasa, Pakistan, Birth and early days, quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 12

 * He would not let himself be deflected nor allow his followers to be deflected by a bewildering multiplicity of religious, cultural, social, economic and other issues. Step by step, slowly and steadily he took his followers forward to their cherished goal. He believed in full and thorough preparation before an action was taken.
 * Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri, in Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan (1976), p. 1

 * Jinnah was the originator of the dream that became Pakistan, architect of the State and father of the world's largest Muslim nation. Mr. Jinnah was the recipient of a devotion and loyalty seldom accorded to any man.''
 * Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States

 * Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.
 * Stanley Wolpert, in Jinnah of Pakistan (1984), ISBN 0-614-21694-X

 * The most important man in Asia.
 * Beverley Nichols in Verdict on India

 * The old Advocate of Unity, Mr. M.A.Jinnah, … was advanced than his colleagues, and stood head and shoulders above them.
 * Nehru from his book Freedom at Midnight

 * Honourable Members...I ask you, Members, to stand in your places to pay our tribute of respect to Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who by his grim determination and stead fast devotion was able to carve out and found Pakistan and whose passing away at this moment is an irreparable loss to all.
 * Dr. Rajendra Prasad addressing the Constituent Assembly of India on Thursday, 4 November 1948. Constituent Assembly Debates, Book No. 2, Volume VII: 4 November 1948—8 January 1949: Lok Sabha Secretariat, 1999

Also See

 * Pakistan
 * Human rights in Pakistan
 * Human Rights
 * Justice
 * Law
 * Barrister
 * Imran Khan
 * Constitution
 * International law
 * Court
 * Lawyers

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Kate & Allie

Kate & Allie was a 1980s situation comedy about two best friends (played by Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin) who moved in together after their respective divorces.

Opening credits banter

 * Soft piano music. Kate and Allie walk down a street.

 * Kate: You know who lives in that building? Greta Garbo.
 * Allie: There...right there, like a normal person?
 * Kate: Uh-huh.
 * Allie: What do you suppose she's doing right now?
 * Kate: Probably watching TV. Let's go. *Kate starts to walk off*
 * Allie: No! Don't you want to...wait and see if she comes out?
 * Kate: Allie, she "wants to be alone."
 * Allie: Oh, come on, just a minute!
 * Kate: Okay, okay. But this is ridiculous!
 * Allie: *sees a shadow from the window* Oh my God! It's her!
 * Kate: How can you tell?
 * Allie: I know it's her! It's she!
 * Kate: That could be anybody.
 * Allie: *to herself* I saw...Greta Garbo!
 * Kate: You saw...a woman in a hat! It could have been Bella Abzug!
 * Allie: Are you trying to spoil what could possibly be the high point of my life?
 * Kate: *sigh* Okay, okay, we saw Greta Garbo.
 * Allie: Do you really think it was her?

 * Kate and Allie walk down the street; the soft piano music starts up again, final few notes.

 * Soft piano music. Kate and Allie walk past a flower shop.

 * Kate: You'll never guess who I ran into today.
 * Allie: Who?
 * Kate: Brenda Maizel.
 * Allie: Lumpy! Oh, I haven't seen Lumpy since graduation! Poor, sweet old Lumpy.
 * Kate: Yeah.
 * Allie: Braces, glasses and allergies. Remember that sneeze?
 * Kate: That's how I recognized her. I was standing on the corner in front of Saks and I heard someone choking a turkey. I turned around and there she was.
 * Allie: Still a mess? *sniffs some flowers*
 * Kate: Well, as messy as you can be in mink.
 * Allie: *looks up* Oh?
 * Kate: Well, she married an investment broker.
 * Allie: Well, good for her. They're safe and predictable.
 * Kate: He also skydives, he's a published poet, and his name is Thor.
 * Allie: She still have those stubby little fingers?
 * Kate: I couldn't tell with all the diamonds.
 * Allie: I never liked her.
 * Kate: Me neither.

 * Allie puts the flowers down and they both walk away; the soft piano music starts up again, final few notes.

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Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes (born 19 January 1946), British novelist and short story writer.

Metroland (1981)

 * I read Hemingway's posthumous Paris memoirs, rumoured to have been written by his wife (`Out of the question,' Toni assured me, `they're so badly written they must be authentic').
 * p. 85.

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989)

 * You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me, not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel.
 * p. 194.

Talking It Over (1991)

 * Now, Stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath.
 * p. 28.

 * This is I have to admit, one murky compartment of the female psyche which has yet to benefit from the oven-scourer of Reason.
 * p. 43.

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Fiddler on the Roof (film)

Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of "shtetl" life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned programs.
 * ''Directed by Norman Jewison. Written by Sholom Aleichem and Joseph Stein

Shout It From The Rooftops! (taglines)

Tevye

 * [Opening lines] A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But, here, in our little village of Anatevka, every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask, why do we stay here if it's so dangerous? We stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: Tradition!
 * Because of our traditions, we have kept our balance for many, many years. Here in Anatevka, we have traditions for everything: how to how to eat, how to sleep, how to wear clothes. For instance, we always keep our heads covered, and always wear a little prayer-shawl. This shows our constant devotion to God. You may ask, how did this tradition start? I'll tell you. I don't know. But it's a tradition. And because of our traditions, every one of us knows who he is, and what God expects him to do.
 * Traditions, traditions. Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as... as... as a fiddler on the roof!
 * [to God] Sometimes I wonder, when it gets too quiet up there, if You are thinking, "What kind of mischief can I play on My friend Tevye?"
 * [to God] It may sound like I'm complaining, but I'm not. After all, with Your help, I'm starving to death. Oh, dear Lord. You made many many poor people. I realize, of course, it's no shame to be poor... but it's no great honor either. So what would be so terrible... if I had a small fortune?
 * As the Good Book says, if you spit in the air, it lands in your face.
 * [to God] I know, I know. We are Your chosen people. But, once in a while, can't You choose someone else?
 * [to Chava] As the Good Book says "Each shall seek his own kind". In other words, a bird may love a fish... but where would they build a home together?
 * When I get angry, even flies don't dare to fly!
 * Golde, I am the man in the family! I am the head of the house! And I want to see Motel's new machine now! [looks inside Motel's house for barely a second] Now let's go home!
 * [to God] Am I bothering You too much? I'm sorry. As the good book says... aaahh, why should I tell You what the Good Book says?
 * [Last lines] All right, children. Let's go.
 * As the good book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.
 * On the other hand, how can I turn my back on my faith, my people? If I try and bend that far, I'll break. On the other hand... No. There is no other hand.

Yente

 * If God lived on earth, people would break His windows.
 * Ah, children, they are your blessing in your old age. But of course my Aaron couldn't give me children. Between you and me, Golde, he hardly tried.
 * Not everyone is a man!
 * From such children, come other children!

Others

 * Hodel: [to Tevye] The world is changing, Papa.
 * Fyedka: [introducing himself to Chava] I'm a pleasant fellow - charming, honest, ambitious, quite bright, and very modest.
 * Hodel: We only have one Rabbi, and he only has one son. Why shouldn't I want the best?
 * Motel: If the rich could hire others to die for them, we, the poor, would all make a nice living.
 * Motel: Even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness!
 * Motel: You'll all chatter yourselves away into the grave.

Dialogue

 * Tevye: As the good book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.
 * Neighbor: Where does the book say that?
 * Tevye: Well, it doesn't say that exactly, but somewhere there is something about a chicken. Good Sabbath!

 * Tevye: [singing] Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?
 * Golde: [singing] I don't remember growing older. When did they?

 * Perchik: In this world it is the wealthy who are criminals. Someday their wealth will be ours.
 * Tevye: That would be nice. If they would agree, I would agree.

 * Tevye: As Abraham said, "I am a stranger in a strange land..."
 * Neighbor: Moses said that.
 * Tevye: Ah. Well, as King David said, "I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue."
 * Neighbor: That was also Moses.
 * Tevye: For a man who was slow of tongue, he talked a lot.

 * Perchik: Money is the world's curse.
 * Tevye: May the Lord smite me with it! And may I never recover!

 * Lazar Wolfe: How is your brother-in-law? In America?
 * Tevye: Oh, he's doing very well.
 * Lazar Wolfe: Oh, he wrote you?
 * Tevye: No, not lately.
 * Lazar Wolfe: Then how do you know?
 * Tevye: If he was doing badly, he would write.

 * Tevye: Pardon me, Lazar Wolfe, but how can a little cow keep you company?
 * Lazar Wolfe: "Little Cow"?! is that what you call her?!
 * Tevye: What else am I to call her? She is a cow!
 * Lazar Wolfe: What are you talking about?
 * Tevye: No, what are you talking about?
 * Lazar Wolfe: No, what are you talking about?
 * Tevye: No, what are you talking about?

[Etc.].
 * Lazar Wolfe: No, what are you talking about?
 * Tevye: The new milk cow you want to buy from me!
 * Lazar Wolfe: A milk cow keep me company!

[Both laugh].

 * Constable: You're an honest, decent person. Even though you are a Jew.
 * Tevye: Oh... Thank you, your honor. How often does a man get a compliment like that?

 * Tevye: Thank you, your honor. You are a good man. If I may say so, it's too bad you're not a Jew.
 * Constable: [laughs] That's what I like about you, Tevye. You're always joking.

 * Lazar Wolfe: Have a drink?
 * Tevye: I won't insult you by saying no.

 * Perchik: I'm a very good teacher.
 * Hodel: I heard that the Rabbi who must congratulate himself has a congregation of one.

 * Perchik: Your daughter has a quick and witty tongue.
 * Tevye: Yes, the wit she gets from me. As the good book says...
 * Golde: The good book can wait, it's time for Sabbath!
 * Tevye: The tongue she gets from her mother.

 * Villager: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth!
 * Tevye: Very good. That way the whole world will be blind and toothless.

 * Neighbor: (gestures at Simba and Motel) He's right, and he's right? They can't both be right.
 * Tevye: You know... you are also right.

 * Motel: You won't be sorry! You won't be sorry!
 * Tevye: I won't be sorry? I'm sorry already!

 * Young Jewish Man: Rabbi, may I ask you a question?
 * Rabbi: Certainly, my son.
 * Young Jewish Man: Is there a proper blessing for the Tsar?
 * Rabbi: A blessing for the Tsar? Of course! May God bless and keep the Tsar... far away from us!

 * Golde: We will be staying with Uncle Avram.
 * Chava: Yes, mama.
 * (She leaves with Fyedka. The annoyed Tevye faces Golde)
 * Tevye: We will be staying with Uncle Avram. We will be staying with Uncle Avram!!! THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TO KNOW OUR BUSINESS!!!
 * Golde: Stop yelling and finish packing. We have a long way to go.
 * Tevye: Golde, I don't need your advice!!!! Tzeitel, don't forget the baby.

Taglines

 * A tradition
 * The screen's most magnificent entertainment returns... filled with joy, laughter, love and life.
 * Shout It From The Rooftops!
 * To Life!

Cast

 * Chaim Topol - Tevye
 * Norma Crane - Golde
 * Leonard Frey -Motel Kamzoil
 * Molly Picon - Yente
 * Paul Mann - Lazar Wolfe
 * Rosalind Harris - Tzeitel
 * Michele Marsh - Hodel
 * Michael Glaser - Perchik

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Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria (born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist, political scientist, and author specializing in international relations. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has also been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time.

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(Most recent first)

 * Beijing is now the second-largest funder of the UN and UN peacekeepers. It has deployed 2,500 peacekeepers, more than all the other permanent members of the Security Council combined. Between 2000 and 2008 it supported 182 of 190 Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions on nations deemed to have violated international rules or norms.
 * Quoted in It’s Rubbish to Trash China, by Jonathan Power, Counter Punch,      (March 5, 2020)

 * Sometime in the last two years, American hegemony died. The age of U.S. dominance was a brief, heady era, about three decades marked by two moments, each a breakdown of sorts. It was born amid the collapse of the Berlin Wall, in 1989. The end, or really the beginning of the end, was another collapse, that of Iraq in 2003, and the slow unraveling since... As with most deaths, many factors contributed to this one. There were deep structural forces in the international system that inexorably worked against any one nation that accumulated so much power. In the American case, however, one is struck by the ways in which Washington—from an unprecedented position—mishandled its hegemony and abused its power, losing allies and emboldening enemies. And now, under the Trump administration, the United States seems to have lost interest, indeed lost faith, in the ideas and purpose that animated its international presence for three-quarters of a century.
 * The Self-Destruction of American Power Washington Squandered the Unipolar Moment, Foreign Affairs, (July/August 2019)

 * U.S. hegemony in the post–Cold War era was like nothing the world had seen since the Roman Empire. Writers are fond of dating the dawn of “the American century” to 1945, not long after the publisher Henry Luce coined the term. But the post–World War II era was quite different from the post-1989 one. Even after 1945, in large stretches of the globe, France and the United Kingdom still had formal empires and thus deep influence. Soon, the Soviet Union presented itself as a superpower rival, contesting Washington’s influence in every corner of the planet.
 * The Self-Destruction of American Power Washington Squandered the Unipolar Moment, Foreign Affairs, (July/August 2019)

 * On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [President Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

 * Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

 * America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.

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Goofy

Goofy is a character appearing in the Walt Disney brand of cartoons.

Quotes about Goofy

 * It is difficult to classify the characteristics of the Goof into columns of the physical and mental, because they interweave, reflect and enhance one another. Therefore, it will probably be best to mention everything all at once. Think of the Goof as a composite of an everlasting optimist, a gullible Good Samaritan, a halfwit and a shiftless, good-natured hick.
 * Art Babbitt on Goofy
 * From the film Goofy and Wilbur
 * Goofy: [shaking his glove as he mistakens it for the frog that swallowed Wilbur] Cough up Wilbur! Cough him up!

 * Goofy: [on the top of a bird's nest, after Wilbur got eaten by a stork] I got to cheer up! There'll be lots of grasshoppers in the weeds. [sniffs and blubbers in despair; he then bursts into tears with his face in his hands] But not like Wilbur! [wails] [an egg hatches and Wilbur comes out of it] [happily] Wilbur! Gosh, Wilbur, thought you was a goner! [Wilbur hugs Goofy and kisses him on the muzzle]

 * From the film Stand By Me.
 * Gordie: Mickey is a mouse, Donald is a duck, Pluto is a dog. What's Goofy...?
 * Teddy: He's a dog, he's definitely a dog..
 * Chris: He can't be a dog, he wears a hat and drives a car...
 * Vern: Yeah, that is weird. What the hell is Goofy?

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Gerald Durrell

Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter, most famous for founding what is now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the Channel Island of Jersey and for writing a number of books based on his animal-collecting and conservation expeditions. He was the brother of Lawrence Durrell.

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 * Right in the Heart of the African Jungle a small white man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the friend of all animals.
 * Written by Durrell at age ten (1935), from Gerald Durrell: An Authorized Biography by Douglas Botting (1999), p. 43, ISBN 0-786-70655-4

I have seen seas as smooth as if painted, coloured like shot silk or blue as a kingfisher or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving ponderously and murderously. … I have known silence: the cold earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; the implacable stony silence of a deep cave; the hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotised and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun; the silence when great music ends. I have heard summer cicadas cry so that the sound seems stitched into your bones. … I have seen hummingbirds flashing like opals round a tree of scarlet blooms, humming like a top. I have seen flying fish, skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing silver lines on the surface with their tails. I have seen Spoonbills fling home to roost like a scarlet banner across the sky. I have seen Whales, black as tar, cushioned on a cornflower blue sea, creating a Versailles of fountain with their breath. I have watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling, while the sun irons their winds smooth. I have watched Tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass. I have been dive-bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as the Devil’s hoof. I have lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a host of Dolphins. '''I have met a thousand animals and seen a thousand wonderful things… but — All this I did without you. This was my loss. All this I want to do with you. This will be my gain. All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of one minute of your company, for your laugh, your voice, your eyes, hair, lips, body, and above all for your sweet, ever surprising mind which is an enchanting quarry in which it is my privilege to delve.'''
 * I have seen a thousand sunsets and sunrises, on land where it floods forest and mountains with honey coloured light, at sea where it rises and sets like a blood orange in a multicoloured nest of cloud, slipping in and out of the vast ocean. I have seen a thousand moons: harvest moons like gold coins, winter moons as white as ice chips, new moons like baby swans’ feathers.
 * Letter to his fiancée Lee, (31 July 1978), published in Gerald Durrell: An Authorized Biography by Douglas Botting (1999)

 * There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
 * On his persuasive rejection of the term "Third World", in his Introduction to State of the Ark (1986) by Lee McGeorge Durrell.

 * If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.
 * Introduction to Quest for the Kakapo (1989) by David Butler, p. 6

Many people think that conservation is just about saving fluffy animals – what they don’t realise is that we’re trying to prevent the human race from committing suicide … We have declared war on the biological world, the world that supports us … At the moment the human race is in the position of a man sawing off the tree branch he is sitting on. Look at it this way. '''Anyone who has got any pleasure at all from living should try to put something back. Life is like a superlative meal and the world is the maître d'hôtel. What I am doing is the equivalent of leaving a reasonable tip.''' … I'm glad to be giving something back because I've been so extraordinarily lucky and had such great pleasure from it.
 * A sparrow can be as interesting as a bird of paradise, the behaviour of a mouse as interesting as that of a tiger. Our planet is beautifully intricate, brimming over with enigmas to be solved and riddles to be unravelled.
 * As quoted in Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography (1999) by Douglas Botting

My Family and Other Animals (1956)

 * Halfway up the slope, guarded by a group of tall, slim, cypress-trees, nestled a small strawberry-pink villa, like some exotic fruit lying in the greenery. The cypress-trees undulated gently in the breeze, as if they were busily painting the sky a still brighter blue for our arrival. The villa was small and square, standing in its tiny garden with an air of pink-faced determination. Its shutters had been faded by the sun to a delicate creamy-green, cracked and bubbled in places. The garden, surrounded by tall fuschia hedges, had the flower beds worked in complicated geometrical patterns, marked with smooth white stones. The white cobbled paths, scarcely as wide as a rake's head, wound laboriously round beds hardly larger than a big straw hat, beds in the shape of stars, half-moons, triangles, and circles all overgrown with a shaggy tangle of flowers run wild. Roses dropped petals that seemed as big and smooth as saucers, flame-red, moon-white, glossy, and unwrinkled; marigolds like broods of shaggy suns stood watching their parent's progress through the sky. In the low growth the pansies pushed their velvety, innocent faces through the leaves, and the violets drooped sorrowfully under their heart-shaped leaves. The bougainvillaea that sprawled luxuriously over the tiny iron balcony was hung, as though for a carnival, with its lantern-shaped magenta flowers. In the darkness of the fuschia-hedge a thousand ballerina-like blooms quivered expectantly. The warm air was thick with the scent of a hundred dying flowers, and full of the gentle, soothing whisper and murmur of insects.

 * Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

 * I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.

 * We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When we opened our luggage for Customs inspection, the contents of our bags were a fair indication of character and interests. Thus Margo's luggage contained a multitude of diaphanous garments, three books on slimming, and a regiment of small bottles each containing some elixir guaranteed to cure acne. Leslie's cases held a couple of roll-top pullovers and a pair of trousers which were wrapped around two revolvers, an air-pistol, a book called Be Your Own Gunsmith, and a large bottle of oil that leaked. Larry was accompanied by two trunks of books and a brief case containing his clothes. Mother's luggage was sensibly divided between clothes and various volumes on cooking and gardening. I travelled with only those items that I thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on natural history, a butterfly net, a dog, and a jam jar full of caterpillars all in imminent danger of turning into chrysalids. Thus, by our standards, fully equipped, we left the clammy shores of England.
 * On the family's move from England to Corfu

Encounters with Animals (1958)

 * There would be a dreadful outcry if anyone suggested obliterating, say, the Tower of London, and quite rightly so; yet a unique and wonderful species of animal which has taken hundreds of thousands of years to develop to the stage we see today, can be snuffed out like a candle without more than a handful of people raising a finger or a voice in protest. So, until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.

Two in the Bush (1966)

 * Firstly what does conservation mean? It is not merely the saving from extinction of such species as the Notornis, the Leadbetters Possum or the Leathery Turtle; this is important work but it is only part of the problem. You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself — a point that seems to escape many people.

 * We have inherited an incredibly beautiful and complex garden, but the trouble is that we have been appallingly bad gardeners. We have not bothered to acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of gardening. By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors. We go on, year after year, all over the world, creating dust bowls and erosion, cutting down forests and overgrazing our grasslands, polluting one of our most vital commodities — water — with industrial filth and all the time we are breeding with the ferocity of the Brown Rat, and wondering why there is not enough food to go round. We now stand so aloof from nature that we think we are God. This has always been a dangerous supposition.

 * The attitude of the average person to the world they live in is completely selfish. When I take people round to see my animals, one of the first questions they ask (unless the animal is cute and appealing) is, "what use is it?" by which they mean, "what use is it to them?" To this one can reply "What use is the Acropolis?" Does a creature have to be of direct material use to mankind in order to exist? By and large, by asking the question "what use is it?" you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own.

Rosie Is My Relative (1968)

 * An immensely tall, angular figure … His gown hung round him in long folds like the wings of a bat, and his wig was perched slightly askew over a lantern jawed face with a blue chin, soulful spaniel-brown eyes and a turned-down mouth like a slit. But for his garb, you would have said that he was a dyspeptic undertaker in a town where nobody ever died.

 * His pen squeaking like a demented wren as he wrote copious notes.

The Stationary Ark (1976)

 * The purpose of keeping any collection of wild animals in confinement should be threefold; first, to conduct as complete as possible a biological study of every species, especially those aspects which are too difficult or too costly to study in the wild and which may help in the preservation of that species in its natural habitat; second, to aid severely endangered species by setting up, under ideal conditions, protected breeding groups and, eventually, a reintroduction programme, so helping to ensure their future survival; thirdly, by the display and explanation of this work to the public, to persuade people of the vital necessity and urgency for the overall conservation of nature.

 * You are not necessarily depriving him of his liberty, for territory is a form of natural cage and the word "liberty" does not have the same connotation for an animal as it does for a chest-beating liberal homo sapiens, who can afford the luxury of abstract ideas. What you are, in fact, doing is much more important, you are taking away his territory, so you must take great care to provide him with an adequate substitute, or you will get a bored, sick or dead animal on your hands. The thing that turns a cage into a territory may be something quite slight, but it need not be size. It might be the shape of the cage, the number of branches or the lack of them, the absence or presence of a pond, a patch of sand, a chunk of log, which could make all the difference. Such a detail, trivial to the uninformed visitor, can help the animal consider this area his territory, rather than simply a place where he ekes out his existence. As I say it is not necessarily size which is of prime importance. This is where people who criticise zoos go wrong, for they generally have little idea what circumscribed lives most animals lead.

The Garden of the Gods (1978)

 * "And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present the famous escape artists, Krafty Kralefsky and his partner, Slithery Stephanides." "Dear God," said Larry, "who thought of those names?" "Need you ask?" said Leslie; "Theodore. Kralefsky wanted to call the act 'The Mysterious Escapologist Illusionists' but Margo couldn't be guaranteed to say it properly." "One must be thankful for small mercies," said Larry.

 * "Air! Air!" croaked Kralefsky, "Give me air!" "Interesting," said Colonel Ribbindane. "Saw a pygmy like that once in the Congo... been trapped in an elephant’s stomach. The elephant is the largest African quadruped.." "Do get him out," said Mother agitatedly. "Get some brandy." "Fan him! Blow on him!" shrilled Margo, and burst into tears. "He’s dying, he’s dying, and he never finished his trick."
 * On a magic trick shown by family friends

The Mockery Bird (1981)

 * The Mockery Bird regarded him with a roguish eye, head on one side, and took a few slow steps into the clearing. With its head on one side and its foot tentatively raised, it seemed like some sort of lanky, avian dancing master. It stepped forward among the guava stems with a mincing delicacy and then shuffled its wings like someone shuffling a pack of cards. He noticed that it had very long eyelashes which it raised and lowered over its large gaily-sparkling eyes. … There was another complicated rustle and flurry in the undergrowth and then, projected into the clearing by its own nervous eagerness, came a female Mockery Bird making strange, peeting noises, which became a soothing babble when she caught sight of the male. She went up to her mate and briefly preened his throat feathers as an over-zealous wife will straighten the tie of her consort. … Here in front of him, cossetting each other, were two birds which were thought to be extinct.

How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist (1984)

 * The island lies like a strange, misshapen dagger in the blue Ionian Sea, midway along the Greek and Albanian coastlines. In the past, it has fallen into the hands of a dozen different nations, from all of which it has absorbed what it found good and rejected the rest, thus keeping its individuality. Unlike so many parts of Greece, it is green and lush, for when it was part of the Venetian empire they used it as their oil store, planting thousands of olive trees, so that now the bulk of the island is shaded by these carunculated giants with their wigs of silvery-green leaves. Between them run the admonishing fingers of black-green cypress, many planted in groves as dowries. All this creates a mystical landscape, bathed in sharp brittle sunlight, orchestrated by the knife-grinder song of the cicadas, framed in the blue, still sea. Of all the wonderful and fascinating parts of the planet I have been privileged to visit, Corfu is the nearest approach to home for me, since it was here, nurtured in sunlight, that my fascination for the living world around me came to fruition.

 * To say that Gannet City was busy would be an understatement. New York in the rush-hour would appear immobile in comparison. There were gannets incubating, feeding chicks, flirting, mating, preening and launching themselves into the air in effortless flight on their six-foot wings. With their creamy- white bodies, wing-tips black as jet and their orange-coloured nape and head they were impressive and immensely handsome.

 * Presently, however, we came to a small clearing and there, squatting at the mouth of its burrow was the musician responsible for the ringing, flute-like cry — a fat ground squirrel, wearing a tasteful suit of rust-red and grey fur. He sat as upright as a guardsman at the entrance to his home and his ribcage pumped in and out as he gave his musical warning cry. His big, liquid eyes stared at us with that intense, slightly inane expression that most squirrels wear, and his little paws trembled with his vocal efforts.

Quotes about Durrell

 * Gerry Durrell was, to use the modern idiom, Magic. You imbibe it in his books, you feel it in his Zoo, you see it in the eyes of his trainees, and you hear it in even the most restrained tones of zoo directors, who may command budgets ten times the size that he ever did. Magic people, as all well read children know, are especially susceptible to mortal dangers and Gerry was no exception, but, before it finally ran out, he sprinkled his Magic in such vast quantities, that much of it has germinated, and hundreds of good gardeners are feeding the new growth as if their lives, and the lives of other animals depend upon it — and indeed they do.
 * David Attenborough, in "Durrel's Ark : The Renegade Who Was Right" for the Gerald Durrell Memorial Celebration, Natural History Museum (28 June 1995)

I had been dining at the taverna on the beach with my friends, and stayed on after they left, engaged in a desultory conversation with strangers. By the time I started for home it was pitch-black, and I could not find the gap at the head of the beach that led to the ancient paved track to the house. As I wandered up and down, uncertain where to go, a tiny winking light, a curious, incessant, electric neon flash, suddenly appeared at chest height about three feet in front of me. I took a step towards it, and it backed away by the same distance, then hovered, winking steadily. '''It was a firefly, I knew. But it was odd that it was around so late in the year, and so alone; and odder still that it should appear to be relating, or at least reacting, to a human being in this uncharacteristic way.''' I moved towards it again, and again it backed away by the same distance. And so we proceeded, the firefly always at chest height and three feet in front of me. I realised I had been led through the gap in the beach that I could not find, and that we were at the foot of the ancient track. Guided by the firefly I walked slowly up the invisible path, step by step in the total darkness. Halfway up, the firefly stopped and hovered, winking vigorously, until I was almost abreast of it. Then it made a sharp turn of ninety degrees to the left and proceeded up another, shorter but steeper path, with me trustingly trudging behind. It stopped again, and I realised I was at the garden gate of the house where I was staying. The firefly went over the gate, and I followed it across the unlit patio. The kitchen door was somewhere there in the dark, and the firefly flickered unerringly towards it. As I reached for the doorknob the firefly fluttered up and settled on the back of my hand, winking the while. I was home. Was this normal? I asked myself. Were fireflies known to behave in this way towards people? I lifted my hand up to my face and peered closely at the wildly signalling minuscule organism. As I did so, I heard the voice of one of my friends, who, sitting silently in the dark, had witnessed everything: "Good … God!" I blew gently on the firefly, and it rose, turned once in a flickering circle, flew off into the tops of the overhanging olive trees and vanished into the night. "You realise what that was, don’t you?" my friend said. He was a distinguished political journalist, and an eminently sane and sensible man. "Gerald Durrell keeping an eye on you, lending a hand, helping you home. No question about it. I think I’d better have another Metaxa after that!" Every Corfiot Greek I told the story to nodded dryly and said matter-of-factly, without a hint of surprise, "Gerald Durrell." Gerald always believed that if he survived in a life after death it would be in some form of animal reincarnation. He had hoped it would be something fun – a soaring eagle, or a leaping dolphin – but perhaps a firefly would do at a pinch. Make of this visitation what you will, there is no doubt that Gerald Durrell’s spirit does live on in one way or another – in his books, in his zoo, in his ongoing mission, in the natural world he has left behind.
 * I returned to Corfu, staying with friends at the small coastal village of Kaminaki, not far from Kalami, while I researched the life and times, haunts and homes of the young Gerald and his family on the island. The season of the festival of the fireflies – that fantastic insect spectacle so vividly described in My Family and Other Animals – was long over. What happened at Kaminaki one stifling moonless night was therefore doubly odd.
 * Douglas Botting, in Gerald Durrell : The Authorised Biography (1999), Afterword

That was Gerald Durrell’s message, and that was Gerald Durrell’s life mission. That message and that mission will be carried forward by those who succeed him.
 * We are in a period of ecological collapse right now, the consequence of habitat and species loss partly attributable to climate change and partly to the destructive activities of Homo sapiens (which in turn accelerate climate change). The predictions for future extinctions in our time are dire for both animals and plants – and perhaps for man himself, since man cannot escape the fate of the natural world, no matter how much he believes he can; like it or not, he remains part of the global ecosystem. It may be that in the long term the universe is implacably hostile to all life anyway. It may be that our planet and all its cargo are proceeding towards eventual extinction. It may be that in the shorter term all life proceeds according to the laws of evolution, through successive stages of extinction (from whatever causes) to universal oblivion. But as Gerald Durrell constantly reiterated throughout his adult life, that does not mean a man can stand idly by and watch it all happen without lifting a finger. With the millennium, perhaps, we will enter an age of ethics. Man can learn, as Gerald Durrell frequently pointed out; man can come to his senses, can change, can try to save the day. And thanks to the inspiration of people like him there are signs that, at the eleventh hour, this is beginning to happen; that we may one day hope to turn the tide of habitat-destruction and man-made extinction on earth.
 * Douglas Botting, in Gerald Durrell : The Authorised Biography (1999), Afterword

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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 film about Wallace, a good-natured eccentric cheese-loving British inventor, and Gromit, his faithful dog whose humane anti-pest business is employed to capture a giant rabbit which is wreaking havoc in their village.
 * Directed by Nick Park and Steve Box. Written by Bob Baker, Steve Box, Mark Burton and Nick Park.

Something wicked this way hops. (taglines)

Wallace

 * [to Gromit, while holding a carrot and wearing giant rabbit ears] Er, what's up, dog?
 * It's a veritable... vegetable... paradise.
 * Just a bit of harmless brain alteration, that's all.
 * Lovely food, for rabbits, that is.
 * Still got me on the diet, eh, Gromit? Watching me shape. Ha Ha, there's a good dog.
 * I'm just crackers about cheese.
 * [at the Academy Awards of his and Gromit's movie, presented by Reese Witherspoon] Ooh! I do like a bit of Gorgonzola.
 * Veg bad...veg bad...veg bad. Say no to carrots, cabbage, and cauliflower.

Lady Campanula Tottington

 * Please, Wallace, call me "Totty".
 * Run, rabbit, run!
 * [to Victor after knocking him out with a giant carrot] Is that so? Consider yourself dumped.

Lord Victor Quartermaine

 * There's No nonsense with Victor Quartermaine. What you see is what you get. [his toupee is sucked into a rabbit hole]
 * [Complaining of Wallace's job] How do you intended to finish these vermin off? Crush them? [Kicks the BunnyVac 6000] Liquidize them?
 * I Want. [Silence] To. [groans quietly] Toupee, please.
 * TOUPEE, YOU IDIOT! MY HAIR IS IN YOUR MACHINE!
 * [Growls] Out of my way fool.
 * [After firing a shot to get the crowd's attention] A were-rabbit? Oh come, come now. I do believe the Vicar's been at the communion wine again.
 * [taunting Wallace in attack] C’mon. Queensberry rules. Put ‘em up you little pipsqueak. [Wallace starts shaking] Hahahaha, you’re shaking. Don’t tell me you’re a scaredy-cat as well as a scoundrel. And don’t think acting like a big girl’s blouse will get you out of it. There’s no mercy with Victor Quartermaine.
 * [Seeing Lady Tottington crying] That's right, my lovely. You can say goodbye to your fluffy lover boy.
 * [Stopping Gromit from saving Wallace] Your loyalty is moving. Sadly, you won't be.
 * [Sees Were-Rabbit with Tottington] Get your hairy mitts off my future wife you big brute.
 * Oh, no. You commissioned me to rid you of Pesto, and that's just what I intend to do.
 * [Shoves a pitchfork in Lady Tottington's hair] Hmmmm, I rather like your hair pinned back.
 * [Watching the were-rabbit hop away] You can hop, but you can't hide, Pesto!
 * EAT CARROT, BUNNY BOY!
 * [Wallace falls to his death] No one beats Victor Quartermaine!

PC Mackintosh

 * [The Were-Rabbit is teetering on the roof of Tottington Hall, above a mob] Stand back! There may be a large rabbit dropping!
 * Hey! Give over!
 * Look.
 * This flipping vegetable competition causes nothing but trouble every year.
 * If you ask me, you know, I tell ya
 * If you ask me, this was arson. Aye, somebody "arson" [arsin'] around.

Hutch the Rabbit

 * Cheeeeeeese!
 * Ooh, I do like a bit of gorgonzola.
 * Ah, the bounce has gone from his bungee.
 * Hey, Presto! Rabbit rehabilitation!
 * Cheddar.
 * I'm inventing, mostly.
 * Charming. I'm Wallace.
 * Geronimo!
 * Your Lordship.
 * Good night, Gromit.
 * Cracking toast, Gromit.
 * I'm just crackers about cheese.
 * Monterey Jack! Wow!
 * Smashing Wensleydale.
 * Job well done, lad.
 * Lovely food. For rabbits, that is.
 * Cheese, Gromit!
 * Heehee! Lovely cheese, Gromit!
 * Don't forget the crackers.
 * [final line] CHEEEEEEEEESE!!

Reverend Clement Hedges

 * [praying] Protect and nourish the frail and the weak, O Lord. Let them grow big and strong under Thy loving care. [camera pulls back, revealing that he is talking about his vegetables] In fact, let them grow bigger and stronger than anyone else's, so that the first prize might be mine! [applies a drop of holy water] Aaaaaaa-men.
 * [holding up a pair of cucumbers like a cross] MERRRRCYYYYYYYYYY!!
 * This was no man, does a man have teeth the size of axe blades? Or ears like terrible tombstones? By tampering with nature, forcing vegetables to swell far beyond their natural size, we have brought a terrible judgement upon ourselves. And for our sins, a hideous creature has been sent to punish us all! Repent! Repent! Lest you, too, taste the wrath of... THE WERE-RABBIT!!
 * My poor sensitive child, allow us all to share in your moment of sorrow. [begins to walk away] YEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHH! [fireworks begin to go off and jolly music plays] ON WITH THE SHOW!
 * [witnessing Victor Quartermaine caught on a weather-vane by his trousers, showing his rear end to all below] Beware the moon!
 * Destroy! Drive out the monstrosity!

Mr. Growbag

 * I never saw such cauliflower carnage! Worse than the Great Slug Blight of '32. When there were slugs the size of pigs.
 * [On the history of the Giant Vegetable Competition] That's right. Not even the Great Duck Plague of '53 stopped it.

Dialogue

 * Lady Tottington: [over the phone] I have the most terrible rabbit problem. The competition is only days away. You simply have to do something.
 * Wallace: Certainly, M'am [to Gromit] I think we're about to go up in the world, lad. [back to the phone] Just stay right where you are, Your Ladyship, and we'll be there in an- [hits the control panel and gets dragged up through the ceiling] AHHHHHHHH!!
 * Tottington: In an hour? I can't wait an hour. I have a major infestation.

 * Tottington: Victor, hadn’t we agreed: no more thoughtless killing.
 * Victor: Quite right, my dear. So I've thought this through very carefully. [aims gun at a rabbit, who puts his paws up] It's off to bunny heaven for you, big-ears.

 * [Quartermaine's hairpiece has been sucked up into the Bun-Vac 6000.]
 * Lord Victor Quartermaine: I want... [lowers voice] toupeé, please.
 * Wallace: Oh, Grand. We take check or cash.
 * Victor: TOUPEÉ, you idiot! My hair is in in your machine!
 * Wallace: Oh, no, it's only rabbits in there. The hare, I think you'll find, is a much larger mammal.
 * Victor: Oh, out of my way, you! [retrieves his toupeé; to Lady Tottington] I'm sorry, my dear. [the toupeé is actually a black bunny] But I refuse to suffer any more humiliation at the hands of these blundering nitwits. I therefore bid you good day!

 * Reverend Clement Hedges: Hello? Is anybody there?
 * [The Were-Rabbit lets out an enormous belch.]
 * Rev. Hedges: Mrs. Mulch?

 * Mr. Growbag: I never saw such cauliflower carnage! Worse than the Great Slug Blight of '32. When there were slugs the size of pigs.
 * Mrs. Mulch: Growbag's right! The slugs are back!
 * PC Macintosh: [surveying the damage left by the Were-Rabbit] Look, this flippin' vegetable competition causes nothing but trouble every year.
 * Man 1: Here we go.
 * Macintosh: [surveying the damage left by the Were-Rabbit] If you ask me-
 * Man 2: Get on with you!
 * Macintosh: No, I'll tell ya. If you ask me, this was arson.
 * [The townspeople gasp.]
 * Man 3: Arson?
 * Macintosh: Aye. Someone arsin' around. That's right. One of you lot. A man.

 * Victor: [in the forest] I know your little secret, Pesto! I know exactly what's going on!
 * Wallace: Your Lordship?
 * Victor: Oh, yes. You think you can pilfer my filly, don't you? You think you can con an innocent woman out of her fortune?
 * Wallace: Who, me?
 * Victor: Well, I got here first! I've spent a lot of time reeling in that fluffy-headed bunny-lover, and I'm not about to let some puddle-headed peasant poach her from me! Comprendez?

 * Clement Hedges: The beast lurks within all of us, my child. [thunderclap] The side of us that emerges at night as the moon rises into the sky! The side that savagely rips the leaves off any innocent cabbage...!
 * Victor: Oh, spare me the sermon, Vicar! Just tell me how I kill him! Er, I mean 'it'.
 * Clement: To kill such a creature would require nerves of steel, and...[pause]... a bullet. [thunderclap]
 * Victor: A bullet? [thunderclap]
 * Hedges: A bullet! [thunderclap]
 * Victor: A bull-? [louder thunderclap] Ooh! [closes window to blot out noise] What KIND of bullet?
 * Hedges: A bullet... of pure... gold! [opens his cabinet to show the gold bullets]
 * Victor: [amused] Gold?
 * Hedges: Yes... 24 'karot'! [giggles]
 * Victor: [unamused] Oh. Get out of my way. [takes the bullets] Silly old fool.
 * Hedges: [as Victor walks out the door] Beware! BEWARE THE BEAST WITHIN!!

 * Wallace: Oh, it's hopeless! I'll never fix this flippin' machine. Me mind's just a rabbit-y mush. Oh, Gromit! I don't wanna be a giant rabbit! [sobbing]
 * Hutch the Rabbit: Aww, the bounce is gone from his bungee.

 * Reverend Clement Hedges: [at the fair] Ah, Mr. Growbag. I have a hunch this will be a night to remember.
 * Mr Growbag: [looks at his back] I just have a hunch.

 * [Everyone thinks Victor's a hero]
 * Civilian 1: Please, sir... [holds up vegetable] kiss my baby,
 * Victor: Another time, perhaps.
 * Civilian 2: [holds up vegetable] Kiss my potato,
 * Victor: Not now.
 * Mr. Growbag: Kiss my artichoke, [holds up his vegetable]
 * Victor: Look, just-
 * Tottington: Victor.
 * Victor: Campanula!
 * Tottington: Victor, I have to know. Did it guilty?
 * Victor: Of course not, my dear. [sotto] Not yet, anyway.

 * Victor: [whispering] Listen, I don't want to cause any panic, but the beast isn't actually dead yet.
 * Mactinosh: [speaking through megaphone] THE BEAST ISN'T ACTUALLY DEAD YET?! [everyone turns around and hear what he said] Oops.

 * Victor: No one beats Victor Quartermaine!
 * Tottington: Is that so? [knocks him with a giant carrot] Consider yourself dumped.

Taglines

 * Something wicked this way hops.
 * Something bunny is going on.
 * [near Wallace] “Master”, [near Gromit] “Mind”
 * Cracking cheese, Gromit!

Cast

 * Peter Sallis — Wallace / Hutch
 * Helena Bonham Carter — Lady Campanula Tottington
 * Ralph Fiennes — Lord Victor Quartermaine
 * Peter Kay — PC McIntosh
 * Nicholas Smith — Reverend Clement Hedges
 * Edward Kelsey - Mr. Growbag


text:
L. P. Hartley

Leslie Poles Hartley (30 December 1895 – 13 December 1972) was a British writer.

The Go-Between (1953)

 * The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
 * First sentence.

 * "But men still shoot each other, don't they?" I asked hopefully.
 * "They shot me," he answered, with what I took to be a smile.
 * "Yes, but that was in a war. Do they still shoot each other over ladies?"  I imagined a carpet of prostrate women, over whom shots rang out.

 * "I might go for a walk." Even to me this sounded a pedestrian thing to do.

 * I caught glimpses of white-clad figures striding purposefully to and fro, heard men's voices calling each other in tones of authority and urgency, as if life had suddenly become more serious, as if battle were in prospect.

 * I remember walking to the cricket ground with the team, sometimes trying to feel, and sometimes trying not to feel, that I was one of them; and the conviction I had, which comes so quickly to a boy, that nothing in the world mattered except that we should win.

title: L. P. Hartley