March 16

March 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit", but rather, "I have found the Spirit walking on my path", for the Spirit walks on all paths. ~ Khalil Gibran
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it. ~ Richard Stallman (born 16 March 1953)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ Raymond Chandler
 * proposed by IP 220.233.188.149


 * 2007
 * If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ~ James Madison (born 16 March 1751)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents. ~ James Madison
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne (from The Scarlet Letter first published on this date in 1850)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~ James Madison (born 16 March 1751)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * One can start from the perspective of a religious naturalist or from the perspective of the world religions and arrive at the same place: a moral imperative that this Earth and its creatures be respected and cherished. ~ Ursula Goodenough
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ~ James Madison
 * proposed by bystander


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2015


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: René Daumal · Ursula Goodenough · James Madison · Richard Stallman.

The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan gave us the Taliban. The American occupation of Saudi Arabia gave us bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The Israeli occupation of Lebanon gave us Hezbollah. Let us see what the American occupation of Iraq is going to give us. ~ As'ad AbuKhalil
 * 2 Zarbon 02:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:18, 16 March 2016 (UTC) 2 Kalki 09:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. ~ René Daumal
 * 2 Zarbon 02:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye. Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. ~ Tobias Smollett
 * 2 Zarbon 02:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Death is the price paid to have trees, and clams and birds and grasshoppers, and death is the price paid to have human consciousness, to be aware of all that shimmering awareness and all that love. ~ Ursula Goodenough
 * 2 Zarbon 02:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."


 * proposed by 0XxFairyTailxX0
 * This was initially misplaced on the page, and is actually a paraphrase of a statement by C. S. Lewis; I would probably rank the corrected statement a 3 were it a proposed for Lewis's birthdate of November 29. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 16 March 2023 (UTC)