User:Dante Alighieri
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-Albert Einstein, attributed
"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality."
-John F. Kennedy, 1963 [1] (http://www.bartleby.com/73/1211.html)
I am, among a great many other things, a Wikipedia administrator and mediator. My major contributions include: take-out, jelly bean, candy corn, fag (much of which now resides at faggot), Christian views on witchcraft, pie, m:Wikipedians by religion, Pandæmonium, List of ethnic slurs, a whole bunch of pages on Livermore Valley wines, pollock, Russenorsk, and a few pages on river dolphins. I am also involved in WikiProject Dog breeds and I seem to be responsible for m:List of annoying things. I've actually made far more contributions than I list here, these are just some of my favorites... I don't have the energy to list them all. I also possess the Loc-Nar but I don't advertise that fact... except for here... and in IRC... well, OK, I advertise.
Lest there be any confusion, I am not (to the best of my knowledge) related to the historical personage of Dante Alighieri... I'm just a fan of his work.
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Original Images and Attribution
I've also uploaded some original photos... mostly just basic stuff to illustrate various articles. You can find a list of them here. I release all of my images at the Wikipedia under a dual-license with the CC-by-nc-sa 2.0 and the GFDL.
For purposes of attribution, a link to this user page (with a statement that this user is the author and copyright holder of the image) will be considered to have fulfilled attribution requirements under both the GFDL and CC licenses for any images that I've released under said licenses. For permission, use the "Email this user" link. Note that I may give permission for usages outside of the stated licenses (it doesn't hurt to ask) but you shouldn't count on it, so ASK FIRST.
Should any legal issues arise (for example, to enforce my copyright), I may be willing to provide further contact information and evidence/testimony as appropriate.
Aphorisms
"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
-Jacob Bronowski, 1961, [2] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/70/8370.html)
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
-Edmund Burke, 1756 [3] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/75/9175.html)
"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."
-Edmund Burke, 1775 [4] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/68/9168.html)
"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."
-Edmund Burke, 1790 [5] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/31/9131.html)
"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."
-Edmund Burke, 1790 [6] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/48/9148.html)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, 1755, [7] (http://www.bartleby.com/73/1056.html)
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
-Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, [8] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/19/32719.html)
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
-Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, [9] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/7/32707.html)
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
-Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, [10] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/5/32705.html)
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."
-Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, [11] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/10/32710.html)
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
-Archibald MacLeish, 1956, [12] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/37/37237.html)
"He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to “Defender of the Faith,” than George the Third."
-Thomas Paine, 1776, [13] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/15/43515.html)
"These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
-Thomas Paine, 1776, [14] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/12/43512.html)
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
-Thomas Paine, 1783, [15] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/24/43524.html)
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
-Thomas Paine, 1792, [16] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/21/43521.html)
"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."
-Thomas Paine, 1792, [17] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/31/43531.html)
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
-Thomas Paine, 1794, [18] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/27/43527.html)
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
-Thomas Paine, 1794, [19] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/30/43530.html)
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
-Thomas Paine, 1794, [20] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/29/43529.html)
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
-George Bernard Shaw, 1903, [21] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/95/53595.html)
"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
-Oscar Wilde, 1891, [22] (http://www.bartleby.com/66/43/64643.html)
Links of Convenience
- IP lookup (http://www.arin.net/)
- Candidates for Speedy Deletion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion)
- Logical fallacy
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
- m:bash
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