February 17

February 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. ~ Anonymous
 * selected by Sasha


 * 2005
 * There is one simple Divinity found in all things, everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being. ~ Giordano Bruno (died 17 February 1600)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ~ Michael Jordan (born 17 February 1963)
 * proposed by User:Sir John Alexander Macdonald


 * 2007
 * Even to have come forth is something, since I see that being able to conquer is placed in the hands of fate. However, there was in me, whatever I was able to do, that which no future century will deny to be mine, that which a victor could have for his own: Not to have feared to die, not to have yielded to any equal in firmness of nature, and to have preferred a courageous death to a noncombatant life. ~ Giordano Bruno (executed 17 February 1600)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * A voiceless song in an ageless light Sings at the coming dawn Birds in flight are calling there Where the heart moves the stones It's there that my heart is calling All for the love of you. ~ Loreena McKennitt ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I … what you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by JessRek6


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the reported death of her husband, Alexei Navalny.


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
'''Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. ''' ~ Alexander Pope
 * proposed by Adriboy6


 * 1 bystander 05:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC) Nice quote but I don't see the connection to this day.

Political power is a psychological relation between those who exercise it and those over which it is exercised. It gives the former control over certain actions of the latter through the influence which the former exert over the latter's minds. That influence may be exerted through orders, threats, persuasion, or a combination of any of those. ~ Hans Morgenthau (born 1904 Feb 17)
 * 3 bystander 05:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Bruno stood at the stake in solitary and awful grandeur. There was not a friendly face in the vast crowd around him. It was one man against the world. Surely the knight of Liberty, the champion of Freethought, who lived such a life and died such a death, without hope of reward on earth or in heaven, sustained only by his indomitable manhood, is worthy to be accounted the supreme martyr of all time. ~ George William Foote
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 02:09, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

The important thing is not to suppress ideas. Freedom of thought is the life blood of science. That’s why {Giordano} Bruno’s story is important. ~ Astrophysicist Steven Soter, a co-writer with Carl Sagan for Cosmos:A Personal Voyage (1980) and a co-writer for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014), in a March 13, 2014 written discussion about Giordano Bruno with the editor of Discover Magazine.
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:59, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC) with a lean towards 2, for now. I like the statement, but in most years would probably prefer to use a quote of Bruno.


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC) but I am not aware of any relation to this date.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC) but I am not aware of any relation to this date.

Hello! This is New York calling. ~ With these words the U.S. Voice of America (VOA) began its first radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union on February 17, 1947.
 * 3 Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 02:09, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC) with a lean toward 2. I have a very strong preference for quotes of or about Bruno on this day.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 07:48, 17 February 2020 (UTC)