August 2

August 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts... ~ William Shakespeare in As You Like It
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, and they never will because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it. ~ "Serendipity" in Dogma, by Kevin Smith
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ~ James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2007
 * The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development — whether psychological or material — one must pass on to the actual realization. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. ~ James Baldwin
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain. ~ John Tyndall
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * One writes out of one thing only — one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. ~ James Baldwin
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ~ John Tyndall
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of his recent death.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; historical remarks on a major historical indictment.


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
There is no toy called easy joy.
 * 0 (no source, no anon, no relevance) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ~ James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 10:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ~ James Baldwin
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 10:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. ~ Ken MacLeod
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

It's no credit to this enormously rich country that there are more oppressive, less decent governments elsewhere. We claim superiority of our institutions. We ought to live up to our own standards, not use misery elsewhere as an endless source of self-gratification and justification. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble. ~ James Baldwin
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries. ~ John Tyndall
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. ~ Hannibal, quoted in relation to the anniversary of the Battle of Cannae (2 August 216 BC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:11, 30 July 2011 (UTC)


 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 20:25, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 20:41, 13 April 2016 (UTC)