May 8

May 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~ Anaïs Nin
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. ~ Thomas Pynchon (born 8 May 1937)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * While in the physical sciences the investigator will be able to measure what, on the basis of a prima facie theory, he thinks important, in the social sciences often that is treated as important which happens to be accessible to measurement. This is sometimes carried to the point where it is demanded that our theories must be formulated in such terms that they refer only to measurable magnitudes. ~ Friedrich Hayek (born 8 May 1899)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * And, oh! what beautiful years were these When our hearts clung each to each; When life was filled and our senses thrilled In the first faint dawn of speech. Thus life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change.   ~ Langdon Smith ~ (In honor of our reaching a myriad of articles at Wikiquote, a selection from the official "10,000th article".)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. ~ Friedrich Hayek (born 8 May 1899)
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * I want to break out — to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become... ~ Thomas Pynchon
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. ~ Friedrich Hayek
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for? ~ Friedrich Hayek
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * He had decided long ago that no Situation had any objective reality: it only existed in the minds of those who happened to be in on it at any specific moment. … The only consolation he drew from the present chaos was that his theory managed to explain it. ~ Thomas Pynchon
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2015
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki for Mother's Day observance in USA (8 May 2016)


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2020


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2024


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Feast day of Julian of Norwich in Anglican and Lutheran traditions.
 * DOB: David Attenborough · Friedrich Hayek · Thomas Pynchon · Harry S. Truman · Edmund Wilson

The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. ~ Friedrich Hayek (born May 8)
 * 3 because the more the state controls one's fate, the less one is able to control one's own fate. Zarbon 04:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ~ Harry S. Truman (born May 8, 1884)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 because you can have a both separately as well. Zarbon 05:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. ~ Harry S. Truman
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 because that's not the only new thing. Sorry, don't agree with this. Zarbon 05:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so. ~ David Attenborough (born May 8, 1926)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 because this seems like a personal rant rather than a quote... Zarbon 05:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. ~ Thomas Pynchon
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 because sometimes the two are intertwined. Zarbon 05:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well all the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ~ Harry S. Truman
 * 3 bystander (talk) 21:30, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism; it’s exploitation. ~ Joe Biden
 * proposed by Ilovemydoodle (talk) 02:01, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:57, 7 May 2022 (UTC), but there is no clear relationship to this date.