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Before Bonifaz no summer, after the Sofie no frost. What
ideas individuals may attach to the term "Millennium" I know
not; but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without
crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if
any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a
hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment
except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming
universal. Question: At what age to take children into your mills? |
Emma Goldman,
American anarcho-feminist, who died on May 14, 1940 |
What we need is a propaganda
of education for the soldier: antipatriotic literature that will
enlighten him as to the real horrors of his trade, and that will
awaken his consciousness to his true relation to the man to whose
labor he owes his very existence. It is precisely this that the
authorities fear most. It is already high treason for a soldier to
attend a radical meeting. No doubt they will also stamp it high
treason for a soldier to read a radical pamphlet. But, then, has not
authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as
treasonable ?
Emma
Goldman, American anarcho-feminist, who died on May 14, 1940
Patriotism assumes that our
globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron
gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular
spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent
than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore,
the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and
die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.
Emma Goldman
Anyone who goes to see a psychiatrist ought
to have his head examined.
Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn,
who, on May 14, 1939 bought out Charlie
Chaplin, Mary Pickford and
Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr from United
Artists, which they had established to give artists more studio
control
That is the kind of ad I like. Facts,
facts, facts.
Samuel
Goldwyn
(attrib.)
I don't think anybody should write his
autobiography until after he's dead.
Samuel
Goldwyn
(attrib.)
Pictures are for entertainment, messages
should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel
Goldwyn
(attrib.)
Too caustic? To hell with the cost. If
it's a good picture, we'll make it.
Samuel
Goldwyn
(attrib.)
That's the trouble with directors.
Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel
Goldwyn
(attrib.)
I had a monumental idea this morning,
but I didn't like it.
Samuel
Goldwyn
(attrib.)
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to
get one hundred percent loyalty.
Samuel
Goldwyn
(attrib.)
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel
Goldwyn
(attrib.)
God makes stars. I just produce them.
Samuel
Goldwyn
(attrib.)
Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!
Che Guevara, revolutionary, born on May 14, 1928;
The Motorcycle Diaries
Hatred is an element of struggle; relentless hatred of the enemy that impels us over and beyond the natural limitations of man and transforms us into effective, violent, selective, and cold killing machines. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.
Che Guevara; 'Message to the Tricontinental', 1967
I cannot express the revulsion I feel at this unnecessary act of cruelty. Its limitless savagery represents the continuation of a calculated attempt to create a sense of trepidation through the practice of horrors designed to shock normal sensibilities.
The brutal excesses of the Philippines campaign, the execution of our captured airmen, the barbarity of Papua, are all of a pattern. The enemy does not understand - he apparently cannot understand - that our invincible strength is not so much of the body, as it is of the soul, and rises with adversity.
The Red Cross will not falter under this foul blow. Its light of mercy will but shine the brighter on our way to inevitable victory.
US General Douglas
MacArthur on the sinking of the Australian hospital ship Centaur
on May 14, 1943
It is with the deepest regret that the Commonwealth Government has learned of the loss of the Australian hospital ship
Centaur and I know that the news will come also as a profound shock to the Australian people. The attack which took place within a few miles of the Queensland coast bears all the marks of wantonness and deliberation. Not only will it stir our people into a more acute realisation of the type of enemy against whom we are fighting, but I am confident also that this deed will shock the conscience of the whole civilised world and demonstrate to all who may have had any lingering doubts the unscrupulous and barbarous methods by which the Japanese conduct warfare.
Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, on
the sinking of the Centaur
Be realistic! Demand the impossible.
Slogan of students' demonstrations, Paris, 1968
Beneath the paving stones, the beach!
Slogan of students' demonstrations, Paris, 1968
I'm losing.
Last words of Frank
Sinatra (according to his daughter Nancy
Sinatra, as told to Variety
senior columnist, Army
Archerd). Sinatra died on May 14, 1998
May
14 is
the 134th
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (135th
in leap years), with 231
days remaining.
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Panegyric of Isis, Egypt
Celebrates Isis's joy at finding Osiris.
Remembering your gifts, men to whom you have granted, wealth and great blessing (which you give them to possess all their lives). All duly set aside for you one tenth of these blessings, rejoicing each year at the time of the Panegyric.
Isodorus, Hymn II. 21, to Isis
Festival of Apollo's Birthday, ancient Greece
Day of Mars Invictus,
ancient Rome
Today is another day on which the god Mars (see yesterday) was honoured in Rome. Dummy figures ('argei') of men and women, in some kind of long-forgotten purification ceremony, were thrown into the River Tiber by the pontifices, vestals and praetors. Perhaps this harks back to an agrarian people and a sacrifice to the deity of spring.
There was a temple of the same name in Rome.Roman
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