# June 27

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2004

    Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~ Lillian Smith
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    There are … some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. ~ Emma Goldman (born 27 June 1869)
   * proposed by MosheZadka

## 2006

    The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. ~ Helen Keller (born 27 June 1880)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2007

    A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. ~ Helen Keller (born June 27 1880)
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2008

    We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses. ~ Helen Keller
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. ~ Helen Keller
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction. ~ Helen Keller (born 27 June 1880)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2011

    The lunatics end up in charge of everything. Sane, normal people don't need power trips. ~ James P. Hogan
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2012

* God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
* ~ Jacques Deval ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2013

* Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
* ~ Gaston Bachelard ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2014

* Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make that Best a part of my life.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
   * selected by Kalki

## 2015

* I believe it is a sacred duty to encourage ourselves and others; to hold the tongue from any unhappy word against God's world, because no man has any right to complain of a universe which God made good, and which thousands of men have striven to keep good. I believe we should so act that we may draw nearer and more near the age when no man shall live at his ease while another suffers. These are the articles of my faith, and there is yet another on which all depends — to bear this faith above every tempest which overfloods it, and to make it a principal in disaster and through affliction. Optimism is the harmony between man's spirit and of God pronouncing His works good.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2016

* Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* If there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn't matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it's still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word "love" has the same meaning for everybody. Or "fear", or "suffering". We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division.
* ~ Krzysztof Kieślowski ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another, This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* To know the history of philosophy is to know that the highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. The growth of philosophy is the story of man's spiritual life.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2021

* If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2023

* The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
   * proposed by Kalki

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* Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. The wholesale mechanisation of modern life has increased uniformity a thousandfold. It is everywhere present, in habits, tastes, dress, thoughts and ideas. Its most concentrated dullness is "public opinion." Few have the courage to stand out against it. He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled Utopian.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims. The means used to further the revolution must harmonize with its purposes. In short, the ethical values which the revolution is to establish in the new society must be initiated with the revolutionary activities of the so-called transitional period. The latter can serve as a real and dependable bridge to the better life only if built of the same material as the life to be achieved.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic. These two tendencies are incompatible and mutually destructive. The State idea killed the Russian Revolution and it must have the same result in all other revolutions, unless the libertarian idea prevail.
* ~ Emma Goldman ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC) (partly used 28 November 2003, but the expansion adds context)
* I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all. I used to think I should be thwarted in my desire to do something useful. But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* Ancient prejudice of man against his brother-man wavers and retreats before the radiance of a more generous sentiment, which will not sacrifice men to forms, or rob them of the comfort and strength they find in their own beliefs. The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
* ~ Helen Keller ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
* Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation, the shadow of the gods. Man the god's creation only. Woman is light, man is shadow.
* ~ Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay ~
* 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 06:23, 30 January 2019 (UTC)