Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? ~ Albert Einstein
  • selected by Nanobug
2004
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
  • selected by Kalki
2005
We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. ~ Ingmar Bergman (born 14 July 1918)
  • proposed by Kalki
2006
Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral. ~ Ingmar Bergman
  • proposed by Kalki
2007
Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land is made for you and me.
~ Woody Guthrie ~ (born 14 July 1912)
  • proposed by Kalki
2008
The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine … don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race. The human race is a pretty old place. ~ Woody Guthrie
  • proposed by Kalki
2009
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island,
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters,
This land was made for you and me.
~ Woody Guthrie ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2010
Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom. ~ André Malraux
  • proposed by Aphaia
2011
I have been an anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one. I should consider it very sad indeed had I to turn to a General and rule men with a military rod. They have come to me voluntarily, they are ready to stake their lives in our antifascist fight. I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship. ~ Buenaventura Durruti
  • proposed by Kalki
2012
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
~ Woody Guthrie ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2013
No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
~ Ingmar Bergman ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2014
Regardless of my own beliefs and my own doubts, which are unimportant in this connection, it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God... The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility.
~ Ingmar Bergman ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2015
Ever'body might be just one big soul,
Well it looks that a-way to me.
Everywhere that you look, in the day or night,
That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma,
That's where I'm a-gonna be.

Wherever little children are hungry and cry,
Wherever people ain't free.
Wherever men are fightin' for their rights,
That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma.
That's where I'm a-gonna be.

~ Woody Guthrie ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2016
Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.
~ Woody Guthrie ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2017

Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody banner is raised …
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They're coming right into your arms
To slaughter your sons, your companions!!

To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let's march, let's march!

~ Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ~
2018
No matter how bad the wicked world has hurt you, in the long run, there is something gained, and it is all for the best … The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine, and any song that says, the pleasures I have seen in all of my trouble, are the things I never can get — don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race.
The human race is a pretty old place.
~ Woody Guthrie ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2019
I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised
People all over this world are getting organized
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose.
~ Woody Guthrie ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2020 
Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

I have always admired [Ingmar Bergman], and I wish I could be a equally good filmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience. ~ Steven Spielberg. Ingmar Bergman was born that day.

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:04, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 3 Jeff Q (talk) 20:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 06:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 AdamKadmon 00:36, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
  • 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 06:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

The Only Church That Illuminates Is A Burning Church. ~ Buenaventura Durruti

  • 3 Zarbon 02:06, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 Kalki 22:13, 12 July 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 0; the attribution of this to Durruti is dubious.
  • 3 AdamKadmon 00:36, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
  • 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 06:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done
That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
~ Woody Guthrie ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:21, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. … I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
~ Woody Guthrie ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:21, 13 July 2018 (UTC)


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