April 18

April 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. ~ Bill Hicks
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. ~ Leopold Stokowski (born 18 April 1882)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means. ~ Clarence Darrow (born 18 April 1857)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. ~ Clarence Darrow
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2008
 * You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~ Clarence Darrow
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * I believe that music can be an inspirational force in all our lives — that its eloquence and the depth of its meaning are all-important, and that all personal considerations concerning musicians and the public are relatively unimportant — that music come from the heart and returns to the heart — that music is spontaneous, impulsive expression — that its range is without limit — that music is forever growing — that music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man. ~ Leopold Stokowski


 * 2010
 * Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. ~ George Henry Lewes
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Instead … of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas. ~ George Henry Lewes
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man. I am quite certain that the more the question of crime and its treatment is studied the less faith men have in punishment. ~ Clarence Darrow
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2014


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2015


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2018


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Reason is always in the service of the political and economic masters. It is here that literature strikes, at this base, where the concepts and actings of order impose themselves. Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. ~ Kathy Acker
 * 3 Kalki 22:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 23:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. ~ Leopold Stokowski
 * 3 Zarbon 03:49, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.

In the emerging era, clashes of civilization are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war. ~ Samuel P. Huntington
 * 2 Zarbon 03:49, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

No man ever made a discovery (he may have stumbled on one) without the exercise of as much imagination as, employed in another direction and in alliance with other faculties, would have gone to the creation of a poem. ~ George Henry Lewes
 * 2 Zarbon 03:49, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it. ~ George Henry Lewes
 * 3 Kalki 19:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:17, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. ~ George Henry Lewes
 * 3 Kalki 19:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:17, 18 April 2009 (UTC)