June 3

June 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. ~ W. Clement Stone
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity... In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ~ Lawrence Lessig (born 3 June 1961)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut." ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2008
 * When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. ~ Sydney Smith
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * You can't incent a dead person. No matter what we do, Hawthorne will not produce any more works, no matter how much we pay him. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing. ~ Sydney Smith
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by allixpeeke


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to this year's Eid al-Fitr.


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on recurring tragedies.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The object of preaching is, constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. ~ Sydney Smith (born June 3)
 * 2 because he says it as it is. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort. ~ Sydney Smith
 * 3 because I agree. Many people who are timid, don't make an effort...but the possibilities would be endless if they did. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ~ Sydney Smith
 * 2 because this one is rather comical, although it holds some abundant truth to it. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The law should regulate in certain areas of culture — but it should regulate culture only where that regulation does good. Yet lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?" We should ask, "Why?" Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

There has never been a time in history when more of our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

''If you can't fight for your freedom. . . you don't deserve it'' … This is not a left and right issue. This is the important thing to recognize: This is not about conservatives versus liberals. … This is not about left and right. This is about right and wrong. That's what this battle is. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 (leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time. ~ Sydney Smith
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 10:55, 3 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool. ~ Sydney Smith
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 10:55, 3 June 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

My corn I take serious because it's my corn, and my potatoes and my tomatoes and fences I take note of because they're mine. But this war is not mine and I take no note of it! ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah


 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.


 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I've got five hundred acres of good, rich dirt, here, and as long as the rains come and the sun shines, it'll grow anything I have a mind to plant. 'And we pulled every stump, and we cleared every field, and we done it ourselves without the sweat of one slave''. ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah


 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.


 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

That might me so, Johnson, but these are my sons! They don't belong to the state. When they were babies, I never saw the state coming around with a spare tit! We never asked anything of the state, and never expected anything. We do our own living and thanks to no man for the right. ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah


 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.


 * 4 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

You run a sad kind of train, mister. It takes people away when they don't want to go, and won't bring them back when they're ready. ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah


 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.


 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I'm not going to kill you. I want you to live. I want you to live to be an old man, and I want you to have many, many, many children, and I want you to feel about your children then the way I feel about mine now. And someday, when a man comes along and kills one of 'em, I want you to remember! Okay? I want you to remember. ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah


 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.


 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 2 June 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 2 June 2021 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 2 June 2021 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 2 June 2021 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:47, 5 December 2021 (UTC), with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ᘙ (talk) 13:20, 17 March 2023 (UTC)