January 21

January 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ~ Thomas Paine
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * So far as prejudice, or prepossession of opinion prevails over our minds, in the same proportion, reason is excluded from our theory or practice. Therefore if we would acquire useful knowledge, we must first divest ourselves of those impediments and sincerely endeavor to search out the truth: and draw our conclusions from reason and just argument, which will never conform to our inclination, interest or fancy but we must conform to that if we would judge rightly. ~ Ethan Allen (born 21 January 1738)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * A revelation, that may be supposed to be really of the institution of God, must also be supposed to be perfectly consistent or uniform, and to be able to stand the test of truth... Reason therefore must be the standard by which we determine the respective claims of revelation; for otherwise we may as well subscribe to the divinity of the one as of the other, or to the whole of them, or to none at all. ~ Ethan Allen
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils. ~ Stonewall Jackson
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Was a revelation to be made known to us, it must be accommodated to our external senses, and also to our reason, so that we could come at the perception and understanding of it, the same as we do to that of things in general. We must perceive by our senses, before we can reflect with the mind. ~ Ethan Allen
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * That which is above comprehension we cannot perceive to be contradictory, nor on the other hand can we perceive its rationality or consistency. ~ Ethan Allen
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2011
 * The gods of the valley are not the gods of the hills, and you shall understand it. ~ Ethan Allen
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * To suppose that God Almighty has confined his goodness to this world, to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or faith, are the favorites of heaven exclusively; but these are narrow and bigoted conceptions, which are degrading to a rational nature, and utterly unworthy of God, of whom we should form the most exalted ideas. ~ Ethan Allen
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017


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 * 2018


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 * 2019


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 * 2020


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 * 2021


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 * 2022


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 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current events.


 * 2024


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 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name. ~ Seishirō Itagaki
 * 3 Zarbon 05:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 10:55, 7 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:15, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. ~ Stonewall Jackson
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:49, 14 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. ~ Stonewall Jackson
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:57, 14 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 2 because we've had other quotations on war lately. Nemo 13:51, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This has now been used, in 2023, on his birthdate of September 9. 3 ♞☮♌︎Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:03, 18 January 2012 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC) but with a lean toward 1, because the context is not actually clear with just this attributed exclamation itself — and it is often cited as a misattribution, or a replacement of his actual declaration in regard to his military action.


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)