Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 166 (1966/1972)
Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 166 (1966/1972)
Kate DiCamillo book Flora & Ulysses
Source: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter One: A Natural-Born Cynic, p. 7
George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer
"Night Words," Encounter (October 1965).
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
The Battle of Naseby http://www.bartleby.com/246/74.html (1824)
Charlton Heston (1923–2008) American actor
Speech at NRA Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina (20 May 2000)
referencing a slogan from a series of NRA bumper stickers, "I'll give you my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands"
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
The Dystopian Imagination http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_4_oh_to_be.html (Autumn 2001). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)
“Then come the clamour and the blare,
And shouts and clarions rend the air.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 52
W. Cleon Skousen (1913–2006) ex FBI agent, conservative United States author and faith-based political theorist
The Making of America (1986)
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor
“The Angry Young Man”, p. 111.
The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme (1992)
Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the South Pole
Upon finding yet another obscured and deadly abyss
Sydpolen (The South Pole) (1912)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) American author
The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11573/11573-h/11573-h.htm (1847), Ch. XXX
Stefán Karl Stefánsson (1975–2018) Icelandic actor
"Industry Insider Interview: Stefan Karl" https://valenti29.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/industry-insider-interview-stefan-karl/ (20 November 2013)
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) sculptor from France
Quote in Biographie au pas de course, in Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, Vol. IV, Jean Dubuffet, Gallimard, Paris 1995, p. 510
posthumous
Adam Roberts book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 3, “The Impossible Gun” Chapter 5, “The Search” (p. 315).
Jack Glass (2012)
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974) German Nazi leader convicted of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trial
Christ, The Flag of the Persecuted ( Die Fahne der Verfolgten http://www.archive.org/details/DieFahnederVerfolgten), page 51
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Sappho from The London Literary Gazette (4th May 1822) Poetic Sketches. 2nd Series - Sketch the First
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
Thae Yong-ho (1961) former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea
like I did all my life.
Remarks to the U.S. Congress (November 2017)
Craig Venter (1946) American biochemist
A Life Decoded by Craig Venter, p. 135 http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_Decoded.html?id=jx9JsHry1PgC&pg=PA135
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Sir Thursday (2006), p. 156.
Chế Lan Viên (1920–1989) Vietnamese writer
"Creation", as quoted in "Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of Poetry and History in 20th-Century Vietnam" by Neil Jamieson, in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1992, p. 89, and in Understanding Vietnam by Neil Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), ISBN 978-0520916586, p. 164
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
Written about an incident where hot water was pumped from a switch engine on the next track into a diplomats sleeping-car; as quoted in George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy (1988) by David Allan Mayers, p. 30
Sarah Palin (1964) American politician
Palin: 'I didn't mess up about Paul Revere' <br class="br">Crooks and Liars <br class="br">2011-06-05 <br class="br">http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/palin-i-didnt-mess-about-paul-revere <br class="br">2011-06-05 <br class="br">On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.html <br class="br">2011
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lady Friday (2007), p. 91.
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
It seems to revel in making pro-American, security-minded South Koreans look foolish.
2010s, "Heaven is Helping Us": More from the Nationalist Left (August 2018)
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Oct. 27, 1933 (writing about her diary)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Song lyrics, Prince (1979)
Arun Shourie (1941) Indian journalist and politician
Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud
Context: The most extensive deletions are ordered in regard to the chapter on ‘Aurangzeb’s policy on religion’. Every allusion to what he actually did to the Hindus, to their temples, to the very leitmotif of his rule – to spread the sway of Islam – are directed to be excised from the book. He is to be presented as one who had an aversion – an ordinary sort of aversion, almost a secular one – to music and dancing, to the presence of prostitutes in the court, and that it is these things he banished... In a word, no forcible conversions, no massacres, no destruction of temples. Just that Hinduism had created an exploitative, casteist society. Islam was egalitarian. Hence the oppressed Hindus embraced Islam!
Muslim historians of those times are in raptures at the heap of kafirs who have been dispatched to hell. Muslim historians are forever lavishing praise on the ruler for the temples he has destroyed, for the hundreds of thousands he has got to see the light of Islam. Law books like The Hedaya prescribe exactly the options to which these little textbooks alluded. All whitewashed away.
Objective whitewash for objective history. And today if anyone seeks to restore truth to these textbooks, the shout, ‘Communal rewriting of history’.
“I am not alone in my fear, nor alone in my hope, nor alone in my shouting.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: I am not alone in my fear, nor alone in my hope, nor alone in my shouting. A tremendous host, an onrush of the Universe fears, hopes, and shouts with me.
I am an improvised bridge, and when Someone passes over me, I crumble away behind Him.
“With shouts the torrents down the gorges go,
And storms are formed behind the storm we feel”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Misgivings, st. 2
Battle Pieces: And Aspects of the War (1860)
Context: With shouts the torrents down the gorges go,
And storms are formed behind the storm we feel:
The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel.
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Young Adventure (1918), The Lover in Hell
Context: She is all peace, all quiet,
All passionate desires, the eloquent thunder
Of new, glad suns, shouting aloud for joy,
Over fresh worlds and clean, trampling the air
Like stooping hawks, to the long wind of horns,
Flung from the bastions of Eternity...
And she is the low lake, drowsy and gentle,
And good words spoken from the tongues of friends,
And calmness in the evening, and deep thoughts,
Falling like dreams from the stars' solemn mouths.
All these.
“You marry to be worthy of a gift, and want to say so out loud, but without shouting.”
John Leonard (1939–2008) American critic, writer, and commentator
"Next" (p. 5)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)
Context: You marry to be worthy of a gift, and want to say so out loud, but without shouting. One doesn't shout a prayer. Marriage is one of the few ceremonies left to us about which it is impossible — or at least self-demeaning — to be cynical.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, 52 (3 March 1919).
1910s
Henry George (1839–1897) American economist
Source: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 21 : Conclusion
Context: I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.
Whoever, laying aside prejudice and self-interest, will honestly and carefully make up his own mind as to the causes and the cure of the social evils that are so apparent, does, in that, the most important thing in his power toward their removal. This primary obligation devolves upon us individually, as citizens and as men. Whatever else we may be able to do, this must come first. For "if the blind lead the blind, they both shall fall into the ditch."
Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
And Thou Too (1888)
Context: Ah, not to a blaze of light I go,
Nor shouts of a triumph train;
I go down to kiss the dregs of woe,
And drink up the Cup of Pain. And whether a scaffold or crucifix waits
'Neath the light of my silver star,
I know and I care not: I only know
I shall pause not though it be far.
“The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
"G. B. S. — Mark V", in I Sing the Body Electric: And Other Stories (1998)
Context: We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Pat Condell (1949) Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality
"A word to left-wing students" (11 July 11 2013) https://youtube.com/watch?v=85q6BOnwIAQ <br class="br">2013 <br class="br">Context: They say great minds think alike. That's also true of tiny minds, and it's especially true of closed ones. I'm always impressed by students who know so much about the world they feel no need to listen to anyone else's opinions, aren't you? Especially when they feel compelled to actively shout them down. That's confidence for you.... Anyone who's unwilling to hear an opposing opinion has no business attending a university, unless they're planning to graduate with honors in bigotry. And they have no business teaching at one either. There's nothing liberal, intelligent, enlightened, civilized or progressive about shutting somebody up because you don't want other people to hear their opinions. Who are you to decide who should and shouldn't be heard? Who made you emperor? It's not only an incitement to public disorder, it's a form of assault and a violation of the civil rights of everyone around you.
George William Curtis (1824–1892) American writer
1860s, The Good Fight (1865)
Context: Yes, yes, caste is a glacier, cold, towering, apparently as eternal as the sea itself. But at last that glittering mountain of ice touches the edge of the Gulf Stream. Down come pinnacle and peak, frosty spire and shining cliff. Like a living monster of shifting hues, a huge chameleon of the sea, the vast mass silently rolls and plunges and shrinks, and at last utterly disappears in that inexorable warmth of water. So with us the glacier has touched the Gulf Stream. On Palm Sunday, at Appomattox Court House, the spirit of feudalism, of aristocracy, of injustice in this country, surrendered, in the person of Robert E. Lee, the Virginian slave-holder, to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and of equal rights, in the person of Ulysses S. Grant, the Illinois tanner. So closed this great campaign in the 'Good Fight of Liberty'. So the Army of the Potomac, often baffled, struck an immortal blow, and gave the right hand of heroic fellowship to their brethren of the West. So the silent captain, when all his lieutenants had secured their separate fame, put on the crown of victory and ended civil war. As fought the Lieutenant-General of the United States, so fight the United States themselves, in the 'Good Fight of Man'. With Grant's tenacity, his patience, his promptness, his tranquil faith, let us assault the new front of the old enemy. We, too, must push through the enemy's Wilderness, holding every point we gain. We, too, must charge at daybreak upon his Spottsylvania Heights. We, too, must flank his angry lines and push them steadily back. We, too, must fling ourselves against the baffling flames of Cold Harbor. We, too, outwitting him by night, must throw our whole force across swamp and river, and stand entrenched before his capital. And we, too, at last, on some soft, auspicious day of spring, loosening all our shining lines, and bursting with wild battle music and universal shout of victory over the last desperate defense, must occupy the very citadel of caste, force the old enemy to final and unconditional surrender, and bring Boston and Charleston to sing Te Deum together for the triumphant equal rights of man.
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true.”
Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Part I: Lost Letters (p. 22)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Context: People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 6 : How Gargantua was born in a strange manner.
Context: As soon as he was born, he cried not as other babes use to do, Miez, miez, miez, miez, but with a high, sturdy, and big voice shouted about, Some drink, some drink, some drink, as inviting all the world to drink with him. The noise hereof was so extremely great, that it was heard in both the countries at once of Beauce and Bibarois. I doubt me, that you do not thoroughly believe the truth of this strange nativity. Though you believe it not, I care not much: but an honest man, and of good judgment, believeth still what is told him, and that which he finds written.
“And yet it is hard to believe that anything
in nature could stand revealed as solid matter.
The lightning of heaven goes through the walls of houses,
like shouts and speech; iron glows white in fire;
red-hot rocks are shattered by savage steam;
hard gold is softened and melted down by heat;
chilly brass, defeated by heat, turns liquid;
heat seeps through silver, so does piercing cold;
by custom raising the cup, we feel them both
as water is poured in, drop by drop, above.”
Etsi difficiile esse videtur credere quicquam
in rebus solido reperiri corpore posse.
transit enim fulmen caeli per saepta domorum,
clamor ut ad voces; flamen candescit in igni
dissiliuntque ferre ferventi saxa vapore.
tum labefactatus rigor auri solvitur aestu;
tum glacies aeris flamma devicta liquescit;
permanat calor argentum penetraleque frigus
quando utrumque manu retinentes pocula rite
sensimus infuso lympharum rore superne.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book I, lines 487–496 (Frank O. Copley)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
“You're a fortunate guy.
And you ought to be shouting, "How lucky am I!"”
Dr. Seuss book Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)
Context: And suppose that you lived in that forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn't a chance
To escape from the perilous pants-eating plants!
But your pants are safe! You're a fortunate guy.
And you ought to be shouting, "How lucky am I!"
“You know, you can shout all night long at the stars to stop twinkling — but they won't!”
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"A Note on Integrity" (17 July 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blyC329I3F0 <br class="br">Context: No one can tell the mountain what it's missing, or that it's lacking, or that it's something that it's not.... You know, you can shout all night long at the stars to stop twinkling — but they won't!... And it's quite a compliment, really, that you can be what you are, and that you can do the right thing, regardless of how popular it is, or if you have anyone helping you — or if you don't get anything for it.... All those people out there, looking up at you, screaming "stop twinkling!" — they have no power, at all. And what else could you do, being a star?
Bhagat Singh (1907–1931) Indian revolutionary
Letter published in The Tribune (25 December 1929), with some reference to lines from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson
Context: Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement. No doubt they play a prominent part in some movements, but they do not — for that very reason — become one and the same thing. A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.
The sense in which the word Revolution is used in that phrase, is the spirit, the longing for a change for the better. The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit. Otherwise degeneration gains the upper hand and the whole humanity is led stray by the reactionary forces. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress. The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march. Old order should change, always and ever, yielding place to new, so that one “good” order may not corrupt the world. It is in this sense that we raise the shout “Long Live Revolution.”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Song of the Horses
Context: I have been a sow, I have been a buck,
I have been a sage, I have been a snout,
I have been a horn, I have been a wild sow,
I have been a shout in battle.
I have been a torrent on the slope,
I have been a wave on the extended shore.
I have been the light sprinkling of a deluge,
I have been a cat with a speckled head on three trees.
I have been a circumference, I have been a head.
A goat on an elder-tree.
I have been a crane well filled, a sight to behold.
Very ardent the animals of Morial,
They kept a good stock.
Of what is below the air, say the hateful men,
Too many do not live, of those that know me.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India
Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)
Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author
Bewilderness (DVD, 2001)
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
"Plighted"
Poems (1866)
Context: Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
Love given willingly, full and free,
Love for love's sake — as mine to thee.
Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
But Love, the master, goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please — just as he please.
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Fragment xxii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
Richard Sherman (American football) (1988) American football player
As quoted in "Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman addresses 'Black Lives Matter' after post falsely attributed to him" http://blog.seattlepi.com/football/2015/09/16/seattle-seahawks-richard-sherman-addresses-black-lives-matter-after-post-falsely-attributed-to-him/ (16 September 2015), by Stephen Cohen, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Hearst Seattle Media <br class="br">Press conference (16 September 2015)
David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd
"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Context: You shout in your sleep.
Perhaps the price is just too steep.
Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test?
You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart.
Just one man beneath the sky,
Just two ears, just two eyes.
Richard Wright (1908–1960) African-American writer
"Flight", pp.125, Harper Row 1966
Native Son (1940)
J. C. Squire (1884–1958) British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor
On the outbreak of the First World War, from Epigrams (1916).
John Conyers (1929–2019) American politician from Michigan
Rep. John Conyers and Out of Afghanistan Caucus Oppose Obama Admin’s $33B Escalation of Afghan War, DemocracyNow! https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/1/conyers (1 July 2010)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Grand Inquisitor
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), The Grand Inquisitor
Rajinikanth (1950) Indian actor
Raja Bahadur, his friend
You can see God in him at times (22 December 1999)
Wilhelm Mohnke (1911–2001) German general
Samuel W. Mitcham.
Richard Sherman (American football) (1988) American football player
About a White House Correspondents’ Dinner with former President Barack Obama.
The NFL Would Not Have Banned A Donald Sterling For Life (May 7, 2014)
Saffron Burrows (1972) English actress, model and writer
On becoming a disability rights advocate after witnessing the treatment that her stepfather received from having polio in “Saffron Burrows: ‘I was raised to feel like I could love who I wanted’” https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/feb/19/saffron-burrows-i-was-raised-to-feel-like-i-could-love-who-i-wanted in The Guardian (2020 Feb 19)
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist
The Oddest Prophet – Søren Kierkegaard by Malcolm Muggeridge
Arun Shourie (1941) Indian journalist and politician
Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)
Arun Shourie (1941) Indian journalist and politician
Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)
Roger Waters (1943) English songwriter, bassist, and lyricist of Pink Floyd
During a concert for the "Animals" tour in Montreal, Quebec, 1977 [can be heard on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b2J9Qevo1E] <br class="br">Miscellaneous
Ben Croshaw (1983) English video game journalist
https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/14200-Hatred-And-Postal-Are-Deliberately-Offensive-So-Stop-Caring
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Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Lover in Hell
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2021, January, Presidential Inaugural Address (2021)
Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality
"United"
Song lyrics, Other songs
Arthur C. Brooks (1964) American policy analyst and musician
" Individuality Is an Illusion, https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/02/dalai-lama-gentle-transgressive-individuality-happiness/617901/" The Atlantic (04 February 2021)
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Source: The White Album (2000)