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'''<h1>II.IX.MMXXII MEMENTO MORI</h1>'''

Work

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[[File:Lewis Hine Power house mechanic working on steam pump.jpg|thumb|Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the [[money]] it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. ~ [[Mortimer Adler]]]]
[[File:Parc de Versailles, Rond-Point des Philosophes, Apollonius, Barthélemy de Mélo inv1850n°9449 02.jpg|thumb|[[Plato]] said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself. ~ [[Apollonius of Tyana]]]]

'''{{w|Work}}''' or labor is intentional activity people perform to support themselves, others, or the needs and wants of a wider community. Work is fundamental to all societies, but can vary widely within and between them, from gathering in natural resources by hand, to operating complex technologies that substitute for physical or even mental effort by many human beings. '''{{w|Labor}}''' is [[effort]] expended on a [[task]].

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=Quotes=
==A==
* No single event has influenced the history of labor in Illinois, the United States, and even the world, more than the Chicago Haymarket Affair. It began with a rally on May 4, 1886, but the consequences are still being felt today. Although the rally is included in American history textbooks, very few present the event accurately or point out its significance.
** William J. Adelman "The Haymarket Affair". illinoislaborhistory.org. Retrieved March 19, 2014.

* '''Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.'''
** [[Mortimer Adler]], ''A Vision of the Future : Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society'' (1984).

*Since the heart is an accumulator and transmuter of various energies, there must be more favorable conditions for arousing and attracting these energies. The most fundamental condition is work, mental as well as physical. In the motion of work, energies are gathered from space; but one must understand work as a natural process that enriches life. Thus, every kind of work is a [[Blessings|blessing]], while the vagaries of [[Idleness|inaction]] are extremely harmful in a cosmic sense. Love for the endlessness of labor is in itself an initiation of considerable degree; it prepares you for the conquest of [[time]]. Being in a condition where you have conquered [[time]] guarantees you a place in the Subtle World, where work is an unavoidable condition, just as it is in the body. A complaint about having to work can only come from a slave of the body.
**[[Agni Yoga]], ''Heart'', 79. (1932)

* I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
** [[Woody Allen]], as quoted in ''Silent Strength'' (1990) by Lloyd John Ogilvie, p. 111.

* Zeal is proper for a task, time-wasting is taboo; anyone who wastes time on his task is neglecting his task.
** [[Anonymous]], ''[http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr513.htm The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe]'' ({{w|Eduba}} C), late third or early second millennium BCE, at {{w|The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature}}.

* The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
** [[Núria Añó]], in the short story ''2066. Beginning the age of correction''.

* I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
** [[Susan B. Anthony]], ''The Revolution'', Women's Suffrage Newspaper (Oct. 8, 1868)

* [[Plato]] said that [[virtue]] has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
** [[Apollonius of Tyana]], letter to Euphrates, ''Epp. Apoll.'' 15

* Our characters are the result of our conduct.
** [[Aristotle]], ''Nicomachean Ethics'', Book 3, chapter 5, section 12 (c. 335 BC)

==B==
* And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. '''Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.'''"
** [[Richard Bach]], ''Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'' (1977).

* The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
** [[Richard Bach]], ''Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'' (1977).

* You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
** [[Richard Bach]], ''Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'' (1977).

* It is a strange desire which men have, to seek power and lose liberty.
** [[Francis Bacon]], ''Ornamenta Rationalia''.

* Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done, Then bring your gauges.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1857), Book V.

* '''Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.'''
** [[J. M. Barrie]], as quoted in ''The new dictionary of thoughts: a Cyclopedia of Quotations'' (1930) edited by [[Tryon Edwards]], C. N. Catrevas, Jonathan Edwards, and Ralph Emerson Browns.

* Ninety-five percent of all jobs suck, Jones. That’s why people get paid to do them.
** [[Max Barry]], ''[[w:Company (novel)|Company]]'' (2006), {{ISBN|0-385-51439-5}}, p. 112

* There’s no requirement that jobs be meaningful, Jones. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.
** [[Max Barry]], ''[[w:Company (novel)|Company]]'' (2006), {{ISBN|0-385-51439-5}}, p. 334

* '''Unless we abandon the work ethic of [[the past|another era]], ... lives may be wasted because of blind insistence that everyone must have a "job" even if the job is useless.'''
** [[w:Pierre Berton|Pierre Berton]], ''The Smug Minority'' (1968)

* '''You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.'''
** {{w|Warren Beatty}}, as quoted in ''The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why The Left Is Right'' (2004) by William Martin, p. 213.

* Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
** [[Henry Ward Beecher]], as quoted in ''The Teachers' Institute'', Vol. 18, No. 1 (September 1895), p. 16.

* When God wanted sponges and oysters, He made them and put one on a rock and the other in the mud. When He made man, He did not make him to be a sponge or an oyster; He made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and vital blood, and a place to use them, and He said to him, Go Work.
** [[Henry Ward Beecher]], ''Royal Truths'' (1862), p. 21.

*LABOR, ''n.'' One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
** [[Ambrose Bierce]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=CboOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA213 ''The Cynic's Word Book''] (1906); republished as ''The Devil's Dictionary'' (1911).

* '''No one should ever work. ''' Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all the evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. '''In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.''' That doesn't mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a new way of life based on play; in other words, a ''ludic'' revolution. By "play" I mean also festivity, creativity, conviviality, commensality, and maybe even art. There is more to play than child's play, as worthy as that is. I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. Play isn't passive.
**[[Bob Black]], ''The Abolition of Work''

*Wealth is the offspring of intelligence and of work, the soul and the life of humanity. But these two forces can act only with the help of a passive element, the soil, which they make productive by their combined efforts.It would seem, therefore, that this indispensable instrument should belong to all men.
**[[w:Louis Blanc|Louis Blanc]], "The Man Who Makes the Soup Should Get to Eat It", (1834).

* Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
** [[w:David Bly|David Bly]], as quoted in ''Peace of Mind : Daily Meditations for Easing Stress'' (1995) by Amy Dean, p. 187.

* The reign of capital, which denies our very existence as human beings and reduces us to ‘things’, seems very serious, methodical and disciplined. But its possessive paroxysm, its ethical rigour, its obsession with ‘doing’ all hide a great illusion: the total emptiness of the commodity spectacle, the uselessness of indefinite accumulation and the absurdity of [[exploitation]]. So the great seriousness of the world of work and productivity hides a total lack of seriousness.
** [[Alfredo M. Bonanno]], ''Armed Joy'' (1977)

* Work to me is a sacred thing.
** [[w:Margaret Bourke-White|Margaret Bourke-White]], ''Portrait of Myself'' (1963), Ch. 30.

* Researchers at the University of Oxford [recently] published the results of a survey of the world’s best artificial intelligence experts, who predicted that there was a 50 percent chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks within 45 years...the immediate concern for most people is that they will be losing their jobs... That helps explain the recent interest in a [[universal basic income|universal basic income (UBI)]] – a sum of money distributed equally to everyone.
** [[Ellen Brown]] in [https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-to-fund-a-universal-basic-income-without-increasing-taxes-or-inflation/5611947 How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation, Global Research''] (4 October 2017)

* By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our ringers, dull our sight, Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, To put on when you're weary—or a stool To tumble over and vex you * * * curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion where you lean And sleep, and dream of something we are not, But would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this * * * that, after all, we are paid The worth of our work, perhaps.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1856), Book I, line 465.

* Get leave to work In this world,—'tis the best you get at all.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1856), Book III, line 164.

* Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1856), Book V, line 78.

* Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1856), Book VIII, line 784.

* When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick. He overreaches himself, the work denies itself to him, the incarnation of the spirit no longer takes place, and to avoid the threat of senselessness he snatches after empty power. This sickness casts the genius on to the same level as those hysterical figures who, being by nature without power, slave for power, in order that they may enjoy the illusion that they are inwardly powerful, and who in this striving for power cannot let a pause intervene, since a pause would bring with it the possibility of self-reflection and self-reflection would bring collapse.
** [[Martin Buber]], ''Between Man and Man'' (1965), p. 151.

* … productivity gains frequently cause upheaval: Both [[capital]] and labor can pay a terrible price when innovation or new efficiencies upend their worlds. We need shed no tears for the capitalists (whether they be private owners or an army of public shareholders). It’s their job to take care of themselves. ... A long-employed worker faces a different equation. When innovation and the market system interact to produce efficiencies, many workers may be rendered unnecessary, their talents obsolete. Some can find decent employment elsewhere; for others, that is not an option. … The answer in such disruptions is not the restraining or outlawing of actions that increase productivity. Americans would not be living nearly as well as we do if we had mandated that 11 million people should forever be employed in farming. The solution, rather, is a variety of safety nets aimed at providing a decent life for those who are willing to work but find their specific talents judged of small value because of market forces. (I personally favor a reformed and expanded Earned Income Tax Credit that would try to make sure America works for those willing to work.) The price of achieving ever-increasing prosperity for the great majority of Americans should not be penury for the unfortunate.
** [[Warren Buffett]], {{cite web|title=Chairman's Letter - 2015|website=Berkshire Hathaway|date=February 27, 2016|url=https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2015ltr.pdf}}

*How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
**[[Charles Bukowski]], ''Factotum'' (1975).

* Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.
**[[Charles Bukowski]], ''Post Office'' (1971)

* And still be doing, never done.
** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''Hudibras'', Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 204.

* Such hath it been—shall be—beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.
** [[Lord Byron]], ''The Corsair'' (1814), Canto I, Stanza 8.
[[File:Productivity and wages in the United States.svg|right|thumb|Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal — to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification. ~ [[Voltairine de Cleyre]].]]
[[File:Ccoolidge.jpeg|right|thumb|Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation. ~ [[Calvin Coolidge]]]]
[[File:Auschwitz entrance.JPG|thumb|Work makes one free. ~ [[w:Lorenz Diefenbach|Lorenz Diefenbach]]]]
[[File:Edison-at home in Ft. Myers Florida 1914 detail LC-LC-USZ62-131044, adjusted.jpg|thumb|Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. ~ [[Thomas Edison]]]]
[[File:Einstein gyro gravity probe b.jpg|thumb|Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. ~ [[Albert Einstein]]]]
[[File:Einstein 1921 by F Schmutzer - restoration.jpg|thumb|If A equals success, then the formula is: A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. ~ [[Albert Einstein]]]]
[[File:Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the sea of fog.jpg|thumb|The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]]]
[[File:Friedrich Engels.jpg|thumb|The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class. ~ [[Friedrich Engels]]]]
[[File:PikiWiki Israel 3290 Picking Cotton.jpg|thumb|Men work together, wether they work together or apart. ~ [[Robert Frost]]]]
[[File:Ansel Adams - Farm workers and Mt. Williamson.jpg|thumb|The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ~ [[Robert Frost]]]]
[[File:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - Goethe in der roemischen Campagna.jpg|thumb|right|A man who works at another’s will, not for his own [[passion]] or his own [[need]], but for [[money]] or [[honor]], is always a [[fool]]. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]]]
[[File:António Guterres 2012.jpg|thumb|The very nature of work will [[change]]. The governments may have to consider stronger social safety nets, and eventually [[Basic income|universal basic income.]] ~ [[António Guterres]]]]

[[File:Da Vinci Vitruve Luc Viatour.jpg |thumb|One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~ [[Elbert Hubbard]]]]

[[File:Kierkegaard 1902 by Luplau Janssen.jpg|thumb|To work for a living certainly cannot be the meaning of life, since it is indeed a contradiction that the continual production of the conditions is supposed to be the answer to the question of the meaning of that which is conditional upon their production. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]]]]

==C==
* Work — other people's work — is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.
** {{w|Louis J. Camuti}}, as quoted in ''On the Art of Business'' (2004) by James H Merkel and Abdul Wahad Al-Falaij, p. 257.

* Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind — honest work, which you intend getting done.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''On the Choice of Books : The Inaugural Address of Thomas Carlyle, Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh'' (1866).

* There's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?
** [[Jim Carrey]], as quoted in ''A Touch of Class'' (2003) by Carol Vanderheyden, p. 70.

* Every one is the son of his own works.
** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''Don Quixote'' (1605-15), Part I, Book IV, Chapter XX.

* Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
** [[William Ellery Channing]], ''War'' (1816).

* A rational, moral being cannot, without infinite wrong, be converted into a mere instrument of others’ gratification. He is necessarily an end, not a means. A mind, in which are sown the seeds of wisdom, disinterestedness, firmness of purpose, and piety, is worth more than all the outward material interests of a world. It exists for itself, for its own perfection, and must not be enslaved to its own or others’ animal wants.
** [[William Ellery Channing]], “Self-Culture” (1838)

* The consistent [[anarchist]], then, should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of [[capital]] by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.
**[[Noam Chomsky]], ''Notes On Anarchism'' (1970).

* Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.
** {{w|George S. Clason}}, ''The Richest Man in Babylon'' (1930).

* Work is the Rent we pay for our time on Earth.
** {{w|Tubby Clayton}}, Anglican clergyman, as quoted by [[David Frost]] in an interview in ''Saga'' magazine (January 2009).

*Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal — to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification.
**[[Voltairine de Cleyre]], "Direct Action" (1912), in ''Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius'', SUNY Press, 10 February 2005, p. [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=z82d_8aEI4oC&pg=PA280 280].

* If you work hard, you do your part, you should be able to give your children all the opportunities they deserve. That is the basic bargain of America.
** [[Hillary Clinton]], speech in {{w|Warren, Michigan}}. Transcript by ''{{w|Newsweek}}'' [http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-full-transcript-economic-speech-489602] (August 11, 2016)

* I believe that every employee, from the CEO suite to the factory floor, contributes to a business’ success, so everybody should share in the rewards – especially those putting in long hours for little pay.
** [[Hillary Clinton]], speech in {{w|Warren, Michigan}}. Transcript by ''{{w|Newsweek}}'' [http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-full-transcript-economic-speech-489602] (August 11, 2016)

==D==
* Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.
** [[Robertson Davies|Robertson Davies]], ''The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks'' (1947).

* I spent a busy day today, but got little done. This is because I am at last becoming perfect in the art of seeming busy, even when very little is going on in my head or under my hands. This is an art which every man learns, if he does not intend to work himself to death.
** [[Robertson Davies|Robertson Davies]], ''The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks'' (1949).

* '''To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.'''
** [[Bette Davis]], ''The Lonely Life : An Autobiography'' (1962).

* Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
** [[Bette Davis]], as quoted in ''The Quotable Woman, 1800-1975'' (1977) by Elaine Partnow, p. 315.

* [[Working class in the United States|Workingmen]] of the country ... toil for a pittance at the pleasure of their masters and are bludgeoned, jailed or shot when they protest — this is the central, controlling, vital issue of the hour, and neither of the [[Two-party system|old party]] platforms has a word or even a hint about it.
** [[Eugene V. Debs]], "Outlook for Socialism in the United States" (1900)

* ''[[w:Arbeit macht frei|Arbeit macht frei]]''.
** '''Work makes (one) free.'''
*** Title of a 1873 novel by [[w:Lorenz Diefenbach|Lorenz Diefenbach]], which became an infamous slogan above the gates of several Nazi concentration camps.

* The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.
** [[Patrick Dixon]], ''Building a Better Business'' (2005) p. 182.

==E==
* All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
** [[Ecclesiastes]] 1:8, [[King James Version]]

* For what profit comes to mortals from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which they toil under the sun? Every day sorrow and grief are their occupation; even at night their hearts are not at rest. This also is vanity.
** [[Ecclesiastes]] 2:22-23 (New American Bible Revised Edition)

* The grinders cease because they are few.
** [[Ecclesiastes]] 12:3, [[New International Version]]

* Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
** [[Thomas Edison]], as quoted in ''An Enemy Called Average'' (1990) by John L. Mason, p. 55.

* Being busy does not always mean real work.''' The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. '''Seeming to do is not doing.'''
** [[Thomas Edison]], as quoted in ''Ford Times'', Vol. 6, (1912), p. 136.

* I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it. An hardwork can make you to have a successfull future.There can be many fails maybe in our life but have to ready to face it for a hardworked work.
** [[Thomas Edison]], diary entry quoted in ''Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother'' (2007) by Scott Teel, p. 12.

* When modern men and women insist that they feel completely free in their work, they are in a sense telling the truth, for the triumph of conformity lies in the crushing of all resistance, all experience of conflict.
** [[David Edwards]], ''Burning All Illusions'' (Boston: 1996), p. 36.

* Every individual should have the opportunity to develop the gifts which may be latent in him. Alone in that way can the individual obtain the satisfaction to which he is justly entitled; and alone in that way can the community achieve its richest flowering. For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
** [[Albert Einstein]], as quoted in ''Educational Trends : Journal of Research and Interpretation'' (June 1936), p. 32.

* If A equals success, then the formula is: A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
** [[Albert Einstein]], as quoted in ''Kiplinger's Personal Finance'', Vol. 11, No. 7 (July 1957), p. 48

* '''The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.'''
** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], "Nominalist and Realist", ''Essays: Second Series'' (1844).

* The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class.
** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|The Condition of the Working Class in England}}'' (1845)

* There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.
** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847)

* The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.
** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847)

* The costs of production of labor consist of precisely the quantity of means of subsistence necessary to enable the worker to continue working, and to prevent the working class from dying out. The worker will therefore get no more for his labor than is necessary for this purpose; the price of labor, or the wage, will, in other words, be the lowest, the minimum, required for the maintenance of life.
** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847)

* Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."
** [[Barbara Ehrenreich]], "Goodbye to the Work Ethic" (1988), in ''The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed'' (1991).

* He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole life complete and perfect. Hence he has no longer any need of things which are not to be won save by labor and conflict.
** [[Epicurus]], “Principal Doctrines,” 21

==F==
* Every employee in an undertaking, then, takes a larger or smaller share in the work of administration, and has, therefore, to use and display his administrative faculties. This is why we often see men, who are specially gifted, gradually rise from the lowest to the highest level of the industrial hierarchy, although they have only had an elementary education. But young men, who begin practical work as engineers soon after leaving industrial schools, are in a particularly good position both for learning administration and for showing their ability in this direction, for in administration, as in all other branches of industrial activity, a man’s work is judged by its results.
** [[Henri Fayol]], (1900) ''Henri Fayol addressed his colleagues in the mineral industry 23 June 1900''.

* The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
** [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], "Amory Blaine" in ''This Side of Paradise'' (1920) Bk. 2, Ch. 5.

* It's a living.
** Animals, [[The Flintstones]], created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

*Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
**[[E. M. Forster]], ''Commonplace Book'', p. 219 (1960).

* '''I urge you to work together in promoting a [[true]], worldwide [[ethical]] mobilization which, beyond [[all]] differences of [[religious]] or [[political]] convictions, will spread and put into practice a shared [[ideal]] of fraternity and solidarity, especially with regard to the poorest and those most excluded.'''
** [[Pope Francis]], as quoted in an [http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/may/documents/papa-francesco_20140509_consiglio-nazioni-unite.html address to the UN system chief executives board for coordination, Consistory Hall (9 May 2014)].

* People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
** Allan Fromme, as quoted in [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0DB1538F931A35751C0A9659C8B63 "Allan Fromme, Psychologist And Writer, 87", ''The New York Times'' (2 February 2003) ]

* “'''Men work together''',” I told him from the [[heart]], “'''Whether they work together or apart.'''”
** [[Robert Frost]], [http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section2.rhtml The Tuft of Flowers] (1915)

* '''The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.'''
** [[Robert Frost]], as quoted in ''The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom'' (1958) edited by Herbert Victor Prochnow.

==G==
* I need to wake out of my stupor and begin work. ...my body stands frozen in a snow packed tundra waiting for rescue. It may take a few days before that happens, since my mind is on vacation in Alberta right now.
** [[Michael Scott Gallegos]], "Alligator" (Nov 5, 2011)

* '''My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.'''
** [[Indira Gandhi]], as quoted in ''Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success'' (1996) by Joan Steinau Lester, p. 76.

* [[God]] designed man for work--work for his own sustenance; he who does not work shall not eat.
** ''{{w|Genesis Rabbah}} 14'', ''[http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/tmm07.htm Tales and Maxims from the Midrash]'' by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 67

* For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
** [[Henry George]], ''Progress and Poverty'' (1879), Book VII, Ch. 1.

* ''Ein Mensch, der um anderer willen, ohne dass es seine eigene Leidenschaft, sein eigenes Bedürfnis ist, sich um Geld oder Ehre oder sonst etwas abarbeitet, ist immer ein Tor''.
* A man who works at another’s will, not for his own passion or his own need, but for money or honor, is always a [[fool]].
** [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], ''Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers'' (''The Sorrows of Young Werther''), p. 46

* Insofar as our culture conventionally construes technical, scientific, and professional roles as those that obligate men to ignore all but the technical implications of their work, the very social structure itself is inherently [[pathogenic]]. The social function of such a segmented role structure is akin to that of the [[Unconscious|reflexive]] [[obedience]] induced by [[military]] training. The function of such a technical role structure, as of military discipline, is to [[Eliminate|sever]] the normal [[Morality|moral sensibilities]] and [[responsibilities]] of civilians and soldiers and to enable them to be used as [[Zombies|deployables]], willing to pursue practically any objective. In the last analysis, such arrangements produce an unthinking readiness to [[kill]] or to hurt others - or to produce things that do so - on order.
** [[Alvin Ward Gouldner]], ''The Coming Crisis in Sociology'' (1970), p. 13

* Nothing is more laborious for you than not to labor at all—in other words, to despise everything that gives rise to our labors, which means all that is subject to [[change]].
** [[Guigo I]], ''The Meditations of Guigo I, Prior of the Charterhouse'', as translated by A. Gordon Mursell (1995), #50

* The very nature of work will [[change]]. The governments may have to consider stronger social safety nets, and eventually [[universal basic income]].
** [[António Guterres]], [http://webtv.un.org/watch/secretary-general-addresses-general-debate-73rd-session/5839802857001/ ''Secretary-General Addresses General Debate, 73rd Session''] of the General Assembly of the UN, 15:25, (25 September 2018)

==H==
* If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
** [[Bill Haywood]], ''Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood'' (1983) by Peter Carlson, p. 146
** Paraphrased variant: For every man who gets a dollar he didn't sweat for, someone else sweated to produce a dollar he never received.

* Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.
** [[Heinrich Heine]], ''History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany'', Vol. III (1834).

* One of the curious features of [[Impressionism]]... was the casualness of their work. ...[T]he painters gave the impression of hastily concocted canvases... more... inspiration than... patient labor. The effortless stroke of genius became a leading measure of artistic quality, partly because it denied mere "work." ..."Art for art's sake" was an invention of the [[Romanticism|romantic]] era in France. ...They looked towards a mythical past in which the "natural" person could cultivate self-expression, free of the claims of social utility. This fantasized past... had an anti-industrial character. ...Work was despised because the growing industrial revolution was separating it from inventiveness, originality, and individualism. ...The inventiveness and spontaneity that independent artists sought were... opposed to industrial work,... products (with which they associated academic art) and for many... cities... Women and men held parasols and croquet mallets, not sickles and hoes, and dahlias were more attractive than cabbages. (It is true that Pissarro retained much of the outlook of Barbizon artists...) The work ethic implicit in [[Barbizon school|Barbizon]] art... was done away with by the impressionists. The suburb and the coastal resort, not the farm, is the landscape of [[Berthe Morisot|Morisot]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Édouard Manet|Manet]], and [[Claude Monet|Monet]]. ...The Impressionists ...joined other middle-class vacationers (except for [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]] and [[Camille Pissarro|Pissarro]], so little in sympathy with Parisian society).
** Robert L. Herbert, ''Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society'' (1988) p. 304-306.

* If little labour, little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
** [[Robert Herrick]], ''Hesperides'' (1648), "No Paines, No Gaines".

* The economic system denies the right of the sincerest and most sympathetic to keep their hands out of the blood of their brothers. We may not go to our rest at night, or waken to our work in the morning, without bearing the burden of the communal guilt; without being ourselves creators and causes of the wrongs we seek to bear away. At every step, when we would do good, evil is present with us, and exacts its tribute from the very citadel of the soul. ... If we stay at our posts, in order that we may [[change]] the system, we are on the backs of our brothers; if we desert our posts, in order that we may get off our brothers' backs, we take bread from their mouths, from the mouths of their children, and add to the army of the workless and hopeless.
** [[George D. Herron]], ''Between Caesar and Jesus'' (1899) pp. 24-25

* [[Hillel the Elder|Hillel]] stood in the gate of Jerusalem one day and saw the people on their way to work. "How much," he asked, "will you earn today?" One said: "A {{w|denarius}}"; the second: "Two denarii" "What will you do with the money?" he inquired. "We will provide for the necessities of life." Then he said to them: "Would you not rather come and make the Torah your possession, that you may possess both this world and the world to come?"
** ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', Volume 6, p. 399

* Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
** [[Homer]], ''Odyssey'' (c. 7th century BC); tr. [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[The Odyssey of Homer (Alexander Pope)|The Odyssey of Homer]]'' (1725), Book X, line 46.

* To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
** [[Homer]], ''Iliad'' (c. 7th century BC); tr. [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[The Iliad of Homer (Alexander Pope)|The Iliad of Homer]]'' (1715–1720), Book X, Line 78.

* I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], "Credo", as published in ''A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things'' (1901), p. 6.

* One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], ''A Thousand and One Epigrams'' (1911).

* If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], ''The Note Book'' (1927).

* The highest reward that God gives us for good work, is the ability to do better work.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], ''The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard'' (1927), p. 125.

==I==
* I've had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctor—to develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
** [[Henrik Ibsen]], ''An Enemy of the People'', English adaptation by Max Faber (1970), act II, p. 28. Mr. Hovstad is speaking.
[[File:Morocco Africa Flickr Rosino December 2005 83965745.jpg|thumb|A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. ~ [[L. P. Jacks]]]]
==J==
* The philosopher bent on the enlargement of experience perceives at once that his work cannot be done, cannot even be commenced, until he has cleared away the heaps of verbal detritus under which the bedrocks of experience lie buried.
** [[L. P. Jacks]], ''The Usurpation Of Language'' (1910).

* We are the children of an age which spends the best energies of its life in the discussion of life, in an atmosphere of deferred fulfillment, continually postponing the act of living to the work of mentally preparing to live.
** [[L. P. Jacks]], ''The Usurpation Of Language'' (1910).

* '''A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.''' He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. '''To himself, he always appears to be doing both.'''
** [[L. P. Jacks]], ''Education through Recreation'' (1932), p. 1.

* We do 30 to 40 percent of the nation's work for 1 percent of the returns, and a huge pool of us is always kept unemployed to reduce the value of the labor of those who are.
** [[George L. Jackson]], ''Blood in My Eye'' (1971), p. 24

* It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
** [[Jerome K. Jerome]], English author. ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1889), Ch. 15.

* Work and play they're never okay to mix.
** [[Jimmy Eat World]] taken from their song "[[w: Work (Jimmy Eat World song)|Work]]".

* The error of early capitalism can be repeated wherever man is in a way treated on the same level as the whole complex of the material means of production, as an instrument and not in accordance with the true dignity of his work.
** [[Pope John Paul II]], ''Laborem Exercens''

==K==
* [[Jesus]] ... combines all duties (1) in one universal rule (which includes within itself both the inner and the outer moral relations of men), namely: Perform your [[duty]] for no motive other than unconditioned esteem for duty itself, i.e., [[Love of God|love God]] (the Legislator of all duties) above all else; and (2) in a particular rule, that, namely, which concerns man’s external relation to other men as universal duty: [[Great Commandment|Love every one as yourself]], i.e., further his welfare from [[good-will]] that is immediate and not derived from motives of [[greed|self-advantage]]. These commands are not mere laws of [[virtue]] but precepts of [[holiness]] which we ought to pursue, and the very pursuit of them is called virtue.
** [[Immanuel Kant]], ''Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone'', Book IV, Part 1, Section 1, “The Christian religion as a natural religion”

* It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me.
** [[Immanuel Kant]], "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)

* To work for a living certainly cannot be the meaning of life, since it is indeed a contradiction that the continual production of the conditions is supposed to be the answer to the question of the meaning of that which is conditional upon their production.
**[[Søren Kierkegaard]], ''Either-Or'', H. Hong, trans. (1987), part 1 (I 15), p. 31.

* In the last analysis, what is the significance of life? If we divide mankind into two great classes, we may say that one works for a living, the other does not need to. But working for a living cannot be the meaning of life, since it would be a contradiction to say that the perpetual production of the conditions for subsistence is an answer to the question about its significance which, by the help of this, must be conditioned. The lives of the other class have in general no other significance than that they consume the conditions of subsistence. And to say that the significance of life is death, seems again a contradiction.
** [[Søren Kierkegaard]] ''Either/Or Part I'', Swenson p. 30.

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* [[Sergei Korolev]], quoted in [https://books.google.be/books?id=VyvLDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT311&lpg=PT311&dq=%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D1%81%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE,+%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE,+%D0%B0+%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE+%E2%80%94+%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE,+%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BE.+%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7+%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5+%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8F+%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5+%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%82,+%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE,+%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%82+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C,+%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE+%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE.+%D0%98&source=bl&ots=BByEGl1rb_&sig=ACfU3U3PHhA9hcx-JhymDEXCw3AAIFw-2Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiop6_-nb75AhVJdcAKHSgtASAQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%D1%81%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%20%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%2C%20%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE%2C%20%D0%B0%20%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%E2%80%94%20%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C%20%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BE.%20%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%20%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%20%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8F%20%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%82%2C%20%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE%20%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE%20%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%2C%20%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%82%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%2C%20%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE%20%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE%20%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE.%20%D0%98&f=false "Leadership in the Russian way" ''(Лидерство по-русски)''] (2022)

*If the picture I’ve drawn is at all right, the only way we could have anything resembling a middle-class society — a society in which ordinary citizens have a reasonable assurance of maintaining a decent life as long as they work hard and play by the rules — would be by having a strong social safety net, one that guarantees not just health care but a minimum income, too.
** [[Paul Krugman]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-for-the-luddites.html ''Sympathy for the Luddites''], The New York Times (13 June 2013)

[[File:Ancient Garden.png|thumb|No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. ~ [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] ]]
[[File:New Inventions of Modern Times -Nova Reperta-, The Invention of Distillation, plate 7 MET DP841129.jpg|thumb|Labor is prior to, and independent of, [[capital]]. [[Capital]] is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] ]]

[[File:Bernard Lietaer - PopTech 2011 - Camden Maine USA.jpg|thumb|Instead of pitting people against each other, the (local currency) system... '''enables us to consciously design [[money]] to work for us, instead of us for it.''' ~ [[Bernard Lietaer]]]]

==L==
* Men are like handsome race horses who first bite the bit and later like it, and rearing under the saddle a while soon learn to enjoy displaying their harness and prance proudly beneath their trappings.
** [[Étienne de La Boétie]], ''[[Discourse of Voluntary Servitude]]'', Part 2

* The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.
** [[Paul Lafargue]], ''The Right to Be Lazy'' (1883), H. Kerr, trans. (1907), pp. 11-12.

* '''No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.'''
** [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] ''Romance and Reality'' (1831) Vol. II, page 108

*A full-fledged [[UBI]] — one that unconditionally provides every person with enough income to meet their basic needs—would fundamentally alter the paradigm of capitalism that has locked workers into the dominant system ever since its inception. Capitalism has endured by commoditizing people’s lives, forcing them to sell the bulk of their available time and energy, or else face destitution and starvation. A true UBI would transform the relationship between labor and capital and weaken the power of the wealthy elite to control the population.
**[[Jeremy Lent]] in [https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/basic-income-lent A Cornerstone of a Moral Economy, ''Great Transition Initiative,'' ''GTI Forum''] (November 2020).

*Computers and robots replace humans in the exercise of mental functions in the same way as mechanical power replaced them in the performance of physical tasks. As time goes on, more and more complex mental functions will be performed by machines. Any worker who now performs his task by following specific instructions can, in principle, be replaced by a machine. This means that the role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish—in the same way that the role of horses in agricultural production was first diminished and then eliminated by the introduction of tractors.
** [[Wassily Leontief]], "[http://books.google.nl/books?id=hS0rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 National perspective: The definition of problem and opportunity]", in: National Academies, ''The Long-term Impact of Technology on Employment and Unemployment: A National Academy of Engineering Symposium'', p. 3. (30 June 1983)

*Local [[currency]] creates work, and I make a distinction between work and jobs. A job is what you do for a living; work is what you do because you like to do it. I expect jobs to increasingly [[Universal basic income|become obsolete]], but there is still an almost infinite amount of fascinating work to be done... What's nice about local currency is that when people create their own money, they don't need to build in a [[scarcity]] factor. And they don't need to get currency from elsewhere in order to have a means of making an exchange with a neighbor... As soon as you have an agreement between two people about a transaction... they literally create the necessary "money" in the process; there's no [[scarcity]] of money. That does not mean there's an infinite amount of this currency, either; you cannot give me 500,000 hours - nobody has 500,000 hours to give. So there's a ceiling on it, yes, but there's no artificial [[scarcity]].
**[[Bernard Lietaer]], [https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/Bernard_Lietaer/Interview_Yes%21.pdf Beyond Greed and Scarcity, ''YES! A Journal of Positive Futures''], (Spring 1997)

*Instead of pitting people against each other, the (local currency) system actually ... '''enables us to consciously design [[money]] to work for us, instead of us for it.''' ..These objectives are in our grasp within less than one generation's time. Whether we materialize them or not will depend on our capacity to [[cooperate]] with each other to consciously reinvent our money... For the first time in human history we have available the production technologies to create unprecedented abundance...
**[[Bernard Lietaer]], [https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/Bernard_Lietaer/Interview_Yes%21.pdf Beyond Greed and Scarcity, ''YES! A Journal of Positive Futures''], (Spring 1997)

*I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio (February 12, 1861) [Commercial version]; in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 4, p. 202.

* In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour. And inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that [all] such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], fragments of a tariff discussion (c. December 1, 1847); in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 1, p. 407–8.

* It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it—keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for, as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], speech at Chicago, Illinois (July 10, 1858); in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 2, p. 498.

* '''Labor is prior to, and independent of, [[capital]]. [[Capital]] is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.'''
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], First State of the Union Address (December 3, 1861); in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 5, p. 52.

* The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working people by other working people. It should never be so. '''The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.'''
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association (March 21, 1864); in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 7, p. 259.

* From labor there shall come forth rest.
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], "To a Child", line 162; in ''The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems'' (1845).

* [[Adam]] was created righteous, acceptable, and without sin. He had no need from his labor in the garden to be made righteous and acceptable to God. Rather, the Lord gave Adam work in order to cultivate and protect the garden. This would have been the freest of all works because they were done simply to please God and not to obtain righteousness. … The works of the person who trusts God are to be understood in a similar manner. Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.
** [[Martin Luther]], ''The Freedom of a Christian'' (1520), M. Tranvik, trans. (Minneapolis: 2008), pp. 73-74.

* It is always necessary that the substance or essence of a person be good before there can be any good works and that good works follow and proceed from a person who is already good. Christ says in Matthew 7:18: “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.” ... The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
** [[Martin Luther]], ''The Freedom of a Christian'' (1520), M. Tranvik, trans. (Minneapolis: 2008), pp. 74-75.

* Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith. … Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
** [[Martin Luther]], ''The Freedom of a Christian'' (1520), M. Tranvik, trans. (Minneapolis: 2008), p. 75.
[[File:Herman Melville 1860.jpg|thumb|99 hundreths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked. ~ [[Herman Melville]]]]
[[File:A monument of working class.JPG|thumb|It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself — a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. ~ [[William Morris]]]]
==M==
* '''The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.'''
** [[James Madison]], Statement (1787-06-26) as quoted in [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/yates.asp ''Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787''] by [[w:Robert Yates (politician)|Robert Yates]].

* Tonio ... worked withdrawn out of sight and sound of the small men, for whom he felt nothing but contempt, who, whether they were poor or not, went about ostentatiously shabby or else flaunted startling cravats, all the time taking jolly good care to amuse themselves, to be artistic and charming without the smallest notion of the fact that good work comes out only under pressure of a bad life; that he who lives does not work; the one must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
** [[Thomas Mann]], ''Tonio Kröger'', H. Lowe-Porter, trans., modified, in Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (1930), p. 94

* Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed. And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets. And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed Jesus.
** [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]] 1:16-20 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
** [[Karl Marx]], “Alienated Labor,” ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts'' (1844), ''The Potable Karl Marx'' (1983), p. 134.

* The better shaped his product, the more mis-shapen the worker; the more civilized his object, the more barbaric the worker; the more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
** [[Karl Marx]], “Alienated Labor,” ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts'' (1844), ''The Potable Karl Marx'' (1983), p. 135.

* Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.
** [[Karl Marx]], “Alienated Labor,” ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts'' (1844), ''The Potable Karl Marx'' (1983), p. 135.

* What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor? First, in the fact that labor is external to the worker, that is, that it does not belong to his essential being; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel well but unhappy, does not freely develop his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker, therefore, feels himself only outside his work, and feels beside himself in his work. He is at home when he is not working, and when he is working he is not at home. His work therefore is not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need, but only a means for satisfying needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that labor is shunned like the plague as soon as there is no physical or other compulsion.
** [[Karl Marx]], “Alienated Labor,” ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts'' (1844), ''The Potable Karl Marx'' (1983), p. 136.

* When we have weighed everything, and when our relations in life permit us to choose any given position, we may take that one which guarantees us the greatest dignity, which is based on ideas of whose truth we are completely convinced, which offers the largest field to work for mankind and approach the universal goal for which every position is only a means: [[perfection]].
** [[Karl Marx]], “Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation” (1835), ''Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society'', L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 38.

* Capital is dead labor,that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
** [[Karl Marx]], {{w|Capital: Critique of Political Economy}}, [[w:Capital, Volume I|Vol. I]], Ch. 10, Section 1, p. 257. (1867)

* He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes. Not yesterday's work, lest he fall into despair; nor to-morrow's, lest he become a visionary—not that which ends with the day, which is a worldly work; nor yet that only which remains to eternity, for by it he cannot shape his actions. Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of to-day a connected portion of the work of life and an embodiment of the work of Eternity. The foundations of his confidence are unchangeable, for he has been made a partaker of Infinity. He strenuously works out his daily enterprises because the present is given him for a possession. Thus ought Man to be an impersonation of the divine process of nature, and to show forth the union of the infinite with the finite, not slighting his temporal existence, remembering that in it only is individual action possible; nor yet shutting out from his view that which is eternal, knowing that Time is a mystery which man cannot endure to contemplate until eternal Truth enlighten it.
** [[James Clerk Maxwell]], Paper communicated to {{w|Frederic Farrar}} (1854) Æt. 23, as quoted in Lewis Campbell, William Garnett, ''The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With Selections from His Correspondence and Occasional Writings'' (1884) [https://books.google.com/books?id=B7gEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144 pp. 144-145,] and in Richard Glazebrook, ''James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics'' (1896) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hbcEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA39 pp. 39-40.]

* True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, '''99 hundreths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.'''
** [[Herman Melville]], in a letter to Catherine G. Lansing (5 September 1877), published in ''The Melville Log : A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891'' (1951) by Jay Leyda, Vol. 2, p. 765.

* Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 618.

* The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint.
** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 208.

* '''It is assumed by most people nowadays that all work is useful, and by most ''well-to-do'' people that all work is desirable.''' Most people, well-to-do or not, believe that, even when a man is doing work which appears to be useless, he is earning his livelihood by it — he is "employed," as the phrase goes; and most of those who are well-to-do cheer on the happy worker with congratulations and praises, if he is only "industrious" enough and deprives himself of all pleasure and holidays — in the sacred cause of labour. '''In short, it has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself — a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others.''' But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.
** [[William Morris]], "Useful Work vs Useless Toil" (1885); later published in ''Signs of Change : Seven Lectures, Delivered on Various Occasions'' (1896).

* '''It is of the nature of man, when he is not diseased, to take pleasure in his work under certain conditions.''' And, yet, we must say in the teeth of the hypocritical praise of all labour, whatsoever it may be, of which I have made mention, that there is some labour which is so far from being a blessing that it is a curse; that it would be better for the community and for the worker if the latter were to fold his hands and refuse to work, and either die or let us pack him off to the workhouse or prison — which you will. '''Here, you see, are two kinds of work — one good, the other bad; one not far removed from a blessing, a lightening of life; the other a mere curse, a burden to life.''' What is the difference between them, then ? This: one has hope in it, the other has not. '''It is manly to do the one kind of work, and manly also to refuse to do the other.'''
** [[William Morris]], "Useful Work vs Useless Toil" (1885); later published in ''Signs of Change : Seven Lectures, Delivered on Various Occasions'' (1896).

* In his discussion on [[slavery]] [[Aristotle]] said that when the shuttle wove by itself and the [[w:Plectrum|plectrum]] played by itself chief workmen would not need helpers nor masters slaves. At the time he wrote, he believed that he was establishing the eternal validity of slavery; but for us today he was in reality justifying the existence of the [[machine]]. Work, it is true, is the constant form of man's interaction with his environment, if by work one means the sum total of exertions necessary to maintain life; and the lack of work usually means an impairment of function and a breakdown in organic relationship that leads to substitute forms of work, such as invalidism and neurosis. But work in the form of unwilling drudgery or of that sedentary routine which... the Athenians so properly despised—work in these forms is the true province of machines. Instead of reducing human beings to work-mechanisms, we can now transfer the main part of burden to automatic machines. This potentially... is perhaps the largest justification of the mechanical developments of the last thousand years.
** [[Lewis Mumford]], ''Technics and Civilization'' (1934)

==N==
* Early to bed, Early to rise, Work like hell — And advertise!
** "Old slogan" quoted in ''The National Provisioner'', Vol. 44 (June 1911), p. 35; this has since become misattributed to many people who might have quoted it.

*Democratic presidential hopeful [[Joe Biden]] unveiled a $2 trillion energy plan Tuesday with a heavy focus on the [[Green New Deal]] agenda... Speaking in Wilmington, Del., Biden promised a “clean energy revolution,” which he said would deliver millions of jobs... Biden detailed what he called a pro-union platform that would replace the US government’s car fleet with American-made electric vehicles... The former veep on Tuesday promised to “create millions of high-paying union jobs by building a modern infrastructure and a clean energy future” and described his vision of a US covered in 500,000 electric car charging stations and thriving factories producing green products.
**[https://nypost.com/2020/07/14/joe-biden-unveils-his-2t-aoc-fueled-green-new-deal-energy-agenda/ ''New York Post,'' Joe Biden unveils his $2T AOC-fueled Green New Deal energy agenda, by Ebony Bowden], (14 July 2020)

* Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''Human, All Too Human'' (1878)

* Looking for work in order to be paid: in civilized countries today almost all men are at one in doing that. For all of them work is a means and not an end in itself. Hence they are not very refined in their choice of work, if only it pays well. But there are, if only rarely, men who would rather perish than work without any pleasure in their work. They are choosy, hard to satisfy, and do not care for ample rewards, if the work itself is not to be the reward of rewards. Artists and contemplative men of all kinds belong to this rare breed, but so do even those men of leisure who spend their lives hunting, traveling, or in love affairs and adventures. All of these desire work and misery only if it is associated with pleasure, and the hardest, most difficult work if necessary. Otherwise their idleness is resolute, even if it spells impoverishment, dishonor, and danger to life and limb. They do not fear boredom as much as work without pleasure.
** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''The Gay Science'' (1882), [[Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)|W. Kaufmann]], trans, § 42.

* I propose a new approach that will make it more attractive to go to work than to go on welfare, and will establish a nationwide minimum payment to dependent families with children. I propose that the Federal government pay a [[basic income]] to those American families who cannot care for themselves in whichever State they live. ... I propose that we make available an addition to the incomes of the "working poor," to encourage them to go on working, and to eliminate the possibility of making more from welfare than from wages.
** [[Richard Nixon]], [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2194 Special Message to the Congress on Reform of the Nation's Welfare System] (11 August 1969)

==O==
* Artificial intelligence is here and it is accelerating, and you're going to have driverless cars, and you're going to have more and more automated services, and that's going to make the job of giving everybody work that is meaningful, tougher and we're going to have to be more imaginative, and the pact of [[change]] is going to require us to do more fundamental reimagining of our social and political arrangements, to protect the economic security and the dignity that comes with a job. It's not just money that a job provides; it provides dignity and structure and a sense of place and a sense of purpose. And so we're going to have to consider new ways of thinking about these problems, like a [[universal income]], review of our workweek, how we retrain our young people, how we make everybody an entrepreneur at some level. But we're going to have to worry about economics if we want to get democracy back on track.
** [[Barack Obama]], ''[https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629862434/transcript-obamas-speech-at-the-2018-nelson-mandela-annual-lecture 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture]'' [speech] (17 July 2018)

* I found it hard working really long hours when I was my own boss. The boss kept giving me the afternoon off.
** [[w:John O'Farrell|John O'Farrell]]{{Disambiguation needed}}, ''The Best a Man Can Get'' (1999).

[[File:Charles peguy.jpg|thumb|right|Towards this fine honor of a trade converged all the finest, all the most noble sentiments—dignity, pride. ... In those days a workman did not know what it was to solicit. It is the [[bourgeoisie]] who, turning the workmen into bourgeois, have taught them to solicit. ~ [[Charles Péguy]]]]
==P==
* Questioning global stereotypes on economic responses to [[globalisation]], I argue that labour becomes actively involved in the very ''process'' of globalisation and the [[w:Growth capital|expansion of capital]]. [...] Although it would seem a simple proposition to suggest that working class people and their organisations affect the ways in which the landscapes of capitalism are made, until recently, there has been little work, even within economic geography, addressing this issue.
** [[Neethi Padmanabhan]], ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263155852_Globalisation_Lived_Locally_A_Labour_Geography_Perspective_on_Control_Conflict_and_Response_among_Workers_in_Kerala Globalisation Lived Locally: A Labour Geography Perspective on Control, Conflict and Response among Workers in Kerala]'', 2012, at {{w|ResearchGate}}

* Low labour cost, along with ﬂexibility in labour use, has become a key source of competitive advantage for ﬁrms. As external competition intensiﬁes, the domestic industry has come under great pressure to restructure itself, to become more competitive and to adopt ﬂexible policies with regard to production and labour. With a view to increasing global competitiveness, investors are moving more towards countries that either have low labour costs, or are shifting to informal employment arrangements. These [[change]]s create an entirely different political-economic environment for workers around the world. Greater international mobility of capital relative to labour puts workers from a given location at an immediate disadvantage, both in terms of bargaining power with the owners of capital (whose threat to move gains greater credibility) and with respect to the State. Thus the removal of domestic entry barriers and movement of capital to areas of cheap labour have caused intensiﬁcation of domestic competition in many developing countries— especially those with surplus labour supply and those where labour is a major factor of production. This has been accentuated by potential investors citing the lack of ﬂexibility in hiring and laying off workers as a concern, while targeting a developing country in which to invest. [...] [[Optimism]] with regard to labour as an agency of social progress has been replaced by pessimism that sees little prospect of workers acting on their own behalf.
** [[Neethi Padmanabhan]], ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263155852_Globalisation_Lived_Locally_A_Labour_Geography_Perspective_on_Control_Conflict_and_Response_among_Workers_in_Kerala Globalisation Lived Locally: A Labour Geography Perspective on Control, Conflict and Response among Workers in Kerala]'', 2012, at {{w|ResearchGate}}

*All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
** Jack Torrance played by Jack Nicholson, [[The Shining (film)|The Shining]] screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson

* Religious people must be brought to a vivid realization of their awful guilt in sanctioning and supporting an economic system that is the direct antithesis of their religious ideals.
** [[Kirby Page]], ''Individualism and Socialism'' (1933)

* Pride in one’s work carries with it a determination to accept the demands imposed by that work: in the case of philosophy to follow the argument where it leads, in the case of history to discover what actually happened, in the case of literature to explore to its depths a particular theme. In consequence, this sort of pride demands freedom: it has to be laid low in any authoritarian State. The historian, in such a system, has to conform to official interpretations of the past, the philosopher to dogmas, the writer to stereotypes of human action, the craftsman to “production-schedules.” More subtly, attempts are made to lay pride low in a consumer’s society: the film-director, the novelist, the craftsman are called upon to produce “what will sell” at whatever cost to their pride in workmanship.
** [[John Passmore]], ''The Perfectibility of Man'' (1971), p. 290

*A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
**[[Cesare Pavese]], ''This Business of Living'', {{#dateformat:1940-08-14}}

* These bygone workmen did not serve, they worked. They had an absolute honor, which is honor proper. A chair rung had to be well made. That was an understood thing. That was the first thing. It wasn’t that the chair rung had to be well made for the salary or on account of the salary. It wasn’t that it was well made for the boss, nor for connoisseurs, nor for the boss’ clients. It had to be well made itself, in itself, for itself, in its very self. A tradition coming, springing from deep within the race, a history, an absolute, an honor, demanded that this chair rung be well made. Every part of the chair which could not be seen was just as perfectly made as the parts which could be seen. The was the selfsame principal of cathedrals. … There was no question of being seen or of not being seen. It was the innate being of work which needed to be well done.
** [[Charles Péguy]], ''Basic Verities'', A. & J. Green, trans. (New York: 1943), pp. 82-85

* Towards this fine honor of a trade converged all the finest, all the most noble sentiments—dignity, pride. Never ask anything of anyone, they used to say. … In those days a workman did not know what it was to solicit. It is the bourgeoisie who, turning the workmen into bourgeois, have taught them to solicit.
** [[Charles Péguy]], ''Basic Verities'', A. & J. Green, trans. (New York: 1943), p. 83.

* Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
** {{w|Katharine Susannah Prichard}}, as quoted in ''100 Great Australians'' (1983) by Robert Macklin.

* The man who by his labour gets    His bread, in independent state, Who never begs, and seldom eats,    Himself can fix or change his fate.
** [[Matthew Prior]] (1664–1721), ''The Old Gentry'' (posthumous), St. 5.

* The trouble with Opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
** {{w|Herbert V. Prochnow}}, ''1001 Ways to Improve your Conversation & Speeches?'' (1952).

* To depend on another's nod for a livelihood, is a sad destiny.
** [[Publius Syrus]], ''The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus'', # 501

[[File:Teslathinker.jpg |thumb|Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]]]]

[[File:A Wilde time 3.jpg|thumb|right|We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]]]]
[[File:THE WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WAR INDUSTRY, 1914-1918 Q109920.jpg|thumb|It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit. ~ [[w:Robert Yates (politician)|Robert Yates]] ]] '''
[[File:John Howard Yoder, 1971 (6215609410).jpg|thumb|Let us reserve our limited creativity for functions that will not be taken care of if we do not to it. ~ [[John Howard Yoder]]]]
[[File:William Edmonson.jpg|thumb|The land belongs to those who work it with their hands. ~ [[Emiliano Zapata]] ]]
==R==
[[File:John_Henry-27527.jpg|thumb|Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]]]]
[[File:1927 Boris Bilinski (1900-1948) Plakat für den Film Metropolis, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.jpg|thumb|It is clear that mechanistic, biologically unsatisfying work is a product of the widespread mechanistic view of life and the machine civilization. Can the biologic function of work be reconciled with the social function of work? This is possible, but firmly entrenched ideas and institutions must be radically corrected first. The craftsman of the nineteenth century still had a full relationship to the product of his work. But when, as in a Ford factory, a worker has to perform one and the same manipulation year in and year out, always working on one detail and never the product as a whole, it is out of the question to speak of satisfying work. The specialized and mechanized division of labour, together with the system of paid labour in general, produce the effect that the working man has no relationship to the [[machine]]. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]]]]
* Did you get your [[money]] by fraud? By pandering to men’s vices or men’s stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment’s or a penny’s worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you’ll scream that money is evil.
** [[Ayn Rand]], Francisco d’Anconia in ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' (New York: 1992), p. 384.

* Work is the basis of man’s social existence. This is stressed by every social theory. In this respect, however, the problem is not that work is the basis of human existence. The problem relates to the nature of work: Is it in opposition to or in harmony with the biologic needs of masses of people? Marx’s economic theory proved that everything that is produced in the way of economic values comes about through the expenditure of man’s living working power, and not through the expenditure of dead material.
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 10.

* It is clear that mechanistic, biologically unsatisfying work is a product of the widespread mechanistic view of life and the machine civilization. Can the biologic function of work be reconciled with the social function of work? This is possible, but firmly entrenched ideas and institutions must be radically corrected first. The craftsman of the nineteenth century still had a full relationship to the product of his work. But when, as in a Ford factory, a worker has to perform one and the same manipulation year in and year out, always working on one detail and never the product as a whole, it is out of the question to speak of satisfying work. The specialized and mechanized division of labour, together with the system of paid labour in general, produce the effect that the working man has no relationship to the [[machine]].
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 10, p. 287.

* Only when one is objectively and intimately related to one’s work is one capable of comprehending just how destructive the dictatorial and formal democratic forms of work are, not only for work itself but also for the [[pleasure]] of work. When a man takes pleasure in his work, we call his relationship to it ‘libidinous’. Since work and sexuality (in both the strict and broad senses of the word) are intimately interwoven, man’s relationship to work is also a question of the sex-economy of masses of people. The hygiene of the work process is dependent upon the way masses of people use and gratify their biologic energy. Work and sexuality derive from the same biologic energy.
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 10, p. 293.

* The relationship between the worker’s [[sexual]] life and the performance of his work is of decisive importance. It is not as if work diverted sexual energy from gratification, so that the more one worked the less need one would have for sexual gratification. The opposite of this is the case: The more gratifying one’s sexual life is, the more fulfilling and pleasurable is one ’s work, if all external conditions are fulfilled. Gratified sexual energy is spontaneously converted into an interest in work and an urge for activity. In contrast to this, one’s work is disturbed in various ways if one’s sexual need is not gratified and is suppressed. Hence, a basic principle of the work hygiene of a work-democratic society is: It is necessary to establish not only the best external conditions of work, but also to create the inner biologic preconditions to allow the fullest unfolding of the biologic urge for activity. Hence, the safeguarding of a completely satisfying sexual life for the working masses is the most important precondition of pleasurable work. In any society the degree to which work kills the joy of life, the degree to which it is represented as a [[duty]] (whether to a ‘fatherland’, the ‘proletariat’, the ‘nation’ or whatever other names these [[illusions]] may have), is a sure yardstick on which to measure the anti-[[democratic]] character of the [[ruling class]] of this [[society]].
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 10, p. 295.

* The working [[men]] and [[women]] who [[think]] and [[act]] in a work-[[democratic]] way do not come out against the [[politician]]. It is not his fault or his intention that the practical result of his work exposes the illusionary and irrational character of politics. Those who are engaged in [[practical]] work, regardless what field they are in, are intensely concerned with practical tasks in the improvement of [[life]]. Those who are engaged in practical work are not against one thing or another. It is only the politician who, having no practical tasks is always against and never for something. Politics in general is characterized by this ‘being against’ one thing or another. That which is productive in a practical way is not accomplished by politicians, but by working men and women, whether it is in accord with the politicians’ [[ideologies]] or not.
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 11, p. 368.

* For centuries on end it has been precisely vitally necessary work that the political [[ideology]] of the ruling but nonworking classes has depreciated. On the other hand, it has represented non-work as a sign of noble blood. All [[socialist]] ideologies reacted to this appraisal with a mechanistic and rigid reversal of valuations. The socialists conceived of ‘work’ as relating solely to those activities that had been looked down upon in feudalism, i.e., essentially to manual labour; whereas the activity of the ruling classes was represented as non-work. To be sure, this mechanical reversal of ideologic valuations was wholly in keeping with the political concept of the two economically and personally sharply demarcated [[social classes]], the ruling and the ruled. From a purely [[economic]] point of view, society could indeed be divided into ‘those who possessed [[capital]]’ and ‘those who possessed the commodity, working power’ . From the point of view of bio-sociology, however, there could be no clear-cut division between one class and another, neither [[ideologically]] nor [[psychologically]], and certainly not on the basis of work. The discovery of the fact that the ideology of a group of people does not necessarily have to coincide with its economic situation, indeed, that economic and ideologic situation are often sharply opposed to one another, enabled us to understand the [[fascist]] movement, which had remained uncomprehended until then. In 1930 it became dear that there is a ‘cleavage’ between ideology and economy, and that the ideology of a certain class can develop into a social force, a social force that is not confined to that one class.
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 11, p. 383

* For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
** [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], in ''[[w:Letters to a Young Poet|Letters to a Young Poet]]'' (1934) Letter Seven (14 May 1904).

* When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower;—when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.
** [[John Ruskin]], “Sesame and Lilies” (1865)

* '''Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.'''
** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''[http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html In Praise of Idleness]'' (1932).

* Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''[http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html In Praise of Idleness]'' (1932).

* A narcissist, for example, inspired by the homage paid to great painters, may become an art student; but, as painting is for him a mere means to an end, the technique never becomes interesting … The result is failure and disappointment, with ridicule instead of the expected adulation. … All serious success in work depends upon some genuine interest. … Consequently, the man whose sole concern with the world is that is shall admire him is not likely to achieve his object.
** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''The Conquest of Happiness'', p. 20

==S==
[[File:Solon.jpg|thumb|You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, so now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod. ~ [[Solon|Solon of Athens]]]]
[[File:John_Lancaster_Spalding.png|thumb|The work whereby men gain a livelihood involves mental and moral mutilation, unless it be done in the spirit of religion and culture. ~ [[John Lancaster Spalding]]]]
* '''I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.''' I ask you to come through and show me where you're pouring out the blood of your life.
** [[Carl Sandburg]], "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter", ''Chicago Poems'' (1916), p. 63.

* What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.
** [[Fritz Sauckel]], To Leon Goldensohn, February 9, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History (2004), p. 209.

* '''When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.'''
** [[George Bernard Shaw]], as quoted in ''Appropriate Technology : A Focus for the Nineties'' (1991) by Robert William Stevens.

* Nobody would work for starvation [[wages]] if he were not in a situation in which he preferred such wages to not working at all.
** [[Georg Simmel]], ''The Philosophy of Money'' (1907).

* Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.
**[[Solomon]], [http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/pr/chapter_022.htm Proverbs 22: 29]

* You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.
** [[Solon|Solon of Athens]], as reported by [[Diogenes Laërtius]] (trans. [[w:Charles Duke Yonge|C. D. Yonge]]) ''The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' (1853), "Solon", sect. 5, p. 25.

* We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.
** [[John Lancaster Spalding]], ''Aphorisms and Reflections'' (1901), p. 21.

* The work whereby men gain a livelihood involves mental and moral mutilation, unless it be done in the spirit of religion and culture.
** [[John Lancaster Spalding]], ''Aphorisms and Reflections'' (1901), p. 59

* Things may be traded in the city but it is the fisherman who brings in the food supply.
** [[Sumerian proverb]], [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.01.html Collection I] at {{w|The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature}}, {{w|3rd millennium BCE}}.

* Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
** [[Gloria Steinem]], ''Moving Beyond Words'' (1994), Part 5.

* The men at the factory are old and cunning
:You don't owe nothing, so boy get running
:It's the best years of your life they want to steal.
:* [[Joe Strummer]], “Clampdown” (1979)

* Understanding how the [[w:Agricultural revolution|agricultural revolution]] transformed [[human]] [[societies]] was once no more than a question of [[intellectual]] [[curiosity]]. Now, though, it has taken on a more [[practical]] and [[urgent]] aspect. Many of the [[challenges]] created by the agricultural revolution, such as the [[problem]] of [[w:Scarcity|scarcity]], have largely been solved by [[technology]] – yet our preoccupation with hard work and unrestrained [[economic growth]] remains undimmed.
:* [[James Suzman]], [https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/05/how-neolithic-farming-sowed-the-seeds-of-modern-inequality-10000-years-ago “How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago”], ''The Guardian'', (5 Dec, 2017).

* I just don't understand the world's unhealthy obsession with work. Its all about vanity anyway. Ooh, look how hard I worked! And what a good work I did. Well screw you, workie. Get lost. Shut up. We're trying to listen to records here.
** {{w|John Swartzwelder}}, ''Detective Made Easy'' (2013)

==T==
* I suddenly felt insecure and feared becoming an employee of some firm that would turn me into a corporate slave with "work ethics" (whenever I hear the word ''work ethics'' I interpret ''inefficient mediocrity'').
** [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]], ''Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets'' (2001) Seven: The Problem of Induction | Sir Karl's Promoting Agent

* ''Laborare est orare''. [To work is to pray.] By the Puritan moralist the ancient maxim is repeated with a new and intenser significance. The labor which he idealizes is not simply a requirement imposed by nature, or a punishment for the sin of Adam. It is itself a kind of [[asceticism|ascetic]] discipline, more rigorous than that demanded of any order of [[w:Mendicant|mendicants]]—a discipline imposed by the will of God, and to be undergone, not in solitude, but in the punctual discharge of secular duties. It is not merely an economic means, to be laid aside when physical needs have been satisfied. It is a spiritual end, for in it alone can the soul find health, and it must be continued as an ethical duty long after it has ceased to be a material necessity.
** [[R. H. Tawney]], ''Religion and the Rise of Capitalism'' (1926), p. 242

* I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts.
** [[Nikola Tesla]], in [http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1919-00-00.htm "My Inventions"] first published in ''Electrical Experimenter'' magazine (1919); republished as ''My Inventions : The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla'' (1983).

* Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
** [[Nikola Tesla]], on patent controversies regarding the [[w:Invention of radio|invention of Radio]] and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petkovic in ''Politika'' (April 1927); as quoted in ''Tesla, Master of Lightning'' (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73  {{ISBN|0760710058}} ; also in ''Tesla: Man Out of Time'' (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230  {{ISBN|0743215362}} 

* The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
** [[Nikola Tesla]], "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World", ''Modern Mechanics and Inventions'' (July 1934).

* This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! ... It would be glorious to see mankind at [[leisure]] for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. ... If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, … it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for—business! I think there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to [[poetry]], to [[philosophy]], ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
** [[Henry David Thoreau]], “Life without Principle,” 1.4

* Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,—a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.
** [[Henry David Thoreau]], ''Walden'', chapter 18, p. 436 (1966). Originally published in 1854.

* It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
** [[Henry David Thoreau]], letter to Harrison Blake (16 November 1857).

* Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme [[division of labor]].
** [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], Democracy in America, vol. 1, chapter 18 (1835).

* Work consists of whatever a [[body]] is OBLIGED to do, and...[[Play]] consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
** [[Mark Twain]], ''[[w:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' (1876), Ch. 2.

==V==
*''Il est bien malaisé (puisqu’il faut enfin m’expliquer) d’ôter à des insensés des chaînes qu’ils révèrent.''
** '''It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.'''
*** [[Voltaire]], ''Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers'' (1767): Troisième Entretien

==W==
* The bourgeoisie first betrayed society through capitalism and finance, and now labor betrays it by embracing a scheme of things which sees profit only, not duty and honor, in work. This view will seem hopelessly unrealistic to those who do not admit that sentiment toward the whole is the only ultimate means of measuring value.
** [[Richard Weaver]], ''Ideas Have Consequences'' (Chicago: 1948), p. 75

* The idea that work is something apportioned out by men leaves people discontent with their portion and dubious about whether work is a good thing at all. … The ancient injunction to labor fades when we regard our work as cut out for us by men, who, by present dogma, are no better than ourselves. That curious modern [[wikt:hypostatization|hypostatization]] “service” is often called in to substitute for the now incomprehensible doctrine of vocation. It tries to secure subordination by hypothesizing something larger than the self, which turns out, however, to be only a multitude of selfish selves. The familiar change from quality to quantity may again be noted; one serves not the higher part of the self (this entails hierarchy) … but merely consumer demand. And who admires those at the top of a hierarchy of consumption? Man as a consuming animal is thus seen to be not enough.
** [[Richard Weaver]], ''Ideas Have Consequences'' (Chicago: 1948), p. 77

* Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of [[capital]], but capital solicits the aid of labor.
** [[Daniel Webster]], ''A discourse, delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In commemoration of the first settlement of New-England''.

* They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doing machines.
** [[Daniel Webster]], remarks in the Senate (March 12, 1838); ''The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster'' (1903), vol. 8, p. 177.

*America has lost more than 12 million jobs in the last six months. An estimated 12 million people have lost their employer-sponsored health insurance during the worst pandemic in a century. Tens of millions report not having enough to eat. But one month ago, tens of millions of unemployed Americans lost... a $600 weekly federal unemployment insurance benefit that Congress failed to renew... How can this happen in a democracy? This is a question that everyone who works for a living... might want to consider on this Labor Day... If the facts of this political disaster were more widely known and understood, Republicans could lose not only the presidency but also the Senate in November. After all, millions of unemployed Republicans lost most of their income as a result of what their political party...did... Republican senators repeatedly expressed worries that the unemployment benefits created a "disincentive to work." But economists have found no evidence of this; on the contrary, millions of workers who were receiving these benefits returned to work in May through July, and there are more than 11 million more workers and there are more than 11 million more workers unemployed than there are job openings.
**[[Mark Weisbrot]], [https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/times-commentary/story/2020/sep/06/weisbrot-whour-government-doing-labor/531611/ What is our government doing to labor?], [[w:Chattanooga Times Free Press|Times Free Press]], (6 September 2020)

* [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul's]] ... [[w:He who does not work, neither shall he eat|no-work-no-eat doctrine]] was directed by him only against the poor. All around him were the rich, virginally innocent of toil, and yet who were gorged to the gullet.
** [[Bouck White]], ''The Call of the Carpenter'' (1914), p. 238

* We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
** [[Oscar Wilde]], Gilbert, in ''The Critic as Artist'', pt. 2 (1891)

==Y==
* If we expand the notion of work, which is something that a [[universal basic income]] would help us do, it would begin to compensate parents and caregivers; it would begin to recognize different forms of work.
** [[Andrew Yang]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDpS5w3wUw&t=43m59s Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate], ''The Ezra Klein Show'', 43:59 (20 August 2018)

* [A universal basic income] would be one of the greatest catalysts to entrepreneurship and creativity we have ever seen, and I've worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs over the years. We have to put more Americans in position to do work that they value [[essentially|intrinsically]], instead of as a necessary means to [[survival]].
** [[Andrew Yang]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDpS5w3wUw&t=47m54s Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate], ''The Ezra Klein Show'', 47:54 (20 August 2018)

* If you care about children, then [UBI] is the best way to make household and families stronger; if you care about women and economic empowerment, this is a way to make it so that women can walk away from abusive or exploitative employers; if you care about communities of color, they would benefit much more proportionally from a thousand dollars a month than other communities, because they have lower access to various jobs and opportunities. This is the way that we can reform society in a way that actually serves all of our goals, our collective goals. And at least one study showed that if you would alleviate [[child poverty]], you would increase GDP by 700 billion dollars, because of better health outcomes, [[Education|educational]] outcomes, higher worker [[productivity]], better [[mental health]]... We have to start investing in our [[people]], intrinsically.
** [[Andrew Yang]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDpS5w3wUw&t=53m30s Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate], ''The Ezra Klein Show'', 53:30 (20 August 2018)

*We have to say "we are the citizens and owners and stakeholders of this society, we can vote ourselves a dividend, and it's up to us to build an economy that serves us, because... this economy is not designed to serve human beings. It is designed to serve [[Capitalism|capital efficiency]]. And for a long time, that also served human beings, but increasingly it's going to be that having lots of humans working for a company is irrelevant, or even negative, for [[Profit|corporate success]]. And we can see this by the fact that '''94% of the new jobs created since 2005 to 2015, were [[W:gig economy|gig economy]], temp and contractor jobs, because the employer said "you know what? I'd rather not have a full-time employee, I'd rather not pay health care benefits", and that's why so many Americans right now are in that position.''' So we have to start recognizing that the economy is changing for good, and that it's up to us, the citizens of this country, to rewrite the rules the economy to serve us. We have to make the market serve us, and not have us all be [[slaves]] to the market, because the market is not going to care one whit about [[Working class|us]] increasingly over time.
** [[Andrew Yang]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDpS5w3wUw&t=53m30s Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate], ''The Ezra Klein Show'', 53:30 (20 August 2018)

* '''It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.'''
** [[w:Robert Yates (politician)|Robert Yates]], as quoted in ''The Team Selling Solution : Creating and Managing Teams That Win'' (2003) by Steve Waterhouse, p. 51.

* Jesus once said that the dead should let to bury the dead (Luke 9:60). This shows no disrespect for the dead. It shows an awareness that there are some functions in society that will be well taken care of without Christians investing their creativity in those functions. Someone else, in meeting such needs, can make a stable living. Burying the dead is still one of the businesses in which you can make a stable living. There are other such services that we can count on society handling by itself. Leadership in government and business are among these. Let us reserve our limited creativity for functions that will not be taken care of if we do not to it.
** [[John Howard Yoder]], ''Radical Christian Discipleship'' (2012), p. 41

==Z==
* ''La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos.''
** '''The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.'''
*** [[Emiliano Zapata]], quoted as a slogan of the revolutionaries in ''Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat'' (1947) Vol. 5, p. 199, by Josephus Daniels, and specifically attributed to Zapata by Ángel Zúñiga in 1998, as quoted in ''Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy'' (2005), by John Stolle-McAllister

==''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''==
:Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 907-11.

* Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.
** Anon. In a sermon to the people of Queen-Hith. Advertised in the Daily Courant, Oct. 6, 1709. Published in Paternoster Row, London. "Coals to Newcastle," or "from Newcastle," found in Heywood—If you Know Not Me, Part II. (1606). Gaunt—Bills of Mortality. (1661). Middleton—Phœnix, Act I, scene 5. R. Thoresby—Correspondence. Letter June 29, 1682. Owls to Athens. (Athenian coins were stamped with the owl.) Aristophanes—Aves. 301. Diogenes Laertius—Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Plato, XXXII. You are importing pepper into Hindostan. From the Bustan of Sadi.

* ''Qui laborat, orat.''
** He who labours, [[Prayer|prays]].
** Attr. to [[St. Augustine]].

* When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?
** Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. See Hume, ''History of England'', Volume I, Chapter XVII. Note 8. So Adam reutte, und Eva span, Wer war da ein eddelman? (Old German saying).

* ''Qui orat et laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.''
** He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
** [[St. Bernard]], ''Ad sororem''. A similar expression is found in the works of Gregory the Great—Moral in Libr. Job, Book XVIII. Also in Pseudo-Hieron, in Jerem., Thren. III. 41. See also "What worship, for example, is there not in mere washing!" Carlyle—Past and Present, Chapter XV., referring to "Work is prayer".

* Tools were made and born were hands, Every understands.
** [[William Blake]], ''Proverbs''.

* ''Hâtez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage.''
** Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
** [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]], ''L'Art Poétique'' (1674), I, 171.

* The dog that trots about finds a bone.
** [[George Borrow]], ''Bible in Spain'', Chapter XLVII. (Cited as a gipsy saying).

* The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
** [[Berton Braley]], ''No Chance''.

* Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands.
** [[Will Carleton]], ''A Working Woman''.

* And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Essays'', Characteristics.

* It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], address at Edinburgh (1866).

* Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Past and Present'', Book II, Chapter XVII.

* All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Past and Present'', Book III, Chapter IV.

* With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.
** [[Alice Cary]], ''Work''.

* They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''{{w|Don Quixote}}'', Author's Preface. [[Edward Moore]], ''The Boy and the Rainbow''.

* Earned with the sweat of my brows.
** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''Don Quixote'' (1605-15), Part I, Book I, Chapter 4.

* ''Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.
** The rather since every man is the son of his own works.
** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''Don Quixote'' (1605-15), Book I, Chapter 4.

* Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
** [[William Ellery Channing]], ''War''.

* Each natural agent works but to this end,— To render that it works on like itself.
** [[George Chapman]], ''Bussy d'Ambois'', Act III, scene 1.

* Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done at leisure parfitly.
** [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], ''Canterbury Tales'', The Merchantes Tale, line 585.

* Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
** [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], ''Canterbury Tales'', Prologue, line 321.

* Let us take to our hearts a lesson— No lesson could braver be— From the ways of the tapestry weavers On the other side of the sea.
** [[Anson G. Chester]], ''Tapestry Weavers''.

* ''Penelopæ telam retexens.''
** Unravelling the web of Penelope.
** [[Cicero]], ''Acad. Quæst'', Book IV. 29. 95.

* ''Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Græcum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est præteritorum memoria.''
** It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant."
** [[Cicero]], ''De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum'', II. 32.

* ''Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs.''
** The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
** [[Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues]], ''Réflexions'', 200.

* A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
** [[Grover Cleveland]], letter accepting the nomination for President. Aug. 18, 1884.

* American labor, which is the [[capital]] of our workingmen.
** [[Grover Cleveland]], Annual Message. Dec., 1885.

* All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair— The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing— And Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
** [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], ''Work Without Hope'', Stanza 1.

* Their work will be shown for what it is, because the [[Day of Judgement|Day]] will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
** [[First Epistle to the Corinthians|I Corinthians]] [[w:1 Corinthians 3|3]]:13, [[New International Version]]

* Each one’s work will become obvious. For the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.

* Work thou for pleasure—paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve— Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee.
** [[Kenyon Cox]], ''Our Motto''.

* When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.
** [[William Cowper]], ''Table Talk'', line 192.

* Better to wear out than to rust out.
** [[Bishop Cumberland]], to one who urged him not to wear himself out with work. See Horne, ''Sermon on the Duty of Contending for the Truth''. Boswell, ''Tour to the Hebrides'', p. 18. Note. Said by George Whitefield, according to Southey, ''Life of Wesley'', II, p. 170. (Ed. 1858).

* Honest labour bears a lovely face.
** [[Thomas Dekker (writer)|Thomas Dekker]], ''Patient Grissell'' (1599), Act I, scene 1.

* The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else—or wait till I get through." I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along: But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong. One day I needed the Lord—needed Him myself—needed Him right away, And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do, You get somebody else or wait till I get through."
** [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], ''The Lord had a Job''.

* All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
** Quoted by [[Maria Edgeworth]], ''Henry and Lucy'', Volume II.

* 'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.
** [[Ebenezer Elliot]], ''Corn Law Rhymes''. No. 7.

* Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Quatrains'', ''Nature''.

* A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
** Mr. [[Eusden]], ''Poem'', Spoken at a Cambridge Commencement.

* Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.
** [[Frederick William Faber]], ''The Sorrowful World''.

* ''Chacun son métier; Les vaches seront bien gardées.''
** Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.
** [[Florian]], ''Le Vacher et le Garde-chasse''.

* A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
** [[Benjamin Franklin]], ''Poor Richard'' (1758), Preface.

* Handle your tools without mittens.
** [[Benjamin Franklin]], ''Poor Richard'' (1758), Preface.

* Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
** [[Benjamin Franklin]], ''Poor Richard'' (1758), Preface.

* "Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."
** [[Robert Frost]], ''Tuft of Flowers''.

* It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
** [[Thomas Fuller]], ''Pisgah'', ''Sight of Palestine'' (Ed. 1650), p. 128. Worthies, p. 302. (Ed. 1661).

* In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.
** [[John Gay]], ''Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly'', line 63.

* In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
** [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]], III. 19.

* For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
** [[Henry George]], ''Progress and Poverty'', Book VII, Chapter I.

* ''So eine Arbeit wird eigentlich nie fertig; man muss sie für fertig erklären, wenn man nach Zeit und Umstand das Möglichste getan hat.''
** Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
** [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], ''Italienische Reise'' (March 16, 1787).

* How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.
** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''The Deserted Village'' (1770), line 99.

* He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth.
** [[John Gower]], ''Confessio Amantis'' (c.1386–1393).

* ''Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.''
** I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
** Quoted by [[Grotius]] on his death bed.

* A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on.
** {{w|James Halliwell-Phillipps}}, ''Archæological Dictionary''. Quoted from an old Play. See Grose—Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar tongue. Hudson, the English singer, made popular the refrain, "Before ye could cry 'Jack Robinson.'"

* Joy to the Toiler!—him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned; Him with the woodman's axe that thrills The wilderness profound.
** [[Benjamin Hathaway]], ''Songs of the Toiler''.

* If little labour, little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
** [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]], ''Hesperides'', ''No Paines, No Gaines''.

* Haste makes waste.
** [[John Heywood]], ''Proverbs'', Part I, Chapter II.

* The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
** [[Thomas Hobbes]], ''Leviathan'', Chapter X.

* To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
** [[Homer]], ''The Iliad'', Book X, line 78. Pope's translation.

* Light is the task when many share the toil.
** [[Homer]], ''The Iliad'', Book XII, line 493. Bryant's translation.

* Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
** [[Homer]], ''The Odyssey'', Book X, line 46. Pope's translation.

* The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in [[virtue]]'s fair disguise. The work she plyed, but, studious of delay, Each following night reversed the toils of day.
** [[Homer]], ''The Odyssey'', Book XXIV, line 164. Pope's translation.

* When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run, Sat down, drank off his quart and said, "My work is done, I'll go to bed." "My work is done!" retorted Joan, "My work is done! Your constant tone, But hapless woman ne'er can say 'My work is done' till judgment day."
** [[St. John Honeywood]], ''Darby and Joan''.

* With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
** [[Thomas Hood]], ''Song of the Shirt''.

* Qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.
** He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold.
** [[Horace]], ''Ars Poetica'' (18 BC), CCCCXII.

* ''O laborum Dulce lenimen.''
** O sweet solace of labors.
** [[Horace]], ''Carmina'', I. 32. 14.

* ''In silvam ligna ferre.''
** To carry timber into the wood.
** [[Horace]], ''Satires'', I. 10. 24.

* ''Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum.''
** Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
** [[St. Jerome]].

* I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
** [[Jerome K. Jerome]], ''Three Men in a Boat'', Chapter XV.

* ''Cur quæris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?''
** Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor?
** [[Thomas á Kempis]], ''De Imitatione Christi'', II. 10. 1.

* Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen, What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.
** [[Charles Kingsley]], Letter. To Thomas Hughes (1856), inviting Hughes and Tom Taylor to go fishing. See Memoirs of Kingsley, by his wife, Chapter XV.

* For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep, And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.
** [[Charles Kingsley]], ''Three Fishers''.

* But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''Imperial Rescript''.

* The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing His desire, And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise, And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow of new skies. Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand, To wring his food from a desert nude, his foothold from the sand.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Fareloper (Interloper)''. Pub. in Century Magazine, April, 1909. First pub. in London Daily Telegraph, Jan. 1, 1909. Title given as Vortrekker in his Songs From Books.

* And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are!
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''L'Envoi'', ''In Seven Seas''.

* And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed—they know the angels are on their side; They know in them is the Grace confessed, and for them are the Mercies multiplied; They sit at the Feet, they hear the Word, they see how truly the Promise runs; They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and—the Lord He lays it on Martha's Sons!
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Sons of Mary''.

* Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down * * * To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? * * * Sabbathless Satan!
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''Work''.

* The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
** [[D. Lloyd George]], at the Conference of Paris (Jan., 1919).

* Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children—that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
** [[D. Lloyd George]], speech (Dec. 6, 1919).

* The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while l heir companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''Birds of Passage'', ''The Ladder of St. Augustine'', Stanza 10.

* Taste the joy That springs from labor.
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''Masque of Pandora'', Part VI. In the Garden. "From labor there shall come forth rest."--Longfellow—To a Child, line 162.

* Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''The Courtship of Miles Standish'' (1858), Part VIII, line 46.

* No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''A Glance Behind the Curtain'', line 202. "Horny-handed sons of toil." Popularized by Denis Kearney (Big Denny), of San Francisco.

* ''Labor est etiam ipsa voluptas.''
** Labor is itself a pleasure.
** [[Marcus Manilius]], ''Astronomica'', IV. 155.

* How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.
** Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century. British Museum.

* Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
** [[Edwin Markham]], ''The Man with the Hoe''. Written after seeing Millet's picture "Angelus".

* ''Divisum sic breve fiet opus.''
** Work divided is in that manner shortened.
** [[Martial]], ''Epigrams'' (c. 80-104 AD), Book IV. 83. 8.

* Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men.
** [[Martial]], ''Epigrams'' (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIV, Epigram 49.

* God be thank'd that the dead have left still Good undone for the living to do— Still some aim for the heart and the will And the soul of a man to pursue.
** [[Owen Meredith]] (Lord Lytton), ''Epilogue''.

* But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run.
** [[John Milton]], ''[[Comus (John Milton)|Comus]]'' (1637), line 1,012.

* I am of nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim, Man's noblest works must have one common end, And nothing crown the tablet of his name.
** [[Thomas Moore]], ''Ode upon Nothing''. Appeared in Saturday Magazine about 1836. Not in Collected Works.

* Lo! all life this truth declares, Laborare est orare; And the whole earth rings with prayers.
** [[Miss Mulock]], ''Labour is Prayer'', Stanza 4.

* Has it ever been really noted to what extent a genuinely religious life … requires a leisure class, or half-leisure—I mean leisure with a good conscience, from way back, by blood, to which the aristocratic feeling that work disgraces is not altogether alien—the feeling that it makes soul and body common. And that consequently our modern, noisy, time-consuming industriousness, proud of itself, stupidly proud, educates and prepares people, more than anything else does, precisely for “unbelief.”
** [[Nietzsche]], ''Beyond Good and Evil'', W. Kauffman, trans. (New York: 1992), § 58.

* Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.
** [[Frances S. Osgood]], ''To Labor is to Pray''.

* Labor is rest—from the sorrows that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work—and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work—thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!
** [[Frances S. Osgood]], ''To Labor is to Pray''.

* The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
** [[William Osler]], address, at Johns Hopkins University (Feb. 22, 1905).

* Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
** [[William Osler]]. The statement made by him which gave rise to the report that he had advised chloroform after sixty. Denied by him in ''Medical Record'' (March 4, 1905).

* ''Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.''
** While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
** [[Ovid]], ''Ars Amatoria'', II. 669.

* And all labour without any play, boys, Makes Jack a dull boy in the end.
** H. A. Page (pseudonym of {{w|Alexander Hay Japp}}), ''Vers de Société''.

* Many hands make light work.
** [[w:William Patten|William Patten]]{{Disambiguation needed}}. ''Expedition into Scotland'' (1547). In Arber's Reprint of 1880.

* Nothing is impossible to industry.
** [[Periander of Corinth]].

* ''Grex venalium.''
** The herd of hirelings. (A venal pack.)
** [[Plautus]], ''Cistellaria'', IV. 2. 67.

* ''Oleum et operam perdidi.''
** I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.)
** [[Plautus]], ''Pœnulus'', I. 2. 119.

* Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
** [[Plutarch]], ''Life of Pericles''.

* Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
** Psalms. CIV. 23.

* When Adam dalfe and Eve spane So spire if thou may spede, Where was then the pride of man, That nowe merres his mede?
** [[Richard Rolle de Hampole]], ''Early English Text Society Reprints'', No. 26, p. 79.

* The man who by his labour gets His bread, in independent state, Who never begs, and seldom eats, Himself can fix or change his fate.
** [[Matthew Prior]], ''The Old Gentry''.

* ''Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann gehen.''
** The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.
** [[Friedrich Schiller]], ''Fiesco'', III. 4.

* Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want can quench the eye's bright grace.
** [[Walter Scott]], ''Marmion'' (1808), Canto I, Stanza 28.

* Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigour of the traveller.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'' (c. 1595-6), Act IV, scene 3, line 305.

* Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation. Hal: 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.
** [[William Shakespeare]], [[Henry IV, Part 1|''Henry IV'', Part I]] (c. 1597), Act I, scene 2, line 116.

* Another lean, unwashed artificer.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[King John]]'' (1598), Act IV, scene 2, line 201.

* I have had my labour for my travail.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' (c. 1602), Act I, scene 1, line 72.

* The labour we delight in physics pain.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act II, scene 3, line 55.

* What work's, my countrymen, in hand? where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? speak, I pray you.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Coriolanus]]'' (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 1, line 55.

* A man who has no office to go to—I don't care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no conception.
** [[Bernard Shaw]], ''Irrational Knot'', Chapter XVIII.

* I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero…. I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
** [[Bernard Shaw]], ''Man and Superman'' (1903), Act III.

* A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
** [[Bernard Shaw]], ''Unsocial Socialist'', Chapter V.

* Many faint with toil, That few may know the cares and woe of sloth.
** [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], ''Queen Mab'' (1813), Canto III.

* How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!
** [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], ''Queen Mab'' (1813), Part V, Stanza 9.

* Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
** [[Syrus]], ''Maxims''. 357.

** Labour of love.
** [[First Epistle to the Thessalonians|I Thessalonians]]. I. 3.

* ''Ne laterum laves.''
** Do not wash bricks. (Waste your labor).
** [[Terence]], ''Phormio'', I, IV. 9. A Greek proverb.

* With starving labor pampering idle waste; To tear at pleasure the defected land.
** [[James Thomson (poet)|James Thomson]], Liberty, Part IV, line 1,160.

* The labourer is worthy of his reward.
** [[First Epistle to Timothy|I Timothy]]. V. 18; Luke. X. 7. (hire).

* A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.
** [[W:Second Epistle to Timothy|II Timothy]], II. 15.

* Clamorous pauperism feasteth While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
** [[Martin Tupper]], ''Of Discretion''.

* Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
** [[Henry Van Dyke]], ''Toiling of Felix'', last line.

* Labor omnia vincit improbus.
** Stubborn labor conquers everything.
** [[Virgil]], ''Georgics'' (c. 29 BC), I. 145.

* Work spares us from three [[evils]]: [[boredom]], '''vice''' and [[Poverty|need]].
** [[Voltaire]],''Candide, ou l'Optimisme'' (1759) Chapter 30. Conclusion.

* Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest.
** [[William Watson]], ''New National Anthem''.

* But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in, And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve, Then is the day of crumbling not far off.
** [[William Watson]], ''The Mother of Doom'' (August 28, 1919).

* In books, or work, or healthful play.
** [[Isaac Watts]], ''Divine Songs'', XX.

* Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of [[capital]], but capital solicits the aid of labor.
** [[Daniel Webster]], speech, April, 1824.

* There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
** [[H. G. Wells]], ''Outline of History'', Chapter XLI. Par. 4.

* Ah, little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time.
** [[Walt Whitman]], ''Song of the Exposition'', I.

* Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.
** [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], ''The Curse of the Charter-Breakers'', Stanza 21.

* ''Ah vitam perdidi operse nihil agendo.''
** Ah, my life is lost in laboriously doing nothing.
** [[Josiah Woodward]], ''Fair Warnings to a Careless World'', p. 97. Ed. 1736, quoting Merick Casaubon.

==''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989)==
* The day is short, the labor long, the workers are idle, and reward is great, and the Master is urgent.
** [[Aboth]], 2:15, saying of Rabbi Tarfon. Pirkay Avot, often known in English as the "Chapters of the Fathers", is the best known of the books of the Mishnah, first part of the Talmud. Translations vary; that above is from A Treasury of Jewish Quotations, ed. Joseph L. Baron, p. 277 (1956).

* Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
** Attributed to Sir [[James Matthew Barrie]], ''The International Encyclopedia of Quotations'', comp. John P. Bradley, Leo F. Daniels, and Thomas C. Jones, p. 781 (1978). Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989).

* The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,—honest work, which you intend getting done.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], inaugural address as rector of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2, 1866.—Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 6 (vol. 29 of The Works of Thomas Carlyle), p. 455 (1899, reprinted 1969).

* Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.
** [[Calvin Coolidge]], speech to the Massachusetts state Senate on being elected its president, Boston, Massachusetts, January 7, 1914.—Coolidge, Have Faith in Massachusetts, p. 7–8 (1919).

* Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
** [[Eric Hoffer]], "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer", Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,'" The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 55.

* If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him! If he pays you [[wages]] that supply you your bread and butter, work for him—speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], "Get Out or Get in Line", Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard, p. 59–60 (1928).

* In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for man's interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nation's life.
** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], Manpower Report of the President, March 5, 1965. ''Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965'', book 1, p. 262.

* I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
** Attributed to [[Helen Keller]], Charles L. Wallis, The Treasure Chest, p. 240 (1983). Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989).

* As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
** Sir [[Walter Scott]], letter to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, December 30, 1808.—John Gibson Lockhart, The Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol. 3, p. 144 (1902, reprinted 1983). Another use of this proverb was attributed, in an obituary, to [[[[Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet|Sir Alexander Cockburn]], Lord Chief Justice of England. "He subsequently acquired a large practice in London in railway and election cases. Although he did his best for his clients, he was careful that they should do their duty by him, and the story is told that on one occasion, when an election committee met, Mr. Cockburn, the counsel for one of the parties, was absent because his fee had not accompanied the brief and the only message left was that he had gone to the Derby, with the remark that 'a man might as well play for nothing as work for nothing.'" ''Canada Law Journal'', January 1, 1881, p. 11.

* ''[[w:Workers of the world, unite!|Workers of the world, unite!]]''
** The Communist Manifesto (1848), by [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]
** Russian: ''Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes!'' The phrase later appeared in the State Emblem of the Soviet Union, starting in 1919.

* You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.
** Captain [[John Smith]], advice to his company when he was governor of Jamestown Colony, Virginia, 1608.—Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles, vol. 1, chapter 10, p. 174 (1907). The preceding paragraph notes that "six houres each day was spent in worke, the rest in Pastime and merry exercises, but the untowardnesse of the greatest number caused the President [to] advise as followeth".

==''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904)==
: Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, ''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 164-165.

* The power of arbitrarily dismissing those in one's employ, is a power exercised in a great degree over a vast number of persons in this country, without their having any redress at law. Put the case of a day labourer or ordinary servant. You may refuse to give him a character, and he has no redress. If you give him a false character, he has the means of redress, but that is of a very different kind. And this is the law of the land.
** Shadwell, V.-C, ''Ranger v. Great Western Rail. Co.'' (1838), 2 Jur. (0. S.) 789.

* The possession of the servant is the possession of the master.
** Hide, C.J., ''King v. Burgess'' (1663), Ray. (Sir Thos.) Rep. 85.

* Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.
** [[Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon|Lord Kenyon]], C.J., ''The King v. Inhabitants of St. Paul's'', Bedford (1797), 6 T. R. 454.

==''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'' (1895)==
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, ''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'' (1895).

* No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will.
** [[Henry Ward Beecher]], p. 368.

* Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
** [[Henry Ward Beecher]], p. 438.

* Blessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work, and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], p. 367.

* Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled, And care is light, for Thou hast cared; Let not our works with self be soiled, Nor in unsimple ways ensnared. Through life's long day and death's dark night, O gentle Jesus! be our light.
** [[Frederick William Faber]], p. 369.

* No man is base who does a true work; for true action is the highest being. No man is miserable that does a true work; for right action is the highest happiness. No man is isolated that does a true work; for useful action is the highest harmony — it is the highest harmony with nature and with souls — it is living association with men — and it is practical fellowship with God.
** [[Henry Giles]], p. 369.

* Man must work. That is certain as the sun. But he may work grudgingly, or he may work gratefully; he may work as a man, or he may work as a machine. He cannot always choose his work, but he can do it in a generous temper, and with an up-looking heart. There is no work so rude, that he may not exalt it; there is no work so impassive, that he may not breathe a soul into it; there is no work so dull, that he may not enliven it.
** [[Henry Giles]], p. 369.

* A man's labors must pass like the sunrises and sunsets of the world. The next thing, not the last, must be his care.
** [[George MacDonald]], p. 369.

* Labor is not, as some have erroneously supposed, a penal clause of the original curse. There was labor, bright, healthful, unfatiguing, in unfallen Paradise. By sin, labor became drudgery — the earth was restrained from her spontaneous fertility, and the strong arm of the husbandman was required, not to develop, but to "subdue" it. But labor in itself is noble, and is necessary for the ripe unfolding of the highest life.
** [[William Morley Punshon]], p. 367.

* Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.
** [[William Morley Punshon]], p. 367.

* God does not give excellence to men but as the reward of labor.
** Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]], p. 367.

* Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.
** Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]], p. 367.

* The [[Virtue|virtues]], like the body,become strong more by labor than by nourishment.
** [[Jean Paul]], p. 368.

==See also==
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*[[Basic income]] (Universal basice income)
* [[Capitalism]]
*[[Career]]
* [[Employment]]
* [[Exploitation]]
* [[Division of labor]]
*[[Greed]]
* [[General strike]]
*[[Human rights]]
* [[Labour movement|Labor movement]]
*[[Oligarchy]]
* [[Retirement]]
* [[Self respect]]
* [[Servility]]
* [[Scarcity]]
* [[Slavery]]
* [[Vocation]]
* [[Wage]]
* [[Wage slavery]]
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[[File:Lewis Hine Power house mechanic working on steam pump.jpg|thumb|Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the [[money]] it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. ~ [[Mortimer Adler]]]]
[[File:Parc de Versailles, Rond-Point des Philosophes, Apollonius, Barthélemy de Mélo inv1850n°9449 02.jpg|thumb|[[Plato]] said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself. ~ [[Apollonius of Tyana]]]]

'''{{w|Work}}''' or labor is intentional activity people perform to support themselves, others, or the needs and wants of a wider community. Work is fundamental to all societies, but can vary widely within and between them, from gathering in natural resources by hand, to operating complex technologies that substitute for physical or even mental effort by many human beings. '''{{w|Labor}}''' is [[effort]] expended on a [[task]].

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* No single event has influenced the history of labor in Illinois, the United States, and even the world, more than the Chicago Haymarket Affair. It began with a rally on May 4, 1886, but the consequences are still being felt today. Although the rally is included in American history textbooks, very few present the event accurately or point out its significance.
** William J. Adelman "The Haymarket Affair". illinoislaborhistory.org. Retrieved March 19, 2014.

* '''Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.'''
** [[Mortimer Adler]], ''A Vision of the Future : Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society'' (1984).

*Since the heart is an accumulator and transmuter of various energies, there must be more favorable conditions for arousing and attracting these energies. The most fundamental condition is work, mental as well as physical. In the motion of work, energies are gathered from space; but one must understand work as a natural process that enriches life. Thus, every kind of work is a [[Blessings|blessing]], while the vagaries of [[Idleness|inaction]] are extremely harmful in a cosmic sense. Love for the endlessness of labor is in itself an initiation of considerable degree; it prepares you for the conquest of [[time]]. Being in a condition where you have conquered [[time]] guarantees you a place in the Subtle World, where work is an unavoidable condition, just as it is in the body. A complaint about having to work can only come from a slave of the body.
**[[Agni Yoga]], ''Heart'', 79. (1932)

* I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
** [[Woody Allen]], as quoted in ''Silent Strength'' (1990) by Lloyd John Ogilvie, p. 111.

* Zeal is proper for a task, time-wasting is taboo; anyone who wastes time on his task is neglecting his task.
** [[Anonymous]], ''[http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr513.htm The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe]'' ({{w|Eduba}} C), late third or early second millennium BCE, at {{w|The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature}}.

* The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
** [[Núria Añó]], in the short story ''2066. Beginning the age of correction''.

* I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
** [[Susan B. Anthony]], ''The Revolution'', Women's Suffrage Newspaper (Oct. 8, 1868)

* [[Plato]] said that [[virtue]] has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
** [[Apollonius of Tyana]], letter to Euphrates, ''Epp. Apoll.'' 15

* Our characters are the result of our conduct.
** [[Aristotle]], ''Nicomachean Ethics'', Book 3, chapter 5, section 12 (c. 335 BC)

==B==
* And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. '''Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.'''"
** [[Richard Bach]], ''Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'' (1977).

* The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
** [[Richard Bach]], ''Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'' (1977).

* You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
** [[Richard Bach]], ''Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'' (1977).

* It is a strange desire which men have, to seek power and lose liberty.
** [[Francis Bacon]], ''Ornamenta Rationalia''.

* Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done, Then bring your gauges.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1857), Book V.

* '''Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.'''
** [[J. M. Barrie]], as quoted in ''The new dictionary of thoughts: a Cyclopedia of Quotations'' (1930) edited by [[Tryon Edwards]], C. N. Catrevas, Jonathan Edwards, and Ralph Emerson Browns.

* Ninety-five percent of all jobs suck, Jones. That’s why people get paid to do them.
** [[Max Barry]], ''[[w:Company (novel)|Company]]'' (2006), {{ISBN|0-385-51439-5}}, p. 112

* There’s no requirement that jobs be meaningful, Jones. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.
** [[Max Barry]], ''[[w:Company (novel)|Company]]'' (2006), {{ISBN|0-385-51439-5}}, p. 334

* '''Unless we abandon the work ethic of [[the past|another era]], ... lives may be wasted because of blind insistence that everyone must have a "job" even if the job is useless.'''
** [[w:Pierre Berton|Pierre Berton]], ''The Smug Minority'' (1968)

* '''You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.'''
** {{w|Warren Beatty}}, as quoted in ''The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why The Left Is Right'' (2004) by William Martin, p. 213.

* Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
** [[Henry Ward Beecher]], as quoted in ''The Teachers' Institute'', Vol. 18, No. 1 (September 1895), p. 16.

* When God wanted sponges and oysters, He made them and put one on a rock and the other in the mud. When He made man, He did not make him to be a sponge or an oyster; He made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and vital blood, and a place to use them, and He said to him, Go Work.
** [[Henry Ward Beecher]], ''Royal Truths'' (1862), p. 21.

*LABOR, ''n.'' One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
** [[Ambrose Bierce]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=CboOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA213 ''The Cynic's Word Book''] (1906); republished as ''The Devil's Dictionary'' (1911).

* '''No one should ever work. ''' Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all the evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. '''In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.''' That doesn't mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a new way of life based on play; in other words, a ''ludic'' revolution. By "play" I mean also festivity, creativity, conviviality, commensality, and maybe even art. There is more to play than child's play, as worthy as that is. I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. Play isn't passive.
**[[Bob Black]], ''The Abolition of Work''

*Wealth is the offspring of intelligence and of work, the soul and the life of humanity. But these two forces can act only with the help of a passive element, the soil, which they make productive by their combined efforts.It would seem, therefore, that this indispensable instrument should belong to all men.
**[[w:Louis Blanc|Louis Blanc]], "The Man Who Makes the Soup Should Get to Eat It", (1834).

* Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
** [[w:David Bly|David Bly]], as quoted in ''Peace of Mind : Daily Meditations for Easing Stress'' (1995) by Amy Dean, p. 187.

* The reign of capital, which denies our very existence as human beings and reduces us to ‘things’, seems very serious, methodical and disciplined. But its possessive paroxysm, its ethical rigour, its obsession with ‘doing’ all hide a great illusion: the total emptiness of the commodity spectacle, the uselessness of indefinite accumulation and the absurdity of [[exploitation]]. So the great seriousness of the world of work and productivity hides a total lack of seriousness.
** [[Alfredo M. Bonanno]], ''Armed Joy'' (1977)

* Work to me is a sacred thing.
** [[w:Margaret Bourke-White|Margaret Bourke-White]], ''Portrait of Myself'' (1963), Ch. 30.

* Researchers at the University of Oxford [recently] published the results of a survey of the world’s best artificial intelligence experts, who predicted that there was a 50 percent chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks within 45 years...the immediate concern for most people is that they will be losing their jobs... That helps explain the recent interest in a [[universal basic income|universal basic income (UBI)]] – a sum of money distributed equally to everyone.
** [[Ellen Brown]] in [https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-to-fund-a-universal-basic-income-without-increasing-taxes-or-inflation/5611947 How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation, Global Research''] (4 October 2017)

* By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our ringers, dull our sight, Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, To put on when you're weary—or a stool To tumble over and vex you * * * curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion where you lean And sleep, and dream of something we are not, But would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this * * * that, after all, we are paid The worth of our work, perhaps.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1856), Book I, line 465.

* Get leave to work In this world,—'tis the best you get at all.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1856), Book III, line 164.

* Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1856), Book V, line 78.

* Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
** [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], ''Aurora Leigh'' (1856), Book VIII, line 784.

* When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick. He overreaches himself, the work denies itself to him, the incarnation of the spirit no longer takes place, and to avoid the threat of senselessness he snatches after empty power. This sickness casts the genius on to the same level as those hysterical figures who, being by nature without power, slave for power, in order that they may enjoy the illusion that they are inwardly powerful, and who in this striving for power cannot let a pause intervene, since a pause would bring with it the possibility of self-reflection and self-reflection would bring collapse.
** [[Martin Buber]], ''Between Man and Man'' (1965), p. 151.

* … productivity gains frequently cause upheaval: Both [[capital]] and labor can pay a terrible price when innovation or new efficiencies upend their worlds. We need shed no tears for the capitalists (whether they be private owners or an army of public shareholders). It’s their job to take care of themselves. ... A long-employed worker faces a different equation. When innovation and the market system interact to produce efficiencies, many workers may be rendered unnecessary, their talents obsolete. Some can find decent employment elsewhere; for others, that is not an option. … The answer in such disruptions is not the restraining or outlawing of actions that increase productivity. Americans would not be living nearly as well as we do if we had mandated that 11 million people should forever be employed in farming. The solution, rather, is a variety of safety nets aimed at providing a decent life for those who are willing to work but find their specific talents judged of small value because of market forces. (I personally favor a reformed and expanded Earned Income Tax Credit that would try to make sure America works for those willing to work.) The price of achieving ever-increasing prosperity for the great majority of Americans should not be penury for the unfortunate.
** [[Warren Buffett]], {{cite web|title=Chairman's Letter - 2015|website=Berkshire Hathaway|date=February 27, 2016|url=https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2015ltr.pdf}}

*How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
**[[Charles Bukowski]], ''Factotum'' (1975).

* Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.
**[[Charles Bukowski]], ''Post Office'' (1971)

* And still be doing, never done.
** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''Hudibras'', Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 204.

* Such hath it been—shall be—beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.
** [[Lord Byron]], ''The Corsair'' (1814), Canto I, Stanza 8.
[[File:Productivity and wages in the United States.svg|right|thumb|Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal — to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification. ~ [[Voltairine de Cleyre]].]]
[[File:Ccoolidge.jpeg|right|thumb|Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation. ~ [[Calvin Coolidge]]]]
[[File:Auschwitz entrance.JPG|thumb|Work makes one free. ~ [[w:Lorenz Diefenbach|Lorenz Diefenbach]]]]
[[File:Edison-at home in Ft. Myers Florida 1914 detail LC-LC-USZ62-131044, adjusted.jpg|thumb|Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. ~ [[Thomas Edison]]]]
[[File:Einstein gyro gravity probe b.jpg|thumb|Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. ~ [[Albert Einstein]]]]
[[File:Einstein 1921 by F Schmutzer - restoration.jpg|thumb|If A equals success, then the formula is: A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. ~ [[Albert Einstein]]]]
[[File:Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the sea of fog.jpg|thumb|The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]]]
[[File:Friedrich Engels.jpg|thumb|The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class. ~ [[Friedrich Engels]]]]
[[File:PikiWiki Israel 3290 Picking Cotton.jpg|thumb|Men work together, wether they work together or apart. ~ [[Robert Frost]]]]
[[File:Ansel Adams - Farm workers and Mt. Williamson.jpg|thumb|The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ~ [[Robert Frost]]]]
[[File:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - Goethe in der roemischen Campagna.jpg|thumb|right|A man who works at another’s will, not for his own [[passion]] or his own [[need]], but for [[money]] or [[honor]], is always a [[fool]]. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]]]
[[File:António Guterres 2012.jpg|thumb|The very nature of work will [[change]]. The governments may have to consider stronger social safety nets, and eventually [[Basic income|universal basic income.]] ~ [[António Guterres]]]]

[[File:Da Vinci Vitruve Luc Viatour.jpg |thumb|One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~ [[Elbert Hubbard]]]]

[[File:Kierkegaard 1902 by Luplau Janssen.jpg|thumb|To work for a living certainly cannot be the meaning of life, since it is indeed a contradiction that the continual production of the conditions is supposed to be the answer to the question of the meaning of that which is conditional upon their production. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]]]]

==C==
* Work — other people's work — is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.
** {{w|Louis J. Camuti}}, as quoted in ''On the Art of Business'' (2004) by James H Merkel and Abdul Wahad Al-Falaij, p. 257.

* Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind — honest work, which you intend getting done.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''On the Choice of Books : The Inaugural Address of Thomas Carlyle, Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh'' (1866).

* There's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?
** [[Jim Carrey]], as quoted in ''A Touch of Class'' (2003) by Carol Vanderheyden, p. 70.

* Every one is the son of his own works.
** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''Don Quixote'' (1605-15), Part I, Book IV, Chapter XX.

* Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
** [[William Ellery Channing]], ''War'' (1816).

* A rational, moral being cannot, without infinite wrong, be converted into a mere instrument of others’ gratification. He is necessarily an end, not a means. A mind, in which are sown the seeds of wisdom, disinterestedness, firmness of purpose, and piety, is worth more than all the outward material interests of a world. It exists for itself, for its own perfection, and must not be enslaved to its own or others’ animal wants.
** [[William Ellery Channing]], “Self-Culture” (1838)

* The consistent [[anarchist]], then, should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of [[capital]] by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.
**[[Noam Chomsky]], ''Notes On Anarchism'' (1970).

* Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.
** {{w|George S. Clason}}, ''The Richest Man in Babylon'' (1930).

* Work is the Rent we pay for our time on Earth.
** {{w|Tubby Clayton}}, Anglican clergyman, as quoted by [[David Frost]] in an interview in ''Saga'' magazine (January 2009).

*Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal — to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification.
**[[Voltairine de Cleyre]], "Direct Action" (1912), in ''Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius'', SUNY Press, 10 February 2005, p. [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=z82d_8aEI4oC&pg=PA280 280].

* If you work hard, you do your part, you should be able to give your children all the opportunities they deserve. That is the basic bargain of America.
** [[Hillary Clinton]], speech in {{w|Warren, Michigan}}. Transcript by ''{{w|Newsweek}}'' [http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-full-transcript-economic-speech-489602] (August 11, 2016)

* I believe that every employee, from the CEO suite to the factory floor, contributes to a business’ success, so everybody should share in the rewards – especially those putting in long hours for little pay.
** [[Hillary Clinton]], speech in {{w|Warren, Michigan}}. Transcript by ''{{w|Newsweek}}'' [http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-full-transcript-economic-speech-489602] (August 11, 2016)

==D==
* Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.
** [[Robertson Davies|Robertson Davies]], ''The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks'' (1947).

* I spent a busy day today, but got little done. This is because I am at last becoming perfect in the art of seeming busy, even when very little is going on in my head or under my hands. This is an art which every man learns, if he does not intend to work himself to death.
** [[Robertson Davies|Robertson Davies]], ''The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks'' (1949).

* '''To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.'''
** [[Bette Davis]], ''The Lonely Life : An Autobiography'' (1962).

* Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
** [[Bette Davis]], as quoted in ''The Quotable Woman, 1800-1975'' (1977) by Elaine Partnow, p. 315.

* [[Working class in the United States|Workingmen]] of the country ... toil for a pittance at the pleasure of their masters and are bludgeoned, jailed or shot when they protest — this is the central, controlling, vital issue of the hour, and neither of the [[Two-party system|old party]] platforms has a word or even a hint about it.
** [[Eugene V. Debs]], "Outlook for Socialism in the United States" (1900)

* ''[[w:Arbeit macht frei|Arbeit macht frei]]''.
** '''Work makes (one) free.'''
*** Title of a 1873 novel by [[w:Lorenz Diefenbach|Lorenz Diefenbach]], which became an infamous slogan above the gates of several Nazi concentration camps.

* The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.
** [[Patrick Dixon]], ''Building a Better Business'' (2005) p. 182.

==E==
* All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
** [[Ecclesiastes]] 1:8, [[King James Version]]

* For what profit comes to mortals from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which they toil under the sun? Every day sorrow and grief are their occupation; even at night their hearts are not at rest. This also is vanity.
** [[Ecclesiastes]] 2:22-23 (New American Bible Revised Edition)

* The grinders cease because they are few.
** [[Ecclesiastes]] 12:3, [[New International Version]]

* Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
** [[Thomas Edison]], as quoted in ''An Enemy Called Average'' (1990) by John L. Mason, p. 55.

* Being busy does not always mean real work.''' The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. '''Seeming to do is not doing.'''
** [[Thomas Edison]], as quoted in ''Ford Times'', Vol. 6, (1912), p. 136.

* I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it. An hardwork can make you to have a successfull future.There can be many fails maybe in our life but have to ready to face it for a hardworked work.
** [[Thomas Edison]], diary entry quoted in ''Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother'' (2007) by Scott Teel, p. 12.

* When modern men and women insist that they feel completely free in their work, they are in a sense telling the truth, for the triumph of conformity lies in the crushing of all resistance, all experience of conflict.
** [[David Edwards]], ''Burning All Illusions'' (Boston: 1996), p. 36.

* Every individual should have the opportunity to develop the gifts which may be latent in him. Alone in that way can the individual obtain the satisfaction to which he is justly entitled; and alone in that way can the community achieve its richest flowering. For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
** [[Albert Einstein]], as quoted in ''Educational Trends : Journal of Research and Interpretation'' (June 1936), p. 32.

* If A equals success, then the formula is: A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
** [[Albert Einstein]], as quoted in ''Kiplinger's Personal Finance'', Vol. 11, No. 7 (July 1957), p. 48

* '''The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.'''
** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], "Nominalist and Realist", ''Essays: Second Series'' (1844).

* The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class.
** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|The Condition of the Working Class in England}}'' (1845)

* There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.
** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847)

* The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.
** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847)

* The costs of production of labor consist of precisely the quantity of means of subsistence necessary to enable the worker to continue working, and to prevent the working class from dying out. The worker will therefore get no more for his labor than is necessary for this purpose; the price of labor, or the wage, will, in other words, be the lowest, the minimum, required for the maintenance of life.
** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847)

* Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."
** [[Barbara Ehrenreich]], "Goodbye to the Work Ethic" (1988), in ''The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed'' (1991).

* He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole life complete and perfect. Hence he has no longer any need of things which are not to be won save by labor and conflict.
** [[Epicurus]], “Principal Doctrines,” 21

==F==
* Every employee in an undertaking, then, takes a larger or smaller share in the work of administration, and has, therefore, to use and display his administrative faculties. This is why we often see men, who are specially gifted, gradually rise from the lowest to the highest level of the industrial hierarchy, although they have only had an elementary education. But young men, who begin practical work as engineers soon after leaving industrial schools, are in a particularly good position both for learning administration and for showing their ability in this direction, for in administration, as in all other branches of industrial activity, a man’s work is judged by its results.
** [[Henri Fayol]], (1900) ''Henri Fayol addressed his colleagues in the mineral industry 23 June 1900''.

* The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
** [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], "Amory Blaine" in ''This Side of Paradise'' (1920) Bk. 2, Ch. 5.

* It's a living.
** Animals, [[The Flintstones]], created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

*Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
**[[E. M. Forster]], ''Commonplace Book'', p. 219 (1960).

* '''I urge you to work together in promoting a [[true]], worldwide [[ethical]] mobilization which, beyond [[all]] differences of [[religious]] or [[political]] convictions, will spread and put into practice a shared [[ideal]] of fraternity and solidarity, especially with regard to the poorest and those most excluded.'''
** [[Pope Francis]], as quoted in an [http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/may/documents/papa-francesco_20140509_consiglio-nazioni-unite.html address to the UN system chief executives board for coordination, Consistory Hall (9 May 2014)].

* People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
** Allan Fromme, as quoted in [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0DB1538F931A35751C0A9659C8B63 "Allan Fromme, Psychologist And Writer, 87", ''The New York Times'' (2 February 2003) ]

* “'''Men work together''',” I told him from the [[heart]], “'''Whether they work together or apart.'''”
** [[Robert Frost]], [http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section2.rhtml The Tuft of Flowers] (1915)

* '''The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.'''
** [[Robert Frost]], as quoted in ''The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom'' (1958) edited by Herbert Victor Prochnow.

==G==
* I need to wake out of my stupor and begin work. ...my body stands frozen in a snow packed tundra waiting for rescue. It may take a few days before that happens, since my mind is on vacation in Alberta right now.
** [[Michael Scott Gallegos]], "Alligator" (Nov 5, 2011)

* '''My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.'''
** [[Indira Gandhi]], as quoted in ''Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success'' (1996) by Joan Steinau Lester, p. 76.

* [[God]] designed man for work--work for his own sustenance; he who does not work shall not eat.
** ''{{w|Genesis Rabbah}} 14'', ''[http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/tmm07.htm Tales and Maxims from the Midrash]'' by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 67

* For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
** [[Henry George]], ''Progress and Poverty'' (1879), Book VII, Ch. 1.

* ''Ein Mensch, der um anderer willen, ohne dass es seine eigene Leidenschaft, sein eigenes Bedürfnis ist, sich um Geld oder Ehre oder sonst etwas abarbeitet, ist immer ein Tor''.
* A man who works at another’s will, not for his own passion or his own need, but for money or honor, is always a [[fool]].
** [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], ''Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers'' (''The Sorrows of Young Werther''), p. 46

* Insofar as our culture conventionally construes technical, scientific, and professional roles as those that obligate men to ignore all but the technical implications of their work, the very social structure itself is inherently [[pathogenic]]. The social function of such a segmented role structure is akin to that of the [[Unconscious|reflexive]] [[obedience]] induced by [[military]] training. The function of such a technical role structure, as of military discipline, is to [[Eliminate|sever]] the normal [[Morality|moral sensibilities]] and [[responsibilities]] of civilians and soldiers and to enable them to be used as [[Zombies|deployables]], willing to pursue practically any objective. In the last analysis, such arrangements produce an unthinking readiness to [[kill]] or to hurt others - or to produce things that do so - on order.
** [[Alvin Ward Gouldner]], ''The Coming Crisis in Sociology'' (1970), p. 13

* Nothing is more laborious for you than not to labor at all—in other words, to despise everything that gives rise to our labors, which means all that is subject to [[change]].
** [[Guigo I]], ''The Meditations of Guigo I, Prior of the Charterhouse'', as translated by A. Gordon Mursell (1995), #50

* The very nature of work will [[change]]. The governments may have to consider stronger social safety nets, and eventually [[universal basic income]].
** [[António Guterres]], [http://webtv.un.org/watch/secretary-general-addresses-general-debate-73rd-session/5839802857001/ ''Secretary-General Addresses General Debate, 73rd Session''] of the General Assembly of the UN, 15:25, (25 September 2018)

==H==
* If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
** [[Bill Haywood]], ''Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood'' (1983) by Peter Carlson, p. 146
** Paraphrased variant: For every man who gets a dollar he didn't sweat for, someone else sweated to produce a dollar he never received.

* Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.
** [[Heinrich Heine]], ''History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany'', Vol. III (1834).

* One of the curious features of [[Impressionism]]... was the casualness of their work. ...[T]he painters gave the impression of hastily concocted canvases... more... inspiration than... patient labor. The effortless stroke of genius became a leading measure of artistic quality, partly because it denied mere "work." ..."Art for art's sake" was an invention of the [[Romanticism|romantic]] era in France. ...They looked towards a mythical past in which the "natural" person could cultivate self-expression, free of the claims of social utility. This fantasized past... had an anti-industrial character. ...Work was despised because the growing industrial revolution was separating it from inventiveness, originality, and individualism. ...The inventiveness and spontaneity that independent artists sought were... opposed to industrial work,... products (with which they associated academic art) and for many... cities... Women and men held parasols and croquet mallets, not sickles and hoes, and dahlias were more attractive than cabbages. (It is true that Pissarro retained much of the outlook of Barbizon artists...) The work ethic implicit in [[Barbizon school|Barbizon]] art... was done away with by the impressionists. The suburb and the coastal resort, not the farm, is the landscape of [[Berthe Morisot|Morisot]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Édouard Manet|Manet]], and [[Claude Monet|Monet]]. ...The Impressionists ...joined other middle-class vacationers (except for [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]] and [[Camille Pissarro|Pissarro]], so little in sympathy with Parisian society).
** Robert L. Herbert, ''Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society'' (1988) p. 304-306.

* If little labour, little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
** [[Robert Herrick]], ''Hesperides'' (1648), "No Paines, No Gaines".

* The economic system denies the right of the sincerest and most sympathetic to keep their hands out of the blood of their brothers. We may not go to our rest at night, or waken to our work in the morning, without bearing the burden of the communal guilt; without being ourselves creators and causes of the wrongs we seek to bear away. At every step, when we would do good, evil is present with us, and exacts its tribute from the very citadel of the soul. ... If we stay at our posts, in order that we may [[change]] the system, we are on the backs of our brothers; if we desert our posts, in order that we may get off our brothers' backs, we take bread from their mouths, from the mouths of their children, and add to the army of the workless and hopeless.
** [[George D. Herron]], ''Between Caesar and Jesus'' (1899) pp. 24-25

* [[Hillel the Elder|Hillel]] stood in the gate of Jerusalem one day and saw the people on their way to work. "How much," he asked, "will you earn today?" One said: "A {{w|denarius}}"; the second: "Two denarii" "What will you do with the money?" he inquired. "We will provide for the necessities of life." Then he said to them: "Would you not rather come and make the Torah your possession, that you may possess both this world and the world to come?"
** ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', Volume 6, p. 399

* Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
** [[Homer]], ''Odyssey'' (c. 7th century BC); tr. [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[The Odyssey of Homer (Alexander Pope)|The Odyssey of Homer]]'' (1725), Book X, line 46.

* To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
** [[Homer]], ''Iliad'' (c. 7th century BC); tr. [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[The Iliad of Homer (Alexander Pope)|The Iliad of Homer]]'' (1715–1720), Book X, Line 78.

* I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], "Credo", as published in ''A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things'' (1901), p. 6.

* One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], ''A Thousand and One Epigrams'' (1911).

* If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], ''The Note Book'' (1927).

* The highest reward that God gives us for good work, is the ability to do better work.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], ''The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard'' (1927), p. 125.

==I==
* I've had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctor—to develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
** [[Henrik Ibsen]], ''An Enemy of the People'', English adaptation by Max Faber (1970), act II, p. 28. Mr. Hovstad is speaking.
[[File:Morocco Africa Flickr Rosino December 2005 83965745.jpg|thumb|A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. ~ [[L. P. Jacks]]]]
==J==
* The philosopher bent on the enlargement of experience perceives at once that his work cannot be done, cannot even be commenced, until he has cleared away the heaps of verbal detritus under which the bedrocks of experience lie buried.
** [[L. P. Jacks]], ''The Usurpation Of Language'' (1910).

* We are the children of an age which spends the best energies of its life in the discussion of life, in an atmosphere of deferred fulfillment, continually postponing the act of living to the work of mentally preparing to live.
** [[L. P. Jacks]], ''The Usurpation Of Language'' (1910).

* '''A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.''' He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. '''To himself, he always appears to be doing both.'''
** [[L. P. Jacks]], ''Education through Recreation'' (1932), p. 1.

* We do 30 to 40 percent of the nation's work for 1 percent of the returns, and a huge pool of us is always kept unemployed to reduce the value of the labor of those who are.
** [[George L. Jackson]], ''Blood in My Eye'' (1971), p. 24

* It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
** [[Jerome K. Jerome]], English author. ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1889), Ch. 15.

* Work and play they're never okay to mix.
** [[Jimmy Eat World]] taken from their song "[[w: Work (Jimmy Eat World song)|Work]]".

* The error of early capitalism can be repeated wherever man is in a way treated on the same level as the whole complex of the material means of production, as an instrument and not in accordance with the true dignity of his work.
** [[Pope John Paul II]], ''Laborem Exercens''

==K==
* [[Jesus]] ... combines all duties (1) in one universal rule (which includes within itself both the inner and the outer moral relations of men), namely: Perform your [[duty]] for no motive other than unconditioned esteem for duty itself, i.e., [[Love of God|love God]] (the Legislator of all duties) above all else; and (2) in a particular rule, that, namely, which concerns man’s external relation to other men as universal duty: [[Great Commandment|Love every one as yourself]], i.e., further his welfare from [[good-will]] that is immediate and not derived from motives of [[greed|self-advantage]]. These commands are not mere laws of [[virtue]] but precepts of [[holiness]] which we ought to pursue, and the very pursuit of them is called virtue.
** [[Immanuel Kant]], ''Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone'', Book IV, Part 1, Section 1, “The Christian religion as a natural religion”

* It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me.
** [[Immanuel Kant]], "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)

* To work for a living certainly cannot be the meaning of life, since it is indeed a contradiction that the continual production of the conditions is supposed to be the answer to the question of the meaning of that which is conditional upon their production.
**[[Søren Kierkegaard]], ''Either-Or'', H. Hong, trans. (1987), part 1 (I 15), p. 31.

* In the last analysis, what is the significance of life? If we divide mankind into two great classes, we may say that one works for a living, the other does not need to. But working for a living cannot be the meaning of life, since it would be a contradiction to say that the perpetual production of the conditions for subsistence is an answer to the question about its significance which, by the help of this, must be conditioned. The lives of the other class have in general no other significance than that they consume the conditions of subsistence. And to say that the significance of life is death, seems again a contradiction.
** [[Søren Kierkegaard]] ''Either/Or Part I'', Swenson p. 30.

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* [[Sergei Korolev]], quoted in [https://books.google.be/books?id=VyvLDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT311&lpg=PT311&dq=%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D1%81%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE,+%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE,+%D0%B0+%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE+%E2%80%94+%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE,+%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BE.+%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7+%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5+%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8F+%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5+%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%82,+%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE,+%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%82+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C,+%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE+%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE.+%D0%98&source=bl&ots=BByEGl1rb_&sig=ACfU3U3PHhA9hcx-JhymDEXCw3AAIFw-2Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiop6_-nb75AhVJdcAKHSgtASAQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%D1%81%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%20%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%2C%20%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE%2C%20%D0%B0%20%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%E2%80%94%20%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C%20%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BE.%20%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%20%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%20%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8F%20%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%82%2C%20%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE%20%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE%20%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%2C%20%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%82%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%2C%20%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE%20%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE%20%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE.%20%D0%98&f=false Leadership in the Russian way (Лидерство по-русски)] (2022)

*If the picture I’ve drawn is at all right, the only way we could have anything resembling a middle-class society — a society in which ordinary citizens have a reasonable assurance of maintaining a decent life as long as they work hard and play by the rules — would be by having a strong social safety net, one that guarantees not just health care but a minimum income, too.
** [[Paul Krugman]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-for-the-luddites.html ''Sympathy for the Luddites''], The New York Times (13 June 2013)

[[File:Ancient Garden.png|thumb|No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. ~ [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] ]]
[[File:New Inventions of Modern Times -Nova Reperta-, The Invention of Distillation, plate 7 MET DP841129.jpg|thumb|Labor is prior to, and independent of, [[capital]]. [[Capital]] is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] ]]

[[File:Bernard Lietaer - PopTech 2011 - Camden Maine USA.jpg|thumb|Instead of pitting people against each other, the (local currency) system... '''enables us to consciously design [[money]] to work for us, instead of us for it.''' ~ [[Bernard Lietaer]]]]

==L==
* Men are like handsome race horses who first bite the bit and later like it, and rearing under the saddle a while soon learn to enjoy displaying their harness and prance proudly beneath their trappings.
** [[Étienne de La Boétie]], ''[[Discourse of Voluntary Servitude]]'', Part 2

* The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.
** [[Paul Lafargue]], ''The Right to Be Lazy'' (1883), H. Kerr, trans. (1907), pp. 11-12.

* '''No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.'''
** [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] ''Romance and Reality'' (1831) Vol. II, page 108

*A full-fledged [[UBI]] — one that unconditionally provides every person with enough income to meet their basic needs—would fundamentally alter the paradigm of capitalism that has locked workers into the dominant system ever since its inception. Capitalism has endured by commoditizing people’s lives, forcing them to sell the bulk of their available time and energy, or else face destitution and starvation. A true UBI would transform the relationship between labor and capital and weaken the power of the wealthy elite to control the population.
**[[Jeremy Lent]] in [https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/basic-income-lent A Cornerstone of a Moral Economy, ''Great Transition Initiative,'' ''GTI Forum''] (November 2020).

*Computers and robots replace humans in the exercise of mental functions in the same way as mechanical power replaced them in the performance of physical tasks. As time goes on, more and more complex mental functions will be performed by machines. Any worker who now performs his task by following specific instructions can, in principle, be replaced by a machine. This means that the role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish—in the same way that the role of horses in agricultural production was first diminished and then eliminated by the introduction of tractors.
** [[Wassily Leontief]], "[http://books.google.nl/books?id=hS0rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 National perspective: The definition of problem and opportunity]", in: National Academies, ''The Long-term Impact of Technology on Employment and Unemployment: A National Academy of Engineering Symposium'', p. 3. (30 June 1983)

*Local [[currency]] creates work, and I make a distinction between work and jobs. A job is what you do for a living; work is what you do because you like to do it. I expect jobs to increasingly [[Universal basic income|become obsolete]], but there is still an almost infinite amount of fascinating work to be done... What's nice about local currency is that when people create their own money, they don't need to build in a [[scarcity]] factor. And they don't need to get currency from elsewhere in order to have a means of making an exchange with a neighbor... As soon as you have an agreement between two people about a transaction... they literally create the necessary "money" in the process; there's no [[scarcity]] of money. That does not mean there's an infinite amount of this currency, either; you cannot give me 500,000 hours - nobody has 500,000 hours to give. So there's a ceiling on it, yes, but there's no artificial [[scarcity]].
**[[Bernard Lietaer]], [https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/Bernard_Lietaer/Interview_Yes%21.pdf Beyond Greed and Scarcity, ''YES! A Journal of Positive Futures''], (Spring 1997)

*Instead of pitting people against each other, the (local currency) system actually ... '''enables us to consciously design [[money]] to work for us, instead of us for it.''' ..These objectives are in our grasp within less than one generation's time. Whether we materialize them or not will depend on our capacity to [[cooperate]] with each other to consciously reinvent our money... For the first time in human history we have available the production technologies to create unprecedented abundance...
**[[Bernard Lietaer]], [https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/Bernard_Lietaer/Interview_Yes%21.pdf Beyond Greed and Scarcity, ''YES! A Journal of Positive Futures''], (Spring 1997)

*I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio (February 12, 1861) [Commercial version]; in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 4, p. 202.

* In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour. And inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that [all] such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], fragments of a tariff discussion (c. December 1, 1847); in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 1, p. 407–8.

* It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it—keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for, as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], speech at Chicago, Illinois (July 10, 1858); in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 2, p. 498.

* '''Labor is prior to, and independent of, [[capital]]. [[Capital]] is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.'''
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], First State of the Union Address (December 3, 1861); in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 5, p. 52.

* The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working people by other working people. It should never be so. '''The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.'''
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association (March 21, 1864); in Roy P. Basler, ed., ''The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' (1953), vol. 7, p. 259.

* From labor there shall come forth rest.
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], "To a Child", line 162; in ''The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems'' (1845).

* [[Adam]] was created righteous, acceptable, and without sin. He had no need from his labor in the garden to be made righteous and acceptable to God. Rather, the Lord gave Adam work in order to cultivate and protect the garden. This would have been the freest of all works because they were done simply to please God and not to obtain righteousness. … The works of the person who trusts God are to be understood in a similar manner. Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.
** [[Martin Luther]], ''The Freedom of a Christian'' (1520), M. Tranvik, trans. (Minneapolis: 2008), pp. 73-74.

* It is always necessary that the substance or essence of a person be good before there can be any good works and that good works follow and proceed from a person who is already good. Christ says in Matthew 7:18: “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.” ... The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
** [[Martin Luther]], ''The Freedom of a Christian'' (1520), M. Tranvik, trans. (Minneapolis: 2008), pp. 74-75.

* Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith. … Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
** [[Martin Luther]], ''The Freedom of a Christian'' (1520), M. Tranvik, trans. (Minneapolis: 2008), p. 75.
[[File:Herman Melville 1860.jpg|thumb|99 hundreths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked. ~ [[Herman Melville]]]]
[[File:A monument of working class.JPG|thumb|It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself — a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. ~ [[William Morris]]]]
==M==
* '''The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.'''
** [[James Madison]], Statement (1787-06-26) as quoted in [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/yates.asp ''Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787''] by [[w:Robert Yates (politician)|Robert Yates]].

* Tonio ... worked withdrawn out of sight and sound of the small men, for whom he felt nothing but contempt, who, whether they were poor or not, went about ostentatiously shabby or else flaunted startling cravats, all the time taking jolly good care to amuse themselves, to be artistic and charming without the smallest notion of the fact that good work comes out only under pressure of a bad life; that he who lives does not work; the one must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
** [[Thomas Mann]], ''Tonio Kröger'', H. Lowe-Porter, trans., modified, in Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (1930), p. 94

* Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed. And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets. And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed Jesus.
** [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]] 1:16-20 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
** [[Karl Marx]], “Alienated Labor,” ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts'' (1844), ''The Potable Karl Marx'' (1983), p. 134.

* The better shaped his product, the more mis-shapen the worker; the more civilized his object, the more barbaric the worker; the more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
** [[Karl Marx]], “Alienated Labor,” ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts'' (1844), ''The Potable Karl Marx'' (1983), p. 135.

* Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.
** [[Karl Marx]], “Alienated Labor,” ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts'' (1844), ''The Potable Karl Marx'' (1983), p. 135.

* What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor? First, in the fact that labor is external to the worker, that is, that it does not belong to his essential being; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel well but unhappy, does not freely develop his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker, therefore, feels himself only outside his work, and feels beside himself in his work. He is at home when he is not working, and when he is working he is not at home. His work therefore is not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need, but only a means for satisfying needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that labor is shunned like the plague as soon as there is no physical or other compulsion.
** [[Karl Marx]], “Alienated Labor,” ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts'' (1844), ''The Potable Karl Marx'' (1983), p. 136.

* When we have weighed everything, and when our relations in life permit us to choose any given position, we may take that one which guarantees us the greatest dignity, which is based on ideas of whose truth we are completely convinced, which offers the largest field to work for mankind and approach the universal goal for which every position is only a means: [[perfection]].
** [[Karl Marx]], “Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation” (1835), ''Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society'', L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 38.

* Capital is dead labor,that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
** [[Karl Marx]], {{w|Capital: Critique of Political Economy}}, [[w:Capital, Volume I|Vol. I]], Ch. 10, Section 1, p. 257. (1867)

* He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes. Not yesterday's work, lest he fall into despair; nor to-morrow's, lest he become a visionary—not that which ends with the day, which is a worldly work; nor yet that only which remains to eternity, for by it he cannot shape his actions. Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of to-day a connected portion of the work of life and an embodiment of the work of Eternity. The foundations of his confidence are unchangeable, for he has been made a partaker of Infinity. He strenuously works out his daily enterprises because the present is given him for a possession. Thus ought Man to be an impersonation of the divine process of nature, and to show forth the union of the infinite with the finite, not slighting his temporal existence, remembering that in it only is individual action possible; nor yet shutting out from his view that which is eternal, knowing that Time is a mystery which man cannot endure to contemplate until eternal Truth enlighten it.
** [[James Clerk Maxwell]], Paper communicated to {{w|Frederic Farrar}} (1854) Æt. 23, as quoted in Lewis Campbell, William Garnett, ''The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With Selections from His Correspondence and Occasional Writings'' (1884) [https://books.google.com/books?id=B7gEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144 pp. 144-145,] and in Richard Glazebrook, ''James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics'' (1896) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hbcEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA39 pp. 39-40.]

* True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, '''99 hundreths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.'''
** [[Herman Melville]], in a letter to Catherine G. Lansing (5 September 1877), published in ''The Melville Log : A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891'' (1951) by Jay Leyda, Vol. 2, p. 765.

* Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 618.

* The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint.
** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 208.

* '''It is assumed by most people nowadays that all work is useful, and by most ''well-to-do'' people that all work is desirable.''' Most people, well-to-do or not, believe that, even when a man is doing work which appears to be useless, he is earning his livelihood by it — he is "employed," as the phrase goes; and most of those who are well-to-do cheer on the happy worker with congratulations and praises, if he is only "industrious" enough and deprives himself of all pleasure and holidays — in the sacred cause of labour. '''In short, it has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself — a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others.''' But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.
** [[William Morris]], "Useful Work vs Useless Toil" (1885); later published in ''Signs of Change : Seven Lectures, Delivered on Various Occasions'' (1896).

* '''It is of the nature of man, when he is not diseased, to take pleasure in his work under certain conditions.''' And, yet, we must say in the teeth of the hypocritical praise of all labour, whatsoever it may be, of which I have made mention, that there is some labour which is so far from being a blessing that it is a curse; that it would be better for the community and for the worker if the latter were to fold his hands and refuse to work, and either die or let us pack him off to the workhouse or prison — which you will. '''Here, you see, are two kinds of work — one good, the other bad; one not far removed from a blessing, a lightening of life; the other a mere curse, a burden to life.''' What is the difference between them, then ? This: one has hope in it, the other has not. '''It is manly to do the one kind of work, and manly also to refuse to do the other.'''
** [[William Morris]], "Useful Work vs Useless Toil" (1885); later published in ''Signs of Change : Seven Lectures, Delivered on Various Occasions'' (1896).

* In his discussion on [[slavery]] [[Aristotle]] said that when the shuttle wove by itself and the [[w:Plectrum|plectrum]] played by itself chief workmen would not need helpers nor masters slaves. At the time he wrote, he believed that he was establishing the eternal validity of slavery; but for us today he was in reality justifying the existence of the [[machine]]. Work, it is true, is the constant form of man's interaction with his environment, if by work one means the sum total of exertions necessary to maintain life; and the lack of work usually means an impairment of function and a breakdown in organic relationship that leads to substitute forms of work, such as invalidism and neurosis. But work in the form of unwilling drudgery or of that sedentary routine which... the Athenians so properly despised—work in these forms is the true province of machines. Instead of reducing human beings to work-mechanisms, we can now transfer the main part of burden to automatic machines. This potentially... is perhaps the largest justification of the mechanical developments of the last thousand years.
** [[Lewis Mumford]], ''Technics and Civilization'' (1934)

==N==
* Early to bed, Early to rise, Work like hell — And advertise!
** "Old slogan" quoted in ''The National Provisioner'', Vol. 44 (June 1911), p. 35; this has since become misattributed to many people who might have quoted it.

*Democratic presidential hopeful [[Joe Biden]] unveiled a $2 trillion energy plan Tuesday with a heavy focus on the [[Green New Deal]] agenda... Speaking in Wilmington, Del., Biden promised a “clean energy revolution,” which he said would deliver millions of jobs... Biden detailed what he called a pro-union platform that would replace the US government’s car fleet with American-made electric vehicles... The former veep on Tuesday promised to “create millions of high-paying union jobs by building a modern infrastructure and a clean energy future” and described his vision of a US covered in 500,000 electric car charging stations and thriving factories producing green products.
**[https://nypost.com/2020/07/14/joe-biden-unveils-his-2t-aoc-fueled-green-new-deal-energy-agenda/ ''New York Post,'' Joe Biden unveils his $2T AOC-fueled Green New Deal energy agenda, by Ebony Bowden], (14 July 2020)

* Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''Human, All Too Human'' (1878)

* Looking for work in order to be paid: in civilized countries today almost all men are at one in doing that. For all of them work is a means and not an end in itself. Hence they are not very refined in their choice of work, if only it pays well. But there are, if only rarely, men who would rather perish than work without any pleasure in their work. They are choosy, hard to satisfy, and do not care for ample rewards, if the work itself is not to be the reward of rewards. Artists and contemplative men of all kinds belong to this rare breed, but so do even those men of leisure who spend their lives hunting, traveling, or in love affairs and adventures. All of these desire work and misery only if it is associated with pleasure, and the hardest, most difficult work if necessary. Otherwise their idleness is resolute, even if it spells impoverishment, dishonor, and danger to life and limb. They do not fear boredom as much as work without pleasure.
** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''The Gay Science'' (1882), [[Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)|W. Kaufmann]], trans, § 42.

* I propose a new approach that will make it more attractive to go to work than to go on welfare, and will establish a nationwide minimum payment to dependent families with children. I propose that the Federal government pay a [[basic income]] to those American families who cannot care for themselves in whichever State they live. ... I propose that we make available an addition to the incomes of the "working poor," to encourage them to go on working, and to eliminate the possibility of making more from welfare than from wages.
** [[Richard Nixon]], [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2194 Special Message to the Congress on Reform of the Nation's Welfare System] (11 August 1969)

==O==
* Artificial intelligence is here and it is accelerating, and you're going to have driverless cars, and you're going to have more and more automated services, and that's going to make the job of giving everybody work that is meaningful, tougher and we're going to have to be more imaginative, and the pact of [[change]] is going to require us to do more fundamental reimagining of our social and political arrangements, to protect the economic security and the dignity that comes with a job. It's not just money that a job provides; it provides dignity and structure and a sense of place and a sense of purpose. And so we're going to have to consider new ways of thinking about these problems, like a [[universal income]], review of our workweek, how we retrain our young people, how we make everybody an entrepreneur at some level. But we're going to have to worry about economics if we want to get democracy back on track.
** [[Barack Obama]], ''[https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629862434/transcript-obamas-speech-at-the-2018-nelson-mandela-annual-lecture 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture]'' [speech] (17 July 2018)

* I found it hard working really long hours when I was my own boss. The boss kept giving me the afternoon off.
** [[w:John O'Farrell|John O'Farrell]]{{Disambiguation needed}}, ''The Best a Man Can Get'' (1999).

[[File:Charles peguy.jpg|thumb|right|Towards this fine honor of a trade converged all the finest, all the most noble sentiments—dignity, pride. ... In those days a workman did not know what it was to solicit. It is the [[bourgeoisie]] who, turning the workmen into bourgeois, have taught them to solicit. ~ [[Charles Péguy]]]]
==P==
* Questioning global stereotypes on economic responses to [[globalisation]], I argue that labour becomes actively involved in the very ''process'' of globalisation and the [[w:Growth capital|expansion of capital]]. [...] Although it would seem a simple proposition to suggest that working class people and their organisations affect the ways in which the landscapes of capitalism are made, until recently, there has been little work, even within economic geography, addressing this issue.
** [[Neethi Padmanabhan]], ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263155852_Globalisation_Lived_Locally_A_Labour_Geography_Perspective_on_Control_Conflict_and_Response_among_Workers_in_Kerala Globalisation Lived Locally: A Labour Geography Perspective on Control, Conflict and Response among Workers in Kerala]'', 2012, at {{w|ResearchGate}}

* Low labour cost, along with ﬂexibility in labour use, has become a key source of competitive advantage for ﬁrms. As external competition intensiﬁes, the domestic industry has come under great pressure to restructure itself, to become more competitive and to adopt ﬂexible policies with regard to production and labour. With a view to increasing global competitiveness, investors are moving more towards countries that either have low labour costs, or are shifting to informal employment arrangements. These [[change]]s create an entirely different political-economic environment for workers around the world. Greater international mobility of capital relative to labour puts workers from a given location at an immediate disadvantage, both in terms of bargaining power with the owners of capital (whose threat to move gains greater credibility) and with respect to the State. Thus the removal of domestic entry barriers and movement of capital to areas of cheap labour have caused intensiﬁcation of domestic competition in many developing countries— especially those with surplus labour supply and those where labour is a major factor of production. This has been accentuated by potential investors citing the lack of ﬂexibility in hiring and laying off workers as a concern, while targeting a developing country in which to invest. [...] [[Optimism]] with regard to labour as an agency of social progress has been replaced by pessimism that sees little prospect of workers acting on their own behalf.
** [[Neethi Padmanabhan]], ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263155852_Globalisation_Lived_Locally_A_Labour_Geography_Perspective_on_Control_Conflict_and_Response_among_Workers_in_Kerala Globalisation Lived Locally: A Labour Geography Perspective on Control, Conflict and Response among Workers in Kerala]'', 2012, at {{w|ResearchGate}}

*All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
** Jack Torrance played by Jack Nicholson, [[The Shining (film)|The Shining]] screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson

* Religious people must be brought to a vivid realization of their awful guilt in sanctioning and supporting an economic system that is the direct antithesis of their religious ideals.
** [[Kirby Page]], ''Individualism and Socialism'' (1933)

* Pride in one’s work carries with it a determination to accept the demands imposed by that work: in the case of philosophy to follow the argument where it leads, in the case of history to discover what actually happened, in the case of literature to explore to its depths a particular theme. In consequence, this sort of pride demands freedom: it has to be laid low in any authoritarian State. The historian, in such a system, has to conform to official interpretations of the past, the philosopher to dogmas, the writer to stereotypes of human action, the craftsman to “production-schedules.” More subtly, attempts are made to lay pride low in a consumer’s society: the film-director, the novelist, the craftsman are called upon to produce “what will sell” at whatever cost to their pride in workmanship.
** [[John Passmore]], ''The Perfectibility of Man'' (1971), p. 290

*A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
**[[Cesare Pavese]], ''This Business of Living'', {{#dateformat:1940-08-14}}

* These bygone workmen did not serve, they worked. They had an absolute honor, which is honor proper. A chair rung had to be well made. That was an understood thing. That was the first thing. It wasn’t that the chair rung had to be well made for the salary or on account of the salary. It wasn’t that it was well made for the boss, nor for connoisseurs, nor for the boss’ clients. It had to be well made itself, in itself, for itself, in its very self. A tradition coming, springing from deep within the race, a history, an absolute, an honor, demanded that this chair rung be well made. Every part of the chair which could not be seen was just as perfectly made as the parts which could be seen. The was the selfsame principal of cathedrals. … There was no question of being seen or of not being seen. It was the innate being of work which needed to be well done.
** [[Charles Péguy]], ''Basic Verities'', A. & J. Green, trans. (New York: 1943), pp. 82-85

* Towards this fine honor of a trade converged all the finest, all the most noble sentiments—dignity, pride. Never ask anything of anyone, they used to say. … In those days a workman did not know what it was to solicit. It is the bourgeoisie who, turning the workmen into bourgeois, have taught them to solicit.
** [[Charles Péguy]], ''Basic Verities'', A. & J. Green, trans. (New York: 1943), p. 83.

* Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
** {{w|Katharine Susannah Prichard}}, as quoted in ''100 Great Australians'' (1983) by Robert Macklin.

* The man who by his labour gets    His bread, in independent state, Who never begs, and seldom eats,    Himself can fix or change his fate.
** [[Matthew Prior]] (1664–1721), ''The Old Gentry'' (posthumous), St. 5.

* The trouble with Opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
** {{w|Herbert V. Prochnow}}, ''1001 Ways to Improve your Conversation & Speeches?'' (1952).

* To depend on another's nod for a livelihood, is a sad destiny.
** [[Publius Syrus]], ''The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus'', # 501

[[File:Teslathinker.jpg |thumb|Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]]]]

[[File:A Wilde time 3.jpg|thumb|right|We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]]]]
[[File:THE WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WAR INDUSTRY, 1914-1918 Q109920.jpg|thumb|It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit. ~ [[w:Robert Yates (politician)|Robert Yates]] ]] '''
[[File:John Howard Yoder, 1971 (6215609410).jpg|thumb|Let us reserve our limited creativity for functions that will not be taken care of if we do not to it. ~ [[John Howard Yoder]]]]
[[File:William Edmonson.jpg|thumb|The land belongs to those who work it with their hands. ~ [[Emiliano Zapata]] ]]
==R==
[[File:John_Henry-27527.jpg|thumb|Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]]]]
[[File:1927 Boris Bilinski (1900-1948) Plakat für den Film Metropolis, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.jpg|thumb|It is clear that mechanistic, biologically unsatisfying work is a product of the widespread mechanistic view of life and the machine civilization. Can the biologic function of work be reconciled with the social function of work? This is possible, but firmly entrenched ideas and institutions must be radically corrected first. The craftsman of the nineteenth century still had a full relationship to the product of his work. But when, as in a Ford factory, a worker has to perform one and the same manipulation year in and year out, always working on one detail and never the product as a whole, it is out of the question to speak of satisfying work. The specialized and mechanized division of labour, together with the system of paid labour in general, produce the effect that the working man has no relationship to the [[machine]]. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]]]]
* Did you get your [[money]] by fraud? By pandering to men’s vices or men’s stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment’s or a penny’s worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you’ll scream that money is evil.
** [[Ayn Rand]], Francisco d’Anconia in ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' (New York: 1992), p. 384.

* Work is the basis of man’s social existence. This is stressed by every social theory. In this respect, however, the problem is not that work is the basis of human existence. The problem relates to the nature of work: Is it in opposition to or in harmony with the biologic needs of masses of people? Marx’s economic theory proved that everything that is produced in the way of economic values comes about through the expenditure of man’s living working power, and not through the expenditure of dead material.
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 10.

* It is clear that mechanistic, biologically unsatisfying work is a product of the widespread mechanistic view of life and the machine civilization. Can the biologic function of work be reconciled with the social function of work? This is possible, but firmly entrenched ideas and institutions must be radically corrected first. The craftsman of the nineteenth century still had a full relationship to the product of his work. But when, as in a Ford factory, a worker has to perform one and the same manipulation year in and year out, always working on one detail and never the product as a whole, it is out of the question to speak of satisfying work. The specialized and mechanized division of labour, together with the system of paid labour in general, produce the effect that the working man has no relationship to the [[machine]].
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 10, p. 287.

* Only when one is objectively and intimately related to one’s work is one capable of comprehending just how destructive the dictatorial and formal democratic forms of work are, not only for work itself but also for the [[pleasure]] of work. When a man takes pleasure in his work, we call his relationship to it ‘libidinous’. Since work and sexuality (in both the strict and broad senses of the word) are intimately interwoven, man’s relationship to work is also a question of the sex-economy of masses of people. The hygiene of the work process is dependent upon the way masses of people use and gratify their biologic energy. Work and sexuality derive from the same biologic energy.
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 10, p. 293.

* The relationship between the worker’s [[sexual]] life and the performance of his work is of decisive importance. It is not as if work diverted sexual energy from gratification, so that the more one worked the less need one would have for sexual gratification. The opposite of this is the case: The more gratifying one’s sexual life is, the more fulfilling and pleasurable is one ’s work, if all external conditions are fulfilled. Gratified sexual energy is spontaneously converted into an interest in work and an urge for activity. In contrast to this, one’s work is disturbed in various ways if one’s sexual need is not gratified and is suppressed. Hence, a basic principle of the work hygiene of a work-democratic society is: It is necessary to establish not only the best external conditions of work, but also to create the inner biologic preconditions to allow the fullest unfolding of the biologic urge for activity. Hence, the safeguarding of a completely satisfying sexual life for the working masses is the most important precondition of pleasurable work. In any society the degree to which work kills the joy of life, the degree to which it is represented as a [[duty]] (whether to a ‘fatherland’, the ‘proletariat’, the ‘nation’ or whatever other names these [[illusions]] may have), is a sure yardstick on which to measure the anti-[[democratic]] character of the [[ruling class]] of this [[society]].
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 10, p. 295.

* The working [[men]] and [[women]] who [[think]] and [[act]] in a work-[[democratic]] way do not come out against the [[politician]]. It is not his fault or his intention that the practical result of his work exposes the illusionary and irrational character of politics. Those who are engaged in [[practical]] work, regardless what field they are in, are intensely concerned with practical tasks in the improvement of [[life]]. Those who are engaged in practical work are not against one thing or another. It is only the politician who, having no practical tasks is always against and never for something. Politics in general is characterized by this ‘being against’ one thing or another. That which is productive in a practical way is not accomplished by politicians, but by working men and women, whether it is in accord with the politicians’ [[ideologies]] or not.
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 11, p. 368.

* For centuries on end it has been precisely vitally necessary work that the political [[ideology]] of the ruling but nonworking classes has depreciated. On the other hand, it has represented non-work as a sign of noble blood. All [[socialist]] ideologies reacted to this appraisal with a mechanistic and rigid reversal of valuations. The socialists conceived of ‘work’ as relating solely to those activities that had been looked down upon in feudalism, i.e., essentially to manual labour; whereas the activity of the ruling classes was represented as non-work. To be sure, this mechanical reversal of ideologic valuations was wholly in keeping with the political concept of the two economically and personally sharply demarcated [[social classes]], the ruling and the ruled. From a purely [[economic]] point of view, society could indeed be divided into ‘those who possessed [[capital]]’ and ‘those who possessed the commodity, working power’ . From the point of view of bio-sociology, however, there could be no clear-cut division between one class and another, neither [[ideologically]] nor [[psychologically]], and certainly not on the basis of work. The discovery of the fact that the ideology of a group of people does not necessarily have to coincide with its economic situation, indeed, that economic and ideologic situation are often sharply opposed to one another, enabled us to understand the [[fascist]] movement, which had remained uncomprehended until then. In 1930 it became dear that there is a ‘cleavage’ between ideology and economy, and that the ideology of a certain class can develop into a social force, a social force that is not confined to that one class.
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), ch. 11, p. 383

* For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
** [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], in ''[[w:Letters to a Young Poet|Letters to a Young Poet]]'' (1934) Letter Seven (14 May 1904).

* When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower;—when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.
** [[John Ruskin]], “Sesame and Lilies” (1865)

* '''Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.'''
** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''[http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html In Praise of Idleness]'' (1932).

* Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''[http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html In Praise of Idleness]'' (1932).

* A narcissist, for example, inspired by the homage paid to great painters, may become an art student; but, as painting is for him a mere means to an end, the technique never becomes interesting … The result is failure and disappointment, with ridicule instead of the expected adulation. … All serious success in work depends upon some genuine interest. … Consequently, the man whose sole concern with the world is that is shall admire him is not likely to achieve his object.
** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''The Conquest of Happiness'', p. 20

==S==
[[File:Solon.jpg|thumb|You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, so now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod. ~ [[Solon|Solon of Athens]]]]
[[File:John_Lancaster_Spalding.png|thumb|The work whereby men gain a livelihood involves mental and moral mutilation, unless it be done in the spirit of religion and culture. ~ [[John Lancaster Spalding]]]]
* '''I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.''' I ask you to come through and show me where you're pouring out the blood of your life.
** [[Carl Sandburg]], "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter", ''Chicago Poems'' (1916), p. 63.

* What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.
** [[Fritz Sauckel]], To Leon Goldensohn, February 9, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History (2004), p. 209.

* '''When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.'''
** [[George Bernard Shaw]], as quoted in ''Appropriate Technology : A Focus for the Nineties'' (1991) by Robert William Stevens.

* Nobody would work for starvation [[wages]] if he were not in a situation in which he preferred such wages to not working at all.
** [[Georg Simmel]], ''The Philosophy of Money'' (1907).

* Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.
**[[Solomon]], [http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/pr/chapter_022.htm Proverbs 22: 29]

* You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.
** [[Solon|Solon of Athens]], as reported by [[Diogenes Laërtius]] (trans. [[w:Charles Duke Yonge|C. D. Yonge]]) ''The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' (1853), "Solon", sect. 5, p. 25.

* We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.
** [[John Lancaster Spalding]], ''Aphorisms and Reflections'' (1901), p. 21.

* The work whereby men gain a livelihood involves mental and moral mutilation, unless it be done in the spirit of religion and culture.
** [[John Lancaster Spalding]], ''Aphorisms and Reflections'' (1901), p. 59

* Things may be traded in the city but it is the fisherman who brings in the food supply.
** [[Sumerian proverb]], [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.01.html Collection I] at {{w|The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature}}, {{w|3rd millennium BCE}}.

* Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
** [[Gloria Steinem]], ''Moving Beyond Words'' (1994), Part 5.

* The men at the factory are old and cunning
:You don't owe nothing, so boy get running
:It's the best years of your life they want to steal.
:* [[Joe Strummer]], “Clampdown” (1979)

* Understanding how the [[w:Agricultural revolution|agricultural revolution]] transformed [[human]] [[societies]] was once no more than a question of [[intellectual]] [[curiosity]]. Now, though, it has taken on a more [[practical]] and [[urgent]] aspect. Many of the [[challenges]] created by the agricultural revolution, such as the [[problem]] of [[w:Scarcity|scarcity]], have largely been solved by [[technology]] – yet our preoccupation with hard work and unrestrained [[economic growth]] remains undimmed.
:* [[James Suzman]], [https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/05/how-neolithic-farming-sowed-the-seeds-of-modern-inequality-10000-years-ago “How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago”], ''The Guardian'', (5 Dec, 2017).

* I just don't understand the world's unhealthy obsession with work. Its all about vanity anyway. Ooh, look how hard I worked! And what a good work I did. Well screw you, workie. Get lost. Shut up. We're trying to listen to records here.
** {{w|John Swartzwelder}}, ''Detective Made Easy'' (2013)

==T==
* I suddenly felt insecure and feared becoming an employee of some firm that would turn me into a corporate slave with "work ethics" (whenever I hear the word ''work ethics'' I interpret ''inefficient mediocrity'').
** [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]], ''Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets'' (2001) Seven: The Problem of Induction | Sir Karl's Promoting Agent

* ''Laborare est orare''. [To work is to pray.] By the Puritan moralist the ancient maxim is repeated with a new and intenser significance. The labor which he idealizes is not simply a requirement imposed by nature, or a punishment for the sin of Adam. It is itself a kind of [[asceticism|ascetic]] discipline, more rigorous than that demanded of any order of [[w:Mendicant|mendicants]]—a discipline imposed by the will of God, and to be undergone, not in solitude, but in the punctual discharge of secular duties. It is not merely an economic means, to be laid aside when physical needs have been satisfied. It is a spiritual end, for in it alone can the soul find health, and it must be continued as an ethical duty long after it has ceased to be a material necessity.
** [[R. H. Tawney]], ''Religion and the Rise of Capitalism'' (1926), p. 242

* I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts.
** [[Nikola Tesla]], in [http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1919-00-00.htm "My Inventions"] first published in ''Electrical Experimenter'' magazine (1919); republished as ''My Inventions : The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla'' (1983).

* Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
** [[Nikola Tesla]], on patent controversies regarding the [[w:Invention of radio|invention of Radio]] and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petkovic in ''Politika'' (April 1927); as quoted in ''Tesla, Master of Lightning'' (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73  {{ISBN|0760710058}} ; also in ''Tesla: Man Out of Time'' (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230  {{ISBN|0743215362}} 

* The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
** [[Nikola Tesla]], "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World", ''Modern Mechanics and Inventions'' (July 1934).

* This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! ... It would be glorious to see mankind at [[leisure]] for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. ... If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, … it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for—business! I think there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to [[poetry]], to [[philosophy]], ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
** [[Henry David Thoreau]], “Life without Principle,” 1.4

* Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,—a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.
** [[Henry David Thoreau]], ''Walden'', chapter 18, p. 436 (1966). Originally published in 1854.

* It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
** [[Henry David Thoreau]], letter to Harrison Blake (16 November 1857).

* Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme [[division of labor]].
** [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], Democracy in America, vol. 1, chapter 18 (1835).

* Work consists of whatever a [[body]] is OBLIGED to do, and...[[Play]] consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
** [[Mark Twain]], ''[[w:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' (1876), Ch. 2.

==V==
*''Il est bien malaisé (puisqu’il faut enfin m’expliquer) d’ôter à des insensés des chaînes qu’ils révèrent.''
** '''It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.'''
*** [[Voltaire]], ''Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers'' (1767): Troisième Entretien

==W==
* The bourgeoisie first betrayed society through capitalism and finance, and now labor betrays it by embracing a scheme of things which sees profit only, not duty and honor, in work. This view will seem hopelessly unrealistic to those who do not admit that sentiment toward the whole is the only ultimate means of measuring value.
** [[Richard Weaver]], ''Ideas Have Consequences'' (Chicago: 1948), p. 75

* The idea that work is something apportioned out by men leaves people discontent with their portion and dubious about whether work is a good thing at all. … The ancient injunction to labor fades when we regard our work as cut out for us by men, who, by present dogma, are no better than ourselves. That curious modern [[wikt:hypostatization|hypostatization]] “service” is often called in to substitute for the now incomprehensible doctrine of vocation. It tries to secure subordination by hypothesizing something larger than the self, which turns out, however, to be only a multitude of selfish selves. The familiar change from quality to quantity may again be noted; one serves not the higher part of the self (this entails hierarchy) … but merely consumer demand. And who admires those at the top of a hierarchy of consumption? Man as a consuming animal is thus seen to be not enough.
** [[Richard Weaver]], ''Ideas Have Consequences'' (Chicago: 1948), p. 77

* Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of [[capital]], but capital solicits the aid of labor.
** [[Daniel Webster]], ''A discourse, delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In commemoration of the first settlement of New-England''.

* They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doing machines.
** [[Daniel Webster]], remarks in the Senate (March 12, 1838); ''The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster'' (1903), vol. 8, p. 177.

*America has lost more than 12 million jobs in the last six months. An estimated 12 million people have lost their employer-sponsored health insurance during the worst pandemic in a century. Tens of millions report not having enough to eat. But one month ago, tens of millions of unemployed Americans lost... a $600 weekly federal unemployment insurance benefit that Congress failed to renew... How can this happen in a democracy? This is a question that everyone who works for a living... might want to consider on this Labor Day... If the facts of this political disaster were more widely known and understood, Republicans could lose not only the presidency but also the Senate in November. After all, millions of unemployed Republicans lost most of their income as a result of what their political party...did... Republican senators repeatedly expressed worries that the unemployment benefits created a "disincentive to work." But economists have found no evidence of this; on the contrary, millions of workers who were receiving these benefits returned to work in May through July, and there are more than 11 million more workers and there are more than 11 million more workers unemployed than there are job openings.
**[[Mark Weisbrot]], [https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/times-commentary/story/2020/sep/06/weisbrot-whour-government-doing-labor/531611/ What is our government doing to labor?], [[w:Chattanooga Times Free Press|Times Free Press]], (6 September 2020)

* [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul's]] ... [[w:He who does not work, neither shall he eat|no-work-no-eat doctrine]] was directed by him only against the poor. All around him were the rich, virginally innocent of toil, and yet who were gorged to the gullet.
** [[Bouck White]], ''The Call of the Carpenter'' (1914), p. 238

* We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
** [[Oscar Wilde]], Gilbert, in ''The Critic as Artist'', pt. 2 (1891)

==Y==
* If we expand the notion of work, which is something that a [[universal basic income]] would help us do, it would begin to compensate parents and caregivers; it would begin to recognize different forms of work.
** [[Andrew Yang]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDpS5w3wUw&t=43m59s Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate], ''The Ezra Klein Show'', 43:59 (20 August 2018)

* [A universal basic income] would be one of the greatest catalysts to entrepreneurship and creativity we have ever seen, and I've worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs over the years. We have to put more Americans in position to do work that they value [[essentially|intrinsically]], instead of as a necessary means to [[survival]].
** [[Andrew Yang]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDpS5w3wUw&t=47m54s Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate], ''The Ezra Klein Show'', 47:54 (20 August 2018)

* If you care about children, then [UBI] is the best way to make household and families stronger; if you care about women and economic empowerment, this is a way to make it so that women can walk away from abusive or exploitative employers; if you care about communities of color, they would benefit much more proportionally from a thousand dollars a month than other communities, because they have lower access to various jobs and opportunities. This is the way that we can reform society in a way that actually serves all of our goals, our collective goals. And at least one study showed that if you would alleviate [[child poverty]], you would increase GDP by 700 billion dollars, because of better health outcomes, [[Education|educational]] outcomes, higher worker [[productivity]], better [[mental health]]... We have to start investing in our [[people]], intrinsically.
** [[Andrew Yang]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDpS5w3wUw&t=53m30s Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate], ''The Ezra Klein Show'', 53:30 (20 August 2018)

*We have to say "we are the citizens and owners and stakeholders of this society, we can vote ourselves a dividend, and it's up to us to build an economy that serves us, because... this economy is not designed to serve human beings. It is designed to serve [[Capitalism|capital efficiency]]. And for a long time, that also served human beings, but increasingly it's going to be that having lots of humans working for a company is irrelevant, or even negative, for [[Profit|corporate success]]. And we can see this by the fact that '''94% of the new jobs created since 2005 to 2015, were [[W:gig economy|gig economy]], temp and contractor jobs, because the employer said "you know what? I'd rather not have a full-time employee, I'd rather not pay health care benefits", and that's why so many Americans right now are in that position.''' So we have to start recognizing that the economy is changing for good, and that it's up to us, the citizens of this country, to rewrite the rules the economy to serve us. We have to make the market serve us, and not have us all be [[slaves]] to the market, because the market is not going to care one whit about [[Working class|us]] increasingly over time.
** [[Andrew Yang]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDpS5w3wUw&t=53m30s Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate], ''The Ezra Klein Show'', 53:30 (20 August 2018)

* '''It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.'''
** [[w:Robert Yates (politician)|Robert Yates]], as quoted in ''The Team Selling Solution : Creating and Managing Teams That Win'' (2003) by Steve Waterhouse, p. 51.

* Jesus once said that the dead should let to bury the dead (Luke 9:60). This shows no disrespect for the dead. It shows an awareness that there are some functions in society that will be well taken care of without Christians investing their creativity in those functions. Someone else, in meeting such needs, can make a stable living. Burying the dead is still one of the businesses in which you can make a stable living. There are other such services that we can count on society handling by itself. Leadership in government and business are among these. Let us reserve our limited creativity for functions that will not be taken care of if we do not to it.
** [[John Howard Yoder]], ''Radical Christian Discipleship'' (2012), p. 41

==Z==
* ''La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos.''
** '''The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.'''
*** [[Emiliano Zapata]], quoted as a slogan of the revolutionaries in ''Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat'' (1947) Vol. 5, p. 199, by Josephus Daniels, and specifically attributed to Zapata by Ángel Zúñiga in 1998, as quoted in ''Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy'' (2005), by John Stolle-McAllister

==''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''==
:Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 907-11.

* Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.
** Anon. In a sermon to the people of Queen-Hith. Advertised in the Daily Courant, Oct. 6, 1709. Published in Paternoster Row, London. "Coals to Newcastle," or "from Newcastle," found in Heywood—If you Know Not Me, Part II. (1606). Gaunt—Bills of Mortality. (1661). Middleton—Phœnix, Act I, scene 5. R. Thoresby—Correspondence. Letter June 29, 1682. Owls to Athens. (Athenian coins were stamped with the owl.) Aristophanes—Aves. 301. Diogenes Laertius—Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Plato, XXXII. You are importing pepper into Hindostan. From the Bustan of Sadi.

* ''Qui laborat, orat.''
** He who labours, [[Prayer|prays]].
** Attr. to [[St. Augustine]].

* When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?
** Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. See Hume, ''History of England'', Volume I, Chapter XVII. Note 8. So Adam reutte, und Eva span, Wer war da ein eddelman? (Old German saying).

* ''Qui orat et laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.''
** He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
** [[St. Bernard]], ''Ad sororem''. A similar expression is found in the works of Gregory the Great—Moral in Libr. Job, Book XVIII. Also in Pseudo-Hieron, in Jerem., Thren. III. 41. See also "What worship, for example, is there not in mere washing!" Carlyle—Past and Present, Chapter XV., referring to "Work is prayer".

* Tools were made and born were hands, Every understands.
** [[William Blake]], ''Proverbs''.

* ''Hâtez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage.''
** Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
** [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]], ''L'Art Poétique'' (1674), I, 171.

* The dog that trots about finds a bone.
** [[George Borrow]], ''Bible in Spain'', Chapter XLVII. (Cited as a gipsy saying).

* The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
** [[Berton Braley]], ''No Chance''.

* Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands.
** [[Will Carleton]], ''A Working Woman''.

* And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Essays'', Characteristics.

* It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], address at Edinburgh (1866).

* Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Past and Present'', Book II, Chapter XVII.

* All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Past and Present'', Book III, Chapter IV.

* With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.
** [[Alice Cary]], ''Work''.

* They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''{{w|Don Quixote}}'', Author's Preface. [[Edward Moore]], ''The Boy and the Rainbow''.

* Earned with the sweat of my brows.
** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''Don Quixote'' (1605-15), Part I, Book I, Chapter 4.

* ''Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.
** The rather since every man is the son of his own works.
** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''Don Quixote'' (1605-15), Book I, Chapter 4.

* Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
** [[William Ellery Channing]], ''War''.

* Each natural agent works but to this end,— To render that it works on like itself.
** [[George Chapman]], ''Bussy d'Ambois'', Act III, scene 1.

* Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done at leisure parfitly.
** [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], ''Canterbury Tales'', The Merchantes Tale, line 585.

* Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
** [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], ''Canterbury Tales'', Prologue, line 321.

* Let us take to our hearts a lesson— No lesson could braver be— From the ways of the tapestry weavers On the other side of the sea.
** [[Anson G. Chester]], ''Tapestry Weavers''.

* ''Penelopæ telam retexens.''
** Unravelling the web of Penelope.
** [[Cicero]], ''Acad. Quæst'', Book IV. 29. 95.

* ''Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Græcum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est præteritorum memoria.''
** It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant."
** [[Cicero]], ''De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum'', II. 32.

* ''Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs.''
** The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
** [[Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues]], ''Réflexions'', 200.

* A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
** [[Grover Cleveland]], letter accepting the nomination for President. Aug. 18, 1884.

* American labor, which is the [[capital]] of our workingmen.
** [[Grover Cleveland]], Annual Message. Dec., 1885.

* All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair— The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing— And Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
** [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], ''Work Without Hope'', Stanza 1.

* Their work will be shown for what it is, because the [[Day of Judgement|Day]] will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
** [[First Epistle to the Corinthians|I Corinthians]] [[w:1 Corinthians 3|3]]:13, [[New International Version]]

* Each one’s work will become obvious. For the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.

* Work thou for pleasure—paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve— Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee.
** [[Kenyon Cox]], ''Our Motto''.

* When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.
** [[William Cowper]], ''Table Talk'', line 192.

* Better to wear out than to rust out.
** [[Bishop Cumberland]], to one who urged him not to wear himself out with work. See Horne, ''Sermon on the Duty of Contending for the Truth''. Boswell, ''Tour to the Hebrides'', p. 18. Note. Said by George Whitefield, according to Southey, ''Life of Wesley'', II, p. 170. (Ed. 1858).

* Honest labour bears a lovely face.
** [[Thomas Dekker (writer)|Thomas Dekker]], ''Patient Grissell'' (1599), Act I, scene 1.

* The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else—or wait till I get through." I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along: But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong. One day I needed the Lord—needed Him myself—needed Him right away, And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do, You get somebody else or wait till I get through."
** [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], ''The Lord had a Job''.

* All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
** Quoted by [[Maria Edgeworth]], ''Henry and Lucy'', Volume II.

* 'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.
** [[Ebenezer Elliot]], ''Corn Law Rhymes''. No. 7.

* Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Quatrains'', ''Nature''.

* A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
** Mr. [[Eusden]], ''Poem'', Spoken at a Cambridge Commencement.

* Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.
** [[Frederick William Faber]], ''The Sorrowful World''.

* ''Chacun son métier; Les vaches seront bien gardées.''
** Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.
** [[Florian]], ''Le Vacher et le Garde-chasse''.

* A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
** [[Benjamin Franklin]], ''Poor Richard'' (1758), Preface.

* Handle your tools without mittens.
** [[Benjamin Franklin]], ''Poor Richard'' (1758), Preface.

* Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
** [[Benjamin Franklin]], ''Poor Richard'' (1758), Preface.

* "Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."
** [[Robert Frost]], ''Tuft of Flowers''.

* It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
** [[Thomas Fuller]], ''Pisgah'', ''Sight of Palestine'' (Ed. 1650), p. 128. Worthies, p. 302. (Ed. 1661).

* In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.
** [[John Gay]], ''Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly'', line 63.

* In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
** [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]], III. 19.

* For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
** [[Henry George]], ''Progress and Poverty'', Book VII, Chapter I.

* ''So eine Arbeit wird eigentlich nie fertig; man muss sie für fertig erklären, wenn man nach Zeit und Umstand das Möglichste getan hat.''
** Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
** [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], ''Italienische Reise'' (March 16, 1787).

* How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.
** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''The Deserted Village'' (1770), line 99.

* He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth.
** [[John Gower]], ''Confessio Amantis'' (c.1386–1393).

* ''Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.''
** I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
** Quoted by [[Grotius]] on his death bed.

* A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on.
** {{w|James Halliwell-Phillipps}}, ''Archæological Dictionary''. Quoted from an old Play. See Grose—Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar tongue. Hudson, the English singer, made popular the refrain, "Before ye could cry 'Jack Robinson.'"

* Joy to the Toiler!—him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned; Him with the woodman's axe that thrills The wilderness profound.
** [[Benjamin Hathaway]], ''Songs of the Toiler''.

* If little labour, little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
** [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]], ''Hesperides'', ''No Paines, No Gaines''.

* Haste makes waste.
** [[John Heywood]], ''Proverbs'', Part I, Chapter II.

* The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
** [[Thomas Hobbes]], ''Leviathan'', Chapter X.

* To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
** [[Homer]], ''The Iliad'', Book X, line 78. Pope's translation.

* Light is the task when many share the toil.
** [[Homer]], ''The Iliad'', Book XII, line 493. Bryant's translation.

* Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
** [[Homer]], ''The Odyssey'', Book X, line 46. Pope's translation.

* The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in [[virtue]]'s fair disguise. The work she plyed, but, studious of delay, Each following night reversed the toils of day.
** [[Homer]], ''The Odyssey'', Book XXIV, line 164. Pope's translation.

* When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run, Sat down, drank off his quart and said, "My work is done, I'll go to bed." "My work is done!" retorted Joan, "My work is done! Your constant tone, But hapless woman ne'er can say 'My work is done' till judgment day."
** [[St. John Honeywood]], ''Darby and Joan''.

* With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
** [[Thomas Hood]], ''Song of the Shirt''.

* Qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.
** He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold.
** [[Horace]], ''Ars Poetica'' (18 BC), CCCCXII.

* ''O laborum Dulce lenimen.''
** O sweet solace of labors.
** [[Horace]], ''Carmina'', I. 32. 14.

* ''In silvam ligna ferre.''
** To carry timber into the wood.
** [[Horace]], ''Satires'', I. 10. 24.

* ''Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum.''
** Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
** [[St. Jerome]].

* I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
** [[Jerome K. Jerome]], ''Three Men in a Boat'', Chapter XV.

* ''Cur quæris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?''
** Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor?
** [[Thomas á Kempis]], ''De Imitatione Christi'', II. 10. 1.

* Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen, What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.
** [[Charles Kingsley]], Letter. To Thomas Hughes (1856), inviting Hughes and Tom Taylor to go fishing. See Memoirs of Kingsley, by his wife, Chapter XV.

* For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep, And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.
** [[Charles Kingsley]], ''Three Fishers''.

* But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''Imperial Rescript''.

* The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing His desire, And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise, And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow of new skies. Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand, To wring his food from a desert nude, his foothold from the sand.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Fareloper (Interloper)''. Pub. in Century Magazine, April, 1909. First pub. in London Daily Telegraph, Jan. 1, 1909. Title given as Vortrekker in his Songs From Books.

* And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are!
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''L'Envoi'', ''In Seven Seas''.

* And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed—they know the angels are on their side; They know in them is the Grace confessed, and for them are the Mercies multiplied; They sit at the Feet, they hear the Word, they see how truly the Promise runs; They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and—the Lord He lays it on Martha's Sons!
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Sons of Mary''.

* Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down * * * To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? * * * Sabbathless Satan!
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''Work''.

* The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
** [[D. Lloyd George]], at the Conference of Paris (Jan., 1919).

* Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children—that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
** [[D. Lloyd George]], speech (Dec. 6, 1919).

* The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while l heir companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''Birds of Passage'', ''The Ladder of St. Augustine'', Stanza 10.

* Taste the joy That springs from labor.
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''Masque of Pandora'', Part VI. In the Garden. "From labor there shall come forth rest."--Longfellow—To a Child, line 162.

* Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''The Courtship of Miles Standish'' (1858), Part VIII, line 46.

* No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''A Glance Behind the Curtain'', line 202. "Horny-handed sons of toil." Popularized by Denis Kearney (Big Denny), of San Francisco.

* ''Labor est etiam ipsa voluptas.''
** Labor is itself a pleasure.
** [[Marcus Manilius]], ''Astronomica'', IV. 155.

* How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.
** Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century. British Museum.

* Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
** [[Edwin Markham]], ''The Man with the Hoe''. Written after seeing Millet's picture "Angelus".

* ''Divisum sic breve fiet opus.''
** Work divided is in that manner shortened.
** [[Martial]], ''Epigrams'' (c. 80-104 AD), Book IV. 83. 8.

* Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men.
** [[Martial]], ''Epigrams'' (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIV, Epigram 49.

* God be thank'd that the dead have left still Good undone for the living to do— Still some aim for the heart and the will And the soul of a man to pursue.
** [[Owen Meredith]] (Lord Lytton), ''Epilogue''.

* But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run.
** [[John Milton]], ''[[Comus (John Milton)|Comus]]'' (1637), line 1,012.

* I am of nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim, Man's noblest works must have one common end, And nothing crown the tablet of his name.
** [[Thomas Moore]], ''Ode upon Nothing''. Appeared in Saturday Magazine about 1836. Not in Collected Works.

* Lo! all life this truth declares, Laborare est orare; And the whole earth rings with prayers.
** [[Miss Mulock]], ''Labour is Prayer'', Stanza 4.

* Has it ever been really noted to what extent a genuinely religious life … requires a leisure class, or half-leisure—I mean leisure with a good conscience, from way back, by blood, to which the aristocratic feeling that work disgraces is not altogether alien—the feeling that it makes soul and body common. And that consequently our modern, noisy, time-consuming industriousness, proud of itself, stupidly proud, educates and prepares people, more than anything else does, precisely for “unbelief.”
** [[Nietzsche]], ''Beyond Good and Evil'', W. Kauffman, trans. (New York: 1992), § 58.

* Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.
** [[Frances S. Osgood]], ''To Labor is to Pray''.

* Labor is rest—from the sorrows that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work—and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work—thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!
** [[Frances S. Osgood]], ''To Labor is to Pray''.

* The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
** [[William Osler]], address, at Johns Hopkins University (Feb. 22, 1905).

* Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
** [[William Osler]]. The statement made by him which gave rise to the report that he had advised chloroform after sixty. Denied by him in ''Medical Record'' (March 4, 1905).

* ''Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.''
** While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
** [[Ovid]], ''Ars Amatoria'', II. 669.

* And all labour without any play, boys, Makes Jack a dull boy in the end.
** H. A. Page (pseudonym of {{w|Alexander Hay Japp}}), ''Vers de Société''.

* Many hands make light work.
** [[w:William Patten|William Patten]]{{Disambiguation needed}}. ''Expedition into Scotland'' (1547). In Arber's Reprint of 1880.

* Nothing is impossible to industry.
** [[Periander of Corinth]].

* ''Grex venalium.''
** The herd of hirelings. (A venal pack.)
** [[Plautus]], ''Cistellaria'', IV. 2. 67.

* ''Oleum et operam perdidi.''
** I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.)
** [[Plautus]], ''Pœnulus'', I. 2. 119.

* Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
** [[Plutarch]], ''Life of Pericles''.

* Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
** Psalms. CIV. 23.

* When Adam dalfe and Eve spane So spire if thou may spede, Where was then the pride of man, That nowe merres his mede?
** [[Richard Rolle de Hampole]], ''Early English Text Society Reprints'', No. 26, p. 79.

* The man who by his labour gets His bread, in independent state, Who never begs, and seldom eats, Himself can fix or change his fate.
** [[Matthew Prior]], ''The Old Gentry''.

* ''Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann gehen.''
** The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.
** [[Friedrich Schiller]], ''Fiesco'', III. 4.

* Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want can quench the eye's bright grace.
** [[Walter Scott]], ''Marmion'' (1808), Canto I, Stanza 28.

* Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigour of the traveller.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'' (c. 1595-6), Act IV, scene 3, line 305.

* Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation. Hal: 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.
** [[William Shakespeare]], [[Henry IV, Part 1|''Henry IV'', Part I]] (c. 1597), Act I, scene 2, line 116.

* Another lean, unwashed artificer.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[King John]]'' (1598), Act IV, scene 2, line 201.

* I have had my labour for my travail.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' (c. 1602), Act I, scene 1, line 72.

* The labour we delight in physics pain.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act II, scene 3, line 55.

* What work's, my countrymen, in hand? where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? speak, I pray you.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Coriolanus]]'' (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 1, line 55.

* A man who has no office to go to—I don't care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no conception.
** [[Bernard Shaw]], ''Irrational Knot'', Chapter XVIII.

* I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero…. I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
** [[Bernard Shaw]], ''Man and Superman'' (1903), Act III.

* A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
** [[Bernard Shaw]], ''Unsocial Socialist'', Chapter V.

* Many faint with toil, That few may know the cares and woe of sloth.
** [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], ''Queen Mab'' (1813), Canto III.

* How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!
** [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], ''Queen Mab'' (1813), Part V, Stanza 9.

* Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
** [[Syrus]], ''Maxims''. 357.

** Labour of love.
** [[First Epistle to the Thessalonians|I Thessalonians]]. I. 3.

* ''Ne laterum laves.''
** Do not wash bricks. (Waste your labor).
** [[Terence]], ''Phormio'', I, IV. 9. A Greek proverb.

* With starving labor pampering idle waste; To tear at pleasure the defected land.
** [[James Thomson (poet)|James Thomson]], Liberty, Part IV, line 1,160.

* The labourer is worthy of his reward.
** [[First Epistle to Timothy|I Timothy]]. V. 18; Luke. X. 7. (hire).

* A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.
** [[W:Second Epistle to Timothy|II Timothy]], II. 15.

* Clamorous pauperism feasteth While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
** [[Martin Tupper]], ''Of Discretion''.

* Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
** [[Henry Van Dyke]], ''Toiling of Felix'', last line.

* Labor omnia vincit improbus.
** Stubborn labor conquers everything.
** [[Virgil]], ''Georgics'' (c. 29 BC), I. 145.

* Work spares us from three [[evils]]: [[boredom]], '''vice''' and [[Poverty|need]].
** [[Voltaire]],''Candide, ou l'Optimisme'' (1759) Chapter 30. Conclusion.

* Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest.
** [[William Watson]], ''New National Anthem''.

* But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in, And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve, Then is the day of crumbling not far off.
** [[William Watson]], ''The Mother of Doom'' (August 28, 1919).

* In books, or work, or healthful play.
** [[Isaac Watts]], ''Divine Songs'', XX.

* Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of [[capital]], but capital solicits the aid of labor.
** [[Daniel Webster]], speech, April, 1824.

* There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
** [[H. G. Wells]], ''Outline of History'', Chapter XLI. Par. 4.

* Ah, little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time.
** [[Walt Whitman]], ''Song of the Exposition'', I.

* Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.
** [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], ''The Curse of the Charter-Breakers'', Stanza 21.

* ''Ah vitam perdidi operse nihil agendo.''
** Ah, my life is lost in laboriously doing nothing.
** [[Josiah Woodward]], ''Fair Warnings to a Careless World'', p. 97. Ed. 1736, quoting Merick Casaubon.

==''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989)==
* The day is short, the labor long, the workers are idle, and reward is great, and the Master is urgent.
** [[Aboth]], 2:15, saying of Rabbi Tarfon. Pirkay Avot, often known in English as the "Chapters of the Fathers", is the best known of the books of the Mishnah, first part of the Talmud. Translations vary; that above is from A Treasury of Jewish Quotations, ed. Joseph L. Baron, p. 277 (1956).

* Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
** Attributed to Sir [[James Matthew Barrie]], ''The International Encyclopedia of Quotations'', comp. John P. Bradley, Leo F. Daniels, and Thomas C. Jones, p. 781 (1978). Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989).

* The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,—honest work, which you intend getting done.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], inaugural address as rector of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2, 1866.—Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 6 (vol. 29 of The Works of Thomas Carlyle), p. 455 (1899, reprinted 1969).

* Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.
** [[Calvin Coolidge]], speech to the Massachusetts state Senate on being elected its president, Boston, Massachusetts, January 7, 1914.—Coolidge, Have Faith in Massachusetts, p. 7–8 (1919).

* Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
** [[Eric Hoffer]], "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer", Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,'" The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 55.

* If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him! If he pays you [[wages]] that supply you your bread and butter, work for him—speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
** [[Elbert Hubbard]], "Get Out or Get in Line", Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard, p. 59–60 (1928).

* In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for man's interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nation's life.
** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], Manpower Report of the President, March 5, 1965. ''Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965'', book 1, p. 262.

* I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
** Attributed to [[Helen Keller]], Charles L. Wallis, The Treasure Chest, p. 240 (1983). Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989).

* As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
** Sir [[Walter Scott]], letter to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, December 30, 1808.—John Gibson Lockhart, The Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol. 3, p. 144 (1902, reprinted 1983). Another use of this proverb was attributed, in an obituary, to [[[[Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet|Sir Alexander Cockburn]], Lord Chief Justice of England. "He subsequently acquired a large practice in London in railway and election cases. Although he did his best for his clients, he was careful that they should do their duty by him, and the story is told that on one occasion, when an election committee met, Mr. Cockburn, the counsel for one of the parties, was absent because his fee had not accompanied the brief and the only message left was that he had gone to the Derby, with the remark that 'a man might as well play for nothing as work for nothing.'" ''Canada Law Journal'', January 1, 1881, p. 11.

* ''[[w:Workers of the world, unite!|Workers of the world, unite!]]''
** The Communist Manifesto (1848), by [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]
** Russian: ''Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes!'' The phrase later appeared in the State Emblem of the Soviet Union, starting in 1919.

* You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.
** Captain [[John Smith]], advice to his company when he was governor of Jamestown Colony, Virginia, 1608.—Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles, vol. 1, chapter 10, p. 174 (1907). The preceding paragraph notes that "six houres each day was spent in worke, the rest in Pastime and merry exercises, but the untowardnesse of the greatest number caused the President [to] advise as followeth".

==''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904)==
: Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, ''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 164-165.

* The power of arbitrarily dismissing those in one's employ, is a power exercised in a great degree over a vast number of persons in this country, without their having any redress at law. Put the case of a day labourer or ordinary servant. You may refuse to give him a character, and he has no redress. If you give him a false character, he has the means of redress, but that is of a very different kind. And this is the law of the land.
** Shadwell, V.-C, ''Ranger v. Great Western Rail. Co.'' (1838), 2 Jur. (0. S.) 789.

* The possession of the servant is the possession of the master.
** Hide, C.J., ''King v. Burgess'' (1663), Ray. (Sir Thos.) Rep. 85.

* Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.
** [[Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon|Lord Kenyon]], C.J., ''The King v. Inhabitants of St. Paul's'', Bedford (1797), 6 T. R. 454.

==''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'' (1895)==
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, ''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'' (1895).

* No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will.
** [[Henry Ward Beecher]], p. 368.

* Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
** [[Henry Ward Beecher]], p. 438.

* Blessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work, and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], p. 367.

* Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled, And care is light, for Thou hast cared; Let not our works with self be soiled, Nor in unsimple ways ensnared. Through life's long day and death's dark night, O gentle Jesus! be our light.
** [[Frederick William Faber]], p. 369.

* No man is base who does a true work; for true action is the highest being. No man is miserable that does a true work; for right action is the highest happiness. No man is isolated that does a true work; for useful action is the highest harmony — it is the highest harmony with nature and with souls — it is living association with men — and it is practical fellowship with God.
** [[Henry Giles]], p. 369.

* Man must work. That is certain as the sun. But he may work grudgingly, or he may work gratefully; he may work as a man, or he may work as a machine. He cannot always choose his work, but he can do it in a generous temper, and with an up-looking heart. There is no work so rude, that he may not exalt it; there is no work so impassive, that he may not breathe a soul into it; there is no work so dull, that he may not enliven it.
** [[Henry Giles]], p. 369.

* A man's labors must pass like the sunrises and sunsets of the world. The next thing, not the last, must be his care.
** [[George MacDonald]], p. 369.

* Labor is not, as some have erroneously supposed, a penal clause of the original curse. There was labor, bright, healthful, unfatiguing, in unfallen Paradise. By sin, labor became drudgery — the earth was restrained from her spontaneous fertility, and the strong arm of the husbandman was required, not to develop, but to "subdue" it. But labor in itself is noble, and is necessary for the ripe unfolding of the highest life.
** [[William Morley Punshon]], p. 367.

* Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.
** [[William Morley Punshon]], p. 367.

* God does not give excellence to men but as the reward of labor.
** Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]], p. 367.

* Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.
** Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]], p. 367.

* The [[Virtue|virtues]], like the body,become strong more by labor than by nourishment.
** [[Jean Paul]], p. 368.

==See also==
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*[[Basic income]] (Universal basice income)
* [[Capitalism]]
*[[Career]]
* [[Employment]]
* [[Exploitation]]
* [[Division of labor]]
*[[Greed]]
* [[General strike]]
*[[Human rights]]
* [[Labour movement|Labor movement]]
*[[Oligarchy]]
* [[Retirement]]
* [[Self respect]]
* [[Servility]]
* [[Scarcity]]
* [[Slavery]]
* [[Vocation]]
* [[Wage]]
* [[Wage slavery]]
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Turkey

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:''This entry is about the country; for the bird, see [[Turkeys]].''
[[File:Flag of Turkey.svg|thumb|I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people — brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region. ~ [[Daniel Hannan]]]]
[[File:Turkey emblem round.svg|thumb|Understand this: Turkey is a country whose warnings should be taken seriously and listened to. Don't test Turkey's patience. Try to win its friendship. ~ [[w:Serdar Kılıç|Serdar Kılıç]]]]
'''[[w:Turkey|Turkey]]''' (Turkish: ''Türkiye''), officially the '''Republic of Turkey''' and '''Türkiye''', is a [[w:Eurasian|Eurasian]] country that stretches across the [[w:Anatolian peninsula|Anatolian peninsula]] in southwestern [[Asia]] and the [[w:Balkan region|Balkan region]] of southeastern [[Europe]].
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== Quotes ==
[[File:Ankara Train Station.JPG|thumb|Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker. ~ [[Voltaire]]]]
[[File:Hagia Sophia Mars 2013.jpg|thumb|All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ~ [[Thomas Paine]]]]
[[File:Turkish Court of Cassation.jpg|thumb|Corruption and bribery have ceased to be criminal acts in Turkey. ~ Tim Franks]]
[[File:Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844–1922).svg|thumbnail|I think that I have said that at three or four meetings before rather than us talking about the problem of Cyprus which makes that it becomes a problem for the Republic as it is worldwide known we ought to talk about the problem of Turkey, it is really a 100% Turkish problem that they're not acting in the way in which they should be acting and if that's the case well ''shove it to them''. ~ [[Rudi Vis]]]]
Hereunder is the [[w:Student Oath (Turkey)|Student Oath]] that all Turkish students had to recite at the beginning of each schoolday until 2013. The original was written in 1933 by [[w:Reşit Galip|Reşit Galip]], the Minister of Education at the time. It has been changed a few times since then, the version that follows is from 1997. "How happy is the one who says I am a Turk" ([[w:Ne mutlu Türküm diyene|Ne mutlu Türküm diyene]]) is a quote from a speech by [[Atatürk]]. The references to Atatürk were not present in the original, they were added in 1972, by then the Turkish military had performed two coups (in [[w:1960 Turkish coup d'état|1960]] and [[w:1971 Turkish military memorandum|1971]]), partly due to them fearing the country was veering away from Atatürk's ideals. (In Turkey, the military traditionally views itself as a guardian of Atatürk's legacy.)
*I am a Turk, honest and hardworking. My principle is to protect the younger, to respect the elder, ''to love my homeland and my nation more than myself.'' My ideal is to rise, to progress. O Great [[Atatürk]] ! On the path that you have paved, I swear to walk incessantly toward the aims that you have set. Let my existence be a gift to the Turkish existence. [[w:Ne mutlu Türküm diyene|How happy is the one who says "I am a Turk!"]] Original: ''Türk'üm, doğruyum, çalışkanım,'' ''İlkem: küçüklerimi korumak, büyüklerimi saymak, yurdumu, milletimi özümden çok sevmektir.'' ''Ülküm: yükselmek, ileri gitmektir.'' ''Ey Büyük Atatürk!'' ''Açtığın yolda, gösterdiğin hedefe durmadan yürüyeceğime ant içerim.'' ''Varlığım Türk varlığına armağan olsun.'' ''[[w:Ne mutlu Türküm diyene|Ne mutlu Türk'üm diyene!]]''

== Quotes about ==
===A===
* Turkey does not leave the rights in Azerbaijan, Syria, Libya, and the East Mediterranean to the mercy of the powerful and unjust, who have grand statements to say; it accumulates the power it needs to claim its rights where necessary. The spectacular performances demonstrated by the armed UAVs, Kirpis (“Hedgehogs,” heavy armored troop carriers), Turkish canons, and all products of the defense industry, were only showing the power of justice.
** [[Yasin Aktay]] [https://www.yenisafak.com/en/columns/yasinaktay/baku-sends-loud-and-clear-message-to-whole-world-after-karabakh-war-2047694 Baku sends 'loud and clear' message to whole world after Karabakh war (13 December 2020)]
* ...O Turkish child of future generations! As you see, even under these circumstances and conditions, it is your duty to save the Turkish Independence and the Republic! The strength that you will need is present in the noble blood which flows in your veins!
**[[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20190110093404/http://www.ataturksociety.org/about-ataturk/ataturks-speech-to-youth/ Address To Turkish Youth] (20 October 1927)

*The Republic of Turkey cannot be a country of sheikhs, dervishes, and disciples. The truest, most real order is the order of civilisation.
**[[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], as quoted in ''Atatürk'ün Söylev ve Demeçleri'', Volume II, p. 215

*The torch that the Turkish nation holds in her hand and in her mind, while marching on the road of progress and civilisation, is positive sciences.
**[[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk%27s_Tenth_Year_Speech speech on the tenth anniversary of the Republic, 1933]

*Turkey's true master is the [[peasant]].
**[[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], as quoted in ''[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=H9ao45JHuVAC&pg=PT27 U.S.A. Toddler Importing as a Turkish Businessman]'' by Thomas Chi, OilUSA.Co, 1 June 2011, p. 27

===B===
*Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.
**[[Napoleon I of France]], as quoted in ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=3MJVAAAAYAAJ NAPOLEON In His Own Words]''
*There are two great virtues that glorify people: The brave woman and the honorable man. Besides these two virtues, there is a virtue that honors both men and women. To be loyal to his country enough to be able to sacrifice his life without hesitation. Turks are heroes with these virtues and virtues. For this reason, Turks can be killed but not defeated.
**[[Napoleon Bonaparte]] {{source}}
*Give me an army of Turks, I will make the entire world your prisoner.
**[[Napoleon Bonaparte]] {{source}}
*The hand of the Turk, who wields the sword with ruthless skill, is a great master in healing the wounds of those he defeated.
**Lord Byron {{source}}

===C===
*Turkey is the norm in Islam. Turkey has a secular constitution. It's a democratic society where you have gender equality between men and women. It's a member of NATO and is in accession talks with the European Union. It's a friend.
**Soner Cagaptay, [http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/turkeys-istanbul-attack-vengeance-will-be-like-rain-from-hell "Turkey's Istanbul Attack Vengeance Will Be Like 'Rain From Hell'"] (29 June 2016), ''CNN''

===D===
*Charge of inferiority is an old dodge. It has been made available for oppression on many occasions... When Russia wanted to take possession of a part of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks were 'an inferior race.'
**[[Frederick Douglass]], [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-the-black-man-wants/ "What the Black Man Wants"], speech in Boston, Massachusetts (1865).

===F===
* People in the judiciary and the police carried out investigations and launched this case, as their duties normally require. '''Apparently they weren't informed of the fact that corruption and bribery have ceased to be criminal acts in Turkey'''.
**Tim Franks, [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25909139 "Turkey's Fethullah Gulen denies corruption probe links"] (27 January 2014), ''BBC News'', United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation.
===H===
*I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people — brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.
**[[Daniel Hannan]], [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dan-hannan-the-republic-will-survive-trump-but-will-the-republicans "The republic will survive Trump, but will the Republicans?"] (3 September 2018), ''The Washington Examiner''

*Turkey had been our ally in the [[World War I|World War]]. Its unfortunate result was as heavy a burden for Turkey as it was for us. [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|The great and ingenious reconstructor of the new Turkey]] gave his Allies, beaten by fate, the first example of resurrection. While Turkey, thanks to the realistic attitude of her State leadership, preserved her independent attitude Yugoslavia fell a victim to British intrigues.
** [[Adolf Hitler]], [[s:Adolf Hitler's Address to the Reichstag (4 May 1941)|addressed to the Reichstag on 4 May 1941]].

===J===
*Relations between Turkey and [[Greece]] are the most fractious of any pair of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 29 member countries. Disputes range from contested offshore hydrocarbon exploration to Athens granting political refugee status to two of eight Turkish officers who fled to Greece after the failed July 2016 coup attempt (Hürriyet Daily News, May 24, 2018). Now, Turkey is protesting Greece’s activities off its Aegean coast. On May 12, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy stated that Turkey claims Greece does not respect the demilitarized status of its islands in the eastern Aegean, adding that NATO warships operating in the Aegean should not use Greek ports there for visits and refueling (Mfa.gov.tr, May 12, 2019). Aksoy’s concerns mask a broader anxiety in Ankara that NATO and the United States may be planning to deepen their military presence in the eastern Mediterranean to include more bases in Greece and its [[w:Aegean islands|Aegean islands]].
** [https://jamestown.org/program/turkey-fumes-as-greece-offers-use-of-eastern-aegean-islands-to-nato-us/ '''''Turkey Fumes as Greece Offers Use of Eastern Aegean Islands to NATO,''' US Eurasia Daily Monitor,] Volume: 16 Issue: 80,[[w: Jamestown Foundation|(The Jamestown Foundation'']]], by [https://jamestown.org/analyst/john-c-k-daly/ John C. K. Daly], (31 May 2019)

===K===
*Understand this: Turkey is a country whose warnings should be taken seriously and listened to. Don't test Turkey's patience. Try to win its friendship.
**[[w:Serdar Kılıç|Serdar Kılıç]], [http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/middleeast/warplane-crashes-near-syria-turkey-border/ ''Twitter''] (24 November 2015).

===M===

*The [[European Union]] and many of its countries, which used to take initiatives in the [[United Nations]] for [[Conflict resolution|peaceful settlements of conflict]], are now one of the most important war assets of the [[NATO|U.S./NATO front]]. Many countries have also been drawn into complicity in breaking [[international law]] through [[w:Category:Wars involving NATO|U.S./U.K./NATO wars]] in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and so on.
**[[Mairead Maguire]] in [https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/14/disturbing-expansion-military-industrial-complex '''''The Disturbing Expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex''', Common Dreams'',] (14 October 2014)

===O===
* Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
** [[Barack Obama|Barack H. Obama II]], [https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/24/remarks-president-obama-and-president-hollande-france-joint-press Remarks by President Obama and President Hollande of France in Joint Press Conference] (24 November 2015)

===P===
* All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
**[[Thomas Paine]], ''The Age of Reason'' (1793), Part I.

===S===
*[I]n [[Germany]] we are giving work to two million people from Turkey.
**[[w:Uli Stielike|Uli Stielike]], as quoted in [http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2003/11/20/232266.html ''Hamburger Abendblatt''] 20 November 2003
**Original German: ''[I]n Deutschland zwei Millionen Menschen aus der Türkei Arbeit geben.''

*We all know the Turkish state is in a position to control its borders. It is not failed state, it is a proper functioning state so we have to negotiate with Turkey for its responsibilities. It is not like Libya which is ungovernable.
**EU Leader, Krzysztof Szczerski, quoted on ''The Guardian'' (February 18, 2016), [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/18/poland-will-not-accept-cut-in-benefits-for-those-already-in-uk-says-aide "Poland will not accept cut in benefits for those already in UK, says aide"]

*“…the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612. This asteroid has only once been seen through a telescope. That was by a Turkish astronomer, in 1909. On making his discovery, the astronomer had presented it to the International Astronomical Congress, in a great demonstration. But he was in Turkish costume, and so nobody would believe what he said. …Fortunately, however, for the reputation of Asteroid B-612, a Turkish dictator made a law that his subjects, under pain of death, should change to European costume. So in 1920 the astronomer gave his demonstration all over again, dressed with impressive style and elegance. And this time everybody accepted his report.”
**The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (translated by Katherine Woods), Piccolo Books in association with Heinemann, Pan Books, London, 1974 (first 1945). Quoted in Talageri, S. (2000). The Rigveda: A historical analysis. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

===T===

===U===
*Turkey doesn’t understand that, for the United States, buying a sophisticated Russian air defense system is a major national security issue that can’t be papered over. But Americans don’t understand that all their tough talk about leveling sanctions against Turkey if the Russian arms sale goes through only plays into Turkish leaders’ hands politically... Speaking at a forum on Ankara-Washington relations hosted by the [[W:Hudson Institute|Hudson Institute in Washington]], Hudson fellow Blaise Misztal said that, to [[W:Tayyip Erdogan|President Tayyip Erdogan]] and his political coalition partners, “sanctions and kicking you out of '[[NATO]] is a winning policy” because it fuels long-standing and growing [[anti-Americanism]] in their nationalist-leaning array of parties. Since 2014, and particularly after a [[W:2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt|failed coup attempt in 2016]] that many Turks believe was known in Washington before it was launched, Erdogan “is becoming closer to [[Vladimir Putin|[Vladimir] Putin]], [[Bashar al-Assad|Bashir al Assad]], [[Iran]] and [[China]]” to burnish his [[nationalist]] credentials, Misztal said. As an example of how this plays out, Erdogan told his parliament Wednesday the nation is “passing through a very critical period, from economy to security.” He warned about plotters still inside its borders and their outside supporters. At the same time as Erdogan spoke, a Turkish newspaper reported the defense ministry is sending troops to [[Russia]] to receive familiarization training for the [[W:S-400 missile system|S-400 air defense system]].
**[[W:The U.S. Naval Institute|The U.S. Naval Institute]] News, [https://news.usni.org/2019/05/22/panel-us-turkey-dispute-over-buying-russian-air-defense-system-has-deeper-roots '''''Panel: US/Turkey Dispute Over Buying Russian Air Defense System Has Deeper Roots'''''] by [https://news.usni.org/author/jgrady John Grady], (22 May 2019)

===V===
*...'''I think that I have said that at three or four meetings before rather than us talking about the problem of Cyprus which makes that it becomes a problem for the Republic as it is worldwide known we ought to talk about the problem of Turkey, it is really a 100% Turkish problem that they're not acting in the way in which they should be acting and if that's the case well ''shove it to them''!'''
** [[Rudi Vis]], ''[At the Friends of Cyprus meeting in the Jubilee Room at the House of Commons, 3rd July 2007]'' (see [[Rudi Vis#External links|External links]] for transcript).

* I hate calumny so much that I do not want even to impute foolishness to the Turks, although I detest them as tyrants over women and enemies of the arts.
** [[Voltaire]], ''[http://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volmoham.html The Philosophical Dictionary]'' selected and translated by H.I. Woolf (1924)

===W===
* We became acquainted we found the people, whether Christian or Turkish, prevailingly of a friendly, kindly, progressive type, as is often the case with simple-minded people in times of peace.
** {{cite book
| author = George Edward White
| title = Adventuring with Anatolia College
| year = 1940
| publisher = Herald-Register
| pages = p. 18
}}

* I always liked the common Turkish people unless they were stirred to passion by militarists.
** {{cite book
| author = George Edward White
| title = Adventuring with Anatolia College
| year = 1940
| publisher = Herald-Register
| pages = p. 18
}}

* In the College two classes were called preparatory, while four bore the ordinary college class names. The schools from which our students came did not carry them far. When Americans first came to Turkey, hardly any vernacular was taught anywhere. Instruction was in classic tongues and religious lore. But our students for the most part came with a purpose in modern life. They wanted to attain a worth-while and useful manhood and they felt that the College could give them a start.
** {{cite book
| author = George Edward White
| title = Adventuring with Anatolia College
| year = 1940
| publisher = Herald-Register
| pages = p. 19
}}

* One student told me in after years that when he came to Marsovan [a city in Turkey] he was really illiterate, that is, he could not fairly read his native tongue, or any other. But he had no chance of learning more in his native village. For a number of months he was cow-boy for an American family, and eagerly studying too.
** {{cite book
| author = George Edward White
| title = Adventuring with Anatolia College
| year = 1940
| publisher = Herald-Register
| pages = p. 19
}}

* Another time I was riding alone with a Circassian, and in the talk of man to man in such companionship, asked him a bit about his occupation and his affairs. "Sometimes I get a traveller to escort, like you", he replied, "and then I take him, but my regular business is smuggling tobacco. Every man in our village has a regular job, some are smugglers, some are farmers, and some are thieves". I asked him about his chance of getting caught, and he promptly said, "There are two kinds of smugglers; one kind gets caught and one kind doesn't get caught", and he added a pious expression of gratitude to the good Lord that he never had been put to shame yet. We knew very well that the mounted police of Anatolia were largely recruited from among the robbers and smugglers of the mountain roads. One of the most effective ways of securing official employment, and who knows what promotion later, was to acquire the reputation of a daring hold-up man on the mountains."
** {{cite book
| author = George Edward White
| title = Adventuring with Anatolia College
| year = 1940
| publisher = Herald-Register
| pages = p. 25
}}
===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''===
:Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 823.

* The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], letter to a meeting at St. James Hall, London, 1876. See also his article on 'Das Niebelungen Lied'' in Westminster Review. 1831. No. 29. Also his Letter to George Howard, Nov. 24, 1876.

* [Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.
** [[William Gladstone]], speech (May 7, 1877).

* The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.
** ''Mahomet II''. It was translated "La Porte Sublima" by the Italians. See E. S. Creasy, ''History of the Ottoman Turks'', p. 96, ed. 1877.

* [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
** [[Montesquieu]], ''Persian Letters'', I, 19.

* We have on our hands a sick man,—a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.]
** [[Nicholas I]], of Russia. Conversation with Sir George Hamilton Seymour. (1853). See ''Blue Book'' (1854).

* [The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.
** Sir [[Thomas Roe]], Ambassador to Constantinople. See Buchanan, Letter, 375.

* Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.
** [[Voltaire]] to Catherine II. In the Rundschau (April, 1878).

{{Disputed begin}}

==Disputed==
*For nearly five hundred years, these rules and theories of an Arab Shaikh and the interpretations of generations of lazy and good-for-nothing priests have decided the civil and criminal law of Turkey. They have decided the form of the Constitution, the details of the lives of each Turk, his food, his hours of rising and sleeping the shape of his clothes, the routine of the midwife who produced his children, what he learned in his schools, his customs, his thoughts-even his most intimate habits. Islam – this theology of an immoral Arab – is a dead thing. Possibly it might have suited tribes in the desert. It is no good for modern, progressive state. God’s revelation! There is no God! These are only the chains by which the priests and bad rulers bound the people down. A ruler who needs religion is a weakling. No weaklings should rule.
** [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], as quoted in ''Grey Wolf: Mustafa Kemal – An intimate study of a dictator'' (1932) by Harold Courtenay Armstrong, pp. 199-200

{{Disputed end}}

==See also==
*[[Europe|European Union]]

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* [http://www.oswego.edu/~baloglou/anatolia/anat-5.html "Ottoman Anatolia: #5: Mountain life (1892)"], George Baloglou, Associate Professor of Mathematics, [[w:State University of New York|State University of New York]] - Oswego

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Anatoly Shariy

2022-08-08T16:45:13Z

Spafky:

[[File:Anatoly Shariy 2018.jpg|thumb|Anatoly Shariy in 2018]]

'''[[w:Anatoly Shariy|Anatoly Anatolyevich Shariy]]''' (born August 20, 1978) is a Ukrainian journalist, videoblogger and politician. Ukrainian media commonly refer to him as "pro-Russian" and "anti-Ukrainian", labels he denies and has started defamation lawsuits over. In June 2019 he founded a party, Party of Shariy, which participated in that year's parliamentary election.

== Quotes ==
* The danger is that sometimes skinheads want to join the movement, [our] movement has nothing to do with that… They [homosexual people] should sit and be happy that they are not getting killed. (…) From their side should be respect; on my part there is nothing to respect them for, [they are] sick people.
** {{Cite web|url=https://ge.boell.org/sites/default/files/final_publication_-eng_gender_1.pdf|title=Manifold Angels of Gender|website=www.ge.boell.org|access-date=2019-10-05}}, ''Heinrich Böll Foundation''. p. 42-43. (2008)

* Not so long ago, I got into an argument with one of the readers, who is also my friend. She ardently defends the rights of gays and lesbians, whom I, in her words, “unjustly insulted” in many articles."What do you care about them ?!" - once again, like hundreds of commentators on articles before her, the girl asked. And for the umpteenth time, like hundreds of commentators, I answered - I don't care about them. I do not distinguish them from the dog shit on the side of the road, I do not care about them, but I do care about my children and the future of the territory with which my life is connected...
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20100622051511/https://www.obozrevatel.com/news/2010/3/22/357746.htm Голубая ржавчина] (2010)

* I hate [[Adolf Hitler|Adolf Schicklgruber]]. This is a vile rascal and all that. But was he really wrong, sending this abomination [homosexuals] together with gypsies [...] into gas chambers and for sterilization???!!! What do you think - return the article for sodomy now - will then the number of sick youngsters and "stars" with broken asses decrease?
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20190223060741/https://politiko.ua/blogpost17024 А если гомосексуалистов кастрировать?]
** {{cite web|url=https://m.censor.net.ua/ua/news/3204930/shariyi_vyhvalyaye_gitlera_gazovi_kamery_zaklykaye_do_znyschennya_natsmenshyn_i_gomoseksualiv_yes_scho|title=Шарій вихваляє Гітлера, газові камери, закликає до знищення нацменшин і гомосексуалів. ЄС, що надав йому притулок, має про це знати, - Іванов. Скриншот|publisher=censor.net|date=2020-06-29}}

* Gypsies are the filth of the world. Europe is gradually waking up, and under the outraged cries of tolerasts, it begins to clean the dirt. When will we wake up?
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20101113231235/http://asharij.hiblogger.net/963461.html Цыгане - грязь мира]
**{{cite web|url=https://m.censor.net.ua/ua/news/3204930/shariyi_vyhvalyaye_gitlera_gazovi_kamery_zaklykaye_do_znyschennya_natsmenshyn_i_gomoseksualiv_yes_scho|title=Шарій вихваляє Гітлера, газові камери, закликає до знищення нацменшин і гомосексуалів. ЄС, що надав йому притулок, має про це знати, - Іванов. Скриншот|publisher=censor.net|date=2020-06-29}} (2010)

* In Iran, after the 1979 Islamic revolution, over 4,000 lesbians and homosexuals were sentenced to death. The clerical regime also executed many women for extramarital sex. [...] I believe that in Iran with prostitution, pedophilia and rape the situation is hundreds of times better than in our extremely cultured and civilized country.
** [http://prochurch.info/index.php/more/16607 Голубая ржавчина. Часть-3]
** {{Cite web|url=https://ge.boell.org/sites/default/files/final_publication_-eng_gender_1.pdf|title=Manifold Angels of Gender|website=www.ge.boell.org|access-date=2019-10-05}}, ''Heinrich Böll Foundation''. p. 46-47 and p. 57. (2010)

* Unpleasant information came to me that in [[Kyiv]], the inhabitants of Western Ukraine suddenly began to tell the people of Kyiv how they should behave, how they have to love Ukraine, how they need to sing the anthem, walk with the flag. I have several friends from Western Ukraine, I respect these people, I am proud of friendship with them, these are quite sane people. I ask my appeal to the irresponsible women not to consider him chauvinism and racism and something else. In fact, until the 39th year you were nobody. You were instead of oxen, you were like marmots on their holes dug in the mountains. Or buried, you were dug in the 39th. Do you understand? The regions of Kyiv, Zaporizhzhya, Poltava have something to hate Stalin. You do not, you have to put Stalin a golden monument in one of your villages. And you have to pray at this monument in fact, because you saw civilization in the 39th year. You started to wipe your ass in the 39th. When they tell me they served soups to the Poles, I say this is impossible. They served soups to farm laborers of the Poles. Because no one would have allowed them to the Poles. You did not have land. You... I am Ukrainian, and you are not Ukrainians. You second... there, second... well, I don’t say second grade, no, you are just half-breeds. Three-timers, foursquads. You are half fucking Poles, half you are Hungarians, half you the devil knows what you are really. Do not tell the people of Kyiv how they should behave, how they need to love the country, love their flag. Because it is not your flag. You have no flag. You are not Ukrainians.
** [https://24tv.ua/ru/anatolij_sharij_biografija_kandidata_partija_kto_takoj_sharij_n1174287 Кто такой Анатолий Шарий: биография скандального видеоблоггера] (2014)

* On March 24, Anatoly Shariy published a post with a spontaneous confession about his old statements<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-03-24|title=Шарий извинился за свои высказывания касательно геев и ромов|url=https://vesti.ua/politika/sharij-izvinilsya-za-svoe-proshloe|access-date=2021-03-24|website=ВЕСТИ|language=ru}}</ref><ref>[https://t.me/ASupersharij/6278]</ref>: {{Cquote|It's funny when the [[Office of the President of Ukraine|Office of the President]] tries to throw in my statements that were made 11 years ago (generously sprinkled with fakes, fabricated at quick fix) about [[Gay|gays]] or [[Romani people|Roma]]. Like, look, he's a Nazi, what's more, he's a real fascist. I never apologized for those statements. Because I 'apologized' with a couple hundred quality Nazi investigations, not with idle chatter. I 'apologized' when I covered the smashing of a camp or the murder of a Romani man in a train station. In a few years I have become the Nazi's number one enemy, and I am quite satisfied with that. As for gay people. I'm just a guy from Karavaevka. I spent my childhood in the [[Soviet Union]]. I had never seen these gays in my life, I had never been to [[European Union|Europe]], and I was sure they would attack me with obscene suggestions as soon as I stepped off the ladder. As a [[Christians|Christian]] I will always stand by my opinion, but I must say that I have never had a problem with a gay man in my life. [...] I've been living in a different world for 10 years. And for a long time I have demonstrated by deeds, not by talking, how you can change yourself in your head, in your priorities, in your goals, and even in your appearance, and, of course, in your attitude toward certain things. Thus [[Volodymyr Zelensky|Zelensky's]] employees, who are quite lacking in intelligence, do not understand that they, once again, create a plus instead of a mythical minus for me. I was able to transcend this and become cleaner, calmer and more humane. I personally always remember [[Saul]], who persecuted the first Christians, imprisoning them, and then went blind and had an epiphany. And he became [[Paul the Apostle|Paul]], the apostle. Shariy is fully apologetic about his past. He digested it some time ago and moved on. And has gone very far in 11 years. This is quite noticeable by the barely audible bark sounding deaf somewhere dozens of miles behind him".}}

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Anonymity

2022-07-31T09:12:30Z

Spafky: /* Quotes */

[[File:Anon mossos retallades.jpg|244px|thumb|right|Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their [[beauty]]… ~ [[Louisa May Alcott]] ]]
'''[[w:Anonymity|Anonymity]]''' is derived from the [[w:Koine Greek|Greek]] word '''ἀνωνυμία''', ''anonymia'', meaning "without a [[name]]" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.

This page contains quotes on the subject of anonymity; for quotes for which the author is not publicly known, see '''[[Anonymous]]''', and for quotes by or about the social action group see '''[[Anonymous (group)‎‎]]'''.

== Quotes ==
[[File:George Eliot grave -Highgate Cemetery, London, England-25May2009.jpg|246px|thumb|right|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]] ]]
[[File:Printing4 Walk of Ideas Berlin.JPG|246px|thumb|right|Anonymity thereby provides a way for a writer who may be personally unpopular to ensure that readers will not prejudge her message simply because they do not like its proponent. ~ [[John Paul Stevens]] ]]
[[File:US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens - 1976 official portrait.jpg|246px|thumb|right|Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. ~ [[John Paul Stevens]] ]]
[[File:Occupy Wall Street Anonymous 2011 Shankbone.JPG |244px|thumb|right|[[Man]] is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a [[mask]], and he will tell you the [[truth]]. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] ]]

* '''We [[share]] the collective [[idea]] of [[Anonymous (group)‎‎|ANONYMOUS]] worldwide; we are the [[people]]. We [[believe]] in non-violent, [[Peace|peaceful]] [[civil disobedience]].'''
** [[Anonymous]] introductory page for [http://www.anonymousuk.org/about.htm Anonymous UK]

* '''We are Anonymous.''' We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. '''Expect us.'''
** [[Anonymous]] representative of the activist group [[Anonymous (group)‎‎|Anonymous]], as quoted in ''Yale Law and Technology'' (9 November 2009).

* "People who make sacrifices are very much loved and admired, aren't they? " she asked, earnestly. "If the sacrifice is a true one. But '''many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their [[beauty]]''', though perhaps it makes them harder, for we all like sympathy," and Dr. Alec sighed a patient sort of sigh.
** [[Louisa May Alcott]], ''Eight Cousins, or, The Aunt-hill'' (1875), p. 106.

* My efforts have gone through many incarnations, and at one time, I would not post the face of the female, I wouldn’t post her name, and I wouldn’t post any information. [But] many times, family members get in touch with me because they’ve lost touch with this person and are trying to locate them. Sometimes, law enforcement will say that it’s a runaway that they’ve been trying to locate. I just found that there was no reason to maintain their anonymity.
** Brian Bates [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/drone-vigilante-brian-bates-johntv-oklahoma-spies-on-sex-workers?trk_source=popular Drone Vigilante Brian Bates JohnTV Oklohoma Spies on Sex Workers] [[w:VICE|VICE]]

* '''Never answer an anonymous letter.'''
** [[Yogi Berra]], as quoted in ''He Who Laughs, Lasts'' (2004) by Anson R. Nash, Jr., p. 108.

* We talked of the casuistical question, Whether it was allowable at any time to depart from [[Truth]]? [[Samuel Johnson|JOHNSON.]]''' 'The general rule is, that Truth should never be violated, because it is of the utmost importance to the comfort of life, that we should have a full security by mutual faith; and occasional inconveniences should be willingly suffered that we may preserve it.''' There must, however, be some exceptions. '''If, for instance, a murderer should ask you which way a man is gone, you may tell him what is not true, because you are under a previous obligation not to betray a man to a murderer'''.' BOSWELL. 'Supposing the person who wrote ''[[Junius]]'' were asked whether he was the authour, might he deny it?' JOHNSON. 'I don't know what to say to this. If you were sure that he wrote ''Junius'', would you, if he denied it, think as well of him afterwards? Yet it may be urged, that what a man has no right to ask, you may refuse to communicate; and there is no other effectual mode of preserving a secret and an important secret, the discovery of which may be very hurtful to you, but a flat denial; for if you are silent, or hesitate, or evade, it will be held equivalent to a confession. But stay, Sir; here is another case. Supposing the authour had told me confidentially that he had written ''Junius'', and I were asked if he had, I should hold myself at [[liberty]] to deny it, as being under a previous promise, express or implied, to conceal it. Now what I ought to do for the authour, may I not do for myself?
** [[James Boswell]] in ''Life Of Johnson'' (1794), Vol. 4.

* A factor that is almost indispensable to this kind of behavior [serial killing] is '''the mobility of contemporary American life'''. Living in large centers of population, and living with lots of people, you can get used to dealing with strangers. It's the anonymity factor, and it has a twofold effect. First of all if you're among strangers you're less likely to remember them, or care what they're doing or what they should, or should not, be doing. If they should or shouldn't be there. Secondly, you're conditioned almost not to be afraid of strangers. Mobility is very important here. As we've seen...the individual's [himself in third person] modus operandi was moving large distances in an attempt to camouflage what he was doing. Moving these distances, he was able to take advantage of the anonymity factor.
** [[Ted Bundy]], quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1999) The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Paperback; revised ed.). Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press. pg. 326

* '''We are clandestine because we refuse the spectacle of celebrity and we are everyone. Because without real names, faces or noses, we show that our words, dreams, and desires are more important than our biographies.''' Because we reject the society of surveillance that watches, controls, spies upon, records and checks our every move. Because by hiding our identity we recover the power of our acts. Because with greasepaint we give resistance a funny face and become visible once again.
** Official statement of the [[Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army]] at [http://www.clownarmy.org/about/about.html ClownArmy.org, the official CIRCA site].

* '''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]], ''[[w:Middlemarch|Middlemarch : A Study of Provincial Life ]]'' (1871).

* [[Faith]] lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the [[criticism]] coming from [[society]], from [[politics]], from [[history]], for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. '''It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in [[doubt]], which drives a wedge into the [[world]] of false assurances.'''
** [[Jacques Ellul]], ''L'espérance oubliée'' (1972) [''Hope in Time of Abandonment''] as translated by C. Edward Hopkin (1973).

* '''[[w:Inigo Montoya|Inigo Montoya]]''': Who are you? '''[[w:Dread Pirate Roberts|Man in Black]]''': No one of consequence. '''Inigo Montoya''': I must know... '''Man in Black''': Get used to disappointment.
** [[w:William Goldman|William Goldman]], ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' (1987).

* '''Sacrificing anonymity may be the next generation's price for keeping precious [[liberty]], as prior generations paid in blood.'''
** Hal Norby, as quoted in ''The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?'' (1998), by [[David Brin]], p. 3.

* Fear names. Names have power in identity. Others can use names as weapons. Names are a hook that can be used to track you across the planes. Remain nameless, and you shall be safe. I am the Nameless One.
** ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' (1999).

* Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million, five hundred six, reducing me to specks of voiceless dust, just as, in all good time, they will trample my son who is not my son, and his son who will not be his, and his who will not be his, until the thousand and first generation, until a thousand and one midnights have bestowed their terrible gifts and a thousand and one children have died, because '''it is the privilege and the curse of midnight’s children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace.'''
** [[Salman Rushdie]], ''[[w:Midnight's Children|Midnight's Children]]'' (1980).

* If I had remained invisible, the truth would have stayed hidden. '''I couldn't allow that.'''
** Sonmi-451, in ''[[Cloud_Atlas_(film)#Sonmi-451|Cloud Atlas]]'' (2012) based on the novel by [[David Mitchell (author)|David Mitchell]]

* Great works of literature have frequently been produced by authors writing under assumed names. '''Despite readers' curiosity and the public's interest in identifying the creator of a work of art, an author generally is free to decide whether or not to disclose her true identity. The decision in favor of anonymity may be motivated by fear of economic or official retaliation, by concern about social ostracism, or merely by a desire to preserve as much of one's privacy as possible. Whatever the motivation may be, at least in the field of literary endeavor, the interest in having anonymous works enter the marketplace of ideas unquestionably outweighs any public interest in requiring disclosure as a condition of entry.'''
** [[John Paul Stevens]], ''[[w:McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission|McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion]]'', 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

* On occasion, '''quite apart from any threat of persecution, an advocate may believe her ideas will be more persuasive if her readers are unaware of her identity. Anonymity thereby provides a way for a writer who may be personally unpopular to ensure that readers will not prejudge her message simply because they do not like its proponent.'''
** [[John Paul Stevens]], ''[[w:McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission|McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion]]'', 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

* '''Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. … It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]], and of the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society. The right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. But political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse.'''
** [[John Paul Stevens]], ''[[w:McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission|McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion]]'', 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

* '''You know [[C. S. Lewis]], whom I greatly admire, said there’s no such thing as creative writing. … He said there is, in [[fact]], only one Creator and we mix. That’s our function, to mix the elements He has given us.''' See how wonderfully [[anonymous]] that leaves us? You can’t say, “''I'' did this; this gross matrix of flesh and blood and sinews and nerves did this.” '''What nonsense! I’m given these things to make a [[pattern]] out of. Something gave it to me. I’ve always loved the idea of the craftsman, the anonymous man.''' For instance, I’ve always wanted my books to be called the work of [[Anon]], because '''Anon is my favorite literary character.''' If you look through an anthology of poems that go from the far past into the present time, you’ll see that all the poems signed “Anon” have a very specific flavor that is one flavor all the way through the centuries. '''I think, perhaps arrogantly, of myself as “Anon.” I would like to think that ''Mary Poppins'' and the other books could be called back to make that change. But I suppose it’s too late for that.'''
** [[P. L. Travers]], author of the [[w:Mary Poppins|Mary Poppins]] stories, in [http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3099/the-art-of-fiction-no-63-p-l-travers ''The Paris Review'' No. 86 (Winter 1982)].

* [[Man]] is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a [[mask]], and he will tell you the [[truth]].
** [[Oscar Wilde]], ''The Critic as Artist'' (1891).

* '''I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.'''
** [[Virginia Woolf]], in ''[[w:A Room of One's Own|A Room of One's Own]]'' (1929), Ch. 3; very often misquoted as "'''For most of [[history]], Anonymous was a woman.'''".

* '''I have many [[names]], and none of them matter.'''
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

* '''No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.''' The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming. '''The thing that has never happened before is still happening. It is still a miracle.''' The great burning blossom squats, flowing, upon the limb of the world, excreting the ash of the world, and being none of these things I have named and at the same time all of them, and ''this'' is reality — the Nameless.
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

* '''I charge you — forget the names you bear, forget the words I speak as soon as they are uttered. Look, rather, upon the Nameless within yourselves, which arises as I address it.''' It hearkens not to my words, but to the reality within me, of which it is part. This is the ''[[atman]]'', which hears ''me'' rather than my words. All else is unreal.''' To define is to lose. The essence of all things is the Nameless. The Nameless is unknowable, mightier even than [[w:Brahma|Brahma]]. '''Things pass, but the essence remains. You sit, therefore, in the midst of a dream. "Essence dreams it a dream of form. Forms pass, but the essence remains, dreaming new dreams. Man names these dreams and thinks to have captured the essence, not knowing that he invokes the unreal. These stones, these walls, these bodies you see seated about you are poppies and water and the sun. They are the dreams of the Nameless.''' They are fire, if you like. 
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

* '''To struggle against the dreamers who dream ugliness, be they men or gods, cannot but be the will of the Nameless.'''
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

* '''Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within [[w:Saṃsāra|Samsara]], perhaps to create a thing of [[beauty]].'''
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

==External links==
{{Wikipedia}}
{{Wiktionary|anonymity}}

[[Category:Themes]]

Anonymity

2022-07-31T09:11:54Z

Spafky: ted bundy

[[File:Anon mossos retallades.jpg|244px|thumb|right|Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their [[beauty]]… ~ [[Louisa May Alcott]] ]]
'''[[w:Anonymity|Anonymity]]''' is derived from the [[w:Koine Greek|Greek]] word '''ἀνωνυμία''', ''anonymia'', meaning "without a [[name]]" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.

This page contains quotes on the subject of anonymity; for quotes for which the author is not publicly known, see '''[[Anonymous]]''', and for quotes by or about the social action group see '''[[Anonymous (group)‎‎]]'''.

== Quotes ==
[[File:George Eliot grave -Highgate Cemetery, London, England-25May2009.jpg|246px|thumb|right|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]] ]]
[[File:Printing4 Walk of Ideas Berlin.JPG|246px|thumb|right|Anonymity thereby provides a way for a writer who may be personally unpopular to ensure that readers will not prejudge her message simply because they do not like its proponent. ~ [[John Paul Stevens]] ]]
[[File:US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens - 1976 official portrait.jpg|246px|thumb|right|Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. ~ [[John Paul Stevens]] ]]
[[File:Occupy Wall Street Anonymous 2011 Shankbone.JPG |244px|thumb|right|[[Man]] is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a [[mask]], and he will tell you the [[truth]]. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] ]]

* '''We [[share]] the collective [[idea]] of [[Anonymous (group)‎‎|ANONYMOUS]] worldwide; we are the [[people]]. We [[believe]] in non-violent, [[Peace|peaceful]] [[civil disobedience]].'''
** [[Anonymous]] introductory page for [http://www.anonymousuk.org/about.htm Anonymous UK]

* '''We are Anonymous.''' We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. '''Expect us.'''
** [[Anonymous]] representative of the activist group [[Anonymous (group)‎‎|Anonymous]], as quoted in ''Yale Law and Technology'' (9 November 2009).

* "People who make sacrifices are very much loved and admired, aren't they? " she asked, earnestly. "If the sacrifice is a true one. But '''many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their [[beauty]]''', though perhaps it makes them harder, for we all like sympathy," and Dr. Alec sighed a patient sort of sigh.
** [[Louisa May Alcott]], ''Eight Cousins, or, The Aunt-hill'' (1875), p. 106.

* My efforts have gone through many incarnations, and at one time, I would not post the face of the female, I wouldn’t post her name, and I wouldn’t post any information. [But] many times, family members get in touch with me because they’ve lost touch with this person and are trying to locate them. Sometimes, law enforcement will say that it’s a runaway that they’ve been trying to locate. I just found that there was no reason to maintain their anonymity.
** Brian Bates [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/drone-vigilante-brian-bates-johntv-oklahoma-spies-on-sex-workers?trk_source=popular Drone Vigilante Brian Bates JohnTV Oklohoma Spies on Sex Workers] [[w:VICE|VICE]]

* '''Never answer an anonymous letter.'''
** [[Yogi Berra]], as quoted in ''He Who Laughs, Lasts'' (2004) by Anson R. Nash, Jr., p. 108.

* We talked of the casuistical question, Whether it was allowable at any time to depart from [[Truth]]? [[Samuel Johnson|JOHNSON.]]''' 'The general rule is, that Truth should never be violated, because it is of the utmost importance to the comfort of life, that we should have a full security by mutual faith; and occasional inconveniences should be willingly suffered that we may preserve it.''' There must, however, be some exceptions. '''If, for instance, a murderer should ask you which way a man is gone, you may tell him what is not true, because you are under a previous obligation not to betray a man to a murderer'''.' BOSWELL. 'Supposing the person who wrote ''[[Junius]]'' were asked whether he was the authour, might he deny it?' JOHNSON. 'I don't know what to say to this. If you were sure that he wrote ''Junius'', would you, if he denied it, think as well of him afterwards? Yet it may be urged, that what a man has no right to ask, you may refuse to communicate; and there is no other effectual mode of preserving a secret and an important secret, the discovery of which may be very hurtful to you, but a flat denial; for if you are silent, or hesitate, or evade, it will be held equivalent to a confession. But stay, Sir; here is another case. Supposing the authour had told me confidentially that he had written ''Junius'', and I were asked if he had, I should hold myself at [[liberty]] to deny it, as being under a previous promise, express or implied, to conceal it. Now what I ought to do for the authour, may I not do for myself?
** [[James Boswell]] in ''Life Of Johnson'' (1794), Vol. 4.

* A factor that is almost indispensable to this kind of behavior [serial killing] is the mobility of contemporary American life. Living in large centers of population, and living with lots of people, you can get used to dealing with strangers. It's the anonymity factor, and it has a twofold effect. First of all if you're among strangers you're less likely to remember them, or care what they're doing or what they should, or should not, be doing. If they should or shouldn't be there. Secondly, you're conditioned almost not to be afraid of strangers. Mobility is very important here. As we've seen...the individual's [himself in third person] modus operandi was moving large distances in an attempt to camouflage what he was doing. Moving these distances, he was able to take advantage of the anonymity factor.
** [[Ted Bundy]], quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1999) The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Paperback; revised ed.). Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press. pg. 326

* '''We are clandestine because we refuse the spectacle of celebrity and we are everyone. Because without real names, faces or noses, we show that our words, dreams, and desires are more important than our biographies.''' Because we reject the society of surveillance that watches, controls, spies upon, records and checks our every move. Because by hiding our identity we recover the power of our acts. Because with greasepaint we give resistance a funny face and become visible once again.
** Official statement of the [[Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army]] at [http://www.clownarmy.org/about/about.html ClownArmy.org, the official CIRCA site].

* '''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]], ''[[w:Middlemarch|Middlemarch : A Study of Provincial Life ]]'' (1871).

* [[Faith]] lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the [[criticism]] coming from [[society]], from [[politics]], from [[history]], for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. '''It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in [[doubt]], which drives a wedge into the [[world]] of false assurances.'''
** [[Jacques Ellul]], ''L'espérance oubliée'' (1972) [''Hope in Time of Abandonment''] as translated by C. Edward Hopkin (1973).

* '''[[w:Inigo Montoya|Inigo Montoya]]''': Who are you? '''[[w:Dread Pirate Roberts|Man in Black]]''': No one of consequence. '''Inigo Montoya''': I must know... '''Man in Black''': Get used to disappointment.
** [[w:William Goldman|William Goldman]], ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' (1987).

* '''Sacrificing anonymity may be the next generation's price for keeping precious [[liberty]], as prior generations paid in blood.'''
** Hal Norby, as quoted in ''The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?'' (1998), by [[David Brin]], p. 3.

* Fear names. Names have power in identity. Others can use names as weapons. Names are a hook that can be used to track you across the planes. Remain nameless, and you shall be safe. I am the Nameless One.
** ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' (1999).

* Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million, five hundred six, reducing me to specks of voiceless dust, just as, in all good time, they will trample my son who is not my son, and his son who will not be his, and his who will not be his, until the thousand and first generation, until a thousand and one midnights have bestowed their terrible gifts and a thousand and one children have died, because '''it is the privilege and the curse of midnight’s children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace.'''
** [[Salman Rushdie]], ''[[w:Midnight's Children|Midnight's Children]]'' (1980).

* If I had remained invisible, the truth would have stayed hidden. '''I couldn't allow that.'''
** Sonmi-451, in ''[[Cloud_Atlas_(film)#Sonmi-451|Cloud Atlas]]'' (2012) based on the novel by [[David Mitchell (author)|David Mitchell]]

* Great works of literature have frequently been produced by authors writing under assumed names. '''Despite readers' curiosity and the public's interest in identifying the creator of a work of art, an author generally is free to decide whether or not to disclose her true identity. The decision in favor of anonymity may be motivated by fear of economic or official retaliation, by concern about social ostracism, or merely by a desire to preserve as much of one's privacy as possible. Whatever the motivation may be, at least in the field of literary endeavor, the interest in having anonymous works enter the marketplace of ideas unquestionably outweighs any public interest in requiring disclosure as a condition of entry.'''
** [[John Paul Stevens]], ''[[w:McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission|McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion]]'', 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

* On occasion, '''quite apart from any threat of persecution, an advocate may believe her ideas will be more persuasive if her readers are unaware of her identity. Anonymity thereby provides a way for a writer who may be personally unpopular to ensure that readers will not prejudge her message simply because they do not like its proponent.'''
** [[John Paul Stevens]], ''[[w:McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission|McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion]]'', 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

* '''Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. … It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]], and of the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society. The right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. But political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse.'''
** [[John Paul Stevens]], ''[[w:McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission|McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion]]'', 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

* '''You know [[C. S. Lewis]], whom I greatly admire, said there’s no such thing as creative writing. … He said there is, in [[fact]], only one Creator and we mix. That’s our function, to mix the elements He has given us.''' See how wonderfully [[anonymous]] that leaves us? You can’t say, “''I'' did this; this gross matrix of flesh and blood and sinews and nerves did this.” '''What nonsense! I’m given these things to make a [[pattern]] out of. Something gave it to me. I’ve always loved the idea of the craftsman, the anonymous man.''' For instance, I’ve always wanted my books to be called the work of [[Anon]], because '''Anon is my favorite literary character.''' If you look through an anthology of poems that go from the far past into the present time, you’ll see that all the poems signed “Anon” have a very specific flavor that is one flavor all the way through the centuries. '''I think, perhaps arrogantly, of myself as “Anon.” I would like to think that ''Mary Poppins'' and the other books could be called back to make that change. But I suppose it’s too late for that.'''
** [[P. L. Travers]], author of the [[w:Mary Poppins|Mary Poppins]] stories, in [http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3099/the-art-of-fiction-no-63-p-l-travers ''The Paris Review'' No. 86 (Winter 1982)].

* [[Man]] is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a [[mask]], and he will tell you the [[truth]].
** [[Oscar Wilde]], ''The Critic as Artist'' (1891).

* '''I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.'''
** [[Virginia Woolf]], in ''[[w:A Room of One's Own|A Room of One's Own]]'' (1929), Ch. 3; very often misquoted as "'''For most of [[history]], Anonymous was a woman.'''".

* '''I have many [[names]], and none of them matter.'''
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

* '''No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.''' The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming. '''The thing that has never happened before is still happening. It is still a miracle.''' The great burning blossom squats, flowing, upon the limb of the world, excreting the ash of the world, and being none of these things I have named and at the same time all of them, and ''this'' is reality — the Nameless.
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

* '''I charge you — forget the names you bear, forget the words I speak as soon as they are uttered. Look, rather, upon the Nameless within yourselves, which arises as I address it.''' It hearkens not to my words, but to the reality within me, of which it is part. This is the ''[[atman]]'', which hears ''me'' rather than my words. All else is unreal.''' To define is to lose. The essence of all things is the Nameless. The Nameless is unknowable, mightier even than [[w:Brahma|Brahma]]. '''Things pass, but the essence remains. You sit, therefore, in the midst of a dream. "Essence dreams it a dream of form. Forms pass, but the essence remains, dreaming new dreams. Man names these dreams and thinks to have captured the essence, not knowing that he invokes the unreal. These stones, these walls, these bodies you see seated about you are poppies and water and the sun. They are the dreams of the Nameless.''' They are fire, if you like. 
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

* '''To struggle against the dreamers who dream ugliness, be they men or gods, cannot but be the will of the Nameless.'''
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

* '''Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within [[w:Saṃsāra|Samsara]], perhaps to create a thing of [[beauty]].'''
** [[Roger Zelazny]], ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (1967).

==External links==
{{Wikipedia}}
{{Wiktionary|anonymity}}

[[Category:Themes]]

Tobacco

2022-07-27T20:15:41Z

Spafky: /* Quotes */

[[File:Papierosa 1 ubt 0069.jpeg|thumb|I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other. ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]]]]
[[File:Drum Original Tobacco.jpg|thumb|Generally, the control freaks only increase control. Take cigarettes. At first it was just warning labels. Then, bans on t.v. ads. Then they required restaurants to have no-smoking sections. Then came the bans on airplanes, schools, workplaces, entire restaurants, then bars, too—and now, sometimes, apartments and outdoor spaces, even. ~ [[John Stossel]]]]
[[File:Smoking pipe bent.jpg|thumb|And then he'd light his pipe, and then He'd let it go clean out again. ~ [[James Stephens (author)|James Stephens]]]]
'''[[w:Tobacco|Tobacco]]''' is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by [[w:curing of tobacco|curing]] them. The plant is part of the genus ''[[w:Nicotiana|Nicotiana]]'' and of the [[w:Solanaceae]] (nightshade) family. Tobacco contains the [[w:alkaloid|alkaloid]] [[w:nicotine|nicotine]], which is a [[w:stimulant|stimulant]]. Dried tobacco leaves are mainly used for [[w:Tobacco smoking|smoking]] in [[w:cigarette|cigarette]]s, [[w:cigar|cigar]]s, [[w:pipe smoking|pipe tobacco]], and flavored [[w:Mu'assel|shisha tobacco]]. They can be also consumed as [[w:Snuff (tobacco)|snuff]], [[w:chewing tobacco|chewing tobacco]], [[w:dipping tobacco|dipping tobacco]] and [[w:snus|snus]].

== Quotes ==
* I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.
** [[Warren Buffett]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/jul/23/ethicalliving.lifeandhealth Where should I invest my savings?]

* He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
** [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], ''What Will He Do With It?'' (1858), Book I, Chapter VI.

* Woman in this scale, the weed in that, Jupiter, hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee—O Jupiter, try the weed.
** [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], ''What Will He Do With It?'' (1858), Book I, Chapter VI.

*Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
** [[Robert Burton]], ''Anatomy of Melancholy'' (1621).

* After he had administer'd a dose Of snuff mundungus to his nose; And powder'd th' inside of his skull, Instead of th' outward jobbernol, He shook it with a scornful look On th' adversary, and thus he spoke.
** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''Hudibras'', Part III (1678), Canto II, line 1,005.

* Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; … Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!
** [[Lord Byron]], ''The Island''.

* I'm gettin' tired of guys who smoke pipes. When are they gonna outlaw this shit? Guy with a fuckin' pipe! It's an arrogant thing to place a burning barrier between you and the rest of the world. It's supposed to imply thoughtfulness or intelligence. It's not intelligent to stand around with a controlled fire sticking out of your mouth. I say, "Hey, professor! You want somethin' hot to suck on? Call me! I'll give ya somethin' to put in your mouth!" I think these pipe-smokers oughta just move to the next level and go ahead and suck a dick. There's nothing wrong with suckin' dicks. Men do it, women do it; can't be all bad if everybody's doin' it. I say, Drop the pipe, and go to the dick! That's my advice. I'm here to help.
** [[George Carlin]], ''[[w:Brain Droppings|Brain Droppings]]'' (1997), pp. 3–4.

* Haven't we had about enough of this cigar smoking shit? When are these fat, arrogant, overfed, white-collar business criminals going to extinguish their cigars and move along to their next abomination? Soft, white, business pussies suckin' on a big brown dick. That's all it is, folks, a big, brown dick. You know, Freud used to say, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Yeah? Well, sometimes it's a big brown dick! With a fat, criminal business asshole sucking on the wet end of it! But, hey. The news is not all bad for me. Not all bad. Want to hear the good part? Cancer of the mouth. Good! Fuck 'em! Makes me happy; it's an attractive disease. So light up, suspender-man, and suck that smoke deep down into your empty suit. And blow it out your ass, you miserable cocksucker!
** [[George Carlin]], ''[[w:Napalm and Silly Putty|Napalm & Silly Putty]]'' (2001), p. 180.

*As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will. It also threatens sanctions against countries that do not abide by its conveniently flexible notions of "free trade." In one important case, Washington has employed such threats with great effectiveness (and GATT approval) to force open Asian markets for U.S. tobacco exports and advertising, aimed primarily at the growing markets of women and children. The U.S. Agriculture Department has provided grants to tobacco firms to promote smoking overseas. Asian countries have attempted to conduct educational anti-smoking campaigns, but they are overwhelmed by the miracles of the market, reinforced by U.S. state power through the sanctions threat. Philip Morris, with an advertising and promotion budget of close to $9 billion in 1992, became China's largest advertiser. The effect of Reaganite sanction threats was to increase advertising and promotion of cigarette smoking (particularly U.S. brands) quite sharply in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, along with the use of these lethal substances. In South Korea, for example, the rate of growth in smoking more than tripled when markets for U.S. lethal drugs were opened in 1988. The Bush Administration extended the threats to Thailand, at exactly the same time that the "war on drugs" was declared; the media were kind enough to overlook the coincidence, even suppressing the outraged denunciations by the very conservative Surgeon-General. Oxford University epidemiologist Richard Peto estimates that among Chinese children under 20 today, 50 million will die of cigarette-related diseases, an achievement that ranks high even by 20th century standards.
**[[Noam Chomsky]], In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal, 1997

* The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff—and speak, and pause again.
** [[William Cowper]], ''Conversation'' (1782), line 245.

* Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
** [[William Cowper]], ''Conversation'' (1782), line 251.

* Tobacco was the major model used to establish the principals and methods of plant somatic cell genetics including in vitro propagation of cells and tissues, totipotency of somatic cells, doubled haploid production and genetic transformation.
** Christiane Gebhardt: {{cite journal|title=The historical role of species from the Solanaceae plant family in genetic research|journal=Theoretical and Applied Genetics|volume=129|issue=12|year=2016|pages=2281–2294|issn=0040-5752|doi=10.1007/s00122-016-2804-1|pmid=27744490|pmc=5121179}}

* The money expended for liquor and tobacco is the difference between a young man making a success in life and making a failure.
** [[Heber J. Grant]], [https://archive.org/details/conferencereport1937sa/page/n17 Conference Report], October 1937
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0703-506, Adolf Hitler vor Rundfunk-Mikrofon retouched.jpg|thumb|I am convinced that if I had been a smoker I would never have been able to withstand the worries that have burdened me for so long. Perhaps thanks to that the German people owes its salvation to me. ~ [[Adolf Hitler]]]]
* I am convinced that if I had been a smoker I would never have been able to withstand the worries that have burdened me for so long. Perhaps thanks to that the German people owes its salvation to me. Original: ''Ich bin überzeugt, wenn ich Raucher gewesen wäre, nie würde ich den Sorgen standgehalten haben, die mich seit so langer Zeit belasten. Vielleicht verdankt dem das deutsche Volk mir seine Rettung.''
** [[Adolf Hitler]] at the [[w:Wolfsschanze|Wolfsschanze]] on the night of 11 March 1942, [https://archive.org/details/hitlers-tischgespraeche/page/126/mode/2up?q=Eckart as quoted] in ''[[w:Hitler's Table Talk|Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier]]'' by [[w:Henry Picker|Henry Picker]], published in 1976.
* And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Betrothed''.

* For I hate, yet love thee, so, That, whichever thing I show, The plain truth will seem to be A constrained hyperbole, And the passion to proceed More from a mistress than a weed.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* Nay, rather, Plant divine, of rarest virtue; Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* Thou in such a cloud dost bind us, That our worst foes cannot find us, And ill fortune, that would thwart us, Shoots at rovers, shooting at us; While each man, through thy height'ning steam, Does like a smoking Etna seem.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* Thou through such a mist dost show us, That our best friends do not know us.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar.
** [[w:Thomas Riley Marshall|Thomas Riley Marshall]], Vice President under [[Woodrow Wilson]], to Henry M. Rose, the assistant secretary of the Senate, while Marshall was presiding as president of the Senate. Reported in the ''New York Tribune'' (January 4, 1920), part 7, p. 1. Confirmed in Marshall's autobiography, ''Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall'' (1925), caption facing p. 244; and in Charles M. Thomas, ''Thomas Riley Marshall'' (1939), p. 175.

* A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the [[w:American League|American League]] box scores.
** [[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]], Klinger, ''Bug-Out'' 1976.

*They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
**[[Mignon McLaughlin]] , ''The Second Neurotic's Notebook'', 1966.

* Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
** [[Mignon McLaughlin]], ''The Second Neurotic's Notebook'' (1966).

*Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
**[[Cesare Pavese]], ''This Business of Living'', {{#dateformat:1935-12-20}}

* Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
** [[Alexander Pope]], ''The Rape of the Lock'' (1712), Canto IV, line 122.

* Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew, A charge of snuff the wily virgin threw; The [[gnomes]] direct, to every atom just, The pungent grains of titillating dust, Sudden, with starting tears each eye o'erflows, And the high dome re-echoes to his nose.
** [[Alexander Pope]], ''The Rape of the Lock'' (1712), Canto V, line 81.

* Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organizing that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; 1200 people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's [[w:Attila the Hun|Attila]], [[w:Genghis Khan|Genghis]], and me, Nick Naylor the face of cigarettes, the [[w:Colonel Saunders|Colonel Saunders]] of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were gonna claim cigarettes were not addictive they better have proof. This is the man they rely on, Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany. I won't go into the details, he's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius, he could disprove gravity. Then we got our sharks. We draft them out of [[w:Ivory League|Ivy League]] law schools and give them timeshares and sports cars. It's just like a [[John Grisham]] novel. Well you know without all the espionage. Most importantly we got spin control. That's where I come in. I get paid to talk. I don't have an MD or law degree. I have a baccalaureate in kicking ass and taking names. You know that guy who can pick up any girl? I'm him, on crack.
* In 1910, the US was producing ten billion cigarettes a year, by 1930 we were up to one hundred twenty three billion, what happened in between? Three things: a World War, Dieting and movies. [...] 1927, talking pictures are born. Suddenly directors need to give their actors something to do while they're talking. Cary Grant and Carole Lombard are lighting up, Bette Davis, a chimney, and Bogart, remember the first picture with him and Lauren Bacall? [...] She sort of shimmies in through the doorway. Nineteen years old. Pure sex. She says "Anyone got a match?" and Bogie throws the matches at her... and she catches them. Greatest romance in the century, how did it start? Lighting a cigarette. In these days, when someone smokes in the movies, they're either a psychopath... or an European. The message that Hollywood needs to send out is "Smoking is Cool!". We need the cast of, uh, Will & Grace smoking in their living room, Forrest Gump puffing away between his box of chocolates, Hugh Grant earning back the love of Julia Roberts by buying her favorite brand - her Virginia Slims. Most of the actors smoke already. If they start doing it on screen... We can put the sex back into cigarettes.
** [[w:Jason Reitman|Jason Reitman]], ''[[w:Thank You for Smoking (film)|Thank You for Smoking]]'', (2006), based on the novel by [[w:Christopher Buckley|Christopher Buckley]].

* And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again; Who therefor angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff.
** [[William Shakespeare]], [[Henry IV, Part 1|''Henry IV'', Part I]] (c. 1597), Act I, scene 3, line 37.

*Smoking can kill you. And if you've been killed you've lost a very important part of your life.
**[[w:Brook Shields|Brooke Shields]], testimony before a [[w:U.S. House of Representatives|House]] subcommittee, as reported in the [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/06/26/smoke-screening/033de10e-2427-490c-94bd-dee8060727e2/ Washington Post, June 21, 1981]

* Divine Tobacco.
** [[Edmund Spenser]], ''The Faerie Queene'' (1589-96), Book III, Canto V, Stanza 32.

* His pipe was always going out, And then he'd have to search about In all his pockets, and he'd mow O, deary me! and, musha now! And then he'd light his pipe, and then He'd let it go clean out again.
** [[James Stephens (author)|James Stephens]], "Danny Murphy", from ''Collected Poems'' (1926).

* Generally, the control freaks only ''increase'' [[control]].  Take cigarettes.  At first it was just warning [[labels]].  Then, bans on [[t.v.]] [[ads]].  Then they required restaurants to have no-smoking ''sections''.  Then came the ''bans'' on airplanes, [[schools]], [[workplaces]], ''entire'' restaurants, then bars, ''too''—and now, sometimes, apartments and outdoor ''spaces'', even.
** [[John Stossel]], "Control Freaks," ''Stossel'' (4 December 2014), 9:56 PM ET

*If you have a compulsive behavior pattern such as smoking... this is what you can do: When you notice the compulsive need arising in you, stop and take three conscious breaths. This generates awareness. Then for a few minutes be aware of the compulsive urge itself as an energy field inside you. Consciously feel that need to physically or mentally ingest or consume a certain substance or the desire to act out some form of compulsive behavior. Then take a few more conscious breaths... As awareness grows, addictive patterns will weaken and eventually dissolve. Remember, however, to catch any thoughts that justify the addictive behavior, sometimes with clever arguments, as they arise in you mind. Ask yourself, Who is talking here? And you will realize the addiction is talking. As long as you know that, as long as you are present as the observer of your mind, it is less likely to trick you into doing what it wants. p. 149
**[[Eckhart Tolle]], in ''[[A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose]]'' (2005)

* I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.
**[[Kurt Vonnegut]], "Cold Turkey" (2004)

===Quotes about secondhand smoke===
*There is "no clear link" between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, a study led by researchers at Stanford University has found.After a decade-long study of more than 76,000 women, the researchers concluded that while there is still a strong association between smoking and lung cancer, there is no significant relationship between the cancer and exposure to passive smoke.
**[[Max Benwell]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/study-finds-no-clear-link-between-lung-cancer-and-secondhand-smoke-9004077.html "Study finds no clear link between lung cancer and second-hand smoke,"] ''The Independent'' (13 December 2013).

*The results of the California CPS I cohort do not support a causal relation between exposure to environental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect.  Given the limitations of the underlying data in this and the other studies of environmental tobacco smoke and the small size of the risk, it seems premature to conclude that environmental tobacco smoke causes death from coronary heart disease and lung cancer.
**[[James E. Enstrom]], [[Geoffrey C. Kabat]], [[Davey Smith]], [http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7398/1057 "Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98,"] ''British Medical Journal'' (15 May 2003).

*A large-scale study found no clear link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, undercutting the premise of years of [[Lawsuit|litigation]].
**[[Daniel Fisher]], [http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/12/12/study-finds-no-link-between-secondhand-smoke-and-cancer/ "Study Finds No Link Between Secondhand Smoke And Cancer,"] ''Forbes'' (12 December 2013).

*A large prospective cohort study of more than 76,000 women confirmed a strong association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer but found no link between the disease and secondhand smoke.
**[[Judy Peres]], [http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/12/05/jnci.djt365.extract "No Clear Link Between Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer,"] ''Journal of the National Cancer Institute'' (6 December 2013).

===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''===
:Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 803-06.

* It's all one thing—both tend into one scope— To live upon Tobacco and on Hope, The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
** Sir [[Robert Aytoun]], ''Sonnet on Tobacco''.

* The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
** [[J. M. Barrie]], ''My Lady Nicotine'', Chapter XIV.

* Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire.
** [[Isaac Hawkins Browne]], ''A Pipe of Tobacco''. Parody in imitation of A. Phillips.

* The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan!
** [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], ''Night and Morning'', Book I, Chapter VI.

* Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
** [[Robert Burton]], ''Anatomy of a Melancholy''.

* Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties—Give me a cigar!
** [[Lord Byron]], ''The Island'', Canto II, Stanza 19.

* Contented I sit with my pint and my pipe, Puffing sorrow and care far away, And surely the brow of grief nothing can wipe, Like smoking and moist'ning our clay; * * * * * For tho' at my simile many may joke, Man is but a pipe—and his life but smoke.
** ''Content and a Pipe''. Old ballad.

* The Indian weed, withered quite, Green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay. All flesh is hay. Thus think, then drink tobacco. * * * * And when the smoke ascends on high, Then thou behold'st vanity Of worldly stuff, Gone at a puff. Thus think, then drink tobacco.
** Attributed to [[Erskine]], ''Gospel Sonnets'', ''Meditations on Tobacco'', Part I. Printed in a Collection ''Two Broadsides against Tobacco'' (1672). Erskine claimed only Part II, Part I. is from an old poem.

* Tobacco, an outlandish weed, Doth in the land strange wonders breed; It taints the breath, the blood it dries, It burns the head, it blinds the eyes; It dries the lungs, scourgeth the lights, It 'numbs the soul, it dulls the sprites; It brings a man into a maze, And makes him sit for others' gaze; It mars a man, it mars a purse, A lean one fat, a fat one worse; A white man black, a black man white, A night a day, a day a night; It turns the brain like cat in pan, And makes a Jack a gentleman.
** [[Fairholt]], ''J. Payne Collier's MS''.

* With pipe and book at close of day, Oh, what is sweeter? mortal say.
** It matters not what book on knee, Old Isaak or the Odyssey, It matters not meerschaum or clay.
** [[Richard Le Gallienne]], in volumes in Folio. See Cope's ''Smoker's Garland''.

* Tobacco is a traveler, Come from the Indies hither; It passed sea and land Ere it came to my hand, And 'scaped the wind and weather. Tobacco's a musician. And in a pipe delighteth; It descends in a close, Through the organ of the nose, With a relish that inviteth.
** [[Barten Holiday]], ''Texnotamia'' (1630).

* Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.
** [[Thomas Hood]], ''The Cigar''.

* Neither do thou lust after that tawney weed tobacco.
** [[Ben Jonson]], ''Bartholomew Fair'', Act II, scene 6.

* Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
** [[Ben Jonson]], ''Every Man in His Humour'', Act III, scene 2.

* And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Betrothed''.

* For Maggie has written a letter to give me my choice between The wee little whimpering Love and the great god Nick O'Teen. And I have been servant of Love for barely a twelvemonth clear, But I have been priest of Partagas a matter of seven year. And the gloom of my bachelor days is flecked with the cherry light Of stumps that I burned to friendship, and pleasure and work and fight.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Betrothed''.

* ''Tobac! dont mon âme est ravie, Lorsque je te vois te perdre en l'air, Aussi promptement q'un éclair, Je vois l'image de ma vie.''
** Tobacco, charmer of my mind, When like the meteor's transient gleam, Thy substance gone to air I find, I think, alas! my life's the same.
** Misson, ''Memoirs of his travels over England'' (1697). Translation by Ozell.

* I would I were a cigarette Between my Lady's lithe sad lips, Where Death like Love, divinely set. With exquisite sighs and sips, Feeds and is fed. * * * * For life is Love and Love is death, It was my hap, a well-a-day! To burn my little hour away.
** [[H. A. Page]], ''Vers de Société'', ''Madonna Mia''.

* Old man, God bless you, does your pipe taste sweetly? A beauty, by my soul! A ruddy flower-pot, rimmed with gold so neatly, What ask you for the bowl? O sir, that bowl for worlds I would not part with; A brave man gave it me, Who won it—now what think you—of a bashaw? At Belgrade's victory.
** [[Gottfried Konrad Pfeffel]], ''The Tobacco Pipe''.

* Tobacco's but an Indian weed, Grows green at morn, cut down at eve; It shows our decay, we are but clay. Think on this when you smoak Tobacco.
** As quoted by [[Walter Scott]], ''Rob Roy''. First printed in Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Volume I, p. 315. (Ed. 1707).

* Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctors' spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.
** [[Charles Sprague]], ''To My Cigar''.

* It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tabagie," as Michelet calls it, spreads over all the world. Michelet rails against it because it renders you happily apart from thought or work;… Whatever keeps a man in the front garden, whatever checks wandering fancy and all inordinate ambition, whatever makes for lounging and contentment, makes just so surely for domestic happiness.
** [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], ''Virginibus Puerisque'', I.

* Am I not—a smoker and a brother?
** ''A Veteran of Smokedom'', ''The Smoker's Guide'', Chapter IV. Last line.

* Look at me—follow me—smell me! The "stunning" cigar I am smoking is one of a sample intended for the Captain General of Cuba, and the King of Spain, and positively cost a shilling! Oh! * * * I have some dearer at home. Yes, the expense is frightful, but——it! who can smoke the monstrous rubbish of the shops?
** ''A Veteran of Smokedom'', ''The Smoker's Guide'', Chapter IV.

* To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is equivalent to kissing a lady through a respirator.
** ''A Veteran of Smokedom'', ''The Smoker's Guide'', Chapter V.

* The cigarettes Mr. Slump smoked were prepared by doctors, so the advertisements declared, with the sole purpose of protecting his respiratory system. Yet Mr. Slump suffered and the young secretary suffered with him, hideously. For the first hours of every day he was possessed by a cough which arose from tartarean depths and was relieved only by whisky.
** [[Evelyn Waugh]], ''[[w:The Loved One|The Loved One]]'', Ch. 7.

* Dick Stoype Was a dear friend and lover of the pipe. He used to say one pipe of Wishart's best Gave life a zest. To him 'twas meat and drink and physic, To see the friendly vapor Curl round his midnight taper, And the black fume Clothe all the room, In clouds as dark as sciences metaphysic.
** [[Charles Westmacott]], ''Points of Misery''.

* A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
** [[Oscar Wilde]], ''Picture of Dorian Gray'', Chapter IV.

* Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco.
** G. W. Probably [[George Withers]], in Manuscript of 17th. Cent. owned by J. Payne Collier. Printed in My Little Book of Songs and Ballads from Ancient Musick Books Manuscript (1851). "Drink tobacco" means drinking in, or smoking.

==See also==
* [[Alcoholic beverages]]
* [[Capitalism]]
*[[Imperialism]]
* [[Lung cancer]]
* [[Drugs]]
* [[Tobacco industry]]
* [[Tyranny]]

==External links==
{{wikipedia}}
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[[File:Papierosa 1 ubt 0069.jpeg|thumb|I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other. ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]]]]
[[File:Drum Original Tobacco.jpg|thumb|Generally, the control freaks only increase control. Take cigarettes. At first it was just warning labels. Then, bans on t.v. ads. Then they required restaurants to have no-smoking sections. Then came the bans on airplanes, schools, workplaces, entire restaurants, then bars, too—and now, sometimes, apartments and outdoor spaces, even. ~ [[John Stossel]]]]
[[File:Smoking pipe bent.jpg|thumb|And then he'd light his pipe, and then He'd let it go clean out again. ~ [[James Stephens (author)|James Stephens]]]]
'''[[w:Tobacco|Tobacco]]''' is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by [[w:curing of tobacco|curing]] them. The plant is part of the genus ''[[w:Nicotiana|Nicotiana]]'' and of the [[w:Solanaceae]] (nightshade) family. Tobacco contains the [[w:alkaloid|alkaloid]] [[w:nicotine|nicotine]], which is a [[w:stimulant|stimulant]]. Dried tobacco leaves are mainly used for [[w:Tobacco smoking|smoking]] in [[w:cigarette|cigarette]]s, [[w:cigar|cigar]]s, [[w:pipe smoking|pipe tobacco]], and flavored [[w:Mu'assel|shisha tobacco]]. They can be also consumed as [[w:Snuff (tobacco)|snuff]], [[w:chewing tobacco|chewing tobacco]], [[w:dipping tobacco|dipping tobacco]] and [[w:snus|snus]].

== Quotes ==
* I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.
** [[Warren Buffett]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/jul/23/ethicalliving.lifeandhealth Where should I invest my savings?]

* He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
** [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], ''What Will He Do With It?'' (1858), Book I, Chapter VI.

* Woman in this scale, the weed in that, Jupiter, hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee—O Jupiter, try the weed.
** [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], ''What Will He Do With It?'' (1858), Book I, Chapter VI.

*Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
** [[Robert Burton]], ''Anatomy of Melancholy'' (1621).

* After he had administer'd a dose Of snuff mundungus to his nose; And powder'd th' inside of his skull, Instead of th' outward jobbernol, He shook it with a scornful look On th' adversary, and thus he spoke.
** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''Hudibras'', Part III (1678), Canto II, line 1,005.

* Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; … Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!
** [[Lord Byron]], ''The Island''.

* I'm gettin' tired of guys who smoke pipes. When are they gonna outlaw this shit? Guy with a fuckin' pipe! It's an arrogant thing to place a burning barrier between you and the rest of the world. It's supposed to imply thoughtfulness or intelligence. It's not intelligent to stand around with a controlled fire sticking out of your mouth. I say, "Hey, professor! You want somethin' hot to suck on? Call me! I'll give ya somethin' to put in your mouth!" I think these pipe-smokers oughta just move to the next level and go ahead and suck a dick. There's nothing wrong with suckin' dicks. Men do it, women do it; can't be all bad if everybody's doin' it. I say, Drop the pipe, and go to the dick! That's my advice. I'm here to help.
** [[George Carlin]], ''[[w:Brain Droppings|Brain Droppings]]'' (1997), pp. 3–4.

* Haven't we had about enough of this cigar smoking shit? When are these fat, arrogant, overfed, white-collar business criminals going to extinguish their cigars and move along to their next abomination? Soft, white, business pussies suckin' on a big brown dick. That's all it is, folks, a big, brown dick. You know, Freud used to say, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Yeah? Well, sometimes it's a big brown dick! With a fat, criminal business asshole sucking on the wet end of it! But, hey. The news is not all bad for me. Not all bad. Want to hear the good part? Cancer of the mouth. Good! Fuck 'em! Makes me happy; it's an attractive disease. So light up, suspender-man, and suck that smoke deep down into your empty suit. And blow it out your ass, you miserable cocksucker!
** [[George Carlin]], ''[[w:Napalm and Silly Putty|Napalm & Silly Putty]]'' (2001), p. 180.

*As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will. It also threatens sanctions against countries that do not abide by its conveniently flexible notions of "free trade." In one important case, Washington has employed such threats with great effectiveness (and GATT approval) to force open Asian markets for U.S. tobacco exports and advertising, aimed primarily at the growing markets of women and children. The U.S. Agriculture Department has provided grants to tobacco firms to promote smoking overseas. Asian countries have attempted to conduct educational anti-smoking campaigns, but they are overwhelmed by the miracles of the market, reinforced by U.S. state power through the sanctions threat. Philip Morris, with an advertising and promotion budget of close to $9 billion in 1992, became China's largest advertiser. The effect of Reaganite sanction threats was to increase advertising and promotion of cigarette smoking (particularly U.S. brands) quite sharply in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, along with the use of these lethal substances. In South Korea, for example, the rate of growth in smoking more than tripled when markets for U.S. lethal drugs were opened in 1988. The Bush Administration extended the threats to Thailand, at exactly the same time that the "war on drugs" was declared; the media were kind enough to overlook the coincidence, even suppressing the outraged denunciations by the very conservative Surgeon-General. Oxford University epidemiologist Richard Peto estimates that among Chinese children under 20 today, 50 million will die of cigarette-related diseases, an achievement that ranks high even by 20th century standards.
**[[Noam Chomsky]], In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal, 1997

* The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff—and speak, and pause again.
** [[William Cowper]], ''Conversation'' (1782), line 245.

* Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
** [[William Cowper]], ''Conversation'' (1782), line 251.

* Tobacco was the major model used to establish the principals and methods of plant somatic cell genetics including in vitro propagation of cells and tissues, totipotency of somatic cells, doubled haploid production and genetic transformation.
** Christiane Gebhardt: {{cite journal|title=The historical role of species from the Solanaceae plant family in genetic research|journal=Theoretical and Applied Genetics|volume=129|issue=12|year=2016|pages=2281–2294|issn=0040-5752|doi=10.1007/s00122-016-2804-1|pmid=27744490|pmc=5121179}}

* The money expended for liquor and tobacco is the difference between a young man making a success in life and making a failure.
** [[Heber J. Grant]], [https://archive.org/details/conferencereport1937sa/page/n17 Conference Report], October 1937
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0703-506, Adolf Hitler vor Rundfunk-Mikrofon retouched.jpg|thumb|I am convinced that if I had been a smoker I would never have been able to withstand the worries that have burdened me for so long. Perhaps thanks to that the German people owes its salvation to me. ~ [[Adolf Hitler]]]]
* I am convinced that if I had been a smoker I would never have been able to withstand the worries that have burdened me for so long. Perhaps thanks to that the German people owes its salvation to me. Original: ''Ich bin überzeugt, wenn ich Raucher gewesen wäre, nie würde ich den Sorgen standgehalten haben, die mich seit so langer Zeit belasten. Vielleicht verdankt dem das deutsche Volk mir seine Rettung.''
** [[Adolf Hitler]] at the [[w:Wolfsschanze|Wolfsschanze]] on the night of 11 March 1942, [https://archive.org/details/hitlers-tischgespraeche/page/126/mode/2up?q=Eckart as quoted] in ''Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier'' by [[w:Henry Picker|Henry Picker]], published in 1976.
* And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Betrothed''.

* For I hate, yet love thee, so, That, whichever thing I show, The plain truth will seem to be A constrained hyperbole, And the passion to proceed More from a mistress than a weed.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* Nay, rather, Plant divine, of rarest virtue; Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* Thou in such a cloud dost bind us, That our worst foes cannot find us, And ill fortune, that would thwart us, Shoots at rovers, shooting at us; While each man, through thy height'ning steam, Does like a smoking Etna seem.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* Thou through such a mist dost show us, That our best friends do not know us.
** [[Charles Lamb]], ''A Farewell to Tobacco'' (1805).

* What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar.
** [[w:Thomas Riley Marshall|Thomas Riley Marshall]], Vice President under [[Woodrow Wilson]], to Henry M. Rose, the assistant secretary of the Senate, while Marshall was presiding as president of the Senate. Reported in the ''New York Tribune'' (January 4, 1920), part 7, p. 1. Confirmed in Marshall's autobiography, ''Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall'' (1925), caption facing p. 244; and in Charles M. Thomas, ''Thomas Riley Marshall'' (1939), p. 175.

* A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the [[w:American League|American League]] box scores.
** [[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]], Klinger, ''Bug-Out'' 1976.

*They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
**[[Mignon McLaughlin]] , ''The Second Neurotic's Notebook'', 1966.

* Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
** [[Mignon McLaughlin]], ''The Second Neurotic's Notebook'' (1966).

*Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
**[[Cesare Pavese]], ''This Business of Living'', {{#dateformat:1935-12-20}}

* Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
** [[Alexander Pope]], ''The Rape of the Lock'' (1712), Canto IV, line 122.

* Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew, A charge of snuff the wily virgin threw; The [[gnomes]] direct, to every atom just, The pungent grains of titillating dust, Sudden, with starting tears each eye o'erflows, And the high dome re-echoes to his nose.
** [[Alexander Pope]], ''The Rape of the Lock'' (1712), Canto V, line 81.

* Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organizing that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; 1200 people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's [[w:Attila the Hun|Attila]], [[w:Genghis Khan|Genghis]], and me, Nick Naylor the face of cigarettes, the [[w:Colonel Saunders|Colonel Saunders]] of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were gonna claim cigarettes were not addictive they better have proof. This is the man they rely on, Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany. I won't go into the details, he's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius, he could disprove gravity. Then we got our sharks. We draft them out of [[w:Ivory League|Ivy League]] law schools and give them timeshares and sports cars. It's just like a [[John Grisham]] novel. Well you know without all the espionage. Most importantly we got spin control. That's where I come in. I get paid to talk. I don't have an MD or law degree. I have a baccalaureate in kicking ass and taking names. You know that guy who can pick up any girl? I'm him, on crack.
* In 1910, the US was producing ten billion cigarettes a year, by 1930 we were up to one hundred twenty three billion, what happened in between? Three things: a World War, Dieting and movies. [...] 1927, talking pictures are born. Suddenly directors need to give their actors something to do while they're talking. Cary Grant and Carole Lombard are lighting up, Bette Davis, a chimney, and Bogart, remember the first picture with him and Lauren Bacall? [...] She sort of shimmies in through the doorway. Nineteen years old. Pure sex. She says "Anyone got a match?" and Bogie throws the matches at her... and she catches them. Greatest romance in the century, how did it start? Lighting a cigarette. In these days, when someone smokes in the movies, they're either a psychopath... or an European. The message that Hollywood needs to send out is "Smoking is Cool!". We need the cast of, uh, Will & Grace smoking in their living room, Forrest Gump puffing away between his box of chocolates, Hugh Grant earning back the love of Julia Roberts by buying her favorite brand - her Virginia Slims. Most of the actors smoke already. If they start doing it on screen... We can put the sex back into cigarettes.
** [[w:Jason Reitman|Jason Reitman]], ''[[w:Thank You for Smoking (film)|Thank You for Smoking]]'', (2006), based on the novel by [[w:Christopher Buckley|Christopher Buckley]].

* And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again; Who therefor angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff.
** [[William Shakespeare]], [[Henry IV, Part 1|''Henry IV'', Part I]] (c. 1597), Act I, scene 3, line 37.

*Smoking can kill you. And if you've been killed you've lost a very important part of your life.
**[[w:Brook Shields|Brooke Shields]], testimony before a [[w:U.S. House of Representatives|House]] subcommittee, as reported in the [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/06/26/smoke-screening/033de10e-2427-490c-94bd-dee8060727e2/ Washington Post, June 21, 1981]

* Divine Tobacco.
** [[Edmund Spenser]], ''The Faerie Queene'' (1589-96), Book III, Canto V, Stanza 32.

* His pipe was always going out, And then he'd have to search about In all his pockets, and he'd mow O, deary me! and, musha now! And then he'd light his pipe, and then He'd let it go clean out again.
** [[James Stephens (author)|James Stephens]], "Danny Murphy", from ''Collected Poems'' (1926).

* Generally, the control freaks only ''increase'' [[control]].  Take cigarettes.  At first it was just warning [[labels]].  Then, bans on [[t.v.]] [[ads]].  Then they required restaurants to have no-smoking ''sections''.  Then came the ''bans'' on airplanes, [[schools]], [[workplaces]], ''entire'' restaurants, then bars, ''too''—and now, sometimes, apartments and outdoor ''spaces'', even.
** [[John Stossel]], "Control Freaks," ''Stossel'' (4 December 2014), 9:56 PM ET

*If you have a compulsive behavior pattern such as smoking... this is what you can do: When you notice the compulsive need arising in you, stop and take three conscious breaths. This generates awareness. Then for a few minutes be aware of the compulsive urge itself as an energy field inside you. Consciously feel that need to physically or mentally ingest or consume a certain substance or the desire to act out some form of compulsive behavior. Then take a few more conscious breaths... As awareness grows, addictive patterns will weaken and eventually dissolve. Remember, however, to catch any thoughts that justify the addictive behavior, sometimes with clever arguments, as they arise in you mind. Ask yourself, Who is talking here? And you will realize the addiction is talking. As long as you know that, as long as you are present as the observer of your mind, it is less likely to trick you into doing what it wants. p. 149
**[[Eckhart Tolle]], in ''[[A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose]]'' (2005)

* I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.
**[[Kurt Vonnegut]], "Cold Turkey" (2004)

===Quotes about secondhand smoke===
*There is "no clear link" between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, a study led by researchers at Stanford University has found.After a decade-long study of more than 76,000 women, the researchers concluded that while there is still a strong association between smoking and lung cancer, there is no significant relationship between the cancer and exposure to passive smoke.
**[[Max Benwell]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/study-finds-no-clear-link-between-lung-cancer-and-secondhand-smoke-9004077.html "Study finds no clear link between lung cancer and second-hand smoke,"] ''The Independent'' (13 December 2013).

*The results of the California CPS I cohort do not support a causal relation between exposure to environental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect.  Given the limitations of the underlying data in this and the other studies of environmental tobacco smoke and the small size of the risk, it seems premature to conclude that environmental tobacco smoke causes death from coronary heart disease and lung cancer.
**[[James E. Enstrom]], [[Geoffrey C. Kabat]], [[Davey Smith]], [http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7398/1057 "Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98,"] ''British Medical Journal'' (15 May 2003).

*A large-scale study found no clear link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, undercutting the premise of years of [[Lawsuit|litigation]].
**[[Daniel Fisher]], [http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/12/12/study-finds-no-link-between-secondhand-smoke-and-cancer/ "Study Finds No Link Between Secondhand Smoke And Cancer,"] ''Forbes'' (12 December 2013).

*A large prospective cohort study of more than 76,000 women confirmed a strong association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer but found no link between the disease and secondhand smoke.
**[[Judy Peres]], [http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/12/05/jnci.djt365.extract "No Clear Link Between Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer,"] ''Journal of the National Cancer Institute'' (6 December 2013).

===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''===
:Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 803-06.

* It's all one thing—both tend into one scope— To live upon Tobacco and on Hope, The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
** Sir [[Robert Aytoun]], ''Sonnet on Tobacco''.

* The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
** [[J. M. Barrie]], ''My Lady Nicotine'', Chapter XIV.

* Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire.
** [[Isaac Hawkins Browne]], ''A Pipe of Tobacco''. Parody in imitation of A. Phillips.

* The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan!
** [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], ''Night and Morning'', Book I, Chapter VI.

* Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
** [[Robert Burton]], ''Anatomy of a Melancholy''.

* Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties—Give me a cigar!
** [[Lord Byron]], ''The Island'', Canto II, Stanza 19.

* Contented I sit with my pint and my pipe, Puffing sorrow and care far away, And surely the brow of grief nothing can wipe, Like smoking and moist'ning our clay; * * * * * For tho' at my simile many may joke, Man is but a pipe—and his life but smoke.
** ''Content and a Pipe''. Old ballad.

* The Indian weed, withered quite, Green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay. All flesh is hay. Thus think, then drink tobacco. * * * * And when the smoke ascends on high, Then thou behold'st vanity Of worldly stuff, Gone at a puff. Thus think, then drink tobacco.
** Attributed to [[Erskine]], ''Gospel Sonnets'', ''Meditations on Tobacco'', Part I. Printed in a Collection ''Two Broadsides against Tobacco'' (1672). Erskine claimed only Part II, Part I. is from an old poem.

* Tobacco, an outlandish weed, Doth in the land strange wonders breed; It taints the breath, the blood it dries, It burns the head, it blinds the eyes; It dries the lungs, scourgeth the lights, It 'numbs the soul, it dulls the sprites; It brings a man into a maze, And makes him sit for others' gaze; It mars a man, it mars a purse, A lean one fat, a fat one worse; A white man black, a black man white, A night a day, a day a night; It turns the brain like cat in pan, And makes a Jack a gentleman.
** [[Fairholt]], ''J. Payne Collier's MS''.

* With pipe and book at close of day, Oh, what is sweeter? mortal say.
** It matters not what book on knee, Old Isaak or the Odyssey, It matters not meerschaum or clay.
** [[Richard Le Gallienne]], in volumes in Folio. See Cope's ''Smoker's Garland''.

* Tobacco is a traveler, Come from the Indies hither; It passed sea and land Ere it came to my hand, And 'scaped the wind and weather. Tobacco's a musician. And in a pipe delighteth; It descends in a close, Through the organ of the nose, With a relish that inviteth.
** [[Barten Holiday]], ''Texnotamia'' (1630).

* Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.
** [[Thomas Hood]], ''The Cigar''.

* Neither do thou lust after that tawney weed tobacco.
** [[Ben Jonson]], ''Bartholomew Fair'', Act II, scene 6.

* Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
** [[Ben Jonson]], ''Every Man in His Humour'', Act III, scene 2.

* And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Betrothed''.

* For Maggie has written a letter to give me my choice between The wee little whimpering Love and the great god Nick O'Teen. And I have been servant of Love for barely a twelvemonth clear, But I have been priest of Partagas a matter of seven year. And the gloom of my bachelor days is flecked with the cherry light Of stumps that I burned to friendship, and pleasure and work and fight.
** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''The Betrothed''.

* ''Tobac! dont mon âme est ravie, Lorsque je te vois te perdre en l'air, Aussi promptement q'un éclair, Je vois l'image de ma vie.''
** Tobacco, charmer of my mind, When like the meteor's transient gleam, Thy substance gone to air I find, I think, alas! my life's the same.
** Misson, ''Memoirs of his travels over England'' (1697). Translation by Ozell.

* I would I were a cigarette Between my Lady's lithe sad lips, Where Death like Love, divinely set. With exquisite sighs and sips, Feeds and is fed. * * * * For life is Love and Love is death, It was my hap, a well-a-day! To burn my little hour away.
** [[H. A. Page]], ''Vers de Société'', ''Madonna Mia''.

* Old man, God bless you, does your pipe taste sweetly? A beauty, by my soul! A ruddy flower-pot, rimmed with gold so neatly, What ask you for the bowl? O sir, that bowl for worlds I would not part with; A brave man gave it me, Who won it—now what think you—of a bashaw? At Belgrade's victory.
** [[Gottfried Konrad Pfeffel]], ''The Tobacco Pipe''.

* Tobacco's but an Indian weed, Grows green at morn, cut down at eve; It shows our decay, we are but clay. Think on this when you smoak Tobacco.
** As quoted by [[Walter Scott]], ''Rob Roy''. First printed in Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Volume I, p. 315. (Ed. 1707).

* Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctors' spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.
** [[Charles Sprague]], ''To My Cigar''.

* It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tabagie," as Michelet calls it, spreads over all the world. Michelet rails against it because it renders you happily apart from thought or work;… Whatever keeps a man in the front garden, whatever checks wandering fancy and all inordinate ambition, whatever makes for lounging and contentment, makes just so surely for domestic happiness.
** [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], ''Virginibus Puerisque'', I.

* Am I not—a smoker and a brother?
** ''A Veteran of Smokedom'', ''The Smoker's Guide'', Chapter IV. Last line.

* Look at me—follow me—smell me! The "stunning" cigar I am smoking is one of a sample intended for the Captain General of Cuba, and the King of Spain, and positively cost a shilling! Oh! * * * I have some dearer at home. Yes, the expense is frightful, but——it! who can smoke the monstrous rubbish of the shops?
** ''A Veteran of Smokedom'', ''The Smoker's Guide'', Chapter IV.

* To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is equivalent to kissing a lady through a respirator.
** ''A Veteran of Smokedom'', ''The Smoker's Guide'', Chapter V.

* The cigarettes Mr. Slump smoked were prepared by doctors, so the advertisements declared, with the sole purpose of protecting his respiratory system. Yet Mr. Slump suffered and the young secretary suffered with him, hideously. For the first hours of every day he was possessed by a cough which arose from tartarean depths and was relieved only by whisky.
** [[Evelyn Waugh]], ''[[w:The Loved One|The Loved One]]'', Ch. 7.

* Dick Stoype Was a dear friend and lover of the pipe. He used to say one pipe of Wishart's best Gave life a zest. To him 'twas meat and drink and physic, To see the friendly vapor Curl round his midnight taper, And the black fume Clothe all the room, In clouds as dark as sciences metaphysic.
** [[Charles Westmacott]], ''Points of Misery''.

* A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
** [[Oscar Wilde]], ''Picture of Dorian Gray'', Chapter IV.

* Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco.
** G. W. Probably [[George Withers]], in Manuscript of 17th. Cent. owned by J. Payne Collier. Printed in My Little Book of Songs and Ballads from Ancient Musick Books Manuscript (1851). "Drink tobacco" means drinking in, or smoking.

==See also==
* [[Alcoholic beverages]]
* [[Capitalism]]
*[[Imperialism]]
* [[Lung cancer]]
* [[Drugs]]
* [[Tobacco industry]]
* [[Tyranny]]

==External links==
{{wikipedia}}
{{wiktionary|tobacco}}

[[Category:Drugs]]
[[Category:Plants]]

Mikheil Saakashvili

2022-07-08T11:03:27Z

Spafky: /* Speech at the UN General Assembly, 25 September 2013. */

[[File:President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi, March 22, 2008.jpg|thumb|If they want my head, for me it’s more funny than troubling.]]
'''[[w:Mikheil Saakashvili|Mikheil Saakashvili]]''' (born [[21 December]] [[1967]]) is a former Georgian politician. He was the third President of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013.

==Quotes==
*Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.
**As quoted in [https://www.irishtimes.com/news/eu-integration-a-key-aim-of-saakashvili-1.1131478 "EU integration a key aim of Saakashvili"] (26 January 2004), ''Irish Times''

*For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
**As quoted in [https://www.deseretnews.com/article/635179976/Ebullience-in-Georgia-replaced-by-energy-crisis.html "Ebullience in Georgia replaced by energy crisis"] (29 January 2006), by Mike Eckel, ''Deseret News''

*A united Georgia needs our unity now, to work together towards our many common goals.
**[https://civil.ge/archives/114132 Inaugural address] (21 January 2008)

* We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.
** As quoted in [http://old.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/2012/11/article/selling-the-georgian-dream/471822.html "Selling the Georgian Dream"] (23 November 2012), by Luka Oreskovic, ''The Moscow Times''

===Inaugural address (2004)===
*Georgia is the country of unique culture. We are not only old Europeans, we are the very first Europeans, and therefore Georgia holds special place in European civilization. Georgia should serve as a paragon for democracy where all citizens are equal before the law, where every citizen will have an equal opportunity for the pursuit of success and realization of his or her possibilities. Georgia should become and will become a homeland for independent, educated and proud people.
** [https://old.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=26694 Inaugural address] (25 January 2004)
**Also quoted as: ''"Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries."'' in [https://books.google.com/books?id=XYPX1JmlIrsC&pg=PT274&lpg=PT274&dq=%22Georgia+is+not+just+a+European+country,+but+one+of+the+most+ancient+European+countries.%22&source=bl&ots=DSgcjrMGnd&sig=UyRLUFf5UzUR4KAVB96bGGSBm4o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje9JG-wOveAhXNmeAKHXnuAqEQ6AEwCnoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Georgia%20is%20not%20just%20a%20European%20country%2C%20but%20one%20of%20the%20most%20ancient%20European%20countries.%22&f=false ''A World of Curiosities: Surprising, Interesting, and Downright Unbelievable''] (2012), by John Oldale, p. 274

*It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

*Our steady course is towards European integration. It is time Europe finally saw and valued Georgia and took steps towards us.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

*Standing at David's tomb, we must say Georgia will unite, Georgia will become strong and will restore its integrity... I want all of us to do it together and I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

===Remarks to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2005)===
*[W]hen the people of Georgia rose up to defend their freedom - they also rose up to reclaim their future. A future that would no longer be defined by the false promises, wholesale decay, and state disintegration of the recent past. A future no longer dominated by the politics of division, state-sanctioned theft and disregard for the poorest parts of society.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

*Georgia's character - now and forever - celebrates tolerance, embraces diversity, relishes lively and open debate, and above all, respects liberty and human dignity. Georgia is a democracy, because above all - its national identity is rooted in the traditions of democracy.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

*First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

===Interview with the ''New York Times'' (2008)===
*Look, the rift with [[Russia]] is not connected to Georgia. It is connected to values. Russia has become very authoritarian. It doesn’t accept free speech or real elections anymore.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

*Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

*Putin told several Western leaders, “I want Saakashvili’s head.” If they want my head, for me it’s more funny than troubling.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

=== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vSocpB9no Speech] at the [[UN]] General Assembly, 25 September 2013. ===
Transcript [https://civil.ge/archives/186792 here].
*If the West is outdated, then why do millions of [[Poland|Poles]], [[Czechia|Czech]], [[Estonia]]ns, [[Romania]]ns, and others cherish so much the day they entered [[NATO]]? And why are millions of [[Ukraine|Ukrainians]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgians]], [[Moldova]]ns, and others desperately knocking on the doors of the [[European Union]]? If [[freedom]] is no longer fashionable, how do we explain that the suicide of [[w:Mohamed Bouazizi|an unknown citizen]] in a remote [[Tunisia]]n town has [[w:Arab Spring|changed the map of the world]]?
*[[Armenia]] has been cornered and forced to sign Customs Union, which is not in this nation’s interest or in the interest of our region. [[Moldova]] is being blockaded, Ukraine is under constant attack, [[Azerbaijan]] faces extraordinary pressure, and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] is occupied. Why? Because an old Empire is trying to reclaim its bygone borders. And ‘borders’ is actually not the right word, since this Empire – be it the [[Russian Empire]], the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Russian Federation]], or the [[w:Eurasian Union|Eurasian Union]] – never had borders. It only had margins. I came today to speak in the name of these margins. Unlike most nations, '''the Russian Federation has no interest in having stable states around it.''' '''Neighboring countries in constant turmoil is what the Kremlin is seeking.''' It rejects the very idea of strong governments in Georgia, Ukraine, or Moldova, even ones that try to be friendly to its interests. I was never a great fan of what the French call ''La langue de bois'', but as my second term nears its end, I feel more than before the urge to speak my mind. So let us be concrete. Do you think that [[Vladimir Putin]] wants Armenia to decisively [[w:Nagorno-Karabakh conflict|triumph over Azerbaijan]], for instance? No. This would make Armenia too strong and potentially too independent. Do you think then that the contrary is true, that Moscow wants Baku to prevail over Yerevan? Obviously not. The current rise of a modernized, dynamic Azerbaijan is a nightmare for the Russian leaders. No, they do not want anyone to prevail and the conflict itself is their objective, since it keeps both nations dependent and blocks their integration into the European common space. Do you think that the electoral defeat of the forces that led the [[w:Orange Revolution|Orange Revolution]] in Ukraine has led the Kremlin to take a softer approach to this country? To the contrary. I spoke yesterday to my colleague [[Viktor Yanukovych]]; his government is under constant attack and pressure from Russia and that’s what’s happening on the daily basis ahead of the European [Union Eastern Partnership] Summit of Vilnius and Russian officials now speak openly about dismembering this nation – I just heard speech two days ago. Do you think the Kremlin would agree to discuss the de-occupation of our regions of [[w:Abkhazia|Abkhazia]] and [[w:South Ossetia|South Ossetia]], now that the government has changed in Tbilisi? Far from it. The annexation of Georgian lands by Russian troops continues. Yesterday, the occupants have expelled again Georgian citizens from their houses and are destroying them, are destroying their villages, homes and houses of their parents and grand-parents, [inaudible] their cemeteries in total impunity, water systems. Despite the friendly statements made by the new Georgian government in the recent weeks and months, the Russian military keeps advancing its positions, dividing communities with new barbwires, threatening our economy, moving towards the vital [[w:Baku-Supsa pipeline|Baku-Supsa pipeline]], approaching more and more the main highway of Georgia and thus putting into question the very sustainability of our country. [...] . My predecessor, President [[Shevardnadze, Eduard|Shevardnadze]], came from the highest Soviet nomenklatura. He was returned to power in Georgia with direct Russian help in the 90s, through a military coup. He was well known for his Soviet diplomatic skills unlike me. And yet, Russia has constantly undermined his authority and even tried to assassinate him several times. This is not about [[w:Gamsakhurdia|Gamsakhurdia]] – the first Georgian President, Shevardnadze, Saakashvili, or present Prime Minister [[w:Bidzina Ivanishvili|Ivanishvili]]. Those names actually do not matter when the stakes are so high. This is about the possibility or not of true statehood in Georgia, and beyond. Why? Because the current Russian authorities know perfectly well that as soon as strong institutions are built in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, or any other place, as soon as functioning states emerge, such institutions, such states will reflect and enforce the will of their people, which is to become fully independent and move towards Europe.

===Tbilisi Courtroom Address (2021)===
* I do not recognise the Prosecutor’s Office and the Georgian judiciary, I am not here to be part of a pre-written comedy (before adress) 
* I am Mikheil Saakashvili and Georgia did not have a criminal president [talks about himself]. I want every Georgian to know this. The founder of the Georgian state could not have been a criminal, because criminals do not establish states, they instead destroy them and you are [now] witnessing a classic example of that, as Georgia has fallen into the hands of bandits.
* Of course, I was in a hurry to develop Georgia and anyone who is in a rush makes mistakes. I knew that we had little time, I know that many things needed to be done. But I was speaking with my doctor, who was able to arrive from a village and enroll in the medical university, only because there were national exams. Otherwise, there were no chances to enroll, and when they were coming [to Tbilisi in the past] people used to question them if they knew how much [the bribe for] enrolling would cost. [My doctor] arrived, believed in me and enrolled. The program of American teachers – many of the young generation can speak English, because we used to bring over 2,500 teachers a year. Not only my or [[Bidzina Ivanishvili]]’s son were able to study, but any Georgian, from Lesichini village to Khulo and Zemo and Kveda Machkhaani. This was my concept.
* While I have told about my successes, did I make mistakes? [I made] more than enough; many mistakes that I bitterly regret. First of all, my mistake was the court.

==External links==
*{{Wikipedia-inline}}

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Mikheil Saakashvili

2022-06-30T19:08:29Z

Spafky: /* Speech at the UN General Assembly, 25 September 2013. */

[[File:President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi, March 22, 2008.jpg|thumb|If they want my head, for me it’s more funny than troubling.]]
'''[[w:Mikheil Saakashvili|Mikheil Saakashvili]]''' (born [[21 December]] [[1967]]) is a former Georgian politician. He was the third President of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013.

==Quotes==
*Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.
**As quoted in [https://www.irishtimes.com/news/eu-integration-a-key-aim-of-saakashvili-1.1131478 "EU integration a key aim of Saakashvili"] (26 January 2004), ''Irish Times''

*For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
**As quoted in [https://www.deseretnews.com/article/635179976/Ebullience-in-Georgia-replaced-by-energy-crisis.html "Ebullience in Georgia replaced by energy crisis"] (29 January 2006), by Mike Eckel, ''Deseret News''

*A united Georgia needs our unity now, to work together towards our many common goals.
**[https://civil.ge/archives/114132 Inaugural address] (21 January 2008)

* We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.
** As quoted in [http://old.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/2012/11/article/selling-the-georgian-dream/471822.html "Selling the Georgian Dream"] (23 November 2012), by Luka Oreskovic, ''The Moscow Times''

===Inaugural address (2004)===
*Georgia is the country of unique culture. We are not only old Europeans, we are the very first Europeans, and therefore Georgia holds special place in European civilization. Georgia should serve as a paragon for democracy where all citizens are equal before the law, where every citizen will have an equal opportunity for the pursuit of success and realization of his or her possibilities. Georgia should become and will become a homeland for independent, educated and proud people.
** [https://old.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=26694 Inaugural address] (25 January 2004)
**Also quoted as: ''"Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries."'' in [https://books.google.com/books?id=XYPX1JmlIrsC&pg=PT274&lpg=PT274&dq=%22Georgia+is+not+just+a+European+country,+but+one+of+the+most+ancient+European+countries.%22&source=bl&ots=DSgcjrMGnd&sig=UyRLUFf5UzUR4KAVB96bGGSBm4o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje9JG-wOveAhXNmeAKHXnuAqEQ6AEwCnoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Georgia%20is%20not%20just%20a%20European%20country%2C%20but%20one%20of%20the%20most%20ancient%20European%20countries.%22&f=false ''A World of Curiosities: Surprising, Interesting, and Downright Unbelievable''] (2012), by John Oldale, p. 274

*It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

*Our steady course is towards European integration. It is time Europe finally saw and valued Georgia and took steps towards us.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

*Standing at David's tomb, we must say Georgia will unite, Georgia will become strong and will restore its integrity... I want all of us to do it together and I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

===Remarks to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2005)===
*[W]hen the people of Georgia rose up to defend their freedom - they also rose up to reclaim their future. A future that would no longer be defined by the false promises, wholesale decay, and state disintegration of the recent past. A future no longer dominated by the politics of division, state-sanctioned theft and disregard for the poorest parts of society.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

*Georgia's character - now and forever - celebrates tolerance, embraces diversity, relishes lively and open debate, and above all, respects liberty and human dignity. Georgia is a democracy, because above all - its national identity is rooted in the traditions of democracy.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

*First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

===Interview with the ''New York Times'' (2008)===
*Look, the rift with [[Russia]] is not connected to Georgia. It is connected to values. Russia has become very authoritarian. It doesn’t accept free speech or real elections anymore.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

*Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

*Putin told several Western leaders, “I want Saakashvili’s head.” If they want my head, for me it’s more funny than troubling.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

=== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vSocpB9no Speech] at the [[UN]] General Assembly, 25 September 2013. ===
Transcript [https://civil.ge/archives/186792 here].
*If the West is outdated, then why do millions of [[Poland|Poles]], [[Czechia|Czech]], [[Estonia]]ns, [[Romania]]ns, and others cherish so much the day they entered [[NATO]]? And why are millions of [[Ukraine|Ukrainians]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgians]], [[Moldova]]ns, and others desperately knocking on the doors of the [[European Union]]? If [[freedom]] is no longer fashionable, how do we explain that the suicide of [[w:Mohamed Bouazizi|an unknown citizen]] in a remote [[Tunisia]]n town has [[w:Arab Spring|changed the map of the world]]?
*[[Armenia]] has been cornered and forced to sign Customs Union, which is not in this nation’s interest or in the interest of our region. [[Moldova]] is being blockaded, Ukraine is under constant attack, [[Azerbaijan]] faces extraordinary pressure, and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] is occupied. Why? Because an old Empire is trying to reclaim its bygone borders. And ‘borders’ is actually not the right word, since this Empire – be it the [[Russian Empire]], the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Russian Federation]], or the [[w:Eurasian Union|Eurasian Union]] – never had borders. It only had margins. I came today to speak in the name of these margins. Unlike most nations, '''the Russian Federation has no interest in having stable states around it.''' '''Neighboring countries in constant turmoil is what the Kremlin is seeking.''' It rejects the very idea of strong governments in Georgia, Ukraine, or Moldova, even ones that try to be friendly to its interests. I was never a great fan of what the French call ''La langue de bois'', but as my second term nears its end, I feel more than before the urge to speak my mind. So let us be concrete. Do you think that [[Vladimir Putin]] wants Armenia to decisively [[w:Nagorno-Karabakh conflict|triumph over Azerbaijan]], for instance? No. This would make Armenia too strong and potentially too independent. Do you think then that the contrary is true, that Moscow wants Baku to prevail over Yerevan? Obviously not. The current rise of a modernized, dynamic Azerbaijan is a nightmare for the Russian leaders. No, they do not want anyone to prevail and the conflict itself is their objective, since it keeps both nations dependent and blocks their integration into the European common space. Do you think that the electoral defeat of the forces that led the [[w:Orange Revolution|Orange Revolution]] in Ukraine has led the Kremlin to take a softer approach to this country? To the contrary. I spoke yesterday to my colleague [[Viktor Yanukovych]]; his government is under constant attack and pressure from Russia and that’s what’s happening on the daily basis ahead of the European [Union Eastern Partnership] Summit of Vilnius and Russian officials now speak openly about dismembering this nation – I just heard speech two days ago. Do you think the Kremlin would agree to discuss the de-occupation of our regions of [[w:Abkhazia|Abkhazia]] and [[w:South Ossetia|South Ossetia]], now that the government has changed in Tbilisi? Far from it. The annexation of Georgian lands by Russian troops continues. Yesterday, the occupants have expelled again Georgian citizens from their houses and are destroying them, are destroying their villages, homes and houses of their parents and grand-parents, [inaudible] their cemeteries in total impunity, water systems. Despite the friendly statements made by the new Georgian government in the recent weeks and months, the Russian military keeps advancing its positions, dividing communities with new barbwires, threatening our economy, moving towards the vital [[w:Baku-Supsa pipeline|Baku-Supsa pipeline]], approaching more and more the main highway of Georgia and thus putting into question the very sustainability of our country.

===Tbilisi Courtroom Address (2021)===
* I do not recognise the Prosecutor’s Office and the Georgian judiciary, I am not here to be part of a pre-written comedy (before adress) 
* I am Mikheil Saakashvili and Georgia did not have a criminal president [talks about himself]. I want every Georgian to know this. The founder of the Georgian state could not have been a criminal, because criminals do not establish states, they instead destroy them and you are [now] witnessing a classic example of that, as Georgia has fallen into the hands of bandits.
* Of course, I was in a hurry to develop Georgia and anyone who is in a rush makes mistakes. I knew that we had little time, I know that many things needed to be done. But I was speaking with my doctor, who was able to arrive from a village and enroll in the medical university, only because there were national exams. Otherwise, there were no chances to enroll, and when they were coming [to Tbilisi in the past] people used to question them if they knew how much [the bribe for] enrolling would cost. [My doctor] arrived, believed in me and enrolled. The program of American teachers – many of the young generation can speak English, because we used to bring over 2,500 teachers a year. Not only my or [[Bidzina Ivanishvili]]’s son were able to study, but any Georgian, from Lesichini village to Khulo and Zemo and Kveda Machkhaani. This was my concept.
* While I have told about my successes, did I make mistakes? [I made] more than enough; many mistakes that I bitterly regret. First of all, my mistake was the court.

==External links==
*{{Wikipedia-inline}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saakashvili, Mikheil}}
[[Category:1967 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Presidents of Georgia]]
[[Category:Lawyers]]
[[Category:Prisoners]]
[[Category:People from Tbilisi]]

Mikheil Saakashvili

2022-06-30T19:04:35Z

Spafky: /* Speech at the UN General Assembly, 25 September 2013. */

[[File:President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi, March 22, 2008.jpg|thumb|If they want my head, for me it’s more funny than troubling.]]
'''[[w:Mikheil Saakashvili|Mikheil Saakashvili]]''' (born [[21 December]] [[1967]]) is a former Georgian politician. He was the third President of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013.

==Quotes==
*Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.
**As quoted in [https://www.irishtimes.com/news/eu-integration-a-key-aim-of-saakashvili-1.1131478 "EU integration a key aim of Saakashvili"] (26 January 2004), ''Irish Times''

*For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
**As quoted in [https://www.deseretnews.com/article/635179976/Ebullience-in-Georgia-replaced-by-energy-crisis.html "Ebullience in Georgia replaced by energy crisis"] (29 January 2006), by Mike Eckel, ''Deseret News''

*A united Georgia needs our unity now, to work together towards our many common goals.
**[https://civil.ge/archives/114132 Inaugural address] (21 January 2008)

* We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.
** As quoted in [http://old.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/2012/11/article/selling-the-georgian-dream/471822.html "Selling the Georgian Dream"] (23 November 2012), by Luka Oreskovic, ''The Moscow Times''

===Inaugural address (2004)===
*Georgia is the country of unique culture. We are not only old Europeans, we are the very first Europeans, and therefore Georgia holds special place in European civilization. Georgia should serve as a paragon for democracy where all citizens are equal before the law, where every citizen will have an equal opportunity for the pursuit of success and realization of his or her possibilities. Georgia should become and will become a homeland for independent, educated and proud people.
** [https://old.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=26694 Inaugural address] (25 January 2004)
**Also quoted as: ''"Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries."'' in [https://books.google.com/books?id=XYPX1JmlIrsC&pg=PT274&lpg=PT274&dq=%22Georgia+is+not+just+a+European+country,+but+one+of+the+most+ancient+European+countries.%22&source=bl&ots=DSgcjrMGnd&sig=UyRLUFf5UzUR4KAVB96bGGSBm4o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje9JG-wOveAhXNmeAKHXnuAqEQ6AEwCnoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Georgia%20is%20not%20just%20a%20European%20country%2C%20but%20one%20of%20the%20most%20ancient%20European%20countries.%22&f=false ''A World of Curiosities: Surprising, Interesting, and Downright Unbelievable''] (2012), by John Oldale, p. 274

*It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

*Our steady course is towards European integration. It is time Europe finally saw and valued Georgia and took steps towards us.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

*Standing at David's tomb, we must say Georgia will unite, Georgia will become strong and will restore its integrity... I want all of us to do it together and I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

===Remarks to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2005)===
*[W]hen the people of Georgia rose up to defend their freedom - they also rose up to reclaim their future. A future that would no longer be defined by the false promises, wholesale decay, and state disintegration of the recent past. A future no longer dominated by the politics of division, state-sanctioned theft and disregard for the poorest parts of society.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

*Georgia's character - now and forever - celebrates tolerance, embraces diversity, relishes lively and open debate, and above all, respects liberty and human dignity. Georgia is a democracy, because above all - its national identity is rooted in the traditions of democracy.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

*First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

===Interview with the ''New York Times'' (2008)===
*Look, the rift with [[Russia]] is not connected to Georgia. It is connected to values. Russia has become very authoritarian. It doesn’t accept free speech or real elections anymore.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

*Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

*Putin told several Western leaders, “I want Saakashvili’s head.” If they want my head, for me it’s more funny than troubling.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

=== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vSocpB9no Speech] at the [[UN]] General Assembly, 25 September 2013. ===
Transcript [https://civil.ge/archives/186792 here].
*If the West is outdated, then why do millions of [[Poland|Poles]], [[Czechia|Czech]], [[Estonia]]ns, [[Romania]]ns, and others cherish so much the day they entered [[NATO]]? And why are millions of [[Ukraine|Ukrainians]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgians]], [[Moldova]]ns, and others desperately knocking on the doors of the [[European Union]]? If [[freedom]] is no longer fashionable, how do we explain that the suicide of [[w:Mohamed Bouazizi|an unknown citizen]] in a remote [[Tunisia]]n town has [[w:Arab Spring|changed the map of the world]]?
*[[Armenia]] has been cornered and forced to sign Customs Union, which is not in this nation’s interest or in the interest of our region. [[Moldova]] is being blockaded, Ukraine is under constant attack, [[Azerbaijan]] faces extraordinary pressure, and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] is occupied. Why? Because an old Empire is trying to reclaim its bygone borders. And ‘borders’ is actually not the right word, since this Empire – be it the [[Russian Empire]], the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Russian Federation]], or the [[w:Eurasian Union|Eurasian Union]] – never had borders. It only had margins. I came today to speak in the name of these margins. Unlike most nations, the Russian Federation has no interest in having stable states around it. Neighboring countries in constant turmoil is what the Kremlin is seeking. It rejects the very idea of strong governments in Georgia, Ukraine, or Moldova, even ones that try to be friendly to its interests. I was never a great fan of what the French call ''La langue de bois'', but as my second term nears its end, I feel more than before the urge to speak my mind. So let us be concrete. Do you think that [[Vladimir Putin]] wants Armenia to decisively [[w:Nagorno-Karabakh conflict|triumph over Azerbaijan]], for instance? No. This would make Armenia too strong and potentially too independent. Do you think then that the contrary is true, that Moscow wants Baku to prevail over Yerevan? Obviously not. The current rise of a modernized, dynamic Azerbaijan is a nightmare for the Russian leaders. No, they do not want anyone to prevail and the conflict itself is their objective, since it keeps both nations dependent and blocks their integration into the European common space. Do you think that the electoral defeat of the forces that led the [[w:Orange Revolution|Orange Revolution]] in Ukraine has led the Kremlin to take a softer approach to this country? To the contrary. I spoke yesterday to my colleague [[Viktor Yanukovych]]; his government is under constant attack and pressure from Russia and that’s what’s happening on the daily basis ahead of the European [Union Eastern Partnership] Summit of Vilnius and Russian officials now speak openly about dismembering this nation – I just heard speech two days ago. Do you think the Kremlin would agree to discuss the de-occupation of our regions of [[w:Abkhazia|Abkhazia]] and [[w:South Ossetia|South Ossetia]], now that the government has changed in Tbilisi? Far from it. The annexation of Georgian lands by Russian troops continues. Yesterday, the occupants have expelled again Georgian citizens from their houses and are destroying them, are destroying their villages, homes and houses of their parents and grand-parents, [inaudible] their cemeteries in total impunity, water systems. Despite the friendly statements made by the new Georgian government in the recent weeks and months, the Russian military keeps advancing its positions, dividing communities with new barbwires, threatening our economy, moving towards the vital [[w:Baku-Supsa pipeline|Baku-Supsa pipeline]], approaching more and more the main highway of Georgia and thus putting into question the very sustainability of our country.

===Tbilisi Courtroom Address (2021)===
* I do not recognise the Prosecutor’s Office and the Georgian judiciary, I am not here to be part of a pre-written comedy (before adress) 
* I am Mikheil Saakashvili and Georgia did not have a criminal president [talks about himself]. I want every Georgian to know this. The founder of the Georgian state could not have been a criminal, because criminals do not establish states, they instead destroy them and you are [now] witnessing a classic example of that, as Georgia has fallen into the hands of bandits.
* Of course, I was in a hurry to develop Georgia and anyone who is in a rush makes mistakes. I knew that we had little time, I know that many things needed to be done. But I was speaking with my doctor, who was able to arrive from a village and enroll in the medical university, only because there were national exams. Otherwise, there were no chances to enroll, and when they were coming [to Tbilisi in the past] people used to question them if they knew how much [the bribe for] enrolling would cost. [My doctor] arrived, believed in me and enrolled. The program of American teachers – many of the young generation can speak English, because we used to bring over 2,500 teachers a year. Not only my or [[Bidzina Ivanishvili]]’s son were able to study, but any Georgian, from Lesichini village to Khulo and Zemo and Kveda Machkhaani. This was my concept.
* While I have told about my successes, did I make mistakes? [I made] more than enough; many mistakes that I bitterly regret. First of all, my mistake was the court.

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2022-06-30T19:03:26Z

Spafky: /* Speech at the UN General Assembly, 25 September 2013. */

[[File:President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi, March 22, 2008.jpg|thumb|If they want my head, for me it’s more funny than troubling.]]
'''[[w:Mikheil Saakashvili|Mikheil Saakashvili]]''' (born [[21 December]] [[1967]]) is a former Georgian politician. He was the third President of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013.

==Quotes==
*Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.
**As quoted in [https://www.irishtimes.com/news/eu-integration-a-key-aim-of-saakashvili-1.1131478 "EU integration a key aim of Saakashvili"] (26 January 2004), ''Irish Times''

*For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
**As quoted in [https://www.deseretnews.com/article/635179976/Ebullience-in-Georgia-replaced-by-energy-crisis.html "Ebullience in Georgia replaced by energy crisis"] (29 January 2006), by Mike Eckel, ''Deseret News''

*A united Georgia needs our unity now, to work together towards our many common goals.
**[https://civil.ge/archives/114132 Inaugural address] (21 January 2008)

* We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.
** As quoted in [http://old.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/2012/11/article/selling-the-georgian-dream/471822.html "Selling the Georgian Dream"] (23 November 2012), by Luka Oreskovic, ''The Moscow Times''

===Inaugural address (2004)===
*Georgia is the country of unique culture. We are not only old Europeans, we are the very first Europeans, and therefore Georgia holds special place in European civilization. Georgia should serve as a paragon for democracy where all citizens are equal before the law, where every citizen will have an equal opportunity for the pursuit of success and realization of his or her possibilities. Georgia should become and will become a homeland for independent, educated and proud people.
** [https://old.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=26694 Inaugural address] (25 January 2004)
**Also quoted as: ''"Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries."'' in [https://books.google.com/books?id=XYPX1JmlIrsC&pg=PT274&lpg=PT274&dq=%22Georgia+is+not+just+a+European+country,+but+one+of+the+most+ancient+European+countries.%22&source=bl&ots=DSgcjrMGnd&sig=UyRLUFf5UzUR4KAVB96bGGSBm4o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje9JG-wOveAhXNmeAKHXnuAqEQ6AEwCnoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Georgia%20is%20not%20just%20a%20European%20country%2C%20but%20one%20of%20the%20most%20ancient%20European%20countries.%22&f=false ''A World of Curiosities: Surprising, Interesting, and Downright Unbelievable''] (2012), by John Oldale, p. 274

*It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

*Our steady course is towards European integration. It is time Europe finally saw and valued Georgia and took steps towards us.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

*Standing at David's tomb, we must say Georgia will unite, Georgia will become strong and will restore its integrity... I want all of us to do it together and I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
**As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3426977.stm "Georgia swears in new president"] (25 January 2004), ''BBC News''

===Remarks to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2005)===
*[W]hen the people of Georgia rose up to defend their freedom - they also rose up to reclaim their future. A future that would no longer be defined by the false promises, wholesale decay, and state disintegration of the recent past. A future no longer dominated by the politics of division, state-sanctioned theft and disregard for the poorest parts of society.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

*Georgia's character - now and forever - celebrates tolerance, embraces diversity, relishes lively and open debate, and above all, respects liberty and human dignity. Georgia is a democracy, because above all - its national identity is rooted in the traditions of democracy.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

*First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
**As quoted in [https://reliefweb.int/report/georgia/remarks-president-georgia-he-mikheil-saakashvili-parliamentary-assembly-council "Remarks of the President of Georgia H.E. Mikheil Saakashvili to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"] (26 January 2005), ''ReliefWeb''

===Interview with the ''New York Times'' (2008)===
*Look, the rift with [[Russia]] is not connected to Georgia. It is connected to values. Russia has become very authoritarian. It doesn’t accept free speech or real elections anymore.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

*Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

*Putin told several Western leaders, “I want Saakashvili’s head.” If they want my head, for me it’s more funny than troubling.
**As quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

=== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vSocpB9no Speech] at the [[UN]] General Assembly, 25 September 2013. ===
Transcript [https://civil.ge/archives/186792 here].
*If the West is outdated, then why do millions of [[Poland|Poles]], [[Czechia|Czech]], [[Estonia]]ns, [[Romania]]ns, and others cherish so much the day they entered [[NATO]]? And why are millions of [[Ukraine|Ukrainians]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgians]], [[Moldova]]ns, and others desperately knocking on the doors of the [[European Union]]? If [[freedom]] is no longer fashionable, how do we explain that the suicide of [[w:Mohamed Bouazizi|an unknown citizen]] in a remote [[Tunisia]]n town has [[w:Arab Spring|changed the map of the world]]?
*[[Armenia]] has been cornered and forced to sign Customs Union, which is not in this nation’s interest or in the interest of our region. [[Moldova]] is being blockaded, Ukraine is under constant attack, [[Azerbaijan]] faces extraordinary pressure, and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] is occupied. Why? Because an old Empire is trying to reclaim its bygone borders. And ‘borders’ is actually not the right word, since this Empire – be it the [[Russian Empire]], the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Russian Federation]], or the [[w:Eurasian Union|Eurasian Union]] – never had borders. It only had margins. I came today to speak in the name of these margins. Unlike most nations, the Russian Federation has no interest in having stable states around it. Neighboring countries in constant turmoil is what the Kremlin is seeking. It rejects the very idea of strong governments in Georgia, Ukraine, or Moldova, even ones that try to be friendly to its interests. I was never a great fan of what the French call ''La langue de bois'', but as my second term nears its end, I feel more than before the urge to speak my mind. So let us be concrete. Do you think that [[Vladimir Putin]] wants Armenia to decisively [[w:Nagorno-Karabakh conflict|triumph over Azerbaijan]], for instance? No. This would make Armenia too strong and potentially too independent. Do you think then that the contrary is true, that Moscow wants Baku to prevail over Yerevan? Obviously not. The current rise of a modernized, dynamic Azerbaijan is a nightmare for the Russian leaders. No, they do not want anyone to prevail and the conflict itself is their objective, since it keeps both nations dependent and blocks their integration into the European common space. Do you think that the electoral defeat of the forces that led the [[w:Orange Revolution|Orange Revolution]] in Ukraine has led the Kremlin to take a softer approach to this country? To the contrary. I spoke yesterday to my colleague [[Viktor Yanukovych]]; his government is under constant attack and pressure from Russia and that’s what’s happening on the daily basis ahead of the European [Union Eastern Partnership] Summit of Vilnius and Russian officials now speak openly about dismembering this nation – I just heard speech two days ago. Do you think the Kremlin would agree to discuss the de-occupation of our regions of [[w:Abkhazia|Abkhazia]] and [[w:South Ossetia|South Ossetia]], now that the government has changed in Tbilisi? Far from it. The annexation of Georgian lands by Russian troops continues. Yesterday, the occupants have expelled again Georgian citizens from their houses and are destroying them, are destroying their villages, homes and houses of their parents and grand-parents, [inaudible] their cemeteries in total impunity, water systems. Despite the friendly statements made by the new Georgian government in the recent weeks and months, the Russian military keeps advancing its positions, dividing communities with new barbwires, threatening our economy, moving towards the vital Baku-Supsa pipeline, approaching more and more the main highway of Georgia and thus putting into question the very sustainability of our country.

===Tbilisi Courtroom Address (2021)===
* I do not recognise the Prosecutor’s Office and the Georgian judiciary, I am not here to be part of a pre-written comedy (before adress) 
* I am Mikheil Saakashvili and Georgia did not have a criminal president [talks about himself]. I want every Georgian to know this. The founder of the Georgian state could not have been a criminal, because criminals do not establish states, they instead destroy them and you are [now] witnessing a classic example of that, as Georgia has fallen into the hands of bandits.
* Of course, I was in a hurry to develop Georgia and anyone who is in a rush makes mistakes. I knew that we had little time, I know that many things needed to be done. But I was speaking with my doctor, who was able to arrive from a village and enroll in the medical university, only because there were national exams. Otherwise, there were no chances to enroll, and when they were coming [to Tbilisi in the past] people used to question them if they knew how much [the bribe for] enrolling would cost. [My doctor] arrived, believed in me and enrolled. The program of American teachers – many of the young generation can speak English, because we used to bring over 2,500 teachers a year. Not only my or [[Bidzina Ivanishvili]]’s son were able to study, but any Georgian, from Lesichini village to Khulo and Zemo and Kveda Machkhaani. This was my concept.
* While I have told about my successes, did I make mistakes? [I made] more than enough; many mistakes that I bitterly regret. First of all, my mistake was the court.

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*{{Wikipedia-inline}}

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2022-06-04T16:01:16Z

Spafky: /* I */

[[File:Flag of Ukraine.svg|thumb|in Ukraine you don't build a democracy; it already exists. You just defend it. ~ [[w:Petro Poroshenko|Petro Poroshenko]]]]
[[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Ukraine.svg|thumb|If the country controlled by Kyiv didn’t fracture in 2014, when the government and army were weak, polarization was high, and Putin could have invaded with impunity, it won't. ~ [[w:Alexander J. Motyl|Alexander J. Motyl]]]]
[[File:Monastyr Karmelitiv Bosykh panorama.jpg|thumb|“What does Ukraine look like?” ...it’s green and gently rolling, and dotted with medieval fortresses, romantically neglected baroque palaces and monasteries, and quiet, pretty towns and little cities, much like those of Austria or the Czech Republic. ~ [[Anna Reid]] (Shown: Carmelite Monastery, Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast)]][[File:80-391-0151 Kyiv St.Sophia's Cathedral RB 18 2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Kyiv itself is a grand Belle Époque metropolis with up-and-down cobbled streets and chestnut trees. There are funny little back alleys and courtyards full of coffee shops and art galleries, leafy parks with views over the sprawling river Dnipro, and an array of glorious [[churches]], the grandest of them the 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral [shown]. ~ [[Anna Reid]] ]]
'''[[w:Ukraine|Ukraine]]''' ([[w:Ukrainian|Ukrainian]]: ''Україна'') is a country in [[w:Eastern Europe|Eastern]] [[Europe]]. Ukraine borders the [[Russian Federation]] to the east and northeast, [[Belarus]] to the northwest, [[Poland]], [[w:Slovakia|Slovakia]] and [[w:Hungary|Hungary]] to the west, [[Romania]] and [[w:Moldova|Moldova]] to the southwest, and the [[w:Black Sea|Black Sea]] and [[w:Sea of Azov|Sea of Azov]] to the south and southeast, respectively. It has an area of 603,628 km2 (233,062 sq mi), making it the largest country entirely within the [[Europe]]an subcontinent.

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==Quotes==
===A===
* In carrying out the [[w:Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine|Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine]], the [[w:Verkhovna Rada|Verkhovna Rada]] of the [[w:Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]] solemnly proclaims the independence of Ukraine and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state - Ukraine. The territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable. From now on in Ukraine only the Constitution and laws of Ukraine are in force. This act takes effect from the moment of its approval.
** Original: здійснюючи Декларацію про державний суверенітет України, Верховна Рада Української Радянської Соціалістичної Республіки урочисто проголошує незалежність України та створення самостійної Української держави — України. Територія України є неподільною і недоторканною. Віднині на території України мають чинність виключно Конституція і закони України. Цей акт набирає чинності з моменту його схвалення.
**[[w:Declaration of Independence of Ukraine|''Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine'']] (1991). [http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Documento:Acta_de_Declaraci%C3%B3n_de_Independencia_de_Ucrania_(1991) Text of the act].
[[File:Lemberg 1915 Mariyska.jpg|thumb|On Saturdays [[Judaism|Jews]] are strolling along all the streets, and no one pays attention. And such people who live in Lviv! Pure [[gold]]! ~ [[w:Sholem Aleichem|Sholem Aleichem]] "Lviv" (1906)]]
* "The city of [[w:Lviv|Lviv]] offers a picture of order,
:breadth, and beauty! A sight to feast the eye...
:In the [[heart]] of the city there unfolds a park
:where everyone is allowed to walk,
:even goats. The land of freedom!
:On Saturdays [[Judaism|Jews]] are strolling
:along all the streets, and no one
:pays attention. And such people
:who live in Lviv! Pure [[gold]]!"
**[[w:Sholem Aleichem|Sholem Aleichem]], "Lviv" (1906) in [https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/sholem-aleichems-creative-encounters-lviv-commemoration-100th-anniversary-departure-eternity/ "Sholem Aleichem’s Creative Encounters in Lviv (In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of his Departure into Eternity)" ''Ukrainian Jewish Encounter'' (2017)]

* The archival record backs up the testimony of the survivors. Neither crop failure nor bad weather caused the [[w:Holodomor|famine]] in Ukraine. Although the chaos of collectivization helped create the conditions that led to famine, the high numbers of deaths in Ukraine between 1932 and 1934, and especially the spike in the spring of 1933, were not caused directly by collectivization either. Starvation was the result, rather, of the forcible removal of [[food]] from people’s homes; the roadblocks that prevented peasants from seeking work or food; the harsh rules of the blacklists imposed on [[farm]]s and villages; the restrictions on barter and trade; and the vicious [[propaganda]] campaign designed to persuade Ukrainians to watch, unmoved, as their neighbours died of hunger.
** [[Anne Applebaum]] in ''Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine'' (2017) quoted at [https://huri.harvard.edu/news/ukraine-flames-1917-revolution "Ukraine in the Flames of the 1917 Revolution" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, September 13, 2017)]
===B===
* [[Ukraine]], the [[Russia|Russian Federation]], the [[United Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]], and the [[United States|United States of America]],
: Welcoming the Accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a non-nuclear-weapon state,
: Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all [[nuclear weapons]] from its territory within a specified period of time,
: Noting the changes in the world-wide security situation, including the end of the [[Cold War]], which have brought about conditions for deep reductions in nuclear forces,
: Confirm the following:
:: 1. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the [[w:Helsinki Accords|CSCE Final Act]], to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.
:: 2. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations...
** [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances "Budapest Memorandum" signed December 5, 1994]]

===D===
* This ignorance of Ukraine has always been aggravating, but no one regarded it as a national security threat until the start of the Kremlin’s [[w:Hybrid war|hybrid war]] against Ukraine. All that changed when “[[w:Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)|little green men]]” began appearing in [[w:Crimea|Crimea]] and [[w:Eastern Ukraine|eastern Ukraine]]. It soon became clear that [[disinformation]] would play a key role in the Kremlin’s hybrid war, with Russia’s information offensive relying heavily on outside ignorance of Ukraine. Ukrainians watched in horror as the country’s complex relationship with its [[w:Tsarist Russia|Tsarist]] and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] past was reduced to the tribal binary of [[Russian language|Russian]]-speakers versus [[w:Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]-speakers. Ukraine was depicted as a [[Fascism|fascist]] [[w:military junta|junta]], a [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[dictatorship]], and a [[w:Failed state|failed state]]. These nightmarish visions gained remarkable levels of traction in the international media, largely because Ukraine was such an unknown quantity.
**Vladislav Davidzon and Peter Dickinson, [https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/revealing-europe-s-best-kept-secret/ "Revealing Europe’s Best-Kept Secret" (March 13, 2016)]

* How many people in Europe or North America know that Kyiv is the largest Russian-speaking city in the world outside of Russia? How many are aware that Ukraine has been one of Europe’s most multicultural communities for centuries?
**Vladislav Davidzon and Peter Dickinson, [https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/revealing-europe-s-best-kept-secret/ "Revealing Europe’s Best-Kept Secret" (March 13, 2016)]

===I===
* [[Ukraine]] is recognized as the most threatened part of ppRussia]] in terms of secession and conquest. Ukrainian separatism is an artificial phenomenon, devoid of real grounds. It arose from the ambition of the leaders and the international intrigue of conquest. '''Little Russians are a branch of a single, Slavic-Russian people.''' This branch has no reason to be at enmity with other branches of the same people and to separate into a separate state. Having seceded, this state betrays itself to be conquered and plundered by foreigners. '''Little Russia and Great Russia are bound together by faith, tribe, historical fate, geographical location, economy, culture and politics.''' The foreigners who are preparing the dismemberment must remember that they are declaring by this to the whole of Russia a centuries-old struggle. There will be no peace and no economic prosperity under such a dismemberment. Russia will turn into a source of civil and international wars for centuries. The dismembering power will become the most hated of the enemies of national Russia. In the struggle against it, all alliances and all means will be used. Russia will shift its center to the Urals, gather all its huge forces, develop its technology, find powerful allies for itself and fight until it completely and forever undermines the power of the dismembering power. National Russia is not looking for anyone's death, but it will be able to respond in time to any attempt at dismemberment and will fight to the end. It is more profitable for any power to have Russia as a friend, not an enemy. History hasn't said its last word yet...
** [[Wikipedia:Ivan Ilyin|Ivan Ilyin]], "Fundamentals of the struggle for national Russia" (Основы борьбы за национальную Россию), 1938. Interestingly quoted in [https://rg.ru/2022/05/25/prorochestva-ilina.html this May 25, 2022 article] by [[w:ru:Звягинцев, Александр Григорьевич|Alexander Zvyagintsev]] published in [[w:Rossiiskaya gazeta|Rossiiskaya gazeta]], the [[Russian Federation]]'s own government gazette. In it, Zvyagintsev draws a parallel between the [[w:Livonian Brothers of the Sword|Livonian Brothers of the Sword]], the [[w:Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], the [[w:Swedish Empire|Swedish Empire]], the [[w:Greater Germanic Reich|Nazis]] and the present-day [[European Union]] by putting them all under a same umbrella term: "''Several years passed, and the diabolical fascist '''machine of a united Europe''' fell upon our country. She, like once the hordes of swordsmen, Poles and Swedes, Frederick and Napoleon, was defeated.''"

===M===
* If the country controlled by Kyiv didn’t fracture in 2014, when the government and army were weak, polarization was high, and [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] could have invaded with impunity, it won’t in 2016.
**[[w:Alexander J. Motyl|Alexander J. Motyl]], [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/negativists-are-wrong-ukraine "The Negativists are Wrong on Ukraine"] (15 January 2016), ''Ukraine's Orange Blues'', ''World Affairs Journal''.

*Many people seem to feel that the breakup of the [[Soviet Union]] was the end of the [[Cold War]]. That’s wrong. It had ended two years before that. And the breakup of the Soviet Union did not occur because of Western pressure; it occurred because of internal pressures within the Soviet Union. And it was something that [[George H. W. Bush|President Bush]] did not wish. As a matter of fact, one of his last speeches, when there was a Soviet Union, was in Kyiv, when he advised Ukrainians to join [[Gorbachev]]’s voluntary federation, that he was proposing, and actually warned against suicidal nationalism. Those words, you know, are not remembered much now. People seem to think that Ukraine is free because of the end of the Cold War and the pressure of the West as one of the fruits of victory in the Cold War. This is simply incorrect. It turns history upside down...
**[[Jack F. Matlock Jr.]], [https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/17/jack_matlock_ukraine_russia_nato_us Ex-U.S. Ambassador to USSR: Ukraine Crisis Stems Directly from Post-Cold War Push to Expand NATO], [[W:Democracy Now!|''Democracy Now!'']], February 17, 2022

===N===
* Ukraine is showing [[Belarus]] an example of how one should fight for freedom. I am sure that our countries have a common future in [[Europe]], where neither Ukrainians nor Belarusians will die.
** Vladimir Neklyaev, a Belarusian opposition leader, quoted on ''CBS News'', [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/as-ukraine-protests-grow-slain-demonstrators-mourned/ "As Ukraine protests grow, slain demonstrators mourned"], January 26, 2014.

===P===
[[File:Waräger-Russen, Friedrich Kruse, 1859.jpg|thumb|The term “Rus’,” brought to the region by the Vikings [Varangians shown] in the ninth and tenth centuries, was adopted by the inhabitants of Kyivan Rus’ ~ [[Serhii Plokhy]] ]]
* The ancestors of modern Ukrainians lived in dozens of premodern and modern principalities, kingdoms, and empires, and in the course of time they took on various names and identities. The two key terms that they used to define their land were “Rus’” and “Ukraine.” (In the Cyrillic alphabet, Rus’ is spelled Pycь: the last character is a soft sign indicating palatalized pronunciation of the preceding consonant.) '''The term “Rus’,” brought to the region by the [[w:Varangians|Vikings]] in the ninth and tenth centuries, was adopted by the inhabitants of Kyivan Rus’''', who took the Viking princes and warriors into their fold and Slavicized them. The ancestors of today’s Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarusians adopted the name “Rus’” in forms that varied from the Scandinavian/Slavic “Rus’” to the Hellenized “Rossiia.” In the eighteenth century, Muscovy adopted the latter form as the official name of its state and empire.
** Historian [[Serhii Plokhy]] ''The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine'' (2015) p xxii

[[File:2 hryvnia 1992 front-small.jpg|thumb|Both Ukrainians and Russians claim Yaroslav the Wise as one of their eminent medieval rulers, and his image appears on the banknotes of both countries. The Ukrainian bill depicts Yaroslav with a Ukrainian-style moustache. ~ Serhii Plokhy [Ukrainian banknote shown]]]
[[File:Banknote 1000 rubles (1997) front.jpg|thumb|The Russian bill shows Yaroslav with a [[beard]] in the tradition of Ivan the Terrible and the Muscovite tsars of his era. ~ Serhii Plokhy]]
* '''Both Ukrainians and Russians claim [[w:Yaroslav the Wise|Yaroslav the Wise]] as one of their eminent medieval rulers, and his image appears on the [[money|banknotes]] of both countries.''' The Ukrainian bill depicts Yaroslav with a Ukrainian-style moustache in the tradition of Prince Sviatoslav and the Ukrainian [[w:Cossacks|Cossacks]]. On the Russian note, we see a monument to him as the legendary founder of the Russian city of Yaroslavl, first mentioned in a chronicle seventeen years after his death. The Russian bill shows Yaroslav with a [[beard]] in the tradition of Ivan the Terrible and the Muscovite tsars of his era.
** Historian [[Serhii Plokhy]] ''The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine'' (2015) p 42

* [[w:Levko Lukianenko|Lukianenko]]’s declaration referred to the thousand-year history of Ukrainian statehood, meaning the tradition established by [[w:Kievan Rus'|Kyivan Rus’]]. His declaration was in fact the fourth attempt to proclaim Ukrainian independence in the twentieth century: the first occurred in 1918 in [[w:Kyiv|Kyiv]] and then in [[w:Lviv|Lviv]], the second in 1939 in [[w:Carpatho-Ukraine|Transcarpathia]], and the third in 1941 in Lviv. All those attempts had been made in [[war|wartime]], and all had come to grief. Would this one be different? The next three months would tell. A popular referendum scheduled for December 1, 1991, the same day as the previously scheduled election of Ukraine’s first president, would confirm or reject the parliamentary vote for independence...'''The vote for Ukraine’s independence spelled the end of the Soviet Union.'''
** Historian [[Serhii Plokhy]] ''The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine'' (2015) pp 320–321

*These days in Europe, many countries are sympathetic towards Ukraine and the situation here - of course, this touches a lot of people from different states. The fact that volunteers and government organizations work together on this and these kinds of [[Humanitarianism|humanitarian]] actions happen - is not unique, but it proves, that there are a lot of regular folks out there who care about Ukraine and its future
**Juris Poikans, Latvia's Ambassador to Ukraine, quoted on ''UAToday'' (February 11, 2016), [http://uatoday.tv/politics/latvia-sends-more-aid-to-ukraine-589114.html "Latvia sends more aid to Ukraine"]

*In Ukraine, you don't build a [[democracy]]; it already exists. You just defend it and exactly this. What makes Ukraine unique, its struggle deeply and profoundly...
**[[w:Petro Poroshenko|Petro Poroshenko]], [https://www.c-span.org/video/?321426-1/ukrainian-president-petro-poroshenko-address-congress&start=1496 speech to the U.S. Congress] (18 September 2014)

===R===
* “What does Ukraine look like?”...it’s green and gently rolling, and dotted with [[medieval]] fortresses, romantically neglected baroque [[palace|palaces]] and monasteries, and quiet, pretty towns and little cities, much like those of [[Austria]] or the Czech Republic. Kyiv itself is a grand Belle Époque metropolis with up-and-down cobbled streets and chestnut trees. There are funny little back alleys and courtyards full of coffee shops and art galleries, leafy parks with views over the sprawling river Dnipro, and an array of glorious [[churches]], the grandest of them the 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral.
** [[Anna Reid]] [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/15/ukrainian-heritage-under-threat-truth-soviet-era-russia "Ukrainian heritage is under threat – and so is the truth about Soviet-era Russia" ''The Guardian''] (15 March 2022)

* '''''[[Ukraine|Ukraina]]'' is literally translated as “on the edge” or “borderland”, and that is exactly what it is. Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders''', Ukraine was split between Russia and Poland from the mid-17th century to the end of the 18th, between [[Russia]] and [[Austria]] through the 19th, and between Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania between the two world wars. Until the [[Soviet Union]] collapsed in 1991 it had never been an independent state.
** [[Anna Reid]] ''Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine'' (2015) p 1
[[File:Odessa numismatic museum photo 05.jpg|thumb|From the tenth century to the thirteenth it [Kiev] was the capital of the eastern Slavs’ first great civilisation, Kievan Rus. ~ [[Anna Reid]] (Silver coin shows [[w:Vladimir the Great|Vladimir the Great]] (958–1015))]]
* But the past that gives [[w:Kyiv|Kiev]] unique glamour, that made it ‘the City’ to the novelist [[Mikhail Bulgakov]] and the ‘Joy of the World’ to the medieval chroniclers, is not the brash boom town of the turn of the last century, but the Kiev of a thousand years ago. From the tenth century to the thirteenth it was the capital of the eastern Slavs’ first great civilisation, Kievan Rus. And here Ukraine’s fight for an identity commences. Generations of scholars have bandied insults about how Rus began, how it was governed, even about how it got its name. But the biggest argument of all is over who Rus belongs to. Did Kievan Rus civilisation pass eastward, to Muscovy and the Russians, or did it stay put, in Ukraine? '''‘If Moscow is Russia’s heart,’ runs a Russian proverb, ‘and St Petersburg its head, Kiev is its mother.’''' Ukrainians, of course, say Kiev has nothing whatsoever to do with Russia – if she mothered anybody, it was the Ukrainians themselves.
** [[Anna Reid]] ''Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine'' (2015) p 5

* Here begins Ukraine’s great debate – still raw, still undecided: are Ukrainians Central Europeans, like the Poles, or a species of Russian? Poles used to call western Ukraine ‘Eastern Little [[Poland]]’; the Russian name for Ukraine was ‘Little [[Russia]].'
** [[Anna Reid]] ''Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine'' (2015) p 16

*Ukrainian society is less ambiguous today and Ukrainian identity is becoming increasingly civic rather than ethnic, and increasingly incompatible with a supra-ethnic, non-civic, quasi-religious, [[w:East Slavs|East Slavonic]] identity. While civic unity and civic identity are on the rise, Ukrainian attitudes toward Russians remain rather positive, in contrast to the highly negative Russian attitudes toward Ukrainians. First, Ukrainian media do not practice [[w:Hate speech|hate speech]] and [[Propaganda|propagandistic]] [[Mind control|brainwashing]] on the scale of the Russian media. And second, Ukrainians are much less inclined to identify the people with the state; their loathing of Putin has not translated into a similar attitude toward common Russians. Many Ukrainians still want open borders and good relations with Russia, even though that’s increasingly impossible at a time of war.
**[[w:Mykola Riabchuk|Mykola Riabchuk]], as quoted in [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/ukrainian-identity-after-euromaiden "Ukrainian Identity After the Euromaidan"] (29 March 2016), by [[w:Alexander J. Motyl|Alexander J. Motyl]], ''Ukraine's Orange Blues'', World Affairs Journal

===S===
*[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] rose to power in [[Berlin]] and [[Moscow]], but their visions of transformation concerned above all the lands between. Their utopias of control overlapped in Ukraine. Hitler remembered the ephemeral [[Germany|German]] eastern colony of 1918 as German access to the Ukrainian breadbasket. Stalin, who had served [[Russian Revolution|his revolution]] in Ukraine shortly thereafter, regarded the land in much the same way. Its farmland, and its [[Peasant|peasants]], were to be exploited in the making of a modern [[Industry|industrial]] state. Hitler looked upon [[w:Collectivization|collectivization]] as a disastrous failure, and presented it as proof of the failure of [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[communism]] as such. But he had no doubt that Germans could make of Ukraine a land of [[milk]] and [[honey]]. For both Hitler and Stalin, Ukraine was more than a source of [[food]]. It was the place that would enable them to break the rules of traditional [[economics]], rescue their countries from [[poverty]] and [[isolation]], and remake the continent in their own image. Their programs and their power all depended upon their control of Ukraine’s fertile soil and its millions of agricultural laborers. In 1933, Ukrainians would died in the millions, in the [[w:Holodomir|greatest artificial famine in the history of world]]. This was the beginning of the special history of Ukraine, but not the end. In 1941 [[w:Operation Barbarossa|Hitler would seize Ukraine from Stalin]], and attempt to realize his own [[Colonialism|colonial]] vision beginning with the [[The Holocaust|shooting of Jews]] and the starvation of Soviet prisoners of war. The [[Stalinism|Stalinists]] colonized their own country, and the Nazis colonized occupied Soviet Ukraine: and the inhabitants of Ukraine suffered and suffered. During the years that both Stalin and Hitler were in power, more people were killed in Ukraine than anywhere else in the bloodlands, or in Europe, or in the world.
** [[Timothy D. Snyder]], ''Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin''. E-book, New York: Basic Books, 2010

* In 1919, when he imposed his regime on Ukraine, [[Lenin]] gave her several Russian provinces to assuage her feelings. These provinces have never historically belonged to Ukraine. I am talking about the eastern and southern territories of today's Ukraine.
:Then, in 1954, [[Khrushchev]], with the arbitrary capriciousness of a satrap, made a "gift" of the Crimea to Ukraine. But even he did not manage to make Ukraine a "gift" of [[w:Sevastopol|Sevastopol]], which remained a separate city under the jurisdiction of the U.S.S.R. central government. This was accomplished by the American State Department, first verbally through Ambassador Popadiuk in Kiev and later in a more official manner.
:Why does the State Department decide who should get Sevastopol?
** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] on Ukraine (May 1994) [https://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html Reprinted in ''Forbes magazine'' (2008)]

===U===
[[File:Kyiv, Euro Maidan 2013 (11278551503).jpg|thumb|Ukraine's [[freedom]] is still alive, and so also is [[liberty]] ~ [[w:Pavlo Chubynsky|Pavlo Chubynsky]] ]]
* ''"Ukraine is not dead"'' (Ukrainian national anthem)
: Ukraine's [[freedom]] is still alive, and so also is [[liberty]],
: And fortune will smile on us, young [[siblings|brothers]].
: All our [[enemies]] will die like dew in [[sun]].
: And at last we will be rulers of our [[home]]s.
:
: We'll devote our souls and bodies to our [[free will]],
: And we will prove that we are all of [[w:Cossack|Cossack]] origin.

**[[w:Pavlo Chubynsky|Pavlo Chubynsky]] (1839–1884), [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Ukraine_is_not_dead translated from Ukrainian by Wikisource]

===V===
* Ukraine has always aspired to be free: but being surrounded by [[w:Muscovy|Muscovy]], the [[w:Ottoman Empire|states of the Sultan]], and [[w:Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth|Poland]], a protector had to be sought, and consequently a master in one of these three states. She first put herself under the protection of Poland, who treated her too much as subject. She then gave herself to the Muscovite, who governed her as a slave as much as he could. At first the Ukrainians enjoyed the privilege of electing a prince under the name of general; but soon they were stripped of this right, and their general was appointed by the court of Moscow. (L’Ukraine a toujours aspiré à être libre : mais étant entourée de la Moscovie, des états du grand-seigneur, et de la Pologne, il lui a fallu chercher un protecteur, et par conséquent un maître dans l’un de ces trois états. Elle se mit d’abord sous la protection de la Pologne qui la traita trop en sujette : elle se donna depuis au Moscovite, qui la gouverna en esclave autant qu’il le put. D’abord les Ukrainiens jouirent du privilège d’élire un prince sous le nom de général ; mais bientôt ils furent dépouillés de ce droit, et leur général fut nommé par la cour de Moscou.)
** [[Voltaire]] 1731, ''Histoire de Charles XII'' (History of Charles XII), p 161.

===Y===
* '''Any signature to a deal on forming a new Soviet Union means the breakup of the country'''.
** Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a prominent opposition member, quoted on ''BBC News'', [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25290959 "Ukraine's capital Kiev gripped by huge pro-EU demonstration"], December 8, 2013.

==See also==
*[[2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis]]
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[[File:Flag of Ukraine.svg|thumb|in Ukraine you don't build a democracy; it already exists. You just defend it. ~ [[w:Petro Poroshenko|Petro Poroshenko]]]]
[[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Ukraine.svg|thumb|If the country controlled by Kyiv didn’t fracture in 2014, when the government and army were weak, polarization was high, and Putin could have invaded with impunity, it won't. ~ [[w:Alexander J. Motyl|Alexander J. Motyl]]]]
[[File:Monastyr Karmelitiv Bosykh panorama.jpg|thumb|“What does Ukraine look like?” ...it’s green and gently rolling, and dotted with medieval fortresses, romantically neglected baroque palaces and monasteries, and quiet, pretty towns and little cities, much like those of Austria or the Czech Republic. ~ [[Anna Reid]] (Shown: Carmelite Monastery, Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast)]][[File:80-391-0151 Kyiv St.Sophia's Cathedral RB 18 2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Kyiv itself is a grand Belle Époque metropolis with up-and-down cobbled streets and chestnut trees. There are funny little back alleys and courtyards full of coffee shops and art galleries, leafy parks with views over the sprawling river Dnipro, and an array of glorious [[churches]], the grandest of them the 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral [shown]. ~ [[Anna Reid]] ]]
'''[[w:Ukraine|Ukraine]]''' ([[w:Ukrainian|Ukrainian]]: ''Україна'') is a country in [[w:Eastern Europe|Eastern]] [[Europe]]. Ukraine borders the [[Russian Federation]] to the east and northeast, [[Belarus]] to the northwest, [[Poland]], [[w:Slovakia|Slovakia]] and [[w:Hungary|Hungary]] to the west, [[Romania]] and [[w:Moldova|Moldova]] to the southwest, and the [[w:Black Sea|Black Sea]] and [[w:Sea of Azov|Sea of Azov]] to the south and southeast, respectively. It has an area of 603,628 km2 (233,062 sq mi), making it the largest country entirely within the [[Europe]]an subcontinent.

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==Quotes==
===A===
* In carrying out the [[w:Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine|Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine]], the [[w:Verkhovna Rada|Verkhovna Rada]] of the [[w:Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]] solemnly proclaims the independence of Ukraine and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state - Ukraine. The territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable. From now on in Ukraine only the Constitution and laws of Ukraine are in force. This act takes effect from the moment of its approval.
** Original: здійснюючи Декларацію про державний суверенітет України, Верховна Рада Української Радянської Соціалістичної Республіки урочисто проголошує незалежність України та створення самостійної Української держави — України. Територія України є неподільною і недоторканною. Віднині на території України мають чинність виключно Конституція і закони України. Цей акт набирає чинності з моменту його схвалення.
**[[w:Declaration of Independence of Ukraine|''Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine'']] (1991). [http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Documento:Acta_de_Declaraci%C3%B3n_de_Independencia_de_Ucrania_(1991) Text of the act].
[[File:Lemberg 1915 Mariyska.jpg|thumb|On Saturdays [[Judaism|Jews]] are strolling along all the streets, and no one pays attention. And such people who live in Lviv! Pure [[gold]]! ~ [[w:Sholem Aleichem|Sholem Aleichem]] "Lviv" (1906)]]
* "The city of [[w:Lviv|Lviv]] offers a picture of order,
:breadth, and beauty! A sight to feast the eye...
:In the [[heart]] of the city there unfolds a park
:where everyone is allowed to walk,
:even goats. The land of freedom!
:On Saturdays [[Judaism|Jews]] are strolling
:along all the streets, and no one
:pays attention. And such people
:who live in Lviv! Pure [[gold]]!"
**[[w:Sholem Aleichem|Sholem Aleichem]], "Lviv" (1906) in [https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/sholem-aleichems-creative-encounters-lviv-commemoration-100th-anniversary-departure-eternity/ "Sholem Aleichem’s Creative Encounters in Lviv (In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of his Departure into Eternity)" ''Ukrainian Jewish Encounter'' (2017)]

* The archival record backs up the testimony of the survivors. Neither crop failure nor bad weather caused the [[w:Holodomor|famine]] in Ukraine. Although the chaos of collectivization helped create the conditions that led to famine, the high numbers of deaths in Ukraine between 1932 and 1934, and especially the spike in the spring of 1933, were not caused directly by collectivization either. Starvation was the result, rather, of the forcible removal of [[food]] from people’s homes; the roadblocks that prevented peasants from seeking work or food; the harsh rules of the blacklists imposed on [[farm]]s and villages; the restrictions on barter and trade; and the vicious [[propaganda]] campaign designed to persuade Ukrainians to watch, unmoved, as their neighbours died of hunger.
** [[Anne Applebaum]] in ''Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine'' (2017) quoted at [https://huri.harvard.edu/news/ukraine-flames-1917-revolution "Ukraine in the Flames of the 1917 Revolution" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, September 13, 2017)]
===B===
* [[Ukraine]], the [[Russia|Russian Federation]], the [[United Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]], and the [[United States|United States of America]],
: Welcoming the Accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a non-nuclear-weapon state,
: Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all [[nuclear weapons]] from its territory within a specified period of time,
: Noting the changes in the world-wide security situation, including the end of the [[Cold War]], which have brought about conditions for deep reductions in nuclear forces,
: Confirm the following:
:: 1. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the [[w:Helsinki Accords|CSCE Final Act]], to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.
:: 2. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations...
** [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances "Budapest Memorandum" signed December 5, 1994]]

===D===
* This ignorance of Ukraine has always been aggravating, but no one regarded it as a national security threat until the start of the Kremlin’s [[w:Hybrid war|hybrid war]] against Ukraine. All that changed when “[[w:Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)|little green men]]” began appearing in [[w:Crimea|Crimea]] and [[w:Eastern Ukraine|eastern Ukraine]]. It soon became clear that [[disinformation]] would play a key role in the Kremlin’s hybrid war, with Russia’s information offensive relying heavily on outside ignorance of Ukraine. Ukrainians watched in horror as the country’s complex relationship with its [[w:Tsarist Russia|Tsarist]] and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] past was reduced to the tribal binary of [[Russian language|Russian]]-speakers versus [[w:Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]-speakers. Ukraine was depicted as a [[Fascism|fascist]] [[w:military junta|junta]], a [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[dictatorship]], and a [[w:Failed state|failed state]]. These nightmarish visions gained remarkable levels of traction in the international media, largely because Ukraine was such an unknown quantity.
**Vladislav Davidzon and Peter Dickinson, [https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/revealing-europe-s-best-kept-secret/ "Revealing Europe’s Best-Kept Secret" (March 13, 2016)]

* How many people in Europe or North America know that Kyiv is the largest Russian-speaking city in the world outside of Russia? How many are aware that Ukraine has been one of Europe’s most multicultural communities for centuries?
**Vladislav Davidzon and Peter Dickinson, [https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/revealing-europe-s-best-kept-secret/ "Revealing Europe’s Best-Kept Secret" (March 13, 2016)]

===I===
* [[Ukraine]] is recognized as the most threatened part of Russia in terms of secession and conquest. Ukrainian separatism is an artificial phenomenon, devoid of real grounds. It arose from the ambition of the leaders and the international intrigue of conquest. '''Little Russians are a branch of a single, Slavic-Russian people.''' This branch has no reason to be at enmity with other branches of the same people and to separate into a separate state. Having seceded, this state betrays itself to be conquered and plundered by foreigners. '''Little Russia and Great Russia are bound together by faith, tribe, historical fate, geographical location, economy, culture and politics.''' The foreigners who are preparing the dismemberment must remember that they are declaring by this to the whole of Russia a centuries-old struggle. There will be no peace and no economic prosperity under such a dismemberment. Russia will turn into a source of civil and international wars for centuries. The dismembering power will become the most hated of the enemies of national Russia. In the struggle against it, all alliances and all means will be used. Russia will shift its center to the Urals, gather all its huge forces, develop its technology, find powerful allies for itself and fight until it completely and forever undermines the power of the dismembering power. National Russia is not looking for anyone's death, but it will be able to respond in time to any attempt at dismemberment and will fight to the end. It is more profitable for any power to have Russia as a friend, not an enemy. History hasn't said its last word yet...
** [[Wikipedia:Ivan Ilyin|Ivan Ilyin]], "Fundamentals of the struggle for national Russia" (Основы борьбы за национальную Россию), 1938. Interestingly quoted in [https://rg.ru/2022/05/25/prorochestva-ilina.html this May 25, 2022 article] by [[w:ru:Звягинцев, Александр Григорьевич|Alexander Zvyagintsev]] published in [[w:Rossiiskaya gazeta|Rossiiskaya gazeta]], the Russian Federation's own government gazette. In it, Zvyagintsev draws a parallel between the [[w:Livonian Brothers of the Sword|Livonian Brothers of the Sword]], the [[w:Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], the [[w:Swedish Empire|Swedish Empire]], the [[w:Greater Germanic Reich|Nazis]] and the present-day [[European Union]] by putting them all under a same umbrella term: "''Several years passed, and the diabolical fascist '''machine of a united Europe''' fell upon our country. She, like once the hordes of swordsmen, Poles and Swedes, Frederick and Napoleon, was defeated.''"

===M===
* If the country controlled by Kyiv didn’t fracture in 2014, when the government and army were weak, polarization was high, and [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] could have invaded with impunity, it won’t in 2016.
**[[w:Alexander J. Motyl|Alexander J. Motyl]], [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/negativists-are-wrong-ukraine "The Negativists are Wrong on Ukraine"] (15 January 2016), ''Ukraine's Orange Blues'', ''World Affairs Journal''.

*Many people seem to feel that the breakup of the [[Soviet Union]] was the end of the [[Cold War]]. That’s wrong. It had ended two years before that. And the breakup of the Soviet Union did not occur because of Western pressure; it occurred because of internal pressures within the Soviet Union. And it was something that [[George H. W. Bush|President Bush]] did not wish. As a matter of fact, one of his last speeches, when there was a Soviet Union, was in Kyiv, when he advised Ukrainians to join [[Gorbachev]]’s voluntary federation, that he was proposing, and actually warned against suicidal nationalism. Those words, you know, are not remembered much now. People seem to think that Ukraine is free because of the end of the Cold War and the pressure of the West as one of the fruits of victory in the Cold War. This is simply incorrect. It turns history upside down...
**[[Jack F. Matlock Jr.]], [https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/17/jack_matlock_ukraine_russia_nato_us Ex-U.S. Ambassador to USSR: Ukraine Crisis Stems Directly from Post-Cold War Push to Expand NATO], [[W:Democracy Now!|''Democracy Now!'']], February 17, 2022

===N===
* Ukraine is showing [[Belarus]] an example of how one should fight for freedom. I am sure that our countries have a common future in [[Europe]], where neither Ukrainians nor Belarusians will die.
** Vladimir Neklyaev, a Belarusian opposition leader, quoted on ''CBS News'', [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/as-ukraine-protests-grow-slain-demonstrators-mourned/ "As Ukraine protests grow, slain demonstrators mourned"], January 26, 2014.

===P===
[[File:Waräger-Russen, Friedrich Kruse, 1859.jpg|thumb|The term “Rus’,” brought to the region by the Vikings [Varangians shown] in the ninth and tenth centuries, was adopted by the inhabitants of Kyivan Rus’ ~ [[Serhii Plokhy]] ]]
* The ancestors of modern Ukrainians lived in dozens of premodern and modern principalities, kingdoms, and empires, and in the course of time they took on various names and identities. The two key terms that they used to define their land were “Rus’” and “Ukraine.” (In the Cyrillic alphabet, Rus’ is spelled Pycь: the last character is a soft sign indicating palatalized pronunciation of the preceding consonant.) '''The term “Rus’,” brought to the region by the [[w:Varangians|Vikings]] in the ninth and tenth centuries, was adopted by the inhabitants of Kyivan Rus’''', who took the Viking princes and warriors into their fold and Slavicized them. The ancestors of today’s Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarusians adopted the name “Rus’” in forms that varied from the Scandinavian/Slavic “Rus’” to the Hellenized “Rossiia.” In the eighteenth century, Muscovy adopted the latter form as the official name of its state and empire.
** Historian [[Serhii Plokhy]] ''The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine'' (2015) p xxii

[[File:2 hryvnia 1992 front-small.jpg|thumb|Both Ukrainians and Russians claim Yaroslav the Wise as one of their eminent medieval rulers, and his image appears on the banknotes of both countries. The Ukrainian bill depicts Yaroslav with a Ukrainian-style moustache. ~ Serhii Plokhy [Ukrainian banknote shown]]]
[[File:Banknote 1000 rubles (1997) front.jpg|thumb|The Russian bill shows Yaroslav with a [[beard]] in the tradition of Ivan the Terrible and the Muscovite tsars of his era. ~ Serhii Plokhy]]
* '''Both Ukrainians and Russians claim [[w:Yaroslav the Wise|Yaroslav the Wise]] as one of their eminent medieval rulers, and his image appears on the [[money|banknotes]] of both countries.''' The Ukrainian bill depicts Yaroslav with a Ukrainian-style moustache in the tradition of Prince Sviatoslav and the Ukrainian [[w:Cossacks|Cossacks]]. On the Russian note, we see a monument to him as the legendary founder of the Russian city of Yaroslavl, first mentioned in a chronicle seventeen years after his death. The Russian bill shows Yaroslav with a [[beard]] in the tradition of Ivan the Terrible and the Muscovite tsars of his era.
** Historian [[Serhii Plokhy]] ''The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine'' (2015) p 42

* [[w:Levko Lukianenko|Lukianenko]]’s declaration referred to the thousand-year history of Ukrainian statehood, meaning the tradition established by [[w:Kievan Rus'|Kyivan Rus’]]. His declaration was in fact the fourth attempt to proclaim Ukrainian independence in the twentieth century: the first occurred in 1918 in [[w:Kyiv|Kyiv]] and then in [[w:Lviv|Lviv]], the second in 1939 in [[w:Carpatho-Ukraine|Transcarpathia]], and the third in 1941 in Lviv. All those attempts had been made in [[war|wartime]], and all had come to grief. Would this one be different? The next three months would tell. A popular referendum scheduled for December 1, 1991, the same day as the previously scheduled election of Ukraine’s first president, would confirm or reject the parliamentary vote for independence...'''The vote for Ukraine’s independence spelled the end of the Soviet Union.'''
** Historian [[Serhii Plokhy]] ''The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine'' (2015) pp 320–321

*These days in Europe, many countries are sympathetic towards Ukraine and the situation here - of course, this touches a lot of people from different states. The fact that volunteers and government organizations work together on this and these kinds of [[Humanitarianism|humanitarian]] actions happen - is not unique, but it proves, that there are a lot of regular folks out there who care about Ukraine and its future
**Juris Poikans, Latvia's Ambassador to Ukraine, quoted on ''UAToday'' (February 11, 2016), [http://uatoday.tv/politics/latvia-sends-more-aid-to-ukraine-589114.html "Latvia sends more aid to Ukraine"]

*In Ukraine, you don't build a [[democracy]]; it already exists. You just defend it and exactly this. What makes Ukraine unique, its struggle deeply and profoundly...
**[[w:Petro Poroshenko|Petro Poroshenko]], [https://www.c-span.org/video/?321426-1/ukrainian-president-petro-poroshenko-address-congress&start=1496 speech to the U.S. Congress] (18 September 2014)

===R===
* “What does Ukraine look like?”...it’s green and gently rolling, and dotted with [[medieval]] fortresses, romantically neglected baroque [[palace|palaces]] and monasteries, and quiet, pretty towns and little cities, much like those of [[Austria]] or the Czech Republic. Kyiv itself is a grand Belle Époque metropolis with up-and-down cobbled streets and chestnut trees. There are funny little back alleys and courtyards full of coffee shops and art galleries, leafy parks with views over the sprawling river Dnipro, and an array of glorious [[churches]], the grandest of them the 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral.
** [[Anna Reid]] [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/15/ukrainian-heritage-under-threat-truth-soviet-era-russia "Ukrainian heritage is under threat – and so is the truth about Soviet-era Russia" ''The Guardian''] (15 March 2022)

* '''''[[Ukraine|Ukraina]]'' is literally translated as “on the edge” or “borderland”, and that is exactly what it is. Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders''', Ukraine was split between Russia and Poland from the mid-17th century to the end of the 18th, between [[Russia]] and [[Austria]] through the 19th, and between Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania between the two world wars. Until the [[Soviet Union]] collapsed in 1991 it had never been an independent state.
** [[Anna Reid]] ''Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine'' (2015) p 1
[[File:Odessa numismatic museum photo 05.jpg|thumb|From the tenth century to the thirteenth it [Kiev] was the capital of the eastern Slavs’ first great civilisation, Kievan Rus. ~ [[Anna Reid]] (Silver coin shows [[w:Vladimir the Great|Vladimir the Great]] (958–1015))]]
* But the past that gives [[w:Kyiv|Kiev]] unique glamour, that made it ‘the City’ to the novelist [[Mikhail Bulgakov]] and the ‘Joy of the World’ to the medieval chroniclers, is not the brash boom town of the turn of the last century, but the Kiev of a thousand years ago. From the tenth century to the thirteenth it was the capital of the eastern Slavs’ first great civilisation, Kievan Rus. And here Ukraine’s fight for an identity commences. Generations of scholars have bandied insults about how Rus began, how it was governed, even about how it got its name. But the biggest argument of all is over who Rus belongs to. Did Kievan Rus civilisation pass eastward, to Muscovy and the Russians, or did it stay put, in Ukraine? '''‘If Moscow is Russia’s heart,’ runs a Russian proverb, ‘and St Petersburg its head, Kiev is its mother.’''' Ukrainians, of course, say Kiev has nothing whatsoever to do with Russia – if she mothered anybody, it was the Ukrainians themselves.
** [[Anna Reid]] ''Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine'' (2015) p 5

* Here begins Ukraine’s great debate – still raw, still undecided: are Ukrainians Central Europeans, like the Poles, or a species of Russian? Poles used to call western Ukraine ‘Eastern Little [[Poland]]’; the Russian name for Ukraine was ‘Little [[Russia]].'
** [[Anna Reid]] ''Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine'' (2015) p 16

*Ukrainian society is less ambiguous today and Ukrainian identity is becoming increasingly civic rather than ethnic, and increasingly incompatible with a supra-ethnic, non-civic, quasi-religious, [[w:East Slavs|East Slavonic]] identity. While civic unity and civic identity are on the rise, Ukrainian attitudes toward Russians remain rather positive, in contrast to the highly negative Russian attitudes toward Ukrainians. First, Ukrainian media do not practice [[w:Hate speech|hate speech]] and [[Propaganda|propagandistic]] [[Mind control|brainwashing]] on the scale of the Russian media. And second, Ukrainians are much less inclined to identify the people with the state; their loathing of Putin has not translated into a similar attitude toward common Russians. Many Ukrainians still want open borders and good relations with Russia, even though that’s increasingly impossible at a time of war.
**[[w:Mykola Riabchuk|Mykola Riabchuk]], as quoted in [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/ukrainian-identity-after-euromaiden "Ukrainian Identity After the Euromaidan"] (29 March 2016), by [[w:Alexander J. Motyl|Alexander J. Motyl]], ''Ukraine's Orange Blues'', World Affairs Journal

===S===
*[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] rose to power in [[Berlin]] and [[Moscow]], but their visions of transformation concerned above all the lands between. Their utopias of control overlapped in Ukraine. Hitler remembered the ephemeral [[Germany|German]] eastern colony of 1918 as German access to the Ukrainian breadbasket. Stalin, who had served [[Russian Revolution|his revolution]] in Ukraine shortly thereafter, regarded the land in much the same way. Its farmland, and its [[Peasant|peasants]], were to be exploited in the making of a modern [[Industry|industrial]] state. Hitler looked upon [[w:Collectivization|collectivization]] as a disastrous failure, and presented it as proof of the failure of [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[communism]] as such. But he had no doubt that Germans could make of Ukraine a land of [[milk]] and [[honey]]. For both Hitler and Stalin, Ukraine was more than a source of [[food]]. It was the place that would enable them to break the rules of traditional [[economics]], rescue their countries from [[poverty]] and [[isolation]], and remake the continent in their own image. Their programs and their power all depended upon their control of Ukraine’s fertile soil and its millions of agricultural laborers. In 1933, Ukrainians would died in the millions, in the [[w:Holodomir|greatest artificial famine in the history of world]]. This was the beginning of the special history of Ukraine, but not the end. In 1941 [[w:Operation Barbarossa|Hitler would seize Ukraine from Stalin]], and attempt to realize his own [[Colonialism|colonial]] vision beginning with the [[The Holocaust|shooting of Jews]] and the starvation of Soviet prisoners of war. The [[Stalinism|Stalinists]] colonized their own country, and the Nazis colonized occupied Soviet Ukraine: and the inhabitants of Ukraine suffered and suffered. During the years that both Stalin and Hitler were in power, more people were killed in Ukraine than anywhere else in the bloodlands, or in Europe, or in the world.
** [[Timothy D. Snyder]], ''Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin''. E-book, New York: Basic Books, 2010

* In 1919, when he imposed his regime on Ukraine, [[Lenin]] gave her several Russian provinces to assuage her feelings. These provinces have never historically belonged to Ukraine. I am talking about the eastern and southern territories of today's Ukraine.
:Then, in 1954, [[Khrushchev]], with the arbitrary capriciousness of a satrap, made a "gift" of the Crimea to Ukraine. But even he did not manage to make Ukraine a "gift" of [[w:Sevastopol|Sevastopol]], which remained a separate city under the jurisdiction of the U.S.S.R. central government. This was accomplished by the American State Department, first verbally through Ambassador Popadiuk in Kiev and later in a more official manner.
:Why does the State Department decide who should get Sevastopol?
** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] on Ukraine (May 1994) [https://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html Reprinted in ''Forbes magazine'' (2008)]

===U===
[[File:Kyiv, Euro Maidan 2013 (11278551503).jpg|thumb|Ukraine's [[freedom]] is still alive, and so also is [[liberty]] ~ [[w:Pavlo Chubynsky|Pavlo Chubynsky]] ]]
* ''"Ukraine is not dead"'' (Ukrainian national anthem)
: Ukraine's [[freedom]] is still alive, and so also is [[liberty]],
: And fortune will smile on us, young [[siblings|brothers]].
: All our [[enemies]] will die like dew in [[sun]].
: And at last we will be rulers of our [[home]]s.
:
: We'll devote our souls and bodies to our [[free will]],
: And we will prove that we are all of [[w:Cossack|Cossack]] origin.

**[[w:Pavlo Chubynsky|Pavlo Chubynsky]] (1839–1884), [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Ukraine_is_not_dead translated from Ukrainian by Wikisource]

===V===
* Ukraine has always aspired to be free: but being surrounded by [[w:Muscovy|Muscovy]], the [[w:Ottoman Empire|states of the Sultan]], and [[w:Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth|Poland]], a protector had to be sought, and consequently a master in one of these three states. She first put herself under the protection of Poland, who treated her too much as subject. She then gave herself to the Muscovite, who governed her as a slave as much as he could. At first the Ukrainians enjoyed the privilege of electing a prince under the name of general; but soon they were stripped of this right, and their general was appointed by the court of Moscow. (L’Ukraine a toujours aspiré à être libre : mais étant entourée de la Moscovie, des états du grand-seigneur, et de la Pologne, il lui a fallu chercher un protecteur, et par conséquent un maître dans l’un de ces trois états. Elle se mit d’abord sous la protection de la Pologne qui la traita trop en sujette : elle se donna depuis au Moscovite, qui la gouverna en esclave autant qu’il le put. D’abord les Ukrainiens jouirent du privilège d’élire un prince sous le nom de général ; mais bientôt ils furent dépouillés de ce droit, et leur général fut nommé par la cour de Moscou.)
** [[Voltaire]] 1731, ''Histoire de Charles XII'' (History of Charles XII), p 161.

===Y===
* '''Any signature to a deal on forming a new Soviet Union means the breakup of the country'''.
** Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a prominent opposition member, quoted on ''BBC News'', [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25290959 "Ukraine's capital Kiev gripped by huge pro-EU demonstration"], December 8, 2013.

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[[File:Flag_of_Russia_(2-1).svg|thumb|Russia has only two allies; its army and navy. ~ [[w:Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III of Russia]]]]
'''[[w:Russia|Russia]]''' ([[w:Russian|Russian]]: ''Росси́йская Федера́ция''), also known as the '''Russian Federation''', is a country spanning [[w:Eastern Europe|Eastern Europe]] and [[w:Northern Asia|Northern Asia]]. It is the [[w:List of countries and dependencies by area|largest country in the world by area]], and encompasses more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across [[w:Time in Russia|eleven time zones]], and has the [[w:List of countries and territories by land borders|most borders of any country]] in the world, adjoining [[w:borders of Russia|sixteen sovereign nations]]. It has a population of 146.2 million; and is the [[w:List of European countries by population|most populous country]] in Europe, and the [[w:List of countries and dependencies by population|ninth-most populous country]] in the world. [[Moscow]], the capital, is the [[w:List of European cities by population|largest city in Europe]], while [[w:Saint Petersburg|Saint Petersburg]] is the nation's [[w:List of cities and towns in Russia by population|second-largest city]] and cultural centre. [[Russians]] are the largest [[w:Slavs|Slavic]] and [[w:Ethnic groups in Europe|European nation]]; they speak [[Russian language|Russian]], the most spoken [[w:Slavic languages|Slavic language]], and the most spoken [[w:native language|native language]] in Europe.

[[File:IBC Moscow, Mar2015.jpg|thumb|There are things in Russia which are not as they seem. ~ [[Georgy Zhukov]]]]

==Quotes==
* '''Russia has only two allies; its army and navy.'''
**[[w:Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III of Russia]], as cited in: Jan Zielonka (2015). ''Media and Politics in New Democracies,'' p. 257

* Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
** [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], Speech to the 27th Party Congress, Moscow (25 February 1986)

*If the Russian word "[[w:Perestroika|perestroika]]" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, ''i.e.'' progressive development, a fundamental change.
**[[Mikhail Gorbachev]], ''Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World'' (1987)

[[File:Reagan and Gorbachev (1985).jpg|thumb| Never before has the idea that peace is indivisible been so true as it is now. Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.]]
[[File:Reagan Gorbachev Island.jpg|thumb|In our times, good relations benefit all. Any worsening of relations anywhere is a common loss.]]
[[File:President Ronald Reagan shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev.jpg|thumb|All members of the world community should resolutely discard old [[stereotypes]] and motivations nurtured by the Cold War, and give up the habit of seeking each other's weak spots and exploiting them in their own interests.]]
[[File:Mikhail Gorbachev 1987.jpg|thumb| Progress towards the civilization of the 21st century will certainly not be simple or easy.]]

*Preparing for my address I found in an old Russian encyclopedia a definition of "peace" as a "commune" — the traditional cell of Russian peasant life. I saw in that definition the people's profound understanding of peace as harmony, concord, mutual help, and cooperation. This understanding is embodied in the canons of world religions and in the works of philosophers from antiquity to our time.
**[[Mikhail Gorbachev]], [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1990/gorbachev-lecture.html Nobel lecture (5 June 1991)]

* I began my book about ''perestroika'' and the new thinking with the following words: "We want to be understood". After a while I felt that it was already happening. But now I would like once again to repeat those words here, from this world rostrum. Because to understand us really — to understand so as to believe us — proved to be not at all easy, owing to the immensity of the changes under way in our country. Their magnitude and character are such as to require in-depth analysis. Applying conventional wisdom to ''perestroika'' is unproductive. It is also futile and dangerous to set conditions, to say: We'll understand and believe you, as soon as you, the Soviet Union, come completely to resemble "us", the West. No one is in a position to describe in detail what ''perestroika'' will finally produce. But it would certainly be a self-delusion to expect that ''perestroika'' will produce "a copy" of anything... Our democracy is being born in pain. A political culture is emerging — one that presupposes debate and pluralism, but also legal order and, if democracy is to work, strong government authority based on one law for all. This process is gaining strength.
**[[Mikhail Gorbachev]], [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1990/gorbachev-lecture.html Nobel lecture (5 June 1991)]

*A German-Russian partnership is a key element in any serious [[w:European integration|pan-European integration]] process. It is my ardent wish that Russia and [[Germany]] may manage to preserve all the positive achievements of the late 1980s and early 1990s in today's difficult times.
**[[Mikhail Gorbachev]], ''Memoirs'' (1995).

* Russians may be unique, just like all peoples are, but this does not mean that they are uniquely bad. Or, to put it differently, being good is hard if you live under an authoritarian regime. As the war rages on and anti-Russian sentiment grows, the temptation to see the Russian people as perpetrators rather than victims also grows. But to view them this way obscures something more fundamental: They too are victims, because they have been gradually stripped of their status as free moral agents. This is by design. Authoritarian leaders aim to implicate their own people in their crimes, which in turn allows them to both spread and dilute political responsibility. If responsibility is spread across the population, then so is guilt. To repudiate Putin would mean repudiating themselves.
** Shadi Hamid, ''The Atlantic'', [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/russians-support-putin-invasion-popularity/629653/ Why the Russian People Go Along With Putin’s War] / April 23, 2022

[[File:Flag-Map of Russia without Autonomous Okrugs and Republics.svg|thumb|300px|I think many Russians, but also a lot of Westerners, make a very serious mistake in trying to look for… a better person to become president. They are searching for such a person in [[Alexei Navalny|Navalny]], in myself, but that’s a mistake. Anyone who replaces [[Putin]] is going to take Russia along the same imperialist route. [...] It is a very large and very diverse country, and if you want to manage it from one central spot, you need to have a very strong bureaucratic apparatus. To have such a huge apparatus at the centre has to be explained by having to protect the country from an outside enemy – there is no other explanation that people will accept. ~ [[Wikipedia:Mikhail Khodorkovsky|Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]]]

*[[International law]]. We see that our colleagues from the [[NATO]] countries are pursuing a policy of containing Russia, increasing their military activity on our borders, creating a military infrastructure on the “eastern front”, as they say, and resorting to unsubstantiated accusations instead of diplomatic methods... It is also alarming that our Western colleagues use the term “international law” less and less often. Instead, they talk more about a rules-based order... something they can invent themselves... We urge our colleagues to comply with the agreements reached within the framework of international law.
**[[Sergey Lavrov]] [http://www.mid.ru/en/press_service/minister_speeches/-/asset_publisher/7OvQR5KJWVmR/content/id/3437709 News conference following the 25th OSCE Ministerial Council, Milan, Italy ] (7 December 2018)

*Unfounded [[Accusation|accusations]]. Several years ago, the United States started accusing Russia of violating the [[w:INF Treaty|INF Treaty]], without providing any evidence. We basically had to pry the information from the US, information that would help us understand... what they meant. The US eventually mentioned the [[w:9M729 missile|9M729 missile]], claiming that it had been tested on certain days at a certain testing site, and that the range violated the treaty’s provisions. Our data concerning these tests showed the opposite. The missile’s range is allowed under the treaty.
*[[NATO]] foreign ministers met several days ago to support the US position. According to media reports, they did this after Washington presented certain irrefutable documents confirming that the treaty was violated. If this is so, we have not received any such documents from the US side. This is what we have been asking the US to do for a long time. We are still ready for a serious and professional discussion. Instead, the Americans resort to unfounded accusations, and again and again, from high rostrums, make allegations for the entire international community to hear about things that should first be clarified with the other party to the treaty. This would be a more appropriate, polite and correct approach.
*When we are accused...Every time a problem occurs, we ask very specific questions. For example, the crash of the Malaysian Boeing in Ukrainian airspace in July 2014. Where is the data from the Ukrainian radars? We provided our data. Where are the records of what the Ukrainian dispatchers said? No answer. Where is the data from American satellites that surely exists? No answer again. The questions are very specific. So in the case of Salisbury, where are the Skripals? There is no room for “highly likely” here. There can only be two answers here: yes or no, alive or not. Therefore, it is very difficult...
**[[Sergey Lavrov]] [http://www.mid.ru/en/press_service/minister_speeches/-/asset_publisher/7OvQR5KJWVmR/content/id/3437709 News conference following the 25th OSCE Ministerial Council, Milan, Italy ] (7 December 2018)

[[File:Sergey_Lavrov_2016.jpg|thumb|We are concerned about what the US and its closest allies are doing with respect to [[Venezuela]], brazenly violating all imaginable norms of [[international law]] and actually openly pursuing the policy aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government in that [[Latin America|Latin American]] country... ~[[Sergey Lavrov]](Foreign Minister of Russia) (29 January 2019)]]

*We are concerned about what the [[United States|US]] and its closest allies are doing with respect to [[Venezuela]], brazenly violating all imaginable norms of [[international law]] and actually openly pursuing the policy aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government in that [[Latin America|Latin American]] country... According to our sources, the leaders of the opposition movement who have declared ‘dual power’ are in fact receiving instructions from [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] not to make any concessions until the authorities agree to abdicate in some way. Together with other responsible members of the international community, we will do everything to support [[Nicolás Maduro|President Maduro]]’s legitimate government in upholding the Venezuelan constitution and employing methods to resolve the crisis that are within the constitutional framework... Given signals coming from the [[European Union|EU]] and... Caribbean countries, as well as...[[China]] and [[India]]... we would like to figure out what the international community could do to prevent another blatant violation of [[international law]] and violent regime change... This is what I discussed yesterday with the [[Iran|Iranian]] foreign minister, who - just like us - wants to find an opportunity for external players to prove themselves useful to the Venezuelan people.
**Russian Foreign Minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] in [http://tass.com/politics/1042235 '''US policy aimed at toppling Venezuela’s government, TASS'''] (29 January 2019)

*Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations—such is the national program that [[Marxism]], the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers.
**[[Vladimir Lenin]], "The Right of Nations to Self-Determination", reported in Vladimir Lenin; Doug Lorimer (2002). ''Marxism & Nationalism''. Resistance Books, p. 125. {{ISBN|1876646136}}.

* Russia has made its choice in favor of [[democracy]]. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people — of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before. And the guarantee for this is the choice of the Russian people, themselves. No, guarantees from outside cannot be provided. This is impossible. It would be impossible for Russia today. Any kind of turn towards totalitarianism for Russia would be impossible, due to the condition of the Russian society.
**[[Vladimir Putin|President Vladimir Putin]], [http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050224-9.html Joint press conference with President George Bush in 2005, Slovakia]

* People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain. We do not regret this, we simply state the fact and know that we need to look ahead, not backwards. We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move. But we must act based on a clear understanding of what happened..
**[[Vladimir Putin|Vladimir Putin]], Interview with German television channel [[w:ARD|ARD]] and [[w:ZDF|ZDF]], May 2005. [http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2005/05/05/2355_type82912type82916_87597.shtml Kremlin, RU,] (May 2005)

*The ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' publication that Russia allegedly offered secretly bounties to Afghan militants for killing coalition forces was fabricated by the US intelligence agencies, Russia’s Foreign Ministry told ''[[w:TASS|TASS]]'' on Saturday... Should we speak about facts - moreover, well-known [facts], it has not long been a secret in [[Afghanistan]] that members of the US intelligence community are involved in drug trafficking, cash payments to militants for letting transport convoys pass through, kickbacks from contracts implementing various projects paid by American taxpayers. The list of their actions can be continued if you want... We can understand their feelings as they do not want to be deprived of the above mentioned sources of the off-the-books income...
**[https://tass.com/russia/1172369 Russia Foreign Ministry: NYT article on Russia in Afghanistan fake from US intelligence, ''TASS Russian News Agency''] (27 June 2020)

*I would like to raise a toast to the health of our Soviet people and, before all, the Russian people. I drink, before all, to the health of the Russian people, because in this war they earned general recognition as the leading force of the Soviet Union among all the nationalities of our country.
**[[Joseph Stalin]], [http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1947-2/eight-hundred-years-of-moscow/eight-hundred-years-of-moscow-texts/toast-to-the-great-russian-people/ Speech at the Reception in the Kremlin in Honour of the Commanders of the Red Army Troops to Celebrate Victory over Germany]. May 24, 1945

*It is a historical irony that the Russian Federation, a State with centuries-long experience in [[foreign policy]] and [[diplomacy]], has only just appeared on the political map of the world. I am confident that the world community will find in Russia, as an equal participant in [[international relations]] and as a permanent member' of the Security Council, a firm and steadfast champion of [[freedom]], [[democracy]] and [[humanism]].
**[[Boris Yeltsin]], [https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/196999?ln=en Comments at the 3046th Meeting off the United Nations Security Council], (31 January 1992)

* '''There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.'''
** [[Georgy Zhukov]], as quoted in "Mandate for Change, 1953-1956: The White House Years" - Page 518 - by Dwight David Eisenhower - 1963

[[File: Vladimir Putin (2021-02-27).jpg|thumb|[To the] ...Ukrainian Armed Forces. Comrade officers, Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did not defend our common Motherland to allow today’s neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine. You swore the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and not to the junta, the people’s adversary which is plundering Ukraine and humiliating the Ukrainian people.... I urge you to immediately lay down arms and go home.]]
[[File:Repin-Ivan and Son detail.jpg|thumb|220px|<big>'''''[[Wikipedia:Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan|I've killed my son! I've killed my son!]]'''''</big> ~ [[Wikipedia:Ivan the Terrible|Ivan the Terrible]]<ref>This painting, by [[w:Ilya Repin|Ilya Repin]], is one of the most famous Russian paintings. After killing his son in a fit of rage, Tsar Ivan had no competent heir left, which ended up culminating in the [[w:Time of Troubles|Time of Troubles]] and the end of [[w:Rurikid dynasty|his dynasty.]]</ref>]]
[[File:Flag of the President of Russia.svg|thumb|With NATO’s eastward expansion... We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would be an absolutely irresponsible thing to do for us. ~ [[Vladimir Putin]]]]
[[File:Владислав Сурков на V съезде НАШИх.JPG|thumb|210px|[[w:Vladislav Surkov|[Vladislav] Surkov]] is at the centre of the show, sponsoring nationalist skinheads one moment, backing human rights groups the next. It's a strategy of power based on keeping any opposition there may be constantly confused, a ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it's indefinable. ~ [[w:Peter Pomerantsev|Peter Pomerantsev]]]]
[[File:New Horizons International Conference 21.jpg|thumb|260px|'''It is especially important to introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, [[w:Internet_Research_Agency#Rallies_and_protests_organized_by_IRA_in_the_United_States|encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts]], actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S.''' ~ [[Aleksandr Dugin]], ''[[w:Foundations of Geopolitics|Foundations of Geopolitics]]''.]]
[[File:World information war Collage.png|thumb|260px|As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it... That's the tragedy of the situation of [[w:Demoralization (warfare)|demoralization]]. ~ [[w:Yuri Bezmenov|Yuri Bezmenov]]]]

===President Vladimir Putin's Speech on Ukraine and US Foreign Policy and NATO - 24 February 2022===
[http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67843 (Full text)]

*I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year. I am referring to the [[W:Enlargement of NATO|eastward expansion of NATO]], which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border. It is a fact that over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns. Its military machine... is approaching our very border. Why is this happening? Where did this insolent manner of talking down from the height of their exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come from? What is the explanation for this contemptuous and disdainful attitude to our interests and absolutely legitimate demands. Entreaties and requests do not help. Anything that does not suit the dominant state, the powers that be, is denounced as archaic, obsolete and useless. At the same time, everything it regards as useful is presented as the ultimate truth and forced on others regardless of the cost, abusively and by any means available. Those who refuse to comply are subjected to strong-arm tactics.

*Russia is not the only country that is worried about this. This has to do with the entire system of international relations, and sometimes even US allies. The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a redivision of the world, and the norms of [[international law]] that developed by that time – and the most important of them, the fundamental norms that were adopted following WWII and largely formalised its outcome – came in the way of those who declared themselves the winners of the Cold War. ...we saw a state of euphoria created by the feeling of absolute superiority, a kind of modern absolutism, coupled with the low cultural standards and arrogance of those who formulated and pushed through decisions that suited only themselves. The situation took a different turn. There are many examples of this. First a bloody military operation was waged against Belgrade, without the UN Security Council’s sanction but with combat aircraft and missiles used in the heart of Europe. The bombing of peaceful cities and vital infrastructure went on for several weeks. I have to recall these facts, because some Western colleagues prefer to forget them, and when we mentioned the event, they prefer to avoid speaking about international law... Then came the turn of Iraq, Libya and Syria. The illegal use of military power against Libya and the distortion of all the UN Security Council decisions on Libya ruined the state, created a huge seat of international terrorism, and pushed the country towards a humanitarian catastrophe, into the vortex of a civil war, which has continued there for years.... A similar fate was also prepared for Syria. The combat operations conducted by the Western coalition in that country without the Syrian government’s approval or UN Security Council’s sanction can only be defined as aggression and intervention... But the example that stands apart from the above events is, of course, the invasion of [[Iraq War|Iraq]] without any legal grounds.

*Overall, it appears that nearly everywhere, in many regions of the world where the United States brought its law and order, this created bloody, non-healing wounds and the curse of international terrorism and extremism. I have only mentioned the most glaring but far from only examples of disregard for [[International law|international law.]] This array includes promises not to expand NATO eastwards even by an inch. To reiterate: they have deceived us, or, to put it simply, they have played us... This type of con-artist behaviour is contrary not only to the principles of international relations but also and above all to the generally accepted norms of morality and ethics. Where is justice and truth here? Just lies and hypocrisy all around.

*Incidentally, US politicians, political scientists and journalists write and say that a veritable "empire of lies" has been created inside the United States in recent years. It is hard to disagree with this – it is really so. But one should not be modest about it: the United States is still a great country and a system-forming power. All its satellites not only humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot it at the slightest pretext but also imitate its behaviour and enthusiastically accept the rules it is offering them. Therefore, one can say with good reason and confidence that the whole so-called Western bloc formed by the United States in its own image and likeness is, in its entirety, the very same "empire of lies".

*Properly speaking, the attempts to use us in their own interests never ceased until quite recently: they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to [[human nature]]. This is not going to happen. No one has ever succeeded in doing this, nor will they succeed now.

*With NATO’s eastward expansion the situation for Russia has been becoming worse and more dangerous by the year. Moreover, these past days NATO leadership has been blunt in its statements that they need to accelerate and step up efforts to bring the alliance’s infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders. In other words, they have been toughening their position. We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would be an absolutely irresponsible thing to do for us.

*For the United States and its allies, it is a policy of containing Russia, with obvious geopolitical dividends. For our country, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation. This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty. It is the red line which we have spoken about on numerous occasions. They have crossed it.

*We can see that the forces that staged the coup in Ukraine in 2014 have seized power, are keeping it with the help of ornamental election procedures and have abandoned the path of a peaceful conflict settlement. For eight years, for eight endless years we have been doing everything possible to settle the situation by peaceful political means.

*I would also like to address the military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Comrade officers, Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did not defend our common Motherland to allow today’s neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine. You swore the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and not to the junta, the people’s adversary which is plundering Ukraine and humiliating the Ukrainian people. I urge you to refuse to carry out their criminal orders. I urge you to immediately lay down arms and go home. The military personnel of the Ukrainian army who do this will be able to freely leave the zone of hostilities and return to their families...

*I want to emphasize again that all responsibility for the possible bloodshed will lie fully and wholly with the ruling Ukrainian regime.

*At the end of the day, the future of Russia is in the hands of its multi-ethnic people, as has always been the case in our history. This means that the decisions that I made will be executed, that we will achieve the goals we have set, and reliably guarantee the security of our Motherland.

*I believe in your support and the invincible force rooted in the love for our Fatherland.

[[File:UN General Assembly.jpg|thumb|I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order. ~[[Mikhail Gorbachev]]]]
[[File:Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg|thumb|Has not the political thinking in the world changed substantially? Does not most of the world community already regard weapons of mass destruction as unacceptable for achieving political objectives? ~ [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]]]
[[File:Cropped Barack Obama and Vladmir Putin shake hands at G8 summit, 2013.jpg|thumb|Barack Obama and Vladmir Putin shake hands at G8 summit, 2013]]
[[File:Jacek Malczewski - Na etapie (Aresztanci).jpg|thumb|400px|The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]]]]
[[File:Медведев и Нургалиев на базе ОМОН «Зубр»..jpeg|thumb|300px|Russia... Where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]]]]

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==Quotes about==
===A===

* If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the president, or Western investment, but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in knowledge and science and the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.
** {{W|Zhores Ivanovich Alferov}}, quoted in Darryl J. Leiter, Sharon Leiter, A to Z of physicists (2003), 3.

* You don't fight Russia and America. You get Russia and America to fight each other, and destroy each other.
** Richard Dressler in ''[[The Sum of All Fears (film)|The Sum of All Fears]]'' (2002), written by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne, [[w:Paramount Pictures|Paramount Pictures]].

*The Russian politics is not based on making deals, it's based on values and that's why you don't see any achievements between them and Americans because of their principles, the American politics is based on making deals regardless all the values which is not the case for the Russian.
** [[Bashar al-Assad]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45odEv_1DAY Interview with Bill Neely] (July 2016) on "[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/syria-s-president-bashar-al-assad-speaks-nbc-news-n608746 NBC: Exclusive Interview with Bashar al-Assad]"

* Russian [[Communism]] is the illegitimate child of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine the Great]].
** [[Clement Attlee]], as quoted in ''The Observer'' (1956).

*The Russians are a queer mixture of [[strength]] and weakness. They have got a [[passion]] in their [[intellect]], say, a passionate intellect. They have a distracted and restless emotional being, but there is something behind it which is very fine and psychic, though their [[soul]] is not very healthy. And therefore I am not right in saying that [[Gandhi]] is a Russian Christian, because he is so very dry. He has got the intellectual passion and a great moral will-force, but he is more dry than the Russians. The gospel of [[suffering]] that he is preaching has its root in Russia as nowhere else in [[Europe]]... other Christian nations don't believe in it. At the most they have it in the mind, but the Russians have got it in their very blood. They commit a mistake in preaching the gospel of suffering, but we also commit in [[India]] a mistake in preaching the idea of vairagya [disgust with the world].
**Sri Aurobindo, June 22, 1926 quoted from [[Sri Aurobindo]], ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). ''India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches.'' Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). [https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004028/http://bharatvani.org/books/ir/IR_frontpage.htm]

*Russia is a geriatric maritime giant surrounded by much more energetic rivals.
**David Axe, [http://theweek.com/articles/572496/russias-navy-falling-apart "Russia's Navy is Falling Apart"] (25 August 2015), ''War is Boring'', The Week.

===B===
[[File:(Leningrád) Palota tér. Fortepan 731.jpg|thumb|300px|You know, I never planned to leave. I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. You know, I played their game, pretending, of course. ~ [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]]]]
[[File:Mikhail Baryshnikov 1984.jpg|thumb|200px|He’d be a ruin by now, both physically and mentally. Physically because of the bottle. . . . Mentally because of '''that mixture of impotence and cynicism that corrodes everyone there — the stronger you are the worse it is.''' ~ [[Joseph Brodsky]] on what would have become of his friend [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]], had he stayed in Russia]]
[[File:Borodinskii bread.jpg|thumb|200px|I hate to say it [...] but, after the [[novelty]] wore off, I had this cliché moment of a [[w:émigré|Russian émigré]] abroad: I really missed black bread. I know it’s stupid, but [[w:Homesickness|I ''really'' missed it]]. ~ [[Alexei Navalny]], about when he lived in the US.]]
[[File:Iljin02.jpg|thumb|155px|[[Wikipedia:Ivan Ilyin|Ilyin]] insisted that his nation was a creature, “an organism of nature and the soul,” an animal in [[Wikipedia:Eden|Eden]] without [[Wikipedia:Original sin|original sin]]. '''Who belonged within the Russian organism was not for the individual to decide, since cells do not decide whether they belong to a body.''' ~ [[Timothy D. Snyder]]]]
[[File:Гебенс - Песенники Семёновского полка.jpg|thumb|Little [[soldier]]s, brave little guys, And who is your [[esteem]]ed?
'' '''– Our esteemed, the invincible [[Wikipedia:Tsar|Tsar]]''' '''That's who our esteemed is.''' ''Little soldiers, brave little guys, Do you have a darling?'' '''– There's a darling, our dear mother,''' '''[[Wikipedia:Holy Rus|Our Holy Rus']].''''' Little soldiers, brave little guys, Where is your [[glory]]?'' '''– Our glory is the Russian state – That's where our glory is.''''' Soldiers, brave little guys, Where are your grandfathers? '' '''– Our grandfathers are [the] glorious victories,''''' '''''That's where our grandfathers are.''''' ~ [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8 Soldatushki], marching song popular in the 19th century.<ref>Note that many different versions exist, although always with similar format and pace.</ref> [https://youtube.com/watch?v=J3Qzsk0bfpg?t=30 Here] is the pace. (Starts at 0:30)]]
[[File:RU050 10.jpg|thumb|We can only pity the [[Poland|Poles]]. We are too powerful to hate them, the war that will break out will be a war of extermination – or at least it should be. ~ [[Alexander Pushkin]] on the [[Wikipedia:November Uprising|November Uprising]], 1830]]
[[File:Lermontov TiflisGLM.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Wikipedia:Farewell, unwashed Russia|Farewell, unwashed Russia]], Land of slaves, land of masters, And you, blue uniforms, And you, people, devoted to them. Perhaps beyond the wall of the Caucasus, I will hide from your pashas, From their all-seeing eye, From their all-hearing ears. – [[Mikhail Lermontov]]]]
[[File:Shamil Basaev2.jpg|thumb|170px|Your [[Wikipedia:Great Russian chauvinism|Great Russian dream]] is to sit up to the neck in shit, and drag everyone else down there. That's what [[Wikipedia:Rashism|Russism]] is. ~ [[Wikipedia:Shamil Basayev|Shamil Basayev]]]]
[[File:Moscow StBasilCathedral d18.jpg|thumb|280px|You know what impresses me more about Russia than its T-80 tanks and MiG-31 fighters? The writing of [[Tolstoy]], [[Pushkin]], and [[Dostoyevsky]]. The music of [[Wikipedia:Rimsky-Korsakov|Rimsky-Korsakov]], [[Tchaikovsky]], [[Wikipedia:Mussorgsky|Mussorgsky]]. The scientific achievements of [[Wikipedia:Mikhail Lomonosov|Lomonosov]] and the engineering genius of [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky|Tsiolkovsky]]. What these brilliant Russians achieved will still be spoken of long after... ~ Jeffrey Evan Brooks]]
[[File:Yevgeny Onegin by Repin.jpg|thumb|280px|Western European humanity moves by will and reason. A Russian person lives first of all with his heart and imagination, and only then with his will and mind. Therefore, the average European is ashamed of sincerity, conscience and kindness [regarding it] as "stupidity"...]]
[[File:Eugene Onegin (Samokish-Sudkovskaya) 13.jpg|thumb|280px|...a Russian person, on the contrary, expects from a person, first of all, kindness, conscience and sincerity. ~ [[w:Ivan Ilyin|Ivan Ilyin]]]]
*Your [[Wikipedia:Great Russian chauvinism|Great Russian dream]] is to sit up to the neck in shit, and drag everyone else down there. That's what [[Wikipedia:Rashism|Russism]] is.
** [[Wikipedia:Shamil Basayev|Shamil Basayev]], [https://www.kavkazcenter.com/russ/content/2016/07/11/112688/dokument--otkrytoe-pismo-vyzov-shamilya-basaeva-v-adres-putina.shtml Open letter of defiance to Putin (''Открытое письмо-вызов Шамиля Басаева в адрес Путина'')], 2001, published by [[Wikipedia:Kavkazcenter|Kavkazcenter.com]].
*** Original: ''Ваша великорусская мечта — сидя по горло в дерьме, затащить туда всех остальных. Это и есть русизм.''

*He’d be a ruin by now, both physically and mentally. Physically because of the bottle. . . . Mentally because of '''that mixture of impotence and cynicism that corrodes everyone there''' — the stronger you are the worse it is.
**[[Joseph Brodsky]] on what would have become of his friend [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]] if he had stayed in Russia, 1988 interview with [[Wikipedia:Arlene Croce|Arlene Croce]], as quoted in [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/01/19/the-soloist The Soloist – How Ballet Saved Baryshnikov], ''[[Wikipedia:The New Yorker|The New Yorker]]'', 11 January 1998.

*The February meeting of [[NATO]]... defense ministers... revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya, is now turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: Russia and China... [[NATO]] seems oblivious to the changing dynamics of today's world, as if it were living on a different planet. Its one-sided Reflection Group report cites Russia's violation of international law in Crimea as a principal cause of deteriorating relations with the West, and insists that Russia must "return to full compliance with [[international law]]." But it ignores the U.S. and NATO's far more numerous violations of international law and leading role in the tensions fueling the renewed Cold War: Illegal invasions of [[Kosovo]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[Iraq]]... broken agreement over NATO expansion into Eastern Europe... U.S. withdrawals from important arms control treaties... More than 300,000 bombs and missiles dropped on other countries by the U.S. and its allies since 2001... U.S. proxy wars in Libya and Syria, which plunged both countries into chaos, revived Al Qaeda and spawned the Islamic State.. U.S. management of the 2014 coup in Ukraine, which led to economic collapse, Russian annexation of Crimea and civil war in Eastern Ukraine... The stark reality of the U.S. record as a serial aggressor whose [[Military-industrial complex|offensive war machine]] dwarfs Russia's defense spending by 11 to 1 and China's by 2.8 to 1, even without counting other NATO countries' military spending.
**[[Medea Benjamin]] and [[W:Nick Davies|Nicolas J. S. Davies]], [https://www.salon.com/2021/02/25/what-planet-is-nato-living-on-because-its-no-longer-useful-on-this-one/ What Planet Is NATO Living On? It's No Longer Useful to This One ''Salon''], (24 February 2021)

*NATO's failure to seriously examine its own role in what it euphemistically calls "uncertain times" should be more alarming to Americans and Europeans than its one-sided criticisms of Russia and China, whose contributions to the uncertainty of our times pale by comparison.
**[[Medea Benjamin]] and [[W:Nick Davies|Nicolas J. S. Davies]], [https://www.salon.com/2021/02/25/what-planet-is-nato-living-on-because-its-no-longer-useful-on-this-one/ What Planet Is NATO Living On? It's No Longer Useful to This One ''Salon''], (24 February 2021)

*[[Elections]] are not a viable means of ensuring democratic change in Russia.
**[[Boris Berezovsky]], 2007 interview in ''The Guardian'', reported in Henry Meyer (13 April 2007). "[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aTJX3NiO.sR0&refer=europe Russia Demands Berezovsky Extradition After Call for Revolution]", Bloomberg News, Bloomberg L.P.

*As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it... That's the tragedy of the situation of [[w:Demoralization (Warfare)|demoralization]].
**[[w:Yuri Bezmenov|Yuri Bezmenov]], 1983 interview, as quoted in ''[https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/ 38 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America]'' (18 July 2018), ''[[w:Big Think|Big Think]].''

*In the 21st century, nations cannot; and we cannot allow them to redraw borders by force. These are the ground rules. And if we fail to uphold them, we will rue the day. Russia has violated these ground rules and continues to violate them. Today Russia is occupying sovereign Ukrainian territory. Let me be crystal clear: The United States does not, will not, never will recognize Russia’s attempt to annex the [[w:Crimea|Crimea]]. It’s that saying -- that simple. There is no justification.
**[[Joe Biden]], [https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/09/remarks-vice-president-joe-biden-ukrainian-rada remarks by Vice President Joe Biden to The Ukrainian Rada] (9 December 2015)

*In this interview, former [[w:United States National Security Agency|National Security Agency]] Technical Director Bill Binney demonstrates that the most important premise for Russiagate, that Russian military intelligence conducted an internet hack of the DNC and then provided the purloined files to WikiLeaks for publication, is a fraud.
*If the Russians hacked the DNC, the NSA would be able to provide specific and detailed information tracing that attack as to times, dates, places, but no such proof has been provided. Binney created or supervised the NSA programs that provide this capability. Binney has now conducted two independent forensic studies of the DNC files: those released by [[w:Guccifer 2.0|Guccifer 2.0]] and those published by [[WikiLeaks]]. Both studies, based on insights gleaned from file metadata and internet transfer speeds, point to the files' having been downloaded to a thumb drive or a storage device rather than transmitted over the internet in a Russian cyber attack.
*Binney’s findings support the WikiLeaks account of how the files were delivered to them. Former British Ambassador [[w:Craig Murray|Craig Murray]] has stated that he met with someone who was not a Russian state actor at American University in Washington, D.C. and received a thumb drive of files.
**[[w:William Binney (intelligence official)|Bill Binney]]:[https://larouchepac.com/20190304/mr-president-listen-bill-binney-russiagate-worse-hoax-you-thought Mr. ''President—Listen to Bill Binney, Russiagate is a Worse Hoax than You Thought'', ''LarouchPAC''] (Video 46 min, 23 secs) (6 March 2019)

*Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe.
**[[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], ''The Grand Chessboard'' (1997)

*The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.
**[[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], ''The Grand Chessboard'' (1997)

===C===
[[File:Матрёшка-Russian leaders マトリョーシカ Shimada22.jpg|thumb|275px|A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. ~ [[Winston Churchill]]]]
[[File:Vladimir Putin 24 May 2001-3.jpg|thumb|275px|Russia’s long [[authoritarian]] traditions condition it to view its relations with other countries in terms of pure [[power]]. Russia does not have friends. It has competitors and it has vassals. ~ [[Wikipedia:Christian Caryl|Christian Caryl]]]]

*The Russians have sometimes said one thing and done another... The Russians have been way off track since the very beginning. They have not done what they said they were going to do and they are not doing what is in their interest to do in terms of fighting... Thinking of Russia as a competitor was not something that we had to do, and now... We ''are'' going to have a competitor in Russia... Sadly, Russian conduct in Europe makes that necessary... But, I don't think that's in the long-term interest of the Russian people... Russia's a [[Countries|country]] I've worked with a lot over the years.
**[[w:Ash Carter|Ashton B. Carter]], [http://www.charlierose.com/ interview with Charlie Rose] (February 2016){{fix cite}}

*This faith in the power of schmoozing has deep roots in American politics, where a lot depends on negotiation, dialogue and dealmaking. But Moscow doesn’t work that way. Russia’s long authoritarian traditions condition it to view its relations with other countries in terms of pure [[power]]. '''Russia does not have friends. It has competitors and it has vassals. Vassals are countries that pay rhetorical tribute to Moscow and follow its lead on everything that matters — usually because they are deeply dependent on Russia for security, economic support or energy supplies. It’s no coincidence that its current vassal states — such as [[Belarus]], [[Armenia]] and [[Kazakhstan]] — are themselves [[corrupt]] autocracies, which makes it easier for the Kremlin to work with them.'''
**Christian Caryl, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/07/05/with-friends-like-putin-who-needs-enemies/ "Trump wants to be Putin's friend; Putin doesn't have friends"] (5 July 2017), ''The Washington Post''

* "Never mind," he repeated. "Yours is not the worst of sorrows. Life is long, there will be good and bad to come, there will be everything. Great is mother Russia," he said, and looked round on each side of him. "I have been all over Russia, and I have seen everything in her, and you may believe my words, my dear. There will be good and there will be bad. I went as a delegate from my village to Siberia, and I have been to the [[w:Amur River|Amur River]] and the [[w:Altai Mountains|Altai Mountains]] and I settled in Siberia; I worked the land there, then I was homesick for mother Russia and I came back to my native village. […]"
** [[Anton Chekhov]], "[[w:In the Ravine|In the Ravine]]", (1900) [[s:The Witch and Other Stories/In the Ravine#228|ch. 7, p. 228]]

*'''We all know that if [[Russia]] or [[China]] were guilty of what we have done in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam,]] we would be exploding with moral indignation at these [[war crimes|monstrous crimes]].'''
**[[Noam Chomsky]] quoted in "[http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19671207.htm On Resistance]", ''The New York Review of Books,'' December 7, 1967.

*Did the Russians interfere in our elections? An issue of overwhelming concern in the media. I mean, in most of the world, that’s almost a joke. First of all, if you’re interested in foreign interference in our elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balance as compared with what another state does, openly, brazenly and with enormous support. [[Israel|Israeli]] intervention in U.S. elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done, I mean, even to the point where the [[w:Prime Minister of Israel|prime minister of Israel]], [[Benjamin Netanyahu|Netanyahu]], goes directly to [[United States Congress|Congress]], without even informing the [[President of the United States|president]], and speaks to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the president’s policies—what happened with [[Barack Obama|Obama]] and Netanyahu in 2015. Did Putin come to give an address to the joint sessions of Congress trying to—calling on them to reverse U.S. policy, without even informing the president?
**[[Noam Chomsky]] [https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_mass_media_obsession ''Noam Chomsky on Mass Media Obsession with Russia & the Stories Not Being Covered in the Trump Era, Democracy Now''] (27 July 2018)

*[President Trump] is]... perfectly right when he says we should have better relations with Russia. Being dragged through the mud for that is outlandish... Russia shouldn’t refuse to deal with the United States because the U.S. carried out the worst crime of the century in the invasion of Iraq, much worse than anything Russia has done But they shouldn’t refuse to deal with us for that reason, and we shouldn’t refuse to deal with them for whatever infractions they may have carried out, which certainly exist. This is just absurd. We have to move towards better—right at the Russian border, there are very extreme tensions, that could blow up anytime and lead to what would in fact be a [[W:Nuclear holocaust|terminal nuclear war]], terminal for the species and life on Earth. We’re very close to that... First of all, we should do things to ameliorate it. Secondly, we should ask why. Well, it’s because [[NATO]] expanded after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in violation of verbal promises to Mikhail Gorbachev, mostly under Clinton, partly under first Bush, then Clinton expanded right to the Russian border, expanded further under Obama... The fate of... organized human society, even of the survival of the species, depends on this. How much attention is given to these things as compared with, you know, whether Trump lied about something?
**[[Noam Chomsky]], [https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_mass_media_obsession ''Noam Chomsky on Mass Media Obsession with Russia & the Stories Not Being Covered in the Trump Era, Democracy Now'' ] (27 July 2018)

* I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a [[mystery]], inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
** [[Winston Churchill]], BBC radio address “The Russian Enigma” (October 1, 1939) ([http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html partial text]); in Robert Rhodes James, ed., ''Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963'' vol. 6 (1974), p. 6161.

* Across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels|Engles]] and even Lenin. Fools. There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country; that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work.
** [[Tom Clancy]], ''[[Rainbow Six (novel)|Rainbow Six]]'' (1998), p. 515

* The Soviet Union is dead and gone and replaced by the Russian Federation, which is a country we can be friends with now, thank God; and we want the Russians to prosper, and should help the Russians prosper in every way we can within reason... Fifteen years ago, there was this country called the Soviet Union that had over 10,000 nuclear warheads pointed at us... they're not there anymore. That's a good thing.
**[[Tom Clancy]], [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/26/lklw.00.html ''Larry King Live Weekend''] (27 August 2000).

* The new US-Russian [[Cold War]] is more dangerous than was its 40-year predecessor that the world survived. The chances are even greater that this one could result, inadvertently or intentionally, in actual war between the two nuclear superpowers... For most mainstream-media outlets, [[w:Russiagate|Russiagate]]... [has become]...a kind of cult journalism that no counterevidence or analysis could dent and thus itself increasingly a major contributing factor to the new Cold War. ...no convincing evidence—nor any precedent in American history.
**[[w:Stephen F. Cohen|Stephen F. Cohen]] in [https://www.thenation.com/article/cold-war-russia/ ''War With Russia? The Nation''] (3 December 2018).

*The degradation of [[Mainstream media|mainstream American press]] coverage of Russia, a country still vital to [[national security|US national security]], has been under way for many years. If the recent tsunami of shamefully unprofessional and politically inflammatory articles in leading newspapers and magazines — particularly about the [[w:2014 Winter Olympics|Sochi Olympics]], [[Ukraine]] and, unfailingly, [[Vladimir Putin|President Vladimir Putin]] — is an indication, this media malpractice is now pervasive and the new norm.
**[[Stephen F. Cohen]], in [https://www.thenation.com/article/distorting-russia/ ''Distorting Russia How the American media misrepresent Putin, Sochi and Ukraine''], [[w:The Nation|''The Nation'']] (February 12, 2014)

*Space Brothers have now trained scientists in the US and USSR in a technology that can monitor every movement on earth -- of armies, tanks, planes and even submarines beneath the sea. There is thus good reason behind the Russians'... confident calls for major disarmament. For not only does this technology (a sophisticated extension of the Star Wars concept) make pin-point surveillance possible, it can also be used to control men and machines. For instance, if a terrorist was located on a plane thousands of feet in the air, holding a gun or a bomb, he could be 'frozen' in the act of terrorism. A submarine beneath the waves could be drained of energy and rendered powerless. Maitreya is sending a clear message to the world's political leaders: no wars can now be won, and spending vast amounts of money on international arms programmes is a complete waste. Our prime task... is to look after the environment... Our energies [should] be spent in making it healthy again. Many experiments with the Technology of Light are being undertaken in Russia. This is because the Space Brothers set up a community in that country 15 years ago. Russia was chosen because it was such a closed society, where commercial pressures did not affect scientific research. Today, says Maitreya, '''the Russians are well ahead of the rest of the world''' in this field. That is why Russia leads the way in calling for arms reductions.
**[[Benjamin Creme]] in [http://www.share-international.org/archives/Science-tech/sci_Mt_sci-med-tech.htm ''Science, medicine and technology in the Age of Light, Share International''] (July 1990)

*People experienced in the 10 to 12 years before [[September 11 attacks|9/11]] an extraordinary transformation of the world. For the people involved, some of these were tremendous, climactic: the changes that occurred in the Soviet Union, the collapse of the political system, the demands of millions of people for a better and easier lifestyle, and the rise into prominence of the now mega-rich oilmen of Russia...as a whole [[China]] has come out of the agonizing poverty which it knew before. Likewise, most of the Russian people are finding life easier... People in the West — America, Europe — have found a growing interdependence, a recognition of the oneness of humanity and the necessity of seeing the world as one, and that real changes are possible only on a global scale. People... have found a growing interdependence, a recognition of the oneness of humanity and the necessity of seeing the world as one, and that real changes are possible only on a global scale... [[Maitreya (Theosophy)|His]] influence opened up the Soviet Union to glasnost, welcoming the Soviet Union into the community of nations, and hence the transformation of the old, angry nyetsounding bear into a friendly, co-operative federation of nations. It is a tremendous transformation. p. 18/19
**[[Benjamin Creme]], [[The World Teacher for All Humanity|''The World Teacher for All Humanity'']], (2007)

*There is no such thing as specifically American, Russian, or British interests. There are world interests, human interests, and unless these are solved, there will be no humans in the world. That is what we have to grasp.... That is the soul talking. That is how the soul sees the world. Russia... The plan there is for a grouping of nations to come together. Russia is even more huge than the United States, one-sixth of the world’s surface. There is Russia as we know it, up to about Moscow, and then as far as you can look from an aeroplane, as far east as you can go through country after country, and south to the Ukraine and all the different countries. All these were part of the Soviet Union, before it was broken up. Each is now an independent country, part of a federation of nations. That federation will be all these different people living together in harmony, eventually, not seeking to intermarry or fuse or blend as you are doing here (in the USA). p.65
**[[Benjamin Creme]], [[The World Teacher for All Humanity|''The World Teacher for All Humanity'']], 2007

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*For more than five hundred years the cardinal problem in defining Europe has centred on the inclusion or exclusion of Russia.
**[[w:Norman Davies|Norman Davies]], ''Europe: A History'' (1996)
*My God, how much truth in the eyes of government whores! My God, how much faith in the hands of retired executioners! Don't you let them roll up their sleeves again, don't you let them roll up their sleeves again on fidgety nights. ''Original:'' ''Боже, сколько правды в глазах государственных шлюх!'' ''Боже, сколько веры в руках отставных палачей!'' ''Ты не дай им опять закатать рукава, ты не дай им опять закатать рукава суетливых ночей.''
**[[w:ru:Родина (песня)|Rodina]], by the rock band [[Wikipedia:DDT (band)|DDT]], 1992.
*Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.
**[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], reported in Dominic Livien (April 1999). "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity". Journal of Contemporary History 34 (2): p. 180.

*Charge of inferiority is an old dodge. It has been made available for oppression on many occasions... When Russia wanted to take possession of a part of the [[w:Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Empire]], the Turks were “an inferior race.”
**[[Frederick Douglass]], [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-the-black-man-wants/ "What the Black Man Wants"], speech in Boston, Massachusetts (1865).

*[[Wikipedia:Rashism|Russism]] is a special form of misanthropic ideology based on [[Wikipedia:Great Russian chauvinism|great-power chauvinism]], complete lack of spirituality, and immorality. It differs from the well-known forms of fascism, racism, nationalism, in its particular cruelty, both to man and to nature ... Possessing a slave psychology, it parasitizes using false history, on occupied territories and oppressed peoples.
**[[Wikipedia:Dzhokhar Dudayev|Dzhokhar Dudayev]], [http://chechenews.com/1-12398/ 1994]
*There is not a single misanthropic ideology in the world, even in theory, acting more cruelly and cynically than [[Wikipedia:Rashism|Russism]] ... There are no moral principles - they are all like animals. I don't want this war to stop. I need this war, its continuation. This war will go to the territory of Russia - whether Russia wants it or not ... And the Western countries, the world community will not let it stop, in order to completely isolate Russia and destroy it as a state, so that this predatory beast on earth no longer exists.
**[[Wikipedia:Dzhokhar Dudayev|Dzhokhar Dudayev]], [https://www.mk.ru/editions/daily/article/2004/02/09/119563-izderzhki-velikih-del.html April 1995], during the [[Wikipedia:First Chechen War|First Chechen War]]

* Freedom and independence are life or death for us. Because it would be possible to live with people, among people, with a neighbor, in a state where some of your rights are protected. Where the state fulfills its duty to you. It doesn't. Russia does not fulfill any obligations to the people, to the state. So, they simply offer us: They put a wild bear, caught in a forest, in a cage and say : "Go into the cage and live with him, be friends. Give him a paw. Live with this beast and play nice." That's what Russia is.
** [[Wikipedia:Dzhokhar Dudayev|Dzhokhar Dudayev]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O7ZX092Lms interview by the Estonian film group "Oxide film", 1995.]
[[File:Russische beer, NG-505-87.jpg|thumb|'''Arise, Russia, from thy prison of slavery,''' '''Victory's spirit calls: time for battle!''' Rise thy battle flags For Faith, Love, and Good. ~ Popular lyrics for the march [[Wikipedia:Farewell of Slavianka|Farewell of Slavianka]], written in 1997.]]
[[File:Latvijas—Krievijas miera līguma parakstīšana Rīgā (1920).jpg|thumb|The Russian leadership, throughout its history, when it got difficult, fled to sign agreements that it has never respected and will never respect, and does not think [of respecting]. '''As soon as it gets stronger, it starts again.''' It isolates the weakest and tortures them. ~ [[Wikipedia:Dzhokhar Dudayev|Dzhokhar Dudayev]] Pictured: Signing of the [[Wikipedia:Latvian-Soviet Peace Treaty|Latvian-Soviet Peace Treaty]], in which the [[USSR]] pledged to recognize the inviolability of [[Latvia]]'s borders – [[Wikipedia:Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940|which they did for less than 20 years.]]]]
* Russia gathers all kinds of criminal gangs [in Russia]. They're given the nickname "opposition". They arm them heavily, pay them big money. '''Countless funds are spent on this. It's unthinkable to a normal person's imagination.''' Tanks, armored personnel carriers, planes, Grads, Smerches, Uragans. Their training happens outside the republic, on Russian territory, at special bases. Russian military specialists, Russian special services. Plus a few criminals of Chechen ethnicity – and they call this whole mixture "opposition". Opposition in the Russian way. In fact, [[Wikipedia:Rashism|Russism]]. Typical Russism. Worse than [[fascism]], [[Nazism]], [[racism]], all individual-hating ideologies. Raised to the rank of Russian state policy. Russism is worse than fascism. '''Throughout the history of Russia, it chooses the most helpless victim. To a complete physical destruction, and realistic intimidation of the world – saying: "here is how strong, powerful we are, what we can do, how insidious, evil, predatory.'''" [[Wikipedia:Nagorno-Karabakh|Nagorno-Karabakh]] – [[Wikipedia:First Nagorno-Karabakh War|isolated and completely destroyed]]. It's the training. They went further: [[Wikipedia:War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)|Abkhazia]] - isolated from the Caucasus, from Georgia. Destroyed all potential. [[Wikipedia:Georgian Civil War|War]] with [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. [[Armenia]] with [[Azerbaijan]] – in fact [the conflict involves] Russian special services, Russian troops, Russian weapons, Russian equipment. [[Wikipedia:1991–1992 South Ossetia War|South Ossetia]] - isolated, destroyed. [[Wikipedia:North Ossetia|North Ossetia]], [[w:Ingushetia|Ingushetia]] – [[Wikipedia:East Prigorodny conflict|isolated]]. And the physical destruction of entire nations. [[Violence]], [[death]], [[blood]]. Destruction of nation's potential. '''The Russian leadership, throughout its history, when it got difficult, fled to sign agreements that it has never respected and will never respect, and does not think [of respecting]. As soon as it gets stronger, it starts again. It isolates the weakest and tortures them.''' '''That's what Russia is – empire of evil.'''<ref>"Империя зла" can be translated as "an empire of evil" or "the empire of evil".</ref> As it was, is, and remains. Its rapacity... greed, ruthlessness, lack of spirituality, immorality it has demonstrated in Chechnya. 250 000 armed forces. 5600 units of armored vehicles on the territory. An unheard number in history against [a handful of] mountain people. Against a territory for which you need a microscope to look for it on a map. They reassured the world community, they made a statement from the Russian President that there will be no forceful solution. There will be only a peaceful solution [they said]. And when on the [[New Year|New Year's Eve]]... on the New Year's Eve, [[Wikipedia:Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)|they mixed sand, earth, sky, human blood and flesh]]. Mixed and made a bloody mess. And they are not going to move from this policy, they are not going to move from it. That's what Russia is. '''If the world, I declare responsibly, if the whole world does not stop this plague, or do not – at least – make it follow [[rule of law]] (there will never be [[democracy]], and never was) If – at least in legal terms – they do not comply with the norms of international law, the world will be subject to severe shock.'''
** [[Wikipedia:Dzhokhar Dudayev|Dzhokhar Dudayev]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O7ZX092Lms interview by the Estonian film group "Oxide film", 1995.]

*It is especially important to introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S.
** [[Aleksandr Dugin]], ''[[w:Foundations of Geopolitics|Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia]]'' (1997), [https://web.archive.org/web/20160607175004/https:/www2.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/demokratizatsiya%20archive/GWASHU_DEMO_12_1/John%20Dunlop%20Aleksandr%20Dugin's%20Foundations%20of%20Geopolitics.pdf translation by John B. Dunlop.]

===E===
*We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism.
**[[Albert Einstein]], [http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/what_life_means_to_einstein.pdf "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck"], ''The [[w:Saturday Evening Post|Saturday Evening Post]]'' (26 October 1929)

* It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
** [[Friedrich Engels]], "The Real Issue in Turkey", Karl Marx and Engels, Collected Works, vol. 12, p. 16 (1979). This article was originally published in The ''[[w:New York Daily Tribune|New York Daily Tribune]]'', April 12, 1853, p. 4, and since that paper's European correspondent was at that time Karl Marx, it has generally been assumed the author was Marx. Collected Works, vol. 12, p. 639, note 17, makes it clear that Engels was the author.

===F===
[[File:00 novodevichy wall.JPG|thumb|275px|In a Russian tragedy, everybody dies. In a Russian comedy, everybody dies, too. But they die happy. ~ [[w:Barry Farber|Barry Farber]]]]

* In a Russian tragedy, everybody dies. In a Russian comedy, everybody dies, too. But they die happy.
** [[w:Barry Farber|Barry Farber]], radio talk-show host in [[New York City]], during a program on radio station [[w:WMCA|WMCA]]; reported in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989).

*Russian leaders and regular citizens have felt increasingly insecure... They have a sense that Russia is under siege from without and has been robbed of its rightful status as a world power... Europeans at least have recourse at the ballot box; they can angrily vote in or out whoever they like. Russians do not enjoy the luxury of democracy. Russians do not enjoy the luxury of democracy... The U.S. is many times more powerful and influential than Russia.
** [[Max Fisher]], [http://www.vox.com/2014/12/1/7313443/vladimir-putin-merkel "This quote about Putin's machismo from Angela Merkel is just devastating"] (20 May 2015), ''Vox''.

*I think the idea people had after 1991 that there would be a quick transition is clearly wrong... A lot of it has to do with relationships with economic growth because I think in really high-growth countries with a large middle class, with lots of educated people, there is a tendency to demand greater political participation... I think what you are seeing with the rise of Putinism in Russia and in parts of [[East/Central Europe|Eastern Europe]] is in a way the failure of that kind of modernization to produce a really broad middle-class society... His model is based on a narrow energy-dependent economic model which right now is falling apart... I think what is happening in Russia right now as global commodity prices have fallen is the exposure of the hollowness of this and we will see after another decade of economic failure whether Russians really think this is such a great alternative to the kind of both freedom and prosperity that is seen in Western Europe.
**Francis Fukuyama, as quoted in [http://www.rferl.org/content/fukuyama-putinism-islamic-state-liberal-democracy/27518924.html "Fukuyama: 'Putinism', Radical Islam No Alternative To Liberal Democracy"] (30 January 2016), by Charles Recknagel, ''Radio Free Europe: Radio Liberty''.

===G===
[[File:Volgodonsk 1999.jpg|thumb|[[Wiktionary:меньше знаешь — крепче спишь|The less you know, the better you sleep.]] Russian proverb Pictured: the [[Wikipedia:Russian apartment bombings|1999 apartment bombings.]]]]
[[File:Shevshuk3.jpg|thumb|200px|''My God, how much truth in the eyes of government whores!'' ''My God, how much faith in the hands of retired executioners!'' ~ [[w:ru:Родина (песня)|"Родина"]] (Homeland), by the rock band [[Wikipedia:DDT (band)|DDT]]. Listen to it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFJi3RieXS4 here].]]]]
[[File:Маргарита Симоньян и Владимир Путин.jpg|thumb|We are hurtling back into a [[Soviet]] [[abyss]], into an information vacuum that spells death from our own [[ignorance]]. All we have left is the [[internet]], where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a [[journalist]], it's total [[servility]] to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial - whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit. ~ [[Anna Politkovskaya]], 2004]]
[[File:There are flowers and candles near the site of the murder of Boris Nemtsov.jpg|thumb|250px|Russia has become an [[assassination]]-happy state. ~ [[w:Reuel Marc Gerecht|Reuel Gerecht]]]]
[[File:Osip Mandelstam 1934.jpg|thumb|200px|Only in Russia is [[poetry]] respected – it gets people killed. ~ [[Osip Mandelstam]]]]

*Russia is a new phenomenon in Europe: a state defined and dominated by former and active-duty security and intelligence officers. Not even fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, or the Soviet Union – all undoubtedly much worse creations than Russia; were as top-heavy with intelligence talent... There is no historical precedent for a society so dominated by former and active-duty internal-security and intelligence officials; men who rose up in a professional culture in which murder could be an acceptable, even obligatory, business practice... Those who operated within the Soviet sphere were the most malevolent in their practices. These men mentored and shaped Putin and his closest friends and allies. It is therefore unsurprising that Putin's Russia has become an assassination-happy state where detention, interrogation, and torture; all tried and true methods of the Soviet KGB; are used to silence the voices of untoward journalists and businessmen who annoy or threaten Putin's FSB state.
**[[w:Reuel Marc Gerecht|Reuel M. Gerecht]], [http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25917/pub_detail.asp "A Rogue Intelligence State? Why Europe and America Cannot Ignore Russia"] (6 April 2007), AEI.

*One of the more interesting aspects of the nauseating impeachment trial in the [[w:United States Senate|Senate]] was the repeated vilification of [[Russia]] and its [[Vladimir Putin|President Vladimir Putin]]. To hate Russia has become dogma on both sides of the political aisle, in part because no politician has really wanted to confront the lesson of the [[w:2016 United States presidential election|2016 election]], which was that most Americans think that the federal government is basically incompetent and staffed by career politicians like [[Nancy Pelosi]] and [[Mitch McConnell]] who should return back home and get real jobs. Worse still, it is useless, and much like the one trick pony the only thing it can do is steal money from the taxpayers and waste it on various types of self-gratification that only politicians can appreciate. That means that the United States is engaged is fighting multiple wars against make-believe enemies while the country’s infrastructure rots and a host of officially certified grievance groups control the public space.
**[[Philip Giraldi]] in [https://councilforthenationalinterest.org/?p=5202 Why Both Republicans and Democrats Want Russia to Become the Enemy of Choice],''The Council for the American Interest''] (6 Feb 2020)

*[[George Soros|Soros]] particularly hates President [[Vladimir Putin]] and Russia. He revealed that he is far from a benevolent figure fighting for justice in his March ''Financial Times'' op-ed (behind a pay wall) entitled “Europe Must Stand With Turkey Over Putin’s War Crimes in Syria.” The op-ed is full of errors of fact and is basically a call for aggression against a Russia that he describes as engaged in bombing schools and hospitals. It starts with, “Since the beginning of its intervention in Syria in September 2015, Russia has not only sought to keep in place its most faithful Arab ally, [[Bashar al-Assad|Syrian President Bashar al-Assad]]. It has also wanted to regain the regional and global influence that it lost since the fall of the Soviet Union.” First of all, Russia did not “intervene” in Syria. It was invited there by the country’s legitimate government to provide assistance against various groups, some of which were linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State, that were seeking to overthrow President al-Assad. And apart from Soros, few actual experts on Russia would claim that it is seeking to recreate the “influence” of the Soviet Union. Moscow does not have the resources to do so and has evinced no desire to pursue the sort of global agenda that was characteristic of the Soviet state... Note that none of Soros’s assertions are supported by fact.
**[[Philip Giraldi|Philip Giraldi]], in [https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/02/some-conspiracy-theories-are-for-real/ Some Conspiracy Theories Are for Real, ''Strategic Culture''] (July 2, 2020)

*There is particular danger at the moment that powerful political alignments in the United States are pushing strongly to exacerbate the developing crisis with Russia. ''The New York Times'', which broke the story that the Kremlin had been paying the Afghan [[Taliban]] bounties to kill American soldiers, has been particularly assiduous in promoting the tale of perfidious Moscow. Initial Times coverage, which claimed that the activity had been confirmed by both intelligence sources and money tracking, was supplemented by delusional nonsense from former Obama National Security Advisor [[Susan Rice]], who asks “Why does Trump put Russia first?” before calling for a “swift and significant U.S. response.” Rice, who is being mentioned as a possible Biden choice for [[w:Vice President of the United States|Vice President]], certainly knows about swift and significant as she was one of the architects of the destruction of [[Libya]] and the escalation of U.S. military and intelligence operations directed against a non-threatening [[Syria]]
**[[Philip Giraldi]] in [https://ahtribune.com/us/4275-russia-baiting.html Russia-Baiting Is the Only Game in Town Washington again becomes hysterical, ''American Herald Tribune''], (7 July 2020)

*All this saber-rattling is despicable. Neither [[Russia]] nor [[Iran]] threaten the U.S. and there is no reason why the U.S. should be eager to defend [[Taiwan]] or [[Ukraine]] (and also [[Israel]]). [[China]]’s military budget is miniscule compared to the U.S. and the only real threat it represents is as a competitor on world markets, where it is already dominant in a number of key sectors. The U.S. has to get off this global dominance militarism wagon but how do we do it when both major parties embrace it?
**[[Philip Giraldi]] quoted in [https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/467760/In-truth-the-U-S-has-become-a-weak-and-therefore-dangerous-country In truth the U.S has become a weak and therefore dangerous country, By Martin Love, ''Tehran Times''], December 5, 2021
===H===
*Despite the [[Robert Mueller]] report’s conclusion that [[Donald Trump]] and his campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential race, the new [[Cold War]] with [[Moscow]] shows little sign of abating. It is used to justify the expansion of [[NATO]] to Russia’s borders, a move that has made billions in [[profits]] for [[w:arms manufacturers|U.S. arms manufacturers]]... It is used to demonize domestic critics and [[Alternative media|alternative media outlets]] as agents of a foreign power. It is used to paper over the [[Democratic Party|Democratic Party’s]] [[betrayal]] of the working class and the party’s subservience to [[corporate power]]. It is used to discredit détente between the world’s two largest nuclear powers. It is used to justify both the curtailment of civil liberties in the United States and [[w:Foreign interventions by the United States|U.S. interventions overseas]]—including in countries such as [[Syria]] and [[Venezuela]]. This new Cold War predates the Trump presidential campaign. It was manufactured over a decade ago by a [[Military-industrial complex|war industry]] and intelligence community that understood that, by fueling a conflict with Russia, they could consolidate their [[power]] and increase their [[profits]].
**[[Chris Hedges]] in [https://www.truthdig.com/articles/manufacturing-war-with-russia/ ''Manufacturing War With Russia, TruthDig'' ]] (3 June 2019)

*The bill... of the (U.S.) House Foreign Affairs Committee... demands that the administration “not cede to the demands of the Russian Federation regarding [[NATO]] membership or expansion.” NATO expansion to Ukraine along Russia’s borders is the central issue for Moscow. Removing this for discussion obliterates a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Sanctions under the legislation can be imposed for any act, no matter how minor, deemed by Ukraine to be hostile. The sanctions cannot be lifted until an agreement is reached between the government of Ukraine and Russia, meaning Ukraine would be granted the authority to determine when the US sanctions will end. The proposed sanctions, which target Russian banks, the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, state-owned enterprises and leading members of the government and military, including President Vladimir Putin, also calls for blocking Russia from [[W:Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication|SWIFT]], the international financial transaction system that uses the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. “The legislation would grant at least $500 million in foreign military assistance to Ukraine, in addition to the $200 million in new assistance sent over the last month,” writes Marcus Stanley. “This makes Ukraine the third leading recipient of US military assistance globally, after Israel, and Egypt. While it wouldn’t come close to giving Ukraine the ability to combat Russia on its own, it may come with US military advisors that would increase the danger the US would be drawn into a conflict. The bill also takes steps to directly involve countries bordering Russia in negotiations to end the crisis, which would make it much more difficult to reach an agreement.”
**[[Chris Hedges]], [https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-democrats-effective-evil/279654/ Democrats, the More Effective Evil, ''MintPressNews''], (14 February 2022)

*While cutting Russia off from [[W:Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication|SWIFT]] will be catastrophic, at least in the short term, for the Russian economy, pushing Russia into the arms of China to create an alternative global financial system that no longer relies on the US dollar will cripple the American empire.
**[[Chris Hedges]], [https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-democrats-effective-evil/279654/ Democrats, the More Effective Evil, ''MintPressNews''], (14 February 2022)

*I was in Eastern Europe in 1989, reporting on the revolutions that overthrew the ossified communist dictatorships that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a time of hope. NATO, with the breakup of the Soviet empire, became obsolete. President [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] reached out to Washington and Europe to build a new security pact that would include Russia. Secretary of State [[James Baker]] in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]], along with the West German Foreign Minister Hans-[[W:Dietrich Genscher|Dietrich Genscher]], assured the Soviet leader that if Germany was unified NATO would not be extended beyond the new borders. The commitment not to expand NATO, also made by Great Britain and France, appeared to herald a new global order. We saw the peace dividend dangled before us, the promise that the massive expenditures on weapons that characterized the Cold War would be converted into expenditures on social programs and infrastructures that had long been neglected to feed the insatiable appetite of the military. There was a near universal understanding among diplomats and political leaders at the time that any attempt to expand NATO was foolish, an unwarranted provocation against Russia that would obliterate the ties and bonds that happily emerged at the end of the Cold War. How naive we were. The war industry did not intend to shrink its power or its profits. It set out almost immediately to recruit the former Communist Bloc countries into the European Union and NATO... The expansion of NATO swiftly became a multi-billion-dollar bonanza for the corporations that had profited from the Cold War.
**[[Chris Hedges]], [https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-ukraine-soviet-union-russia-war/279793/ Russia, Ukraine and the Chronicle of a War Foretold, ''MintPress News'',] Feb 25, 2022

*Once NATO expanded into Eastern Europe, the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]] promised Moscow that NATO combat troops would not be stationed in Eastern Europe, the defining issue of the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act on Mutual Relations. This promise again turned out to be a lie. Then in 2014, the U.S. backed a coup against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who sought to build an economic alliance with Russia rather than the European Union. Of course, once integrated into the European Union, as seen in the rest of Eastern Europe, the next step is integration into NATO. Russia, spooked by the coup, alarmed at the overtures by the EU and NATO, then annexed Crimea, largely populated by Russian speakers. And the death spiral that led us to the conflict currently underway in Ukraine became unstoppable. The war state needs enemies to sustain itself. When an enemy can’t be found, an enemy is manufactured. Putin has become, in the words of Senator Angus King, the new Hitler, out to grab Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe. The full-throated cries for war, echoed shamelessly by the press, are justified by draining the conflict of historical context, by elevating ourselves as the saviors and whoever we oppose, from Saddam Hussein to Putin, as the new Nazi leader.
**[https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-ukraine-soviet-union-russia-war/279793/ Chris Hedges: Russia, Ukraine and the Chronicle of a War Foretold, ''MintPress News'',] Feb 25, 2022

*One of the deceptive clichés of Western accounts of post World War II history is that NATO was constructed as a defensive arrangement to block the threat of a Soviet attack on Western Europe. This is false. It is true that Western propaganda played up the Soviet menace, but many key U.S. and Western European statesmen recognized that a Soviet invasion was not a real threat. The Soviet Union had been devastated, and while in possession of a large army it was exhausted and needed time for recuperation. The United States was riding high, the war had revitalized its economy, it suffered no war damage, and it had the atomic bomb in its arsenal, which it had displayed to the Soviet Union by killing a quarter of a million Japanese civilians at [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]. Hitting the Soviet Union before it recovered or had atomic weapons was discussed in Washington, even if rejected in favor of “containment,” economic warfare, and other forms of destabilization. [[w:NSC 68|NSC 68]], dated April 1950, while decrying the great Soviet menace, explicitly called for a program of destabilization aimed at regime change in that country, finally achieved in 1991... In reality, NATO, as an aggressive global arm of U.S. and other local affiliated [[Imperialism|imperialisms]], poses a serious threat to global peace and security. It is about to celebrate its 60th anniversary, and while it should have been liquidated back in 1991, it has instead expanded, taking on a new and threatening role traced out in its 1999 Strategic Concept and enjoying a frighteningly malignant growth.
**[[w:Edward S. Herman|Edward S. Herman]] [https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-the-imperial-pitbull/11989 ''NATO: the Imperial Pitbull, Global Research''], (23 January 2009)

*It is enlightening to see how pugnacious the U.S. [[establishment]]...has been in dealing with the '''Ukraine crisis'''. The crisis arguably began when the Yanukovich government rejected an EU bailout program in favor of one offered by Russia. The [[Mainstream media|mainstream media (MSM)]] have virtually suppressed the fact that the EU proposal was not only less generous than the one offered by Russia, but that, whereas the Russian plan did not preclude further Ukrainian deals with the EU, the EU plan would have required a cut-off of further Russian arrangements. And whereas the Russian deal had no military clauses, that of the EU required that Ukraine affiliate with NATO. Insofar as the MSM dealt with this set of offers, they not only suppressed the exclusionary and militarized character of the EU offer, they tended to view the Russian deal as an improper use of economic leverage, “bludgeoning,” but the EU proposal was “constructive and reasonable” (Ed., NYT, November 20, 2014). Double standards seem to be fully internalized within the U.S. establishment. The protests that ensued in Ukraine were surely based in part on real grievances against a corrupt government, but they were also pushed along by right-wing groups and by U.S. and allied encouragement and support that increasingly had an anti-Russian and pro-accelerated regime change flavor.
**[[Edward S. Herman]] in [https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/war-is-our-business-and-business-looks-good/ '''''War is Our Business and Business Looks Good,''' Z Magazine''] (28 June 2014)

*The sniper killings of police and protesters in Maidan [Ukraine] on February 21, 2014 brought the crisis to a new head. This violence overlapped with, and eventually terminated, a negotiated settlement of the struggle brokered by EU members that would have ended the violence, created an interim government, and required elections by December. The accelerated violence ended this transitional plan, which was replaced by a coup takeover along with the forced flight of [[w:Victor Yanukovich|Victor Yanukovich]]. There is credible evidence that the sniper shootings of both protesters and police were carried out by a segment of the protesters in a false-flag operation that worked exceedingly well, “government” violence serving as one ground for the ouster of Yanukovich. Most telling was the intercepted phone message between Estonia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Urmas Paet, and EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Upton, in which Paet regretfully reported compelling evidence that the shots killing both police and protesters came from a segment of the protesters. This account was almost entirely suppressed in the [[Mainstream media|MSM]]... There is also every reason to believe that the coup and establishment of a right-wing and anti-Russian government were encouraged and actively supported by U.S. officials.
**[[Edward S. Herman]] in [https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/war-is-our-business-and-business-looks-good/ ''War is Our Business and Business Looks Good, Z Magazine''] (28 June 2014)

*Our attitude towards Europe and Europeans is still that of provincials towards the dwellers in a capital: we are servile and apologetic, take every difference for a defect, blush for our peculiarities and try to hide them, and confess our inferiority by imitation. The fact is that we are intimidated: we have never got over the sneers of Peter the Great and his coadjutors, or the superior airs of French tutors and Germans in our Civil Service. Western nations talk of our duplicity and cunning: they believe we want to deceive them, when we are only trying to make a creditable appearance and pass muster. A Russian will express quite different political views in talking to different persons, without any ulterior object, and merely from a wish to please: the bump of complaisance is highly developed in our skulls.
**[[Alexander Herzen]], ''Childhood, Youth and Exile'' (first published 1923)

*As sons and daughters of the Russian Orthodox Church, we are all citizens of Holy Russia. When we speak of Holy Russia, we are not talking about the Russian Federation or any civil society on earth; rather, it is a way of life that has been passed down to us through the centuries by such great saints of the Russian Land as the Holy Great Prince Vladimir and Great Princess Olga, Venerable Sergius of Radonezh, Job of Pochaev, Seraphim of Sarov, and more recently, the countless New Martyrs and Confessors of the 20th century. These saints are our ancestors, and we must look to them for instruction on how to bravely confess the Faith, even when facing persecution. There is no achievement in simply calling oneself "Russian:" in order to be a genuine Russian, one must first become Orthodox and live a life in the Church, as did our forebears, the founders of Holy Russia!
**[[Wikipedia:Hilarion (Kapral)|Metropolitan Hilarion]] of the [[w:ROCOR|Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia]], ''[http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2013/20130619_enmhappeal1025.html Appeal by Metropolitan Hilarion on the celebration of the 1,025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus]'' (19 June 2013)

* [[The World Bank|The World Bank's]] ... job is to do in the financial sphere what, in the past, was done by military force... Instead of bullets, it uses financial maneuvering... The World Bank engages in economic warfare that is just as destructive as military warfare. At the end of the [[Boris Yeltsin|Yeltsin]] period [[Vladimir Putin|Russia’s President Putin]] said that American neoliberalism destroyed more of Russia’s population than did World War II. Such [[neoliberalism]], which basically is the doctrine of American supremacy and foreign dependency, is the policy of the World Bank and IMF.
**[[Michael Hudson (economist)|Michael Hudson]] quoted in [https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/the-imf-and-world-bank-partners-in-backwardness/ The IMF and World Bank: Partners in Backwardness, - Bonnie Faulkner, ''CounterPunch'',] (5 July 2019)

*With regard to [[nuclear weapons]], the situation is far more dangerous than the last [[Doomsday Clock]] report. New weapons systems under development are much more effectively dangerous. The [[Joe Biden|Biden administration]], expanding upon Trump’s confrontational approach, has [[Noam Chomsky|Chomsky]] at a loss for words to describe the danger at hand. Only recently, [[Joe Biden|Biden]] met with [[NATO]] leaders and instructed them to plan on two wars, [[China]] and Russia. According to Chomsky: “This is beyond [[insanity]].” Not only that, the group is carrying out provocative acts when [[diplomacy]] is really needed. This is an extraordinarily dangerous situation.

**[https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/12/a-world-of-total-illusion-and-fantasy-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/ A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet, Robert Hunziker, ''CounterPunch''] (12 July 2021)

* '''Our role in Russia will be analogous to that of England in India... The Russian space is our India. Like the English, we shall rule this empire with a handful of men.'''
**A. Hitler, attributed and quoted in Michael Burleigh, Nazi Europe: what if, in Niall Ferguson, Virtual History, 1998, p. 330, also in Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". I.525

===I===
* Western European humanity moves by will and reason. A Russian person lives first of all with his heart and imagination, and only then with his will and mind. Therefore, the average European is ashamed of sincerity, conscience and kindness [regarding it] as "stupidity"; A Russian person, on the contrary, expects from a person, first of all, kindness, conscience and sincerity. Original: ''Западноевропейское человечество движется волею и рассудком. Русский человек живет прежде всего сердцем и воображением и лишь потом волею и умом. Поэтому средний европеец стыдится искренности, совести и доброты как «глупости»; русский человек, наоборот, ждет от человека прежде всего доброты, совести и искренности.''
** [[Wikipedia:Ivan Ilyin|Ivan Ilyin]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20200928053316/https://gorenka.org/index.php/publikatsii-i/16674-evropa-ne-znaet-rossii-ivan-ilin "Europe does not know Russia"] (28 September 1948), published in [https://modernlib.net/books/ilin_ivan_aleksandrovich/nashi_zadachi_tom_i/ Our tasks, Articles from 1948-1956, Tome I.]
* [[Ukraine]] is recognized as the most threatened part of Russia in terms of secession and conquest. Ukrainian separatism is an artificial phenomenon, devoid of real grounds. It arose from the ambition of the leaders and the international intrigue of conquest. '''Little Russians are a branch of a single, Slavic-Russian people.''' This branch has no reason to be at enmity with other branches of the same people and to separate into a separate state. Having seceded, this state betrays itself to be conquered and plundered by foreigners. '''Little Russia and Great Russia are bound together by faith, tribe, historical fate, geographical location, economy, culture and politics.''' The foreigners who are preparing the dismemberment must remember that they are declaring by this to the whole of Russia a centuries-old struggle. There will be no peace and no economic prosperity under such a dismemberment. Russia will turn into a source of civil and international wars for centuries. The dismembering power will become the most hated of the enemies of national Russia. In the struggle against it, all alliances and all means will be used. Russia will shift its center to the Urals, gather all its huge forces, develop its technology, find powerful allies for itself and fight until it completely and forever undermines the power of the dismembering power. National Russia is not looking for anyone's death, but it will be able to respond in time to any attempt at dismemberment and will fight to the end. It is more profitable for any power to have Russia as a friend, not an enemy. History hasn't said its last word yet...
** [[Wikipedia:Ivan Ilyin|Ivan Ilyin]], "Fundamentals of the struggle for national Russia" (Основы борьбы за национальную Россию), 1938. Interestingly quoted in [https://rg.ru/2022/05/25/prorochestva-ilina.html this May 25, 2022 article] by [[w:ru:Звягинцев, Александр Григорьевич|Alexander Zvyagintsev]] published in [[w:Rossiiskaya gazeta|Rossiiskaya gazeta]], the Russian Federation's own government gazette. In it, Zvyagintsev draws a parallel between the [[w:Livonian Brothers of the Sword|Livonian Brothers of the Sword]], the [[w:Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], the [[w:Swedish Empire|Swedish Empire]], the [[w:Greater Germanic Reich|Nazis]] and the present-day [[European Union]] by putting them all under a same umbrella term: "''Several years passed, and the diabolical fascist '''machine of a united Europe''' fell upon our country. She, like once the hordes of swordsmen, Poles and Swedes, Frederick and Napoleon, was defeated.''"

===J===

*Ever since [[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]] naïvely ended the [[Cold War]], the hugely over-armed United States has been actively surrounding Russia with weapons systems, aggressive military exercises, NATO expansion. At the same time, in recent years the demonization of Vladimir Putin has reached war propaganda levels. Russians have every reason to believe that the United States is preparing for war against them, and are certain to take defensive measures. This mixture of excessive military preparations and propaganda against an “evil enemy” make it very easy for some trivial incident to blow it all up. As is so often the case, [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]] doesn’t say what is true, but grabs the chance to show how anti-Putin she is. She is ready to push every adversary as far as possible, apparently certain that the “bad guy” will back down—even if it happens to be nuclear-armed Russia.
**[[W:Diana Johnstone|Diana Johnstone]] - quoted in [https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-the-queen-of-chaos-and-the-threat-of-world-war-iii/ Hillary Clinton: the Queen of Chaos and the Threat of World War III by Maidhc O' Cathail] (March 10, 2016)

===K===
[[File:2013-05-25 Twisp, WA.jpg|thumb|Russia’s economic, information, and diplomatic powers are highly contextual and often geographically limited. ~ Michael Kofman]]

*There can be nothing more pro-Russian than to bring much-needed accountability to those who violate the rights of Russian citizens and steal the money of Russian taxpayers — and continue to spend that money, buy real estate and park their families in the West.
**[[Vladimir V. Kara-Murza]], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/05/18/the-kremlin-revives-a-soviet-style-law-against-dissent/ "The Kremlin revives a Soviet-style law against dissent"] (18 May 2018), ''[[w:The Washington Post|The Washington Post]]''

*No matter how powerful the forces against them, when people are prepared to stand up for what they believe, they succeed... [T]hat’s the basis of my hope for the future of Russia.
**[[Vladimir V. Kara-Murza]], as quoted in [https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/04/russian-patriot-and-his-country-part-i-vladimir-kara-murza/ "A Russian Patriot and His Country, Part I"] (10 April 2017), by [[Jay Nordlinger]], ''[[w:National Review|National Review]]''

*I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. It's probably the most affordable mechanism to solve problems inside the country, inside the society because Putin proved to all of us that democracy has a world of alternatives, security forces and police and power abuse and that's why I think eventually the people of Russia will embrace democracy as the least costly institution to help them to solve their daily problems.
**[[Garry Kasparov]], statement in interview: Monica Attard (April 3, 2005). "[http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/s1335618.htm Gary Kasparov]", ''Sunday Profile'', Australian Broadcasting Company.

*Millions like me in Russia want a [[Freedom of the press|free press]], the [[rule of law]], [[social justice]], and [[w:Free and fair elections|free and fair elections]]. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these [[w:fundamental rights|fundamental rights]].
** [[Garry Kasparov]] ''How Life Imitates Chess'' (2007), Part III, Endgame, p. 195.

*I think many Russians, but also a lot of Westerners, make a very serious mistake in trying to look for… a better person to become president. They are searching for such a person in [Alexei] Navalny, in myself, but that’s a mistake. Anyone who replaces Putin is going to take Russia along the same imperialist route. [...] It is a very large and very diverse country, and if you want to manage it from one central spot, you have to have a very strong bureaucratic apparatus. To have such a huge apparatus at the centre has to be explained by having to protect the country from an outside enemy – there is no other explanation that people will accept.
** [[Wikipedia:Mikhail Khodorkovsky|Mikhail Khodorkovsky]], [https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/ukraine/2022/05/he-has-embarked-on-a-war-he-cant-stop-mikhail-khodorkovsky-on-putins-next-move “He has embarked on a war he can’t stop”: Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Putin’s next move], ''[[Wikipedia:New Statesman|The New Statesman]]'', 3 May 2022.

*In [[w:Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia]], all you have to do to get a house is to be born.
**[[Nikita Khrushchev]], [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-kitchen-debate/ ''The Kitchen Debate''] (1959).

*The existence of [[Russia]] is of a great spiritual and cultural value – not only for you and me, but for all humanity. And we are calling for the preservation of the people of Russia, for the birth of our new compatriots, not only and not so much because these people are needed by the country, but also to a great extent because this country is needed by people. Russia must exist and play its irreplaceable role in our destiny with you, in the destiny of our descendants and throughout world history. The special value of Russia, its special vocation is to be a stronghold of Orthodox Christianity. To preserve the Orthodox faith, Orthodox tradition and culture, Christian moral principles intact. Maybe that is why the powers that be are so ganged up on the Russian Orthodox Church, wanting to tear away the Greek Orthodox world from the Russian Church, wanting to destroy the unity of the Orthodox Church. We possess reliable information that everything that is happening now in world Orthodoxy is not an accident, not just the whim of a religious figure whose mind has become clouded. This is the implementation of a very specific plan that aims to tear the Greek world away from Russia. According to the perpetrators — I cannot describe these strategists in any other way — the Russian Church appears to be some kind of “soft power”, through which Russia influences the world around it. But '''why can’t Russia share its spiritual gifts?''' Is it criminal? This can be criminal only in the view of those who seek to weaken, and if possible to destroy the influence of Russia. In this whole story related to the problem of recognition or non-recognition of [[Ukrainian]] schismatics by the Local Orthodox Churches, there is something that is not declared, but which is the main goal of the forces behind the scenes that unleashed this schismatic activity. We in the Russian Church understand this clearly, but today our brothers in Greece and other Orthodox Churches also understand this. We are being asked to resist, not to flinch, to continue the struggle to maintain the spiritual independence of the Russian Orthodox Church from all these centres of world influence, and most importantly – to maintain the unity of Universal Orthodoxy. This is not a simple task. The Church has no army. The Church has no material means. So it is not easy without material means to build the spiritual defense.
**[[Patriarch Kirill of Moscow]], Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. [https://orthochristian.com/125041.html 18th Sunday after Pentecost, 20 October 2019]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVTvJXroA0g Video]

*[W]hat makes Russia’s war on truth so ominous is that it transcends [[ideology]]. Once Moscow had [[w:Pravda|''Pravda'']] and espoused the virtues of the international [[proletariat]]. Today it uses “[[fake news]]” as part of a long-term strategy to transform Western publics into [[Conspiracy theories|conspiracy]]-addled zombies.
**James Kirchick, [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/russias-plot-against-the-west-214925 "Russia's Plot Against the West"] (March 2017), ''[[Politico]]''
[[File:Russia stamp no. 1441 - 65th anniversary of end of WW II.jpg|thumb|...I am simply baffled by what appears to be the prevailing view in this country... that [[Russia]] is somehow a threat to the United States....While I certainly understand it is in the interest of the [[military-industrial complex]]... to continue to vilify Russia in order to justify our already-bloated military spending... Russia was our ally in WWII in defeating the Nazis. And, contrary to what most Americans are taught, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/08/dont-forget-how-the-soviet-union-saved-the-world-from-hitler/ it was Russia that truly won that war in Europe], having [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties lost over 20 million people to the war.].. 80 percent of the... Nazi['s] kills... [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties USA lost ~400,000]]... certainly since 1960 and up to the present time, the U.S. has been much more brutal and blood-thirsty than Russia. It is not even a close call... ~ [[Daniel Kovalik]]]]
[[File:Fosse commune de Saadi-Kotar.jpg|thumb|270px|[[Wikipedia:Rashism|Russism]] is a special form of [[misanthropic]] ideology based on [[Wikipedia:Great Russian chauvinism|great-power chauvinism]], complete lack of [[spirituality]], and [[immorality]]. It differs from the well-known forms of [[fascism]], [[racism]], [[nationalism]], in its particular [[cruelty]], both to man and to nature ... Possessing a [[slave]] psychology, it parasitizes using false [[history]], on occupied territories and oppressed peoples. ~ [[Wikipedia:Dzhokhar Dudayev|Dzhokhar Dudayev]]]]
*Few countries in history have started more wars or caused more turmoil than Russia in its eternal quest for security and status. It is also true, however, that at critical junctures Russia has saved the world’s equilibrium from forces that sought to overwhelm it: from the [[Mongol invasions and conquests|Mongols]] in the [[w:16th century|16th century]], from [[Sweden]] in the [[w:18th century|18th century]], from [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] in the [[19th century]], and from [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] in the [[20th century]]. In the contemporary period, Russia will be important in overcoming [[Islamic extremism|radical Islam]], partly because it is home to some 20 million [[Muslim|Muslims]], particularly in the [[w:Caucasus|Caucasus]] and along Russia’s southern border. Russia will also be a factor in the equilibrium of [[Asia]].
**[[Henry Kissinger]], as quoted in [https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/11/kissinger-order-and-chaos/506876/ "World Chaos and World Order: Conversations With Henry Kissinger"], ''[[w:The Atlantic|The Atlantic]]'', November 10, 2016.
*Unfortunately, it’s US [[Diplomacy|“diplomacy”]] which brought the [[United States|US]], Russia, [[Ukraine]], and [[NATO]] to the current standoff. As the [[W:Warsaw Pact|Warsaw Pact]] disintegrated and the [[W:Dissolution of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union collapsed]], US encouragement for those events included pledges that the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] wouldn’t take advantage of the situation to expand eastward. Since then, NATO has inexorably pushed in that direction, nearly doubling the number of member states. Thanks, US “diplomacy.”... Things began coming to a head with the [[W:2014 Ukrainian coup)|US-sponsored coup in Ukraine]] that replaced its [[Viktor Yanukovych|“Russia-friendly” regime]] with a [[W:Arseniy Yatsenyuk|“US/Europe-friendly” regime]] in 2014, courtesy of [[Barack Obama]]. Thanks, US “diplomacy.” Then in 2019, the US withdrew from the [[w:Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty|Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]], which forbade the US to place missiles within surprise strike distance of Russia, and Russia to place similar missiles within surprise strike distance of NATO. The US followed up by placing exactly such missiles in [[Poland]], courtesy of Donald Trump. Some “diplomacy.”... Then the US went into overdrive (courtesy of Trump and Biden) against the opening of a pipeline ([[W:Nord Stream 2|Nord Stream 2]]) which would have supplied Russian natural gas to Germany. The pipeline would have been a force for peace insofar as Russia likes to sell natural gas (at a fraction of prices the US can offer), and Germans like to not freeze to death.
** [https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/23/ukraine-us-diplomacy-is-the-problem-can-it-become-the-solution/ Ukraine: US “Diplomacy” is the Problem. Can it Become the Solution? Thomas Knapp,] ''CounterPunch'', February 23, 2022

*...I am simply baffled by what appears to be the prevailing view in this country... that [[Russia]] is somehow a threat to the United States....While I certainly understand it is in the interest of the [[military-industrial complex]]... to continue to vilify Russia in order to justify our already-bloated military spending... Russia was our ally in WWII in defeating the Nazis. And, contrary to what most Americans are taught, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/08/dont-forget-how-the-soviet-union-saved-the-world-from-hitler/ it was Russia that truly won that war in Europe], having [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties lost over 20 million people to the war.].. 80 percent of the... Nazi['s] kills... [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties USA lost ~400,000]]... certainly since 1960 and up to the present time, the U.S. has been much more brutal and blood-thirsty than Russia. It is not even a close call...
**[[Daniel Kovalik]] in [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/listen-liberals-russia-is-not-our-enemy_us_58a4ba39e4b0fa149f9ac0c8 ''Listen Liberals: ''''''Russia Is Not Our Enemy'''''', Huffington Post''] (15 February 2017)

*It is these U.S. wars, along with the [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321 U.S.’s over 800 military bases in more than 70] countries ([http://www.vox.com/2016/3/14/11224544/putin-syria-russia-withdraw Russia has bases in only one country (Syria)] outside the former Soviet Union) which has led to the U.S. rightly being viewed in a poll of people in 65 countries as by far the greatest threat to world peace... President Trump’s expressed desire to stop antagonizing Russia and to work with it... should be welcomed as eminently reasonable and indeed necessary to avoid a possible nuclear confrontation. This should also be welcome by an American public whose resources have been drained by the greatest military-spending spree by far on the planet....Certainly, liberals, who at least once stood for peace and for greater social spending, should be in the lead in cheering such overtures instead of drumming up anti-Russian hatred which can only lead to more war and more impoverishment of our society.
**[[Daniel Kovalik]] in [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/listen-liberals-russia-is-not-our-enemy_us_58a4ba39e4b0fa149f9ac0c8 ''Listen Liberals: Russia Is Not Our Enemy, Huffington Post''] (15 February 2017)

* For the first 500 years of its existence, Russia did not have a coat of arms, or a national flag or anthem.
**Anatoly Korolyov, [https://archive.is/IWCU9#selection-35.52-35.161 "The Russian flag: a tricolor icon"] (31 May 2005), ''[[w:RIA Novosti|RIA Novosti]]''.

*The predominance of the intelligence services and mentality is a core feature of Putin’s Russia that marks a major and critical discontinuity from not only the 1990s but all of Soviet and Russian history. During the Soviet period, the [[w:Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]] provided the glue holding the system together. During the 1990s, there was no central organizing institution or ideology. Now, with Putin, it is “former” [[w:KGB|KGB]] professionals who dominate the Russian ruling elite. This is a special kind of brotherhood, a mafia-like culture in which only a few can be trusted. The working culture is secretive and nontransparent.
**[[w:Andrew C. Kuchins|Andrew Kuchins]], [http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071214-russia_2017-web.pdf "Alternative Futures for Russia to 2017 A Report of the Russia and Eurasia Program"], ''Center for Strategic and International Studies'' (November 2007), p. 5.

===L===

*In case you’ve been living in a cave the last few weeks, here’s latest news scoop riling the United States: Russia has been paying the Afghan Taliban bounties for American scalps. How do we know? Because the ''New York Times'' tells us so, and the ''Times'' is not the kind of paper to make stuff up. But how does the ''Times'' know it’s true? Because sources say so, sources so super-sensitive and high up that it can’t reveal their names. All it can say according to in a front-page exposé that ran on June 26 is that they consist of “officials briefed on the matter” and “officials [who] spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the delicate intelligence and internal deliberations.” ..It’s all true even though the ''Times'' can’t say who its sources are because … because … well, just because it can’t... Still, the ''Times'' wants us to believe since the effect is to discredit two of its top [[w:bêtes noires|bêtes noires]], [[Donald Trump|Trump]] and [[Vladimir Putin]]. Meanwhile, not only has U.S. intelligence compiled a record of accuracy over the last two decades that couldn’t be more dismal, but [[Mike Pompeo|Secretary of State Mike Pompeo]], who ran the CIA for fifteen months in 2017-18, actually bragged about the agency’s skill in misleading the public. As he put it, “We lied, we cheated, we stole … we had entire training courses.”
**[https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lazare Daniel Lazare] in [https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/06/russian-bounties-here-we-go-again/ Russian Bounties: Here We Go Again, ''Strategic Culture Foundation''] (6 July 2020)

*So after lying about everything from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to “golden showers” in the Moscow Ritz Carlton, why should we believe the “intelligence community” now when it says it’s telling the truth?... In any case, why not play along...? But we can’t for one simple reason: the chances of the story being true... are somewhere between zero and one percent. Why? Let’s start with the most obvious. An assertion by some spook or other is not the same thing as evidence... Rather, it’s an opinion... the report doesn’t even make sense. Not only have the [[Taliban]] been at war with the United States since 2001, they’re winning. So why should Russia pay them to do what they’ve been happily doing on their own for close to two decades? Contrary to what the Times wants us to believe, there’s no evidence that Russia backs the Taliban or wants the U.S. to leave with its tail between its legs. Quite the opposite as a quick glance at a map will attest.
**[https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lazare Daniel Lazare] in [https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/06/russian-bounties-here-we-go-again/ Russian Bounties: Here We Go Again, ''Strategic Culture Foundation''] (6 July 2020)

* If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.
**[[Curtis LeMay]], conversation with presidential commissioner Robert Sprague (September 1957), quoted in Kaplan, F. (1991). ''The Wizards of Armageddon''. Stanford University Press, p. 134.

*[[Wikipedia:Farewell, unwashed Russia|Farewell, unwashed Russia]], Land of slaves, land of masters, And you, blue uniforms, And you, people, devoted to them. Perhaps beyond the wall of the Caucasus, I will hide from your pashas, From their all-seeing eye, From their all-hearing ears.
** [[Mikhail Lermontov]], in his final exile in the Caucasus, 1841. Published by [[Wikipedia:Russky Arkhiv|Russky Arkhiv]]. Historical and literary collection (1890) Translation by [[Wikipedia:Anatoly Liberman|Anatoly Liberman]].
***Original: ''Прощай, немытая Россiя, Страна рабовъ, страна господъ, И вы, мундиры голубые, И ты, имъ преданный народъ. Быть можетъ, за стѣной Кавказа Сокроюсь отъ твоихъ пашей, Отъ ихъ всевидящаго глаза, Отъ ихъ всеслышащихъ ушей.
''

*The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.
**[[Abraham Lincoln]], letter to George Robertson (15 August 1855)

*As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be take pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.
**[[Abraham Lincoln]], Letter to Joshua F. Speed (24 August 1855)

[[File:Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi and Tawakkol Karman talk about rohingya issues during Bangadesh on March 2018 (1).jpg|thumb|...Russia is not by any means without faults. But the amount of anti-Russian propaganda in our media today is a throwback to the Cold War era. We must ask the question: Is this leading to more arms, a bigger NATO?...The demonization of Russia is, I believe, one of the most dangerous things that is happening in our world today... It is time for political leaders and each individual to move us back from the brink of catastrophe to begin to build relationships with our Russian brothers and sisters. Too long has the elite financially gained from war while millions are moved into poverty and desperation. ~[[w: Mairead Maguire|Mairead Maguire]]]]
[[File:George Orwell, c. 1940 (41928180381) (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of [[socialism]] as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. ~ [[George Orwell]]]]

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[[File:Vladimir Putin-5 edit.jpg|thumb|Putin’s major address [March 2018]... was really something. Not only did he advertise a whole new generation of strategic weaponry, which...no one has disproved, would render the billions of dollars that we have wasted on antiballistic missile defenses useless... he also said, Now, we tried to get you to listen to us. You wouldn’t listen to us. Now, hopefully, you will listen to us. Let’s get together at the appropriate time with experts and figure out how we address these problems, in other words, talks on arms control...[In the USA] All we get is rhetoric about how bad the Russians are, just as if they were the old Soviet Union, ideologically determined to bury us...[[Ray McGovern]]]]
[[File:Uncle Sam (pointing finger).jpg|thumb|[The U.S. Democrat's] accusations that Russia hacked into the U.S. election in 2016...could not withstand close scrutiny... two... former National Security Agency technical directors — have long since concluded that [[Julian Assange]] did not acquire what he called the “emails related to [[Hillary Clinton]]” via a “hack” by the Russians or anyone else. ~ [[Ray McGovern]]]]
[[File:Под одеялом из облаков.jpg|thumb|310px|From the southern seas to the polar lands. Spread are our forests and fields. You are unique in the world, one of a kind. This native land protected by God! ~ [[w:National Anthem of Russia|National anthem of the Russian Federation]]]]

*As we watch the [[Mainstream media|media]] today, we are spoon fed more and more propaganda and fear of the unknown, that we should be afraid of the unknown and have full faith that our government is keeping us safe from the unknown. But by looking at media today, those of us who are old enough will be reminded of the era of [[Cold War]] news articles, hysteria of how the Russians would invade and how we should duck and cover under tables in our kitchens for the ensuing nuclear war. Under this mass hysteria all Western governments were convinced that we should join Western allies to fight the unknown evil that lies to the east.
**[[w: Mairead Maguire|Mairead Maguire]] in [https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/14/demonization-russia-new-cold-war-era ''Demonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era, Inventing a foe to sell military ambitions is still the most dangerous of games, Common Dreams''] (14 September 2018)

*Through my travels in Russia during the height of the Cold War with a peace delegation, we were shocked by the poverty of the country, and questioned how we ever were led to believe that Russia was a force to be afraid of. We talked to the Russian students who were dismayed by their absolute poverty and showed anger against [[NATO]] for leading their country into an arms race that they could not win. Many years later, when speaking to young Americans in the US, I was in disbelief about the fear the students had of Russia and their talk of invasion. This is a good example of how the unknown can cause a deep rooted paranoia when manipulated by the right powers.
**[[w: Mairead Maguire|Mairead Maguire]] in [https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/14/demonization-russia-new-cold-war-era ''Demonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era, Inventing a foe to sell military ambitions is still the most dangerous of games, Common Dreams''] (14 September 2018)

*Firstly, I must say, that I personally believe that Russia is not by any means without faults. But the amount of anti-Russian propaganda in our media today is a throwback to the Cold War era. We must ask the question: Is this leading to more arms, a bigger NATO? Possibly to challenge large powers in the [[Middle East]] and Asia, as we see the US approaching the [[South China Sea|South China seas]], and NATO Naval games taking place in the Black Sea. Missile compounds are being erected in [[Romania]], Poland and other ex-Soviet countries, while military games are set up in Scandinavia close to the Russian border to practice for a cold climate war scenario. At the same time, we see the US President arriving in Europe asking for increased military spending. At the same time the USA has increased its budget by 300 billion in one year.
**[[w: Mairead Maguire|Mairead Maguire]] in [https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/14/demonization-russia-new-cold-war-era ''Demonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era, Inventing a foe to sell military ambitions is still the most dangerous of games, Common Dreams''] (14 September 2018)

*The demonization of Russia is, I believe, one of the most dangerous things that is happening in our world today. The scapegoating of Russia is an inexcusable game that the West is indulging in. '''It is time for political leaders and each individual to move us back from the brink of catastrophe to begin to build relationships with our Russian brothers and sisters. Too long has the elite financially gained from war while millions are moved into poverty and desperation. '''
**[[w: Mairead Maguire|Mairead Maguire]] in [https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/14/demonization-russia-new-cold-war-era ''Demonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era, Inventing a foe to sell military ambitions is still the most dangerous of games, Common Dreams''] (14 September 2018)

* Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?
** [[Osip Mandelstam]], quoted by [[w:Nadezhda Mandelstam|Nadezhda Mandelstam]], ''Hope Against Hope: A Memoir'' (1970), ch. 35

*The problems with Russia are not just [[NATO]] expansion. There were also a process that began with the second Bush administration of withdrawing from all of the arms control — almost all of the arms control agreements that we had concluded with the Soviet Union, the very agreements that had brought the first Cold War to an end.... In effect, what the United States did after the end of the Cold War was they reversed the [[diplomacy]] that we had used to end the Cold War, and started sort of doing anything, everything the opposite way. We started, in effect, trying to control other countries, to bring them into what we called the [[New world order (politics)|“new world order,”]] but it was not very orderly. And we also sort of asserted the right to use military whenever we wished. We bombed Serbia in the ’90s without the approval of the U.N. Later, we invaded Iraq, citing false evidence and without any U.N. approval and against the advice not only of Russia but of Germany and France, our allies. So, the United States — I could name a number of others — itself was not careful in abiding by the [[International law|international laws]] that we had supported.
**[[Jack F. Matlock Jr.]], [https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/17/jack_matlock_ukraine_russia_nato_us Ex-U.S. Ambassador to USSR: Ukraine Crisis Stems Directly from Post-Cold War Push to Expand NATO], [[W:Democracy Now!|''Democracy Now!'']], February 17, 2022

*...while the Russians adopted [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Byzantine religion]] they did not adopt [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine civilisation]]. They acquired a rich heritage, but their timidity led them to bury the talent in the ground.
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*Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based, world order built on [[American exceptionalism|American leadership]] and the primacy of [[American empire|our political and economic values]]… There is no placating Putin. There is no transforming him from a gangster to a responsible statesman. Previous administrations have tried and failed not because they didn’t try hard enough, but because Putin wants no part of it.
**[[John McCain]], [http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/02/13/trump-gets-it-wrong-on-putin-russia-moral-equals-john-mccain-column/97822770/ "Russia dissidents are our moral equals"] (13 February 2017), ''[[w:USA Today|USA Today]]''

*Let me just start with [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]]’s major address [1 March 2018]... It was really something. Not only did he advertise a whole new generation of strategic weaponry, which he claimed, and no one has disproved, would render the billions of dollars that we have wasted on antiballistic missile defenses useless. They’re useless to begin with, most scientists and engineers say, but these new weapons that he advertised, and some of which he said are operational, would upend that... he also said, Now, we tried to get you to listen to us. You wouldn’t listen to us. Now, hopefully, you will listen to us. Let’s get together at the appropriate time with experts and figure out how we address these problems, in other words, talks on [[arms control]]...
**[[Ray McGovern|Ray McGovern]]: Russia and U.S. Senators Want Disarmament, U.S. Media Does Not, ''Foreign Policy Journal'' (2 May 2018) [https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/05/02/ray-mcgovern-russia-and-u-s-senators-want-disarmament-u-s-media-does-not/ Full text online] (2 May 2018)

*Now, a couple days later he’s talking about the strategic relationship and somebody says, Now, Mr. Putin — this is in an interview... six days later—somebody says, Hey, listen, Mr. Putin...would you destroy the whole world? If there were a first strike on Russia, would you really respond? It would be too late to save Russia.... Look, He says, yes, this would be a global catastrophe, but “as a citizen of Russia and as the head of the Russian state, I ask, What need will we have for a world if there was no Russia?” So he’s saying, Look, you’ve got to take this stuff seriously. Yes, we would retaliate, even if it meant that the rest of the world would be blown up as well as Russia.
**[[Ray McGovern|Ray McGovern]]: Russia and U.S. Senators Want Disarmament, U.S. Media Does Not, Foreign Policy Journal (2 May 2018) [https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/05/02/ray-mcgovern-russia-and-u-s-senators-want-disarmament-u-s-media-does-not/ Full text online] (2 May 2018)

*Two days later, four senior senators, okay, three Democrats—let’s see if I can remember them — Feinstein, Wyden, the fellow up there in Massachusetts, and [[Bernie Sanders]]—they issue a call, a letter to then Secretary of State [[Rex Tillerson]], Look, this is really getting out of hand. We don’t like the fact that Putin is brandishing these weapons that we really haven’t ever heard of before, but he’s calling for [[arms control]] talks, so let’s talk. Let’s talk. Guess what? That appeal appeared on all those four senators’ websites but was totally—totally — ignored by what passes for the [[mainstream media]]. So one suspects that this is an unwelcome subject, and there is proof positive... we're talking about four senior senators appealing for arms control talks on their websites but it never getting past their websites, no publicity for it. I’m thinking that [[Chuck Schumer]] said, No, no. Arms control, no, no... Don’t mention arms control talks. So that’s the reality in the mainstream media.
**[[Ray McGovern|Ray McGovern]]: Russia and U.S. Senators Want Disarmament, U.S. Media Does Not, Foreign Policy Journal (2 May 2018) [https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/05/02/ray-mcgovern-russia-and-u-s-senators-want-disarmament-u-s-media-does-not/ Full text online] (2 May 2018)

*...Putin’s looking at all this. He knows who “the crazies” are and he knows that Bolton has a lot of influence. So this is a very destabilizing thing, because when the Russians keep telling us, Look, we’ve got these new weapons, well, you know, the press says, Ah, they’re faking it, they’re probably faking it. You know, I don’t know if they’re faking it or not. But, my God, if we knew about all this, why is it not in the annual intelligence briefing that is given to both the House and to the Senate early each year? It’s missing. All we get is rhetoric about how bad the Russians are, just as if they were the old Soviet Union, ideologically determined to bury us...
**[[Ray McGovern|Ray McGovern]]: Russia and U.S. Senators Want Disarmament, U.S. Media Does Not, Foreign Policy Journal (2 May 2018) [https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/05/02/ray-mcgovern-russia-and-u-s-senators-want-disarmament-u-s-media-does-not/ Full text online] (2 May 2018)

*Trump had been calling for better relations with [[Russia]] during his presidential campaign... Stooping to a new low, Friday’s (New York) Times headline screamed: “F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia.” For those interested in evidence — or the lack of it— regarding collusion between Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, we can thank the usual Russia-gate promoters at [[Mainstream media|The New York Times and CNN]] for inadvertently filling in some gaps in recent days....NYT readers had to get down to paragraph 9 to read: “No evidence has emerged...”
**[[Ray McGovern]] in [https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/15/russia-gate-evidence-please/ ''Ray McGovern: Russia-gate Evidence, Please,''] (15 January 2019)

*If you are wondering why so little is heard these days of [The Democrat's] '''accusations that Russia hacked into the U.S. election''' in 2016, it could be because those charges could not withstand close scrutiny. It could also be because special counsel [[Robert Mueller]] appears to have never bothered to investigate what was once the central alleged crime in Russia-gate...
**[[Ray McGovern]] in [https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/07/still-waiting-for-evidence-of-a-russian-hack/ ''Still Waiting for Evidence of a Russian Hack Consortium News''] (7 June 2018)

*[[Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity]] (VIPS) — including two “alumni” who were '''former National Security Agency technical directors — have long since concluded that [[Julian Assange]] did not acquire what he called the “emails related to [[Hillary Clinton]]” via a “hack” by the Russians or anyone else.''' They found, rather, that he got them from someone with physical access to Democratic National Committee computers who copied the material onto an external storage device — probably a thumb drive. In December 2016 VIPS explained this in some detail in an open Memorandum to President [[Barack Obama]]. Clinton’s PR chief... later admitted that she golf-carted around to various media outlets at the convention with instructions '''“to get the press to focus on... the prospect that Russia had not only hacked and stolen emails from the DNC, but that it had done so to help [[Donald Trump]] and hurt [[Hillary Clinton]].”''' The diversion worked like a charm. Mainstream media kept shouting “The Russians did it,” and gave little, if any, play to the DNC skullduggery revealed in the emails themselves.
**[[Ray McGovern]] in [https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/07/still-waiting-for-evidence-of-a-russian-hack/ ''Still Waiting for Evidence of a Russian Hack Consortium News''] (7 June 2018)

*It's the principle of... freedom is better than non-freedom. These words are the quintessence of the human experience. Original: Это принцип "свобода лучше, чем несвобода". Эти слова - квинтэссенция человеческого опыта.
**[[Dmitry Medvedev]], at the 5th Krasnoyarsk economic forum (21 February 2008). [https://rg.ru/2008/02/21/svoboda.html As published] by the ''[[Wikipedia:Rossiiskaya Gazeta|Rossiiskaya Gazeta]]''. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za2O7dYlabc Video]

*From the southern seas to the polar lands. Spread are our forests and fields. You are unique in the world, one of a kind. This native land protected by God!
**[[w:Sergey Mikhalkov|Sergey Mikhalkov]], [[w:National Anthem of Russia|''National Anthem of the Russian Federation'']] (December 2000).

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*I hate to say it [...] but, after the novelty wore off, I had this cliché moment of a Russian émigré abroad: I really missed black bread. I know it’s stupid, but I really missed it.
**[[Alexey Navalny]], as quoted in [http://archive.is/FGqQE "Net Impact: One man's cyber-crusade against Russian corruption"] (4 April 2011), by [[w:Julia Ioffe|Julia Ioffe]], ''The New Yorker''
*A cocktail of patriotism, chauvinism, imperialism could for some time [https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/02/the-tv-vs-the-fridge-russia-putin-media/ replace many essential nutrients for Russians]. Like how for alcoholics vodka replaces everything, including toothpaste. Original: ''Коктейль из патриотизма, шовинизма, империализма на какое-то время может заменить россиянам многие необходимые питательные вещества. Как алкоголикам водка заменяет все, включая зубную пасту.''
**[[w:Alexander Nevzorov|Alexander Nevzorov]], as quoted in [https://censor.net/ru/resonance/277589/nevzorov_rossiya_maroder_likovat_eyi_rano "Russia is a marauder. It's too early for her to rejoice"] (25 March 2014), ''[[w:uk:Цензор.нет|Cenzor.net]]''.
*It is clear that if [[Putin]] converts to Buddhism tomorrow, they will fill wastebaskets in their luxurious offices with all these icons, draw a scarlet spot between their eyebrows and sing “Om mani padme hum”. Original: ''Понятно, что если завтра Путин примет буддизм, то они всеми этими иконками набьют мусорные корзины в своих роскошных кабинетах, нарисуют себе алое пятно между бровями и будут петь «Ом мани падме хум».''
**[[w:Alexander Nevzorov|Alexander Nevzorov]] on the religiosity of Russian officials. From the interview titled [http://www.newlookmedia.ru/?p=23172 Александр Невзоров: кощунник] (11 October 2012), ''[[w:Novy Vzglyad|Novy Vzglyad]]''.
*If a person wants to be the king of the Papuans, then he is doomed to stick large feathers into his head, wear necklaces from the largest shells and dance certain dances the fastest of all. Original: ''Если человек хочет быть королём папуасов, то он обречён втыкать себе в голову большие перья, одевать ожерелья из самых больших ракушек и резвее всех танцевать определённые танцы.''
**[[w:Alexander Nevzorov|Alexander Nevzorov]] on the religiosity of the Russian President. [https://youtube.com/watch?v=pYx-7H-LmNE?t=200 Replying to questions from his YouTube channel's viewers, 3:20], 3 February 2012.

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*The past year and a half of [[Anti-Russian sentiment|Russophobia]] have been driven by the “bitter clingers” of Hillary’s failed national political ambitions, the military-industrial complex, corporate interests, corporate [[Mainstream media|media]], the Washington/New York/[[Hollywood]] commentariat, and foreign lobbyists. Too many of them profit from an endless state of war—throughout the world and, in particular, with [[Russia]]. Washington and its clients are terrified that the war gravy train will be slowed or stopped. Our NATO clients are afraid of carrying their own national defense burdens. Washington neocons are perfectly willing to continue to waste the lives of our devoted military to protect both their funding and a world order that the West’s victory in the Cold War has rendered moot.
**George D. O'Neill Jr in [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/for-peace-with-putin-end-americas-pointless-wars/''For Peace With Putin, End America’s Pointless Wars, The American Conservative''] (9 July 2018)

*In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.
**[[George Orwell]], in [http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html Preface to the Ukrainian edition] of ''[[Animal Farm]]'', as published in ''The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell : As I please, 1943-1945'' (1968).

*Last spring the hoopla about Russia invading Ukraine died an ignominious death when nothing happened. This autumn, the latest Russia-will-invade boogeyman was already on life-support when the pro-western Ukrainian president decided to goose it November 26 with the breathless proclamation that Moscow intended to overthrow him “next week.” When that didn’t happen, on December 4, the Washington Post hyperventilated about Russia igniting a war, like, any day, in an anonymously sourced piece of exemplary CIA stenography, worthy of the fantasies published in the run-up to the U.S. 2003 invasion of Iraq.... So Russia hesitates and the U.S. screams. What else is new? Don’t get me wrong: NATO and the U.S.’s idiotic brinksmanship on Russia’s borders could yet cause real damage. But wild-eyed speculation about the Kremlin’s intentions has so far run aground on Russia’s apparent reluctance to engage in a shooting war that could spiral into a full-on nuclear holocaust.... In early November CIA chief William Burns trekked to the Kremlin amid worries about a Russian troop buildup. As if Russia can’t move its military around WITHIN ITS OWN BORDERS without catapulting the west to high alert.
[[File:MSzy on his nose.jpg|thumb|200px|NATO and the U.S.’s idiotic brinksmanship on Russia’s borders could yet cause real damage. But wild-eyed speculation about the Kremlin’s intentions has so far run aground on Russia’s apparent reluctance to engage in a shooting war that could spiral into a full-on nuclear holocaust [...] As if Russia can’t move its military around WITHIN ITS OWN BORDERS without catapulting the west to high alert. ~ "Eve Ottenberg", [[Wikipedia:CounterPunch|CounterPunch]]]]
[[File:2011. День Победы в Донецке 003.jpg|thumb|170px|We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely that hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering. ~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]''.]]
[[File:Z symbol flash mob at Platinum Arena in Khabarovsk.jpg|thumb|The symbol Z, the rallies, the propaganda, the war as a cleansing act of violence and the death pits around Ukrainian towns make it all very plain. '''The war against Ukraine is not only a return to the traditional [[fascist]] battleground, but also a return to traditional fascist language and practice.''' Other people are there to be colonized. Russia is innocent because of its ancient past. The existence of Ukraine is an international conspiracy. War is the answer. ~ [[Timothy D. Snyder]]]]
**[https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/10/dangerous-games-western-militaries-on-the-doorsteps-of-russia-and-china/ Dangerous Games: Western Militaries on the Doorsteps of Russia and China], by [https://truthout.org/authors/eve-ottenberg/ Eve Ottenberg], ''CounterPunch'', December 10, 2021

*How likely is doomsday? Well back to Ukraine, regarding which, on December 1, Russian President Putin asked the west for legal guarantees that it would cease eastward expansion. This request, made because Washington’s word is worthless (vide just for starters, the Iran nuclear pact, and President George H.W. Bush’s promise that NATO would never, ho, ho, expand to Russia’s borders) and met with scoffs by the white house, comes amid complicated tensions. The Kiev military recently claimed it used Turkish attack drones “in combat against ethnic Russian rebels,” Finian Cunningham reported October 28 in Information Clearing House. This is not good. Turkey is in NATO. If Turkey gets tangled up in the Ukraine imbroglio, that substantially escalates things. According to Anatol Lieven in ''Responsible Statecraft'' on November 24, “Moscow is especially alarmed by Ukraine’s acquisition of Turkish Bayraktar combat drones,” used to such deadly effect by Azerbaijan in its 2020 conquest of Armenian territory. Unlike the F-35, these things actually work.
**[https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/10/dangerous-games-western-militaries-on-the-doorsteps-of-russia-and-china/ Dangerous Games: Western Militaries on the Doorsteps of Russia and China], by [https://truthout.org/authors/eve-ottenberg/ Eve Ottenberg], ''CounterPunch'', December 10, 2021

===P===
[[File:Vladimir Putin 28 February 2002-2.jpg|thumb|280px|Russia is not corrupt. Corruption is what happens in all countries when businessmen offer officials large bribes for favors. Today’s Russia is unique. The businessmen, the politicians, and the bureaucrats are the same people. They have privatized the country’s wealth and taken control of its financial flows. ~ [[Wikipedia:Andrei Piontkovsky|Andrei Piontkovsky]]]]
[[File:Békegong.jpg|thumb|Russia is in favor of a multipolar world, a [[democratic]] world order, strengthening the system of [[international law]], and for developing a legal system in which any small country, even a very small country, can feel itself secure, as if behind a stone wall. ~[[Vladimir Putin]]{{Fact}}]]
[[File:Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the heads of governments of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia in Kyiv. (51941490410).jpg|thumb|315px|There is not a single [[misanthropic]] ideology in the world, even in theory, acting more [[cruel]]ly and [[cynic]]ally than [[Wikipedia:Rashism|Russism]] ... There are no [[moral]] [[principles]] - they are all like animals. I don't want this war to stop. I need this war, its continuation. This war will go to the territory of Russia - whether Russia wants it or not ... And the Western countries, the world community will not let it stop, in order to completely isolate Russia and destroy it as a state, so that this predatory beast on earth no longer exists. ~ [[Wikipedia:Dzhokhar Dudayev|Dzhokhar Dudayev]]]]

*They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
**[[Sarah Palin]], to Charles Gibson, ABC News, September 11, 2008.
***''This was parodied as "'''I can see Russia from my house'''", on "Saturday Night Live", a comedy television show, two days later, by [[Tina Fey]].'' Fey resembled Palin in appearance, and was portraying Palin, and so the latter quote is often misattributed to Palin.

*[[Ukraine]] is another media triumph. Respectable liberal newspapers such as the ''New York Times, the Washington Post'' and the ''Guardian,'' and mainstream broadcasters such as the ''BBC, NBC, CBS, CNN'' have played a critical role in conditioning their viewers to accept a new and dangerous [[Cold War II|cold war]]. All have misrepresented events in Ukraine as a malign act by Russia when, in fact, the [[W:2014 Ukrainian coup|coup in Ukraine in 2014]] was the work of the United States, aided by Germany and [[NATO]]. This inversion of [[reality]] is so pervasive that Washington's military intimidation of Russia is not news; it is suppressed behind a smear and scare campaign of the kind I grew up with during the [[Cold War|first cold war]]. Once again, the Ruskies are coming to get us, led by another [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], whom ''The Economist'' depicts as the devil. The suppression of the truth about Ukraine is one of the most complete news blackouts I can remember. The fascists who engineered the coup in Kiev are the same breed that backed the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Of all the scares about the rise of fascist anti-Semitism in Europe, no leader ever mentions the [[Fascism|fascists]] in Ukraine - except Vladimir Putin, but he does not count.
**[[John Pilger]], [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45752.htm Inside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton & Trump], ''Information Clearing House'', October 28, 2016

*Many in the [[Mainstream media|Western media]] have worked hard to present the ethnic Russian-speaking population of Ukraine as outsiders in their own country, as agents of Moscow, almost never as Ukrainians seeking a federation within Ukraine and as Ukrainian citizens resisting a foreign-orchestrated coup against their elected government. There is almost the joie d'esprit of a class reunion of warmongers. The drum-beaters of the ''Washington Post'' inciting [[war]] with Russia are the very same editorial writers who published the lie that [[Iraq and weapons of mass destruction|Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction]].
**[[John Pilger]], [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45752.htm Inside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton & Trump], ''Information Clearing House'', October 28, 2016

*Russia is not corrupt. [[Corruption]] is what happens in all countries when businessmen offer officials large bribes for favors. Today’s Russia is unique. The businessmen, the politicians, and the bureaucrats are the same people. They have privatized the country’s wealth and taken control of its financial flows.
** [[w:Andrei Piontkovsky|Andrei Piontkovsky]], [http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=4852 ''Another Look Into Putin's Soul''].

* We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial - whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.
** [[Anna Politkovskaya]], as quoted in "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/09/russia.media Poisoned by Putin: The horror of Beslan was made still worse by the intimidation of Russia's servile media]" (9 September 2004), ''The Guardian'', United Kingdom: Guardian News and Media Limited

* My heroes are those people who want to be individuals but are being forced to be cogs again. In an Empire there are only cogs.
** [[Anna Politkovskaya]], as quoted in ''[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/anna-politkovskaya-putin-poison-and-my-struggle-for-freedom-535250.html Anna Politkovskaya: Putin, poison and my struggle for freedom]'' (15 October 2004), ''[[Wikipedia:The Independent|The Independent]]''.

* In contemporary Russia, unlike the old [[USSR]] or present-day [[North Korea]], the stage is constantly changing: the country is a dictatorship in the morning, a democracy at lunch, an oligarchy by suppertime, while, backstage, oil companies are expropriated, journalists killed, billions siphoned away. '''[[w:Vladislav Surkov|Surkov]] is at the centre of the show, sponsoring nationalist skinheads one moment, backing human rights groups the next. It's a strategy of power based on keeping any opposition there may be constantly confused, a ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it's indefinable.'''
**[[w:Peter Pomerantsev|Peter Pomerantsev]], "[https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n20/peter-pomerantsev/putin-s-rasputin Putin's Rasputin]" (20 October 2011), ''[[w:London Review of books|London Review of Books]]''.

* The Russian people will suffer a blow, it will leave the cities for fields, forests ... It will pick mushrooms, berries, nuts - the Russian people is ready in a moment of great sorrow to turn into a chipmunk people, a hamster people, it will store up for the winter all sorts of roots, all sorts of onions. Original: ''Русский народ перебьётся, он уйдёт из городов в поля, в леса... Будет собирать грибы, ягоды, орехи — русский народ готов в минуту больших печалей превратиться в народ-бурундук, народ-хомяк, он будет запасать на зиму всякие корешки, всякие луковки.''
**[[w:Alexander Prokhanov|Alexander Prokhanov]] on the sanctions Russia faces following the 2022 invasion of [[Ukraine]], from the interview [https://aif.ru/politics/world/pisatel_aleksandr_prohanov_mirovoy_perekur_konchilsya Writer Alexander Prokhanov: "The global smoke break is over"] (6 April 2022), ''[[w:Argumenty i fakty|Argumenty i fakty]]''.
* We can only pity the Poles. We are too powerful to hate them, the war that will break out will be a war of extermination – or at least it should be. ''Original:'' ''Nous ne pouvons que plaindre les Polonais. Nous sommes trop puissants pour les haïr, la guerre qui va s’ouvrir sera une guerre d’extermination — ou du moins devrait l’être.''
** [[Alexander Pushkin]], on the Polish [[Wikipedia:November Uprising|November Uprising]], letter to [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE,_%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0 Elizaveta Khitrovo], 9 December 1830. As quoted in [https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/10letters/1815_30/01text/1830/1558_375.htm ''A. S. Pushkin. Collected works in 10 volumes.''] Moscow: ''[[Wikipedia:Khudozhevestnnaya literatura|Khudozhevestnnaya literatura]]'', 1959-1962. Volume 9. Letters 1815–1830.

===R===
[[File:French invasion of Russia collage.jpg|thumb|right|Look at Russia. They keep trying help each other out, extend a hand to a neighbor, and guess what? Every ten years, some one is invading, burning down their homes and taking their toilet paper. ~ Pastor Richards, ''[[w:GTA Vice City|GTA: Vice City]]'']]

*Try to tell a [[w:Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian]] housewife, who trudges miles on foot in sub-zero weather in order to spend hours standing in line at a state store dispensing [[w:Rationing in the Soviet Union|food rations]], that [[United States|America]] is defiled by [[w:Shopping mall|shopping centers]], [[w:Expressway|expressways]] and family cars.
**[[Ayn Rand]], as quoted in ''The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution'' (1971).

*History shows that the process of modernization leads societies to form liberal democracies with market systems. Yet some leaders insist on trying to create alternative models, even though those models are unstable and retrograde. Putin's authoritarian effort to create a managed democracy in Russia offers a good example... After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 many people expected Russia to make a rapid transition from communism to democracy... However, what followed in Russia was a period of experimentation with relatively greater [[liberalism]] under President Boris Yeltsin that led not to democracy, but the rise of Putin and an [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] system... Putin's authoritarian system does not mean that he has built a successful alternative to liberal democracy. Instead, the system owes its existence in part to the slow development of a middle class in Russia that normally would demand a share of power. That slow development, in turn, is largely thanks to the state's monopolization of the country's most lucrative business activities: the export of energy and other natural resources.
**Charles Recknagel, [http://www.rferl.org/content/fukuyama-putinism-islamic-state-liberal-democracy/27518924.html "Fukuyama: 'Putinism', Radical Islam No Alternative To Liberal Democracy"] (30 January 2016), ''Radio Free Europe: Radio Liberty''.

*[[Rule of law]] is not consistent with [[Iraq War|state-sponsored brutality]]. When the Russian government attacks civilians in [[w:Second Chechen War|Chechnya]], [[Vietnam War|killing innocents]] without discrimination or accountability, neglecting orphans and refugees, it can no longer expect aid from international lending institutions. Moscow needs to operate with civilized self-restraint.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20150421074248/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25849 ''Republican Party Platform of 2000''] (31 July 2000), United States of America: Republican National Convention.

*Look at Russia. They keep trying help each other out, extend a hand to a neighbor, and guess what? Every ten years, some one is invading, burning down their homes and taking their toilet paper. Napoleon, Stalin, [[w:Attila the Hun|Attila the Hun]], all of them. After you read my book you will understand. I may have been born in the see, but I'm no dummy!
**[[w:Pastor Richards|Pastor Richards]], as quoted in [http://nl.wikigta.org/wiki/Pressing_Issues_%28morality%29 ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City''] (October 2002).

*We had a moment in history, between 1988 and 1991, where we could have worked with [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] to make his vision of perestroika succeed. Instead, we allowed him to fail, without any real plan on how we would live with what emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Save for a short period of time during the [[World War II|Second World War]] where we needed the [[Soviet Union]] to defeat Germany and Japan, we have been in a continual state of political conflict with the Soviet Union. Even after the Soviet Union collapsed, we viewed the [[Russia|Russian Federation]] more as a defeated enemy that we needed to keep down, than a friend in need of a helping hand up. Yeltsin’s Russia was useful to the US and NATO only to the extent that we could exploit it economically while controlling its domestic politics in a manner that kept Russia in a perpetual state of weakness. The [[Barack Obama|Obama]] “reset” was simply a ploy to remove [[Vladimir Putin]], who rejected the vision of Russia projected by the west, and replace him with [[Dmitry Medvedev|Dmitri Medvedev]], whom Obama believed could be remade in the figure of [[Boris Yeltsin|Yeltsin]]. The fact that Putin believes in a strong Russia has upset the plans of the US, NATO, and Europe for post-Cold War hegemony, predicated as they were on a weak, compliant Russian state.
**[[Scott Ritter]] as quoted in [https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/02/personal-interview-scott-ritter/ What Are The Prospects For Peace? by John Rachel, ''Dissident Voice''] / February 24th, 2022

*The bottom line is that Russia has set forth a cognizable claim under the doctrine of anticipatory collective [[Self-defense|self defense]], devised originally by the U.S. and NATO, as it applies to [[w:Chapter_VII_of_the_United_Nations_Charter#Article_51| ([[Charter of the United Nations]]) Article 51]] which is predicated on fact, not fiction. While it might be in vogue for people, organizations, and governments in the West to embrace the knee-jerk conclusion that Russia’s military intervention constitutes a wanton violation of the United Nations Charter and, as such, constitutes an illegal war of aggression, the uncomfortable [[truth]] is that, of all the claims made regarding the legality of pre-emption under [[W:Chapter_VII_of_the_United_Nations_Charter#Article_51|Article 51 of the United Nations Charter]], Russia’s justification for invading Ukraine is on solid legal ground.
**[[Scott Ritter]], [https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/29/russia-ukraine-the-law-of-war-crime-of-aggression/ Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression]], [[W:Consortium News|''Consortium News'']], March 29, 2022

*The [U.S.] military/security complex has resurrected its Cold War enemy so necessary for its outsized budget and power and intends to keep Russia as The Enemy. The Democrats have an interest in the villification of Russia as “Russiagate” explains Hillary’s loss of the 2016 Presidential election and gives Democrats hope of removing President Trump from office. The [[Mainstream media|media]] lacks independence, knowledge, and integrity and is the tool used by the military/security complex to control explanations... As strategic and Russian studies are largely funded by the military/security complex, the universities are also complicit in the march toward nuclear war. Republicans are as dependent as Democrats on funding from the military/security complex and the Israel Lobby.
**[[Paul Craig Roberts]] in [https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/12/28/the-self-genocide-of-the-west/ ''The Self-Genocide of the West, Foreign Policy Journal''] (26 December 2018)

*All of this self-serving is driving America and its vassals to war with Russia, which might also mean with China. The war would be nuclear and be the end of the West, an act of self-genocide. The US national security establishment is so crazed that Trump’s efforts to get off the war track and onto a peace track are characterized as treason and a threat to US national security.
**[[Paul Craig Roberts]] in [https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/12/28/the-self-genocide-of-the-west/ ''The Self-Genocide of the West, Foreign Policy Journal''] (26 December 2018)

*The Russians are aware that the accusations and demonization that they experience are fabrications. They no longer see the problem as one of misunderstandings that diplomacy can overcome. What they see now is the West preparing its populations for war. It is this perception for which the West is solely responsible that makes the situation today far more dangerous than it ever was during the long Cold War.
**[[Paul Craig Roberts]] in [https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/12/28/the-self-genocide-of-the-west/ ''The Self-Genocide of the West, Foreign Policy Journal''] (26 December 2018)

===S===
*''Солдатушки, бравы ребятушки, А кто вашъ родимый? – Нашъ родимый – Царь непобѣдимый, Вотъ кто нашъ родимый. Солдатушки, бравы ребятушки, Есть у васъ родная? – Есть родная, мать намъ дорогая, Наша Русь святая. Солдатушки, бравы ребятушки, Гдѣ же ваша слава? – Наша слава — Русская держава, Вотъ гдѣ наша слава. Солдатушки, бравы ребятушки, Гдѣ же ваши дѣды? – Наши дѣды — славные побѣды, Вотъ гдѣ наши дѣды.'' '''''Translation''''': Little soldiers, brave little guys, And who is your esteemed?'' – Our esteemed, the invincible Tsar That's who our esteemed is. ''Little soldiers, brave little guys, Do you have a darling?'' – There's a darling, our dear mother, Our Holy Rus'.'' Little soldiers, brave little guys, Where is your glory?'' – Our glory is the Russian state – That's where our glory is.'' Soldiers, brave little guys, Where are your grandfathers? '' – Our grandfathers are [the] glorious victories, That's where our grandfathers are.'''' * ''[https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8 Soldatushki] (little soldiers)'', [[w:Russian Imperial Army|Imperial army]] song popular in the 19th century. Note that many different versions exist, although always with similar format and pace.
[[File:Victory Day Parade 2005-5.jpg|thumb|We have now seen the weakness of Russia's democratic institutions, the ease with which a Russian leader can stoke nationalist hysteria. ~ [[w:Stephen Sestanovich|Stephen Sestanovich]]]]
[[File:Президент РФ на базе ОМОН «Зубр»..jpeg|thumb|Russian society as a whole does not care if its leading scholars and scientists have a way to publish their research and discoveries and that nobody has the power to prevent abuses and torture by the police. ~ Ivan Sukhov]]
[[File:Silvio Berlusconi and Dmitry Medvedev in 2008 (2).jpg|thumb|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za2O7dYlabc Freedom is better than non-freedom.] These words are the quintessence of the human experience. ~ [[Dmitry Medvedev]]]]
*Russia has become very authoritarian. It doesn’t accept [[Freedom of speech|free speech]] or real elections anymore.
**[[Mikheil Saakashvili]], as quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19WWln-q4-t.html "An American Friend"] (19 October 2008), ''The New York Times''

*Regarding China...you have both the Democrats and Republicans taking an increasingly hostile posture... if you look at the recent comments of Xi Jinping, particularly after his virtual summit with Joe Biden, he has been really hitting the talking point that what is happening is that the United States is taking this neo-Cold War posture. I think he is entirely right. But I sort of see it in the same vein as you. China, the United States and Russia in particular are engaged in a classic capitalist battle for control of natural resources all throughout the world. What I think is happening as a result of NATO expansion, of Biden being a tremendously hawkish figure on Ukraine and basically daring Vladimir Putin to stand up to NATO expansion, is that you run the risk of what is ultimately the elite business class of the world having their battles spilling over into overt military conflict. I think China in particular is very concerned about the aggressive U.S. stance because I think China would be very happy to find a way to just sort of divvy up the world for domination in various regions. The United States is not going to accept that. The U.S. posture is pushing China and Russia into an even closer alliance akin to the relationship during the Cold War.
**[[Jeremy Scahill]] in [https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/24/war_party_us_military_spending “The War Party”: Jeremy Scahill on How U.S. Militarism Unifies Democrats & Republicans, ''Democracy Now!''] (24 November 2021)

*We have now seen the weakness of Russia's democratic institutions, the ease with which a Russian leader can stoke [[Nationalism|nationalist]] hysteria.
**[[w:Stephen Sestanovich|Stephen Sestanovich]], [http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/04/14/could-it-have-been-otherwise/ "Could It Have Been Otherwise?"] (14 April 2015), ''The American Interest''.

*In Russia we only had two T.V. channels. Channel One was [[propaganda]]. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
**[[w:Yakov Smirnoff|Yakov Smirnoff]], reported in Bob Fenster (2005). ''Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life And The Pros''. Andrews McMeel Publishing, p. 101. {{ISBN|0740754688}}.

*Although [[Wikipedia:Ivan Ilyin|Ilyin]] dressed up his idea of contemplation in several books, it really was no more than that: he saw his own [[nation]] as righteous, and the purity of that vision was more important than anything Russians actually did. The nation, “pure and objective,” was what the philosopher saw when he blinded himself. Innocence took a specific biological form. What Ilyin saw was a virginal Russian body. Like [[fascists]] and other [[authoritarians]] of his day, Ilyin insisted that his nation was a creature, “an organism of nature and the soul,” an animal in [[Wikipedia:Eden|Eden]] without [[Wikipedia:Original sin|original sin]]. '''Who belonged within the Russian organism was not for the individual to decide, since cells do not decide whether they belong to a body.''' Russian culture, Ilyin wrote, automatically brought “fraternal union” wherever Russian power extended. Ilyin wrote of “Ukrainians” in quotation marks, because he denied their separate existence beyond the Russian organism. To speak of [[Ukraine]] was to be a mortal enemy of Russia. Ilyin took for granted that a post-Soviet Russia would include Ukraine.
**[[Timothy D. Snyder]], ''[[Wikipedia:The Road to Unfreedom|The Road to Unfreedom]]'', 2018. Read it online [https://willzuzak.ca/cl/bookreview/Snyder2018RoadToUnfreedom.pdf here].
*The symbol Z, the rallies, the propaganda, the war as a cleansing act of violence and the death pits around Ukrainian towns make it all very plain. '''The war against Ukraine is not only a return to the traditional [[fascist]] battleground, but also a return to traditional fascist language and practice.''' Other people are there to be colonized. Russia is innocent because of its ancient past. The existence of Ukraine is an international conspiracy. War is the answer.
**[[Timothy D. Snyder]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/russia-fascism-ukraine-putin.html We Should Say It. Russia Is Fascist.], ''[[The New York Times]]'' (19 May 2022).

* In 1944, investigator, proud of his faultless logic [...] told Babitsh: "'''Investigation and the process are merely juridical figaration, that can't change your destiny, which has been determined before. If it is necessary to shoot you, you'll be shot, even if you're completely innocent.'''"
** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]''.

* '''We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely that hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering.'''
** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]''.

* The idea of a [[concentration camp]] is excellent.
** [[Joseph Stalin]] on ideas of eradicating [[w:Commune of the Working People of Estonia|'counter-revolutionaries and traitors']] in [[Estonia]], as quoted in ''Stalin : A Biography'' (2004) by Robert Service, p. 158; also in ''Bol'shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912-1927'', p. 36.

*Listen, there's been a campaign, a war against Russia going on for a long time. It started again in the United States around 2006, '07, when he made that speech in Munich, but I think there's no evidence really of the aggressiveness of Russia. The aggressiveness is truly coming from the [[NATO|NATO forces]] that have encircled Russia and that are also, by the way, encircling China. You know, this is a big policy point, huge, of huge importance... If you look at the reporting from all of our major networks, it's very hostile when it comes to people who we deem to be enemies, whether it's Chávez or whether it's [[Fidel Castro|Castro]] or [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]]. I've never seen an interview done from the American perspective where they allow the subject to express himself in what he was seeking to do, what his purpose was.
**[[Oliver Stone]], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2021/05/12/transcript-conversation-with-oliver-stone/ Transcript: A Conversation with Oliver Stone,] (streamed live [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5pgnQ2M9tg on youtube]) ''The Washington Post'' (12 May 2021)

*Castro was very articulate, and so was Chavez, and so was Putin in his way, and I think I gave them a chance to talk and also in their native language. We never hear Putin speak in his native Russian, and we had a very good translator, interpreter working with him. I think it's crucial to understand Putin's point of view as it was Castro's, Chávez's. And also, Yasser Arafat, too.. It's not necessary to be their enemy. It's necessary to get them to express themselves. That's my point of view, and I guess you could say I'm a dramatist. And I think they're great stories. I'm very proud of those movies. I took a lot of heat, flack for the last one for Putin, but frankly, I'm very proud of it. It's a record for all time of a man who very few people have gotten to. Even the Russians tell me they've never seen their president so frank as he was on that interview.
**[[Oliver Stone]], Transcript: A Conversation with Oliver Stone, (streamed live on youtube) ''The Washington Post'' (12 May 2021)

*In the West today, supporting engagement with Moscow cannot be discussed openly without inspiring immediate [[w:hysteria|hysteria]]. But we should try to understand the historical background to the tensions between Russia and the West before they spiral out of control... Once we do that, and start treating Russia with the respect and dignity it deserves, we may reach the real peace that we have failed to achieve since the end of the first Cold War.
**Tom Switzer in [http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/russiaphobia-perils-new-cold-war/ Russiaphobia and the Perils of a New Cold War, Australia Institute of International Affairs] (18 April 2018)

*Russian society as a whole does not care if its leading scholars and scientists have a way to publish their research and discoveries and that nobody has the power to prevent abuses and torture by the police... Russians have been more united during these last 18 difficult months than during the whole of the post-Soviet period. As they say, the person who holds the flag determines what is written on it.
**[[w:Ivan Sukhov|Ivan Sukhov]], [http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/why-russian-apathy-is-worrisome-op-ed/525719.html "Why Russian Apathy Is Worrisome"] (15 July 2015), ''The Moscow Times''.

===Interview With [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] on Ukraine (May 1994)===
[https://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html by Paul Klebnikov, in the (9 May 1994), issue] of [[w:Forbes magazine|''Forbes magazine'']]
*[[Henry Kissinger]], [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], [historian] [[Richard Pipes]] and many other American politicians... are frozen... with unchanging blindness and stubbornness they keep repeating... this theory about the supposed age-old aggressiveness of Russia, without taking into consideration today's [[reality]].
*Imagine that one not very fine day two or three of your states in the [[w:Southwestern United States|Southwest]], in the space of 24 hours, declare themselves independent of the [[United States|U.S.]]... declare themselves a fully sovereign nation, decreeing that [[Spanish language|Spanish]] will be the only language. All [[English language|English]]-speaking residents, even if their ancestors have lived there for 200 years, have to take a test in the Spanish language within one or two years and swear [[allegiance]]... Otherwise they will not receive [[citizenship]] and be deprived of... (their) rights. Today Russia faces precisely this scenario.

*[[W:History of Russia (1991–present)|In 24 hours]] she lost eight to 10 purely Russian provinces, 25 million ethnic Russians who have ended up in this very way--as "undesirable aliens." In places where their fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers have lived since way back--even from the 17th century--they face persecution in their jobs and the suppression of their culture, education and language...
*[[W:Dissolution of the Soviet Union|Russia today]] is terribly sick... But even so, have a [[conscience]] and don’t demand that – just to please America – Russia throw away the last vestiges of her concern for her security and her unprecedented collapse. After all, this concern in no way threatens the United States....
*Why does the [[w:United States Department of State|(U.S.) State Department]] decide who should get [[w:Sevastopol|Sevastopol]]?...
*As a result of the sudden and crude fragmentation of the intermingled Slavic peoples, the borders have torn apart millions of ties of family and friendship. Is this acceptable? The [[W:2004 Ukrainian presidential election|recent elections in Ukraine]], for instance, clearly show the [Russian] sympathies of the Crimean and Donets populations. And a [[democracy]] must respect this....
*I myself am nearly half Ukrainian. I grew up with the sounds of Ukrainian speech. I love her culture and genuinely wish all kinds of success for Ukraine--but only within her real ethnic boundaries, without grabbing Russian provinces. ...
*And not in the form of a "great power," the concept on which Ukrainian nationalists have placed their bets. They are acting out and trumpeting a cult of force, persistently inflating [[Russia]] into the image of an "enemy." Militant slogans are proclaimed. And the Ukrainian army is being indoctrinated with the propaganda that war with Russia is inevitable.

*For every country, [[W:Superpower|great power status]] deforms and harms the national [[character]]. I have never wished great power status for [[Russia]], and do not wish it for the [[United States]]. I don't wish it for Ukraine. She would not be able to perform even the cultural task required to achieve great power status: In her current borders, 63% of the population consider Russian to be their native language... And all these people will have to be re-educated in the Ukrainian language...
*Before the [[Russian Revolution|Russian revolution]], they [U.S. and Russia] were natural allies. You know that during the American Civil War, Russia supported Lincoln and the North [in contrast to Britain and France, which supported the Confederacy]. Then, we were effectively allies in the First World War. But beginning with communism, Russia ceased to exist. ...

*Yet an official U.S. document from 1959, the Law 86-90, does not include Russia in the list of nations oppressed by [[communism]]. On the contrary, "Russian [[imperialism]]," not communism, is held responsible for the conquest of some 20 countries--even China, Tibet and some made-up place called "Kazakia." One is amazed that this silly law is still on the books, even today....This was not Russian imperialism, which in the past only expanded its borders somewhat. This was communist imperialism, which aimed to take over the whole world... This is complete delirium! When was Russia ever in Africa? When did Russia ever want to snatch Angola or Cuba? When was she ever in Latin America? The historical Russia has never tried to take over the world, whereas the communists had precisely this aim...

*If one recalls the tactless declaration of [[George H. W. Bush|President Bush]] about supporting [[Ukrainian]] sovereignty even before the referendum on that matter, one must conclude that all this stems from '''a common aim: to use all means possible, no matter what the consequences, to weaken Russia'''....

*If one looks far into the future, one can foresee in the [[21st century]] such a time when the U.S. together with Europe will be in dire need of Russia as an ally. ...It is puzzling only for those who don't look into the future and do not see what kind of new powers are arising in the world...

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[[File:Flag of Russian Empire for private use (1914–1917).svg|thumb|Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain — at least in a poor country like Russia — and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. ~ [[Leon Trotsky]]]]

* After weeks of dancing around the issue, the Obama administration has expressed concern about “heightened military activity” by Russia in Syria. But what if we are facing something more than “heightened military activity?” What if Moscow is preparing to give Syria the full Putin treatment? For years, Russia has been helping Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad cling to a diminishing power structure in a shrinking territorial base without trying to impose an overall strategy. Now, however, there are signs that Russia isn't content to just support Assad. It wants to control Syria. The Putin treatment is reserved for countries in Russia’s “near neighborhood” that try to break out of Moscow’s orbit and deprive it of strategic assets held for decades. In such cases, unable to restore its past position, Russia tries to create a new situation in which it keeps a sword dangling above the head of the recalcitrant nation. Russia’s military intervenes directly and indirectly, always with help from a segment of the local population concerned. Russia starts by casting itself as protector of an ethnic, linguistic or religious minority that demands its military intervention against a central power vilified with labels such as “fascist” and “terrorist.”
**[[Amir Taheri]], [http://nypost.com/2015/09/19/putin-is-turning-the-syrian-coast-into-another-crimea/ Putin is turning the Syrian coast into another Crimea], ''New York Post'' (September 19, 2015).

* Get ready for Russia to cast itself as the protector, not only of the [[w:Alawite|Alawites]] but also of other minorities such as [[w:Turcoman|Turcoman]], [[w:Armenians|Armenians]] and, more interestingly for Moscow, Orthodox Christians who have fled [[Islamic terrorism|Islamist terror]] groups such as [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIS]]. Russia has always seen itself as the “Third Rome” and the last standard-bearer of [[Christianity]] against both [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] “deviation” and [[Islamism|Islamist]] menace. By controlling a new mini-state, as a “safe haven for minorities,” Russia could insist that if Syria returns to some normality it be reconstituted as a highly decentralized state. This is what Putin is also demanding in Georgia and Ukraine. The Syrian coast will become another Crimea, if not completely annexed, at least occupied. Unless stopped, the Putin treatment will not end in Syria. The two next candidates could be Moldova and Latvia, both of which have large Russian-speaking minorities.
**[[Amir Taheri]], [http://nypost.com/2015/09/19/putin-is-turning-the-syrian-coast-into-another-crimea/ Putin is turning the Syrian coast into another Crimea], ''New York Post'' (September 19, 2015).

* Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth--science--which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.
**[[Leo Tolstoy]], ''War and Peace'', (1865-1869). Book 9, Chapter 10.

*Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain — at least in a poor country like Russia — and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
**[[Leon Trotsky]], ''The History of the Russian Revolution'' (1930). See edition: [[Leon Trotsky]]; Max Eastman (1957). ''The History of the Russian Revolution''. University of Michigan Press, p. 213.

* The Russians are like us... They are fine people. They got along with our soldiers in Berlin very well. As far as I am concerned, they can have whatever they want just so they don't try to impose their system on others.
**[[Harry S. Truman]], statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in ''The Memoirs of Richard Nixon'', p. 44

* The Russians are liars; you can't trust them. At [[w:Potsdam Conference|Potsdam]] they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.
**[[Harry S. Truman]], statement to [[Richard Nixon]] and his wife Pat in 1969, as quoted in ''The Memoirs of Richard Nixon'', p. 44

*Liberal Russophobia has become a powerful force responsible for deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations. The coalition of liberal Russophobes include those in Congress, [[Mainstream media|media]] and think tanks who believe that Russia aims to destroy the U.S.-centered “liberal” international order and that President Donald Trump’s attempts to negotiate with the Kremlin do more harm than good. Those sharing these views also... want to take away from the president the prerogative of conducting relations with Russia.
**Andrei P. Tsygankov in [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/12/important-us-russia-dialogue-takes-a-hit-in-the-cu/ ''Playing the Russophobia card, The Washington Times''] (12 December 2018)

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*Dear [[Joe Biden|President Biden]], We last communicated with you on December 20, 2020... we alerted you to the dangers inherent in formulating a policy toward Russia built on a foundation of Russia-bashing. While we continue to support the analysis contained in that memorandum... We wish to draw your attention to the dangerous situation that exists in Ukraine today, where there is growing risk of war unless you take steps to forestall such a conflict... 1. It must be made clear to Ukrainian President Zelensky that there will be no military assistance from either the US or [[NATO]] if he does not restrain Ukrainian hawks itching to give Russia a bloody nose — hawks who may well expect the West to come to Ukraine’s aid in any conflict with Russia.... . We recommend that you quickly get back in touch with Zelensky and insist that Kiev halt its current military buildup in eastern Ukraine. Russian forces have been lining up at the border ready to react if Zelensky’s loose talk of war becomes more than bravado.... 3. It is equally imperative that the U.S. engage in high-level diplomatic talks with Russia to reduce tensions in the region and de-escalate the current rush toward military conflict. Untangling the complex web of issues that currently burden U.S.-Russia relations is a formidable task that will not be accomplished overnight. This would be an opportune time to work toward a joint goal of preventing armed hostilities in Ukraine and wider war.
**[[W:Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity|Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity]], [https://worldbeyondwar.org/veteran-intelligence-professionals-for-sanity-on-avoiding-war-in-ukraine/ Letter to President Biden: On Avoiding War in Ukraine], [[W:World Beyond War|''World Beyond War'']], April 07, 2021, [https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2021/04/06/veteran-intelligence-professionals-for-sanity-on-avoiding-war-in-ukraine/ Antiwar.com''], [http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/april/07/veteran-intelligence-professionals-for-sanity-on-avoiding-war-in-ukraine/ Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity], (April 2021)

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*A poet in Russia is more than a poet.
**[[w:Yevgeny Yevtushenko|Yevgeny Yevtushenko]], as quoted in [https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-yevgeny-yevtushenko-dead-20170401-story.html "Acclaimed Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dies in Oklahoma"] (1 April 2017), by Ken Miller, ''Associated Press''

*We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
**[[Boris Yeltsin]], as quoted in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0806524766 ''The 100 Greatest Heroes''], by H. Paul Jeffers, Citadel Press, p. 60

==See also==
* [[Anatoly Antonov]]
* [[Anti-Russian sentiment]]
* [[Sergey Lavrov]]
* [[Vladimir Putin]]

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