November 11

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Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. ~ Kurt Vonnegut (born 11 November 1922)
2005
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory. ~ George S. Patton, (born 11 November 1885)
2006
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
~ John McCrae ~
  • proposed by IP 65.110.28.123
2007
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
2008

[edit] Suggestions

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. ~ Abigail Adams, born that day

—This unsigned comment is by MosheZadka (talk • contribs) .

3 Kalki 08:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

  • 2 Zarbon 06:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. ~ Yasser Arafat, died that day

—This unsigned comment is by MosheZadka (talk • contribs) .
  • 1 Kalki 08:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC) No real desire to use this on "Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veteran's Day"
  • 4 if this is used on another date. Zarbon 06:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.


We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
(This portion was used in 2006)


Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

-John McCrae, poem written during World War I, recited during Remembrance Day Ceremonies on Nov 11, normally in countries from the 'then British Empire'.

  • 4 ~ If the whole poem is deemed too long, perhaps only the second and/or final paragraphs should be used. I don't think this has been used before. --(Person who suggested the quote but is not a registered user.) : —This unsigned comment is by 65.110.28.123 (talk • contribs) .
  • 3 ~ Kalki 23:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC) (for portions of this, not the whole poem)
  • 2. The second stanza was previously used in QotD. InvisibleSun 13:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 06:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. ~ Kurt Vonnegut (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
  • 3 InvisibleSun 13:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • 2 Zarbon 06:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

  • 3 InvisibleSun 13:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • 3 Kalki 08:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 06:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I’m dead. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky (born November 11, 1821, N.S.)

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • 3 InvisibleSun 13:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • 3 Kalki 08:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
  • 2 Zarbon 06:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • 3 InvisibleSun 13:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • 3 because the representation of man in history has been built into this quote. Zarbon 06:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • 4 InvisibleSun 13:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • 3 because this is true. I for one believe that martyrs are made of those whom are slain and history has proven this to be true. Zarbon 06:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. ~ George S. Patton

  • Freddyclaw 4:56, December 18 2007
  • 3 because this is a good quote. The fact that men of this caliber lived should never be forgotten. Zarbon 06:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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