November 14

November 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ~ George Eliot
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2004
 * If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact. ~ J. Krishnamurti
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (born 14 November 1889)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. ~ Herman Melville in Moby-Dick ~ (published that day in the United States in 1851; but first published on October 18 in England).
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2010
 * The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people. It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving truth. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…


 * Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:


 * Used 14 August 2015, in relation to anniversary celebrations of the independence of India, proposed (originally, on this date) by Nvvchar

Suggestions
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work. ~ Condoleezza Rice, born this day
 * Suggested by MurielMary (talk) 09:37, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. ~ P. J. O'Rourke (born 14 November 1947)
 * 3 Kalki 16:07, 28 February 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 06:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:16, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * 4 because history remains a stagnant reminder of the past, imperfect and perfect, a cognitive construct that can never be erased, especially not by trying to conceal the truth. Zarbon 05:19, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:17, 13 November 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 15:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:16, 13 November 2008 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:07, 14 November 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:55, 13 November 2020 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:55, 13 November 2020 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:55, 13 November 2020 (UTC)