December 9

December 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they spoil the lives of better and simpler people. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2004
 * Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * We take men for what they are worth — and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might — perhaps not strong enough — to put an end to it. ~ Peter Kropotkin (born 9 December 1842)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. ~ John Milton (born 9 December 1608)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2007
 * Man is appealed to to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at the best tribal, but by the perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can retrace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support not mutual struggle — has had the leading part. ~ Peter Kropotkin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things. ~ Grace Hopper
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. … Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past … it seeks to establish a certain harmonious compatibility in its midst — not by subjecting all its members to an authority that is fictitiously supposed to represent society, not by trying to establish uniformity, but by urging all men to develop free initiative, free action, free association. ~ Peter Kropotkin
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall. ~ John Milton in Paradise Lost ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2011
 * When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions! ~ Peter Kropotkin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2013


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki in regard to recent death of Glenn.


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2020


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:


 * The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~ John Milton
 * used 6 March 2004, selected by Kalki


 * As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * used 23 November 2005, proposed by UDScott


 * One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good. ~ Peter Kropotkin
 * used 8 February 2007, proposed by Fys


 * Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play on the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * used 23 November 2008, proposed by Kalki


 * Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * used 23 November 2010, proposed by Kalki


 * I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * used 23 November 2011, proposed by Kalki


 * used 23 November 2012, proposed by Kalki


 * used 23 November 2017, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions

 * DOB: Ernest Gellner‎‎ · Grace Hopper · Henry Way Kendall · Peter Kropotkin · John Milton

It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A They have everything for you men to enjoy, You can hang out with all the boys ~ Y-M-C-A, The Village People in honor of the first YMCA established in North America, this day on 1851
 * 2 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Kalki 19:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 0 Zarbon 16:01, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Lyle 21:35, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 21:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:14, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment is this so much of the song that there is a potential copyvio issue? Matchups 15:34, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorrèd shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ~ John Milton
 * 3 InvisibleSun 05:51, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:01, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 21:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honor's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save. ~ John Milton
 * 3 InvisibleSun 05:51, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:01, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ~ John Milton
 * 3 bystander (talk) 09:14, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:55, 7 December 2012 (UTC) This has now been used, as the start of the QOTD for 23 November 2017. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:08, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? ~ John Milton
 * 3 bystander (talk) 09:14, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * this was already used on 23 November 2008. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:55, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth. ~ John Milton
 * 3 bystander (talk) 09:14, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * this was already used on 23 November 2012. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:55, 7 December 2012 (UTC)


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