User:Kalki
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- "Love is the ultimate of holies, by which all else receives its worth."
This is a statement from a childhood dream which was actually expressed many times within the dream, in many ways, by many dream figures, with a few major variants that have stuck in my mind ever since, and which I have always thought both noteworthy and irrefutable.
All attempts to share wisdom with others is an expression of love for that which is truly essential.
Even after four years, we are all just at the beginning of this endeavor, there is certainly a great deal left to be done. Some of my favorite spots in the Wikiquote realms, thus far…
The imperialist ideology of force, from whatever side it comes, must be shattered for all time.~ The White Rose ~
Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
~ George Orwell ~
Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names ...Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.
~ R. A. Lafferty ~
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.
~ Robinson Jeffers ~
Themes: Courage * Friendship * Humility * Love
Works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * The Ballad of the White Horse * Books of Magic * Dune * The Four Quartets * The God of Small Things * Idylls of the King * Leaves of Grass * Les Miserables * The Lord of the Rings * Nineteen Eighty-Four * One Minute Nonsense * Principia Discordia * The Prophet * The San∂man * The Silmarillion * Stranger In A Strange Land * The Works of William Shakespeare * A Tale of Two Cities * Through the Looking-Glass
People: Douglas Adams * Eden Ahbez * Isaac Asimov * Richard Bach * Baha'u'llah * Black Elk * Emily Brontë * Thomas Browne * Elizabeth Barrett Browning * Robert Browning * Gautama Buddha * Richard Francis Burton * Leo Buscaglia * John Carder Bush * Kate Bush * G. K. Chesterton * Winston Churchill * Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Confucius * Emily Dickinson * John Donne * Bob Dylan * Meister Eckhart * Albert Einstein * Dwight D. Eisenhower * George Eliot * T. S. Eliot * Buckminster Fuller * Eleanor Farjeon * William Faulkner * Richard Feynman * Benjamin Franklin * Robert Frost * Neil Gaiman * Mahatma Gandhi * Hermann Göring * Stephen Grellet * Robert Heinlein *Ernest Hemingway * Frank Herbert * Douglas Hofstadter * Elbert Hubbard * Aldous Huxley * Thomas Jefferson * Jesus Christ * Chief Joseph * The Emperor Julian * Julian of Norwich * Helen Keller * John F. Kennedy * Martin Luther King * Stephen King * C. S. Lewis * Abraham Lincoln * Marcus Aurelius * Andrew Marvell * Groucho Marx * Anthony de Mello * H. L. Mencken * Jim Morrison * Muhammad * Isaac Newton * Reinhold Niebuhr * Martin Niemöller * Friedrich Nietzsche * Anaïs Nin * Emperor Norton I * Thomas Paine * Louis Pasteur * Emo Phillips * Max Planck * Edgar Allan Poe * Yitzhak Rabin * Spider Robinson * Eleanor Roosevelt * Franklin Delano Roosevelt * Theodore Roosevelt * Arundhati Roy * Bertrand Russell * Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf * Antoine de Saint-Exupery * George Santayana * Dr. Seuss * William Shakespeare * George Bernard Shaw * Percy Bysshe Shelley * Robert Louis Stevenson * Alfred, Lord Tennyson * Henry David Thoreau * Mark Twain * Leonardo da Vinci * Voltaire * Andy Warhol * Bill Watterson * Morris West * Walt Whitman * Ella Wheeler Wilcox * Ludwig Wittgenstein * William Butler Yeats
Films: Groundhog Day * Harvey * It's a Wonderful Life * L. A. Confidential * The Matrix * The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) * They Might Be Giants
Theatrical Plays and Musicals: Into the Woods
Other Categrories: Quote of the Day Archives * Famous last words * Epitaphs * Famous Tongue Twisters * Famous Advertising Slogans * TV Shows * Electronic Games * Folk Proverbs * List of Wikiquotians * Utilities * Village pump * Wikiquote:Votes for deletion
Most of the above are listed because they contain gems of positive inspiration, but some worthy articles such as Nineteen Eighty-Four provide a reminder of how nightmarish the misguided can be, and of such harm as can be done to individuals and to society whenever Liberty, Truth, and Love are not paramount concerns. There is always immense tragedy wherever the levels of oppression, dishonesty, and hatred of vital impulses that people are willing to manifest are the primary means to obtaining status, power, comfort, —and such apparent personal "safety" as exists without regard for the beauty or reality of the eternal soul which manifests only through Love.
Certainly many famous people, important themes, major literary works, and motion pictures remain to be added, and even more categories can be developed.
I am one of the administrators here, which doesn't give me any special authority… only a bit more ability to keep others from misusing the privileges provided. The following users currently have sysop privileges on the English Wikiquote:
- Brion VIBBER (developer, guest)
- Daniel Mayer (steward, guest)
- Nanobug (now inactive)
- Kalki (bureaucrat)
- Quadell (now inactive)
- Jeff Q (checkuser)
- Aphaia (bureaucrat, checkuser)
- Rmhermen (now inactive)
- jni (now inactive)
- Iddo999
- MosheZadka (now inactive)
- UDScott
- Jaxl (now inactive)
- LrdChaos
- InvisibleSun
- Fys
- Cbrown1023
- Poetlister (bureaucrat)
- Jusjih (steward, import)
- Cato (checkuser)
- BD2412
- Ubiquity
- Yehudi
These are the people to contact if you observe any recurring abuse of Wikiquote privileges, and feel a user should be blocked or a page protected from edits, or a page deleted. Nanobug and Quadell are usually much busier on other projects, and I am beginning to become so. Luckily, the problems that have occurred here thus far have been relatively minor, and some apparent abuse might have been accidents or novices amazed that they are actually permitted to do edits to the pages.
I intend to observe the progress of this project, and do at least a little work on it nearly every day, and expect that many people will eventually be inspired to contribute an extensive amount to this developing compendium of wit and wisdom.
If I do not respond promptly to queries, or some comments, I have either not yet noticed them, or am carefully formulating my response in a way that takes into account the many considerations that I believe should be involved in any decisions upon the matters.
I intend to spend much of what time I can upon copying, editing, and formatting many quotations from many diverse authors and sources, (especially those that were published before 1923 —and thus no longer under any copyright restrictions within the USA, or any other nation, to my knowledge).
I send my best of wishes to all those who are prompted to increase the awareness potentials of themselves and others in respectful and beneficial ways.
There are some truths that I feel are rarely expressed or repeated often enough, and are too seldom thought upon by many, so I will end as I began, quoting a small portion of what I can remember from a childhood dream; one of the slight variants of the statement with which I began, and which my soul continually affirms:
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- Love is the ultimate of holies, by which all else derives its worth.
