November 17

November 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2004
 * There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. ~ Martin Scorsese (born 17 November 1942)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2006
 * Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. ~ Milton Friedman (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence. ~ Voltairine de Cleyre
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. ~ Christopher Paolini
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through. ~ Voltairine de Cleyre
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. ~ Voltairine de Cleyre
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2011
 * Let us have Men, Men who will say a word to their souls and keep it — keep it not when it is easy, but keep it when it is hard — keep it when the storm roars and there is a white-streaked sky and blue thunder before, and one's eyes are blinded and one's ears deafened with the war of opposing things; and keep it under the long leaden sky and the gray dreariness that never lifts. Hold unto the last: that is what it means to have a Dominant Idea, which Circumstance cannot break. And such men make and unmake Circumstance. ~ Voltairine de Cleyre
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2019


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, in honor of the NRA being granted charter in NYC
 * 2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 22:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC) This did not seem genuine to me, as in Jefferson's time the issue would hardly be disputed, and a quick check of it finds no sources, and a pro-gun site which declares it bogus. I might add it to the "Misattributed" section on Jefferson's page after finding out more about it.
 * 1 Zarbon 06:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Note to self: religion: freaky. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar as "Buffy Summers" in "What's My Line, Part 1", Buffy the Vampire Slayer (shown that day)
 * 2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 18:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. ~ Eliza Farnham
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. ~ Eliza Farnham
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living. ~ Christopher Paolini
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. ~ Christopher Paolini
 * 3 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. ~ Soichiro Honda
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Because the water raises rice and the fishes live in the water, I don’t want to contaminate it. ~ Soichiro Honda
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:41, 16 November 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:41, 16 November 2014 (UTC)


 * 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)


 * The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself. ~ Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 19:35, 21 June 2024 (UTC)