June 25

June 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. ~ Hugh Latimer
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ George Orwell (born 25 June 1903)
 * proposed by User:Kalki


 * 2006
 * The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ George Orwell (born 25 June 1903)
 * proposed by User:Kalki


 * 2007
 * I always disagree … when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. In the same way, a man can kill a tiger because he is not like a tiger and uses his brain to invent the rifle, which no tiger could ever do. ~ George Orwell
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * By "nationalism" I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled "good" or "bad." … By "patriotism" I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseperable from the desire for power. ~ George Orwell
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~ George Orwell
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. … Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger … have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter. ~ George Orwell
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. ~ George Orwell
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2015


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki for Eid al-Fitr 2017.


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2021
 * proposed by bystander


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on recent events.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman
 * Rationale: Last episode of Late Night with David Letterman aired on June 25, 1993


 * 3 MosheZadka 00:32, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 11:41, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 11:54, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC) I feel this particular quote might be better in the fall perhaps.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:32, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:39, 21 June 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 06:23, 30 June 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 24 June 2022 (UTC), with a lean toward 3.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:07, 24 June 2022 (UTC) * 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 24 June 2022 (UTC)