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# Affectation

Affectation is attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real.

## Quotes

* Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
** Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect (New York: Harper, 1959), p. 168.
* All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.
** Johann Kaspar Lavater, Aphorism 53, in Aphorisms on Man, translated by Henry Fuseli (London: J. Johnson, 1788).
* Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.
** John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Section 66.
* Affectation hides three times as many virtues as Charity does sins.
** Horace Mann, Thoughts (Boston: H. B. Fuller and Company, 1867), p. 214.
* No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
** Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 42.
* An English wit has well said that affectation displeases us because it has not too much, but too little, art.
** Alice Meynell, Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), "The Venetians", p. 75.
** The "English wit" Meynell refers to has not been identified. The sentence as she reports it may be her paraphrase or may have been uttered in conversation by someone in her literary circle.
* There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.
** Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto 4.
# Commitment

    For other uses, see Commitment (disambiguation).
Commitment is the intellectual or emotional state of being bound to complete or accomplish some task or goal.

## Quotes

* Solidarity involves commitment.
** Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), p. 189
* I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment—individual liberty. That’s what it's all about. And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed. … I feel much safer in your company.
** Murray Bookchin, speaking to a crowd of anarcho-capitalists and other libertarians at a Libertarian Party Conference, depicted in Anarchism in America, directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher (15 January 1983).
* The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
** Arthur Miller, Introduction, Section 1, Collected Plays (1958).
* It takes two things to change the world, and you'd be surprised how many people have good ideas, but—commitment? true commitment?—that's the hard one. It requires sacrifice.
** Fictionalised portrayal of Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in The Fifth Estate (5 September 2013), screenplay by Josh Singer. The line appears from 0:47:35 to 0:47:49 and is partially repeated in voice-over from 1:51:43 to 1:51:55.

## See also

* Contracts
* Duty
* Ethics
* Fidelity
* Honor
* Loyalty
* Obligations
* Promises
* Responsibility
# Commodity fetishism

In Karl Marx's critique of political economy, commodity fetishism is the perception of the social relationships involved in production, not as relationships among people, but as economic relationships among the money and commodities exchanged in market trade.

## Quotes

* World exhibitions are places of pilgrimage to the commodity fetish. ... World exhibitions glorify the exchange value of the commodity. They create a framework in which its use value becomes secondary. They are a school in which the masses, forcibly excluded from consumption, are imbued with the exchange value of commodities to the point of identifying with it.
** Walter Benjamin, "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century", Arcades Project (Harvard University Press: 2002), pp. 17-18
* The commodity-form, and the value-relation of the products of labour within which it appears, have absolutely no connection with the physical nature of the commodity and the material relations arising out of this. It is nothing but the definite social relation between men themselves which assumes here, for them, the fantastic form of a relation between things. In order, therefore, to find an analogy we must take flight into the misty realm of religion. There the products of the human brain appear as autonomous figures endowed with a life of their own, which enter into relations both with each other and with the human race. So it is in the world of commodities with the products of men's hands. I call this the fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour as soon as they are produced as commodities, and is therefore inseparable from the production of commodities.
** Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1  (Penguin Classics: 1990), p. 165.
* Capitalist power … is like one of those horrific modern bullets which do not simply pierce the flesh of the victim but explode inside her into a thousand different fragments. … The concept of fetishism is concerned with the explosion of power inside us, not as something that is distinct from the separation of doing and done (as in the concepts of 'ideology' and 'hegemony'), but as something that is integral to that separation. That separation does not just divide capitalists from workers, but explodes inside us, shaping every aspect of what we do and what we think, transforming every breath of our lives into a moment of class struggle.
** John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)

## See also

* Capitalism
* Commodity
* Critical theory
# Commitment (disambiguation)

Commitment may refer to:
* Commitment, the act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust.
* Commitment, a 1969 album by Bobby Darin
* Seal 6: Commitment, a 2010 album by Seal

## Other uses

* Promise, commitment by declaring intent
* Contract, a legally binding exchange of promises
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# Commodian

Commodian or Commodianus (fl. c. AD 250) was a Christian Latin poet of Late Antiquity.

## Quotes

* When Almighty God, to beautify the nature of the world, willed that that earth should be visited by angels, when they were sent down they despised His laws. Such was the beauty of women, that it turned them aside; so that, being contaminated, they could not return to heaven. Rebels from God, they uttered words against Him. Then the Highest uttered His judgment against them; and from their seed giants are said to have been born. By them arts were made known in the earth, and they taught the dyeing of wool, and everything which is done; and to them, when they died, men erected images. But the Almighty, because they were of an evil seed, did not approve that, when dead, they should be brought back from death. Whence wandering they now subvert many bodies, and it is such as these especially that ye this day worship and pray to as gods.
** Instructions, 3 (The worship of demons), trans. Robert Ernest Wallis, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 18 (Edinburgh, 1870), p. 435
# Brigid Brophy

Brigid Antonia Brophy, Lady Levey (12 June 1929 – 7 August 1995) was a British novelist, critic and campaigner for social reforms.

## Quotes

* Reason can always disarm the irrational. If reason finds itself to be irrational, it can disarm it; and if one finds reason and discovers that eating animals is immoral, unnecessary, and done largely for superstitious reasons, then one is delivered from the compulsion to do it.
** Interview in The Vegetarians by Rynn Berry (Autumn Press, 1979), p. 82.
* Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental" you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic," they mean they are going to make money out of it.
** Quoted in Spiritual Ecology by Jim Nollman (Bantam Books, 1990), pp. 189-190.

### "The Rights of Animals" (1965)

    "The Rights of Animals", The Sunday Times (October 1965); in Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966, pp. 15-21.
* To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deep into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps three thousand years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our oppression of animals.
** p. 17
* When factory farmers tell us that animals kept in 'intensive' (i.e. concentration) camps are being kindly spared the inclemency of a winter outdoors, and that calves do not mind being tethered for life on slats because they have never known anything else, an echo should start in our historical consciousness: do you remember how the childlike blackamoors were kindly spared the harsh responsibilities of freedom, how the skivvy didn't feel the hardship of scrubbing all day because she was used to it, how the poor didn't mind their slums because they had never known anything else?
** p. 17
* To hold vivisection to be never justified is a hard belief. But so is its opposite. I believe it is never justified because I can see nothing (except our being able to get away with it) which lets us pick on animals that would not equally let us pick on idiot humans (who would be more useful) or, for the matter of that, on a few humans of any sort whom we might sacrifice for the good of the many. If we do permit vivisection, here if anywhere we are under the most stringent minimum obligations. The very least we must make sure of is that no experiment is ever duplicated, or careless, or done for mere teaching's sake or as a substitute for thinking. Knowing how often, in every other sphere, pseudo-work proliferates in order to fill time and jobs, and how often activity substitutes for thought, and then reading the official statistics about vivisection, do you truly believe we do make sure?
** pp. 19-20
* I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality and moral choice—and that is precisely why we are under the obligation to recognise and respect the rights of animals.
** p. 21
# Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"Doctor Who: The Three Doctors"
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: Look, just tell me this: Are you or are you not the Doctor that I met during the Yeti business and then later when the Cybermen invaded?
Dr. Who: Of course I am. You can see that.
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: Right, but then you would subsequently appear on Earth during that trouble with the Autons, only then you'd changed into a tall, thin fellow.
Dr. Who: Had I really? How fascinating.
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: Doctor, I warn you...
Dr. Who: It's no use your asking me about all this, Brigadier. As far as I'm concerned, it hasn't happened yet. Don't you see? I'm just a temporal anomaly.
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: Now, there's just two things I want from you, Doctor: an effective way of controlling that stuff and the safe return of Miss Grant.
Sergeant Benton: Well, what about OUR Doctor, sir? Don't you want HIM back?
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: None of that nonsense, Benton. I've GOT him back. As long as he does the job, he can wear what face he likes.
Dr. Who: Well, I'll do my best, but I can't make any promises.
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: Well, in that case, you better consult with those all-powerful superiors of yours for THEIR advice.
Dr. Who: Oh, I don't think THAT would do any good. At the moment, they're FAR from being all-powerful. That's why it's been left up to me and me and me.
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: All right, now we're in here, what do we do?
Dr. Who: Well, we have a think. Care for a jelly baby?
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: [as the Doctor finishes conversing with his previous incarnation] Who in the name of heaven was that?
Dr. Who: I'm afraid you'd never believe me.
# Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City may refer to any of the following:
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# Brigid Kosgei

Brigid Jepchirchir Kosgei (born 20 February 1994) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. She won the 2018 and 2019 Chicago Marathons, the 2019 and 2020 London Marathons and the 2021 Tokyo Marathon.

## Quotes

* I am not worried about the course, as I have had success in hilly marathons before, but New York has always been about head-to-head competition...I know I must be in the best possible shape to compete with the other women in the race.
** Doug Feinberg, "Defending champion Sharon Lokedi leads loaded New York City Marathon women's field", ClickOnDetroit, August 9, 2023.
* I was not expecting to run a record time. I just tried my best – that was all...Today was great preparation for Chicago.
** Jason Henderson, "Brigid Kosgei runs fastest half-marathon ever by a woman", Athletics Weekly, September 8, 2019.
# Benjamin Crump

Benjamin Lloyd Crump (born October 10, 1969) is an American civil rights attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases.

## Quotes

* It was very obvious that Vice President Biden cared, as he extended to Jacob Jr. a sense of humanity, treating him as a person worthy of consideration and prayer
** 3 September 2020 about Joe Biden's feelings for Jacob Blake
* Jacob Jr. told Sen. Harris that he was proud of her, and the senator told Jacob that she was also proud of him and how he is working through his pain. Jacob Jr. assured her that he was not going to give up on life for the sake of his children.
** Ben Crump as quoted 7 September 2020 regarding Kamala Harris' feelings for Jacob Blake
# Benjamin Franklin King Jr.

Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. (March 17, 1857 – 1894) was an American humorist and poet whose work published under the names Ben King or the pseudonym Bow Hackley achieved notability in his lifetime and afterwards.

## Quotes

* If I should die to-night And you should come in deepest grief and woe— And say:—"Here's that ten dollars that I owe," I might arise in my large white cravat And say, "What's that?"
** "If I should die"
** Parody on: "If I should die to-night, / My friends would look upon my quiet face / Before they laid it in its resting-place, / And deem that death had left it almost fair", Belle E. Smith
* Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude.
** "The Pessimist"
** Published as "The Sum of Life" in The Western Medical Reporter (February 1893), p. 48
* Nothing to breathe but air Quick as a flash 'tis gone; Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on.
** "The Pessimist"
* Nowhere to go but out, Nowhere to come but back.
** "The Pessimist"

## External links

* Ben King's verse, 1894, from the Internet Archive
* Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), p. 838
# Benjamin Constant

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (October 25, 1767 – December 8, 1830) was a Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician.

## Quotes

* Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.
** Translation: I am not the rose, but I have lived near it.
** A. Hayward, Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Introduction.

## External links

* Find-A-Grave profile for Benjamin Constant
* Institut Benjamin Constant homepage
* Rebecq liberal
* Works by Benjamin Constant at Project Gutenberg
* Intellectual portrait of B. C. by Emile Faguet (in French)
* The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns (1819)
* Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
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# Alhambra

The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It was originally constructed as a small fortress in 889 CE on the remains of ancient Roman fortifications, and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-13th century by the Arab Nasrid emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar of the Emirate of Granada, who built its current palace and walls. It was converted into a royal palace in 1333 by Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada. After the conclusion of the Christian Reconquista in 1492, the site became the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella (where Christopher Columbus received royal endorsement for his expedition), and the palaces were partially altered in the Renaissance style. In 1526, Charles I of Spain commissioned a new Renaissance palace better befitting the Holy Roman Emperor in the revolutionary Mannerist style influenced by humanist philosophy in direct juxtaposition with the Nasrid Andalusian architecture, but it was ultimately never completed due to Morisco rebellions in Granada.

## Quotes

* There is no pain in life, they say in Granada, so cruel as to be blind in Alhambra. When the Arabs of the desert conquered Spain, they said that they had reached heaven. From the ramparts of the Alhambra, sitting on a spur of the Sierra Nevada, look out and you see a paradise created by nature; look in and you see a paradise created by man.
** Akbar, M. J - The shade of swords_ Jihad and the conflict between Islam and christianity-Routledge (2008)
# Algernon West

Sir Algernon Edward West GCB PC (4 April 1832 – 21 March 1921) was a British civil servant and from 1861 to 1894 the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

## Quotes

* It was soon after my first acquaintance with Mr. Gladstone that he told me how impossible it was for a Minister and his secretary adequately to perform their respective duties unless there was established between them such an absolute confidence as in a happy domestic life should exist between a man and his wife.
** West, Sir Algernon (1899). Recollections, 1832 to 1886 (2nd ed.). London: Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 27; vol. 2 of 2
* Society, which, at the beginning of the Queen's reign, was strict, formal, and circumscribed, has followed the trend of other things, and taken a hint from commercial legislation. It has entered into an enormous syndicate, under the rules of strictly limited liability. Individualism is stamped out; Collectivism has come in. The rush and rapidity of thought and action, supplemented by all the appliances of modern science, have largely increased.
** West, Sir Algernon (1908). One City and Many Men (3rd ed.). London: Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 3.
* Lecky, in his delightful "Map of Life," lays great stress on the advantages of Tact. No doubt it is a splendid asset in a man's character, smoothing his passage through life and leading to success, but I still maintain that work and the love of it is the noblest gift that can be granted and that best repays itself.
** West, Sir Algernon (1920). Contemporary Portraits: Men of My Day in Public Life. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. p. 15.

## Quotes about Algernon West

* Sir Algernon West ... is a good, genial gossip, whose recollections cover the whole period of English history that began with the Reform Act. He was private secretary to Mr. Gladstone during his first Prime Ministership. ... He is a fervent Gladstonian, whose idolatry of his chief is quite refreshing in these days, in which the memory of this great man is the mark for so many cynical sneers.
** (January 15, 1900)"Some Notable Books of the Month by W. T. Stead". Review of Reviews for Australasia 61: 75–78. (quote from p. 75)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Algernon West on Wikipedia
* Media related to Sir Algernon Edward West on Wikimedia Commons