October 15

October 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. ~ Margaret Mead
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Behold the believers of all beliefs! Whom do they hate most? Him who breaketh up their tables of values, the breaker, the law-breaker — he, however, is the creator. Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses — and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh — those who grave new values on new tables. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (born 15 October 1844)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born 15 October 1908)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are the students who instruct in error. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013
 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2014


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2015


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2016


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, "I'm in favor of privatization," or, "I'm deeply in favor of public ownership." I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * Used 1 May 2006, selected by Kalki


 * One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Human, All Too Human
 * Used 16 September 2003), selected by Nanobug


 * He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Used 18 October 2003, selected by Paullusmagnus


 * I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Used 31 December 2003, selected by Basil Fawlty


 * Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Used 13 April 2004, selected by Kalki


 * What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil
 * Used 20 September 2004, selected by Kalki


 * I will make company with creators, with harvesters, with rejoicers; I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Superman. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
 * Used 29 December 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
God is dead! God stays dead! And we killed him. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (date of birth)
 * 3 (Another famous [or infamous] quote) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:26, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:01, 14 October 2006 (UTC) but might possibly rank this higher if expanded for context.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:39, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

So long as thou feelest the stars as an "above thee," thou lackest the eye of the discerning one. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:59, 14 October 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:59, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born 15 October 1908)
 * 3 Kalki 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Everything I do, I do in order that it may be of use. ~ Michel Foucault
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. ~ Michel Foucault
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an original affinity with freedom. ~ Michel Foucault
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 3 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

...half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women. ~ Abdul Kalam
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. ~ Virgil
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. ~ Virgil
 * 3 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 18:38, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears. ~ Italo Calvino (born October 15, 1923)
 * 3 Ningauble 00:55, 6 October 2008 (UTC) ~ I am also agreeable to the longer passage, if it is not too much. The short form is a little rarefied. ~ Ningauble 18:31, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 for the full version only: "With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." - Zarbon 14:20, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC) for the expanded version.
 * 3 for the expanded version. - InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:59, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:59, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Possunt, quia posse videntur. They can because they think they can. ~ Virgil
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:31, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Audentes fortuna iuvat. Fortune favors the bold. ~ Virgil
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 18:56, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram.
 * Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,
 * And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
 * Expelled and exiled, left the Trojan shore.
 * Long labours both by sea and land he bore. ~ Virgil, opening lines of the Aeneid (as translated by John Dryden)


 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:31, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. The world is a world of tears and the burdens of mortality touch the heart. ~ Virgil, Aeneid 1.462 (trans. Robert Fagles)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 18:56, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

''Equo ne credite, Teucri. quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.'' Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts. ~ Virgil
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 18:56, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Every man's last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief and not to be regained, For all mankind. But by their deeds to make Their fame last: that is labor for the brave. ~ Virgil
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 18:56, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 15 October 2017 (UTC)


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