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. . . NAME CALLING see "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for related links see "COMMUNICATION" for related links You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. --Leo Aikman In Anne Bruce _Building A HIgh Morale Workplace_, p. 87 [2002]. [George] Orwell heard the word "fascist" used so often that, if Jones called Smith a fascist, Jones meant, "I hate Smith!" But if Jones had said, "I hate Smith," he would be confessing to unchristian hatred. By calling Smith a fascist, he need not explain why he hates Smith or cannot best Smith in debate; he has forced Smith to prove that he is not a closet admirer of Adolf Hitler. Huey Long was right. When fascism comes to America, it will come in the name of anti-fascism. --Patrick Buchanan (1938— ) American journalist, author, and candidate for U.S. President. _The Defeat of the West_ [2002] The...propagandist must...be consistently dogmatic. All his statements are made without qualification, everything is either diabolically black or celestially white...He must never admit that he might be wrong or that people with a different point of view might be even partially right. Opponents should not be argued with; they should be attacked, shouted down, or...liquidated. --Aldous Huxley (1894—1963) English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}. _Brave New World Revisited_ [1958] I do not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but I believe the gentleman is an *attorney.* --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell, _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters. --Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926—2006) American political scientist, professor, author, and the first woman to serve as the American Ambassador to the United Nations. "Israel as Scapegoat," an address before the Anti-Defamation League [11 February 1982]. Everyone is a weirdo freak. Except you, which makes you a weirdo freak. --The Ninja from Ask A Ninja.com Quite so. But I have not been on a ship for fifteen years and they still call me 'Admiral.' --An Italian admiral's response when Eva Perón complained to him that she had been called a whore on a visit to northern Italy; in Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_ [2006]. - One summer, when I was eight, my folks and some relatives rented cabins at Sag Harbor on Long Island. I was outside by myself playing mumblety- peg, trying to make the knife stick into the ground, when a piece of dirt flew up and lodged under my eyelid. I ran crying into the cabin, where my Aunt Laurice managed to get the irritant out, while I continued bawling. When I went back outside, I overheard her say to Aunt Gytha, 'I don't know about that boy. He's such a crybaby.' It stung me then, and the fact that I vividly remember the incident almost fifty years later suggests my youthful devastation. I remember thinking, nobody's ever going to see me cry again. I did not always make it. --Colin L. Powell (1937— ) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [1989—1993] and Secretary of State [2001—2005]. _My American Journey_ [1995], "Luther and Arie's Son" - A last trick is to become personal, insulting, rude, as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand, and that you are going to come off worst. It consists in passing from the subject of dispute, as from a lost game, to the disputant himself, and in some way attacking his person. It may be called the _argumentum ad personam_, to distinguish it from the _argumentum ad hominem_, which passes from the objective discussion of the subject pure and simple to the statements or admissions which your opponent has made in regard to it. But in becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack to his person, by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. It is an appeal from the virtues of the intellect to the virtues of the body, or to mere animalism. This is a very popular trick, because every one is able to carry it into effect; and so it is of frequent application. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860) German philosopher. "The Art of Controversy" tr. by T. Bailey Saunders [1896] Since the Freudian revolution, and especially since the Second World War, the secret formula has been this: If you want to debase what a person is doing, call his act psychopathological and call him mentally ill; if you want to exalt what a person is doing, call his act psycho-therapeutic and call him a mental healer. --Thomas Szasz (1920— ) American psychiatrist. _The Myth of Psychotherapy_ When you call me that, smile! --Owen Wister (1860—1938) American writer of western novels. _The Virginian_ [1902], ch. 2 ----- effluvium (noun) [ê-'flu-vee-yêm] Potentially noxious, usually nauseating vapor or gas. execrate (verb) 1. transitive verb To feel loathing for somebody or something stultify (verb) ['stêl-tê-fI] To make someone appear stupid or foolish.  ;void(0)) NAME DROPPING . . The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. --W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _The Summing Up_ [1938] I mustn't go singling out names. One must not be a name-dropper, as Her Majesty remarked to me yesterday. --Norman St. John Stevas (1929—) British politician, author, and barrister. Leader of the House of Commons [1979-1981].  NAMES . . see: "NICKNAMES" I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat. --Stephen Vincent Benét (1898—1943) American poet and novelist. "American Names" [1927] Remember, they only name things after you when you're dead or really old. --Barbara Bush (1925— ) Wife of American the 41st U.S.president, George H. W. Bush and mother of the 43rd president, George W. Bush. At the naming ceremony at the George Bush Center for Intelligence, in "Independent" [28 April 1999]. If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. --Dale Carnegie (1888—1955) American writer and lecturer. ^^ My mother's name was Mary, She was so good and true; Because her name was Mary, She called me Mary too. She wasn't gay or airy, But plain as she could be; I hate to meet a fairy Who calls herself Marie. REFRAIN For it is Mary, Mary, Plain as any name can be. But with propriety, society Will say Marie. But it was Mary, Mary, Long before the fashions came, And there is something there That sounds so square, It's a grand old name. [. . . ] --George M. Cohan (1878—1942) American songwriter, dramatist, and producer. "Mary's A Grand Old Name" [1905 song] sung by Fay Templeton in the musical _Only Forty-five Minutes From Broadway_. ^^ Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. --Dennis Frakes A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. --George Savile, 1st Marquess Halifax (1633—1695) English politician and essayist. "Of Caution and Supersition" A self-made man may prefer a self-made name. --Learned Hand (1872—1961) American judge. In Bosley Crowther _Lions Share_ [1957], (on Samuel Goldfish changing his name to Samuel Goldwyn.) A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. --William Hazlitt (1778—1830) English essayist. _Sketches and Essays_ [1839] "Nicknames" Some cultures (especially those in sub-Saharan Africa) give children names with meanings such as "ugly," "disagreeable," or "crippled." The idea is that the monikers will make them undesirable to demons. --A.J. Jacobs (1968— ) _Mental Floss Magazine_ [May/June 2007], "Know-It-All: Names" One-way first-name calling always means inequality — witness servants, children, and dogs. --Marjorie Karmel _Thank You, Dr. Lamaze_ [1959], ch. 7 I call a fig a fig and a spade a spade. --Menander (343?—291 B.C.) Greek dramatist. Fragment, 545 It always matters to name rubbish as rubbish; to do otherwise is to legitimize it. --Sir Salman Rushdie (1947— ) Indian-born British novelist. "Outside the Whale" Juliet: What's in a name. That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Romeo and Juliet_ [1595], II, ii, 43 - After being charged £20 for a £10 overdraft, 30 year old Michael Howard of Leeds changed his name by deed poll to Yorkshire Bank PLC Are Fascist Bastards. The bank has now asked him to close his account, and Mr. Bastards has asked them to repay the 69p balance, by cheque, made out in his new name. --_The Guardian_ --- TRIVIA: re *Modesto* CA (Spanish meaning 'modest, modest man.') In 1870 the namers intended to name the town for W. C. Ralston, San Francisco financier. Refusing, he was credited with modesty, and the present name was thus given. --George R. Stewart _American Place-Names_ ----- appellation [ap-uh-LAY-shun], noun: 1. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. 2. The act of naming. eponym (noun) ['ep-ê-nim] The original personal name from which another name, title, or term is created. The adjective is "eponymous" [i-'pah-nê-mês]. misnomer [mis-NO-muhr], noun: 1. The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment. 2. Any misnaming of a person or thing; also, a wrong or inapplicable name or designation. nomenclature (noun) 1. A system of names assigned to objects or items in a particular science or art 2. The assigning of names to organisms in a scientific classification system taxonomy onomastics (noun) [o-nê-'mæs-tiks] The study of the formation and origins of proper names. sobriquet [SO-brih-kay; -ket; so-brih-KAY; -KET], noun: A nickname; an assumed name; an epithet. ;void(0)) NANKING . . see "EVIL" for related links see "PLACES" for related links I remember being driven in a truck along a path that had been cleared through piles of thousands and thousands of slaughtered bodies. Wild dogs were gnawing at the dead flesh as we stopped and pulled a group of Chinese prisoners out of the back. Then the Japanese officer proposed a test of my courage. He unsheathed his sword, spat on it, and with a sudden mighty swing he brought it down on the neck of a Chinese boy cowering before us. The head was cut clean off and tumbled away on the group as the body slumped forward, blood spurting in two great gushing fountains from the neck. The officer suggested I take the head home as a souvenir. I remember smiling proudly as I took his sword and began killing people. [...] Few know that soldiers impaled babies on bayonets and tossed them still alive into pots of boiling water. They gang-raped women from the ages of twelve to eighty and then killed them when they could no longer satisfy sexual requirements. I beheaded people, starved them to death, burned them, and buried them alive, over two hundred in all. It is terrible that I could turn into an animal and do these things. There are really no words to explain what I was doing. I was truly a devil. --Hakudo Nagatomi, quoted in Iris Chang's _The Rape of Nanjing: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II_ [1997] . . see: "BIGOTRY" see: "INTOLERANCE" see: "PREJUDICE" Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860) German philosopher. "Further Psychological Observations" in _Parerga and Paralipomena_ Selected Essays [1851]. A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person. --Zig [Hilary Hinton] Ziglar (1926— ) American author and motivational speaker. . . Ogden Nash (1902—1971) American writer of humorous poetry see "HUMOR" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links As a poet [Ogden] Nash works under two disadvantages: he is a humorist, and he is easy to understand. --Clifton Fadiman (1904—1999) American critic and author. _Party for One_ [1955] Nash is the laureate of a generation which had to develop its own wry, none-too-joyful humor as the alternative to simply lying down on the floor and screaming. --Russell Maloney, _New York Times Book Review_ [14 October 1945] ;void(0)) NASTINESS . . see "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for related links Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick --Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732—1799) French playwright and adventurer. A fool’s lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating. --Bible "Proverbs" 18:6 You kill me so courteously. --Lois McMaster Bujold (1949— ) American science fiction author. _Memory_ [1996] Ch. 6 It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night—when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep—that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice. --Paulo Coelho (1947— ) Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. He that scattereth thorns must not go barefoot --Thomas Fuller (1654—1734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. --José Ortega y Gasset (1883—1955) Spanish philosopher. _Meditations on Quixote_ [1911] A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Calumnies are answered best with silence. --Ben Jonson (c.1573—1637) English dramatist and poet. Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness. --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909—1966) Polish writer. To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180) Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_ Book VI, Number 6 If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. --Abraham Maslow (1908—1970) American psychologist. Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart—that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife. --Joaquin Miller [Cincinnatus Hiner Miller] (1837—1913) American poet and journalist. _Is it Worthwhile?_ No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592) French moralist and essayist. Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands. --Joseph Parker (1830—1902) English Nonconformist divine. When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living." --Plutarch (A.D. 46?—119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. _Laconic Apophthegms_, "Of Plistarchus" An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. --Quintilian (c. 35—100) Roman rhetorician. This trick consists in making your opponent angry; for when he is angry he is incapable of judging aright and perceiving where his advantage lies. You can make him angry by doing him repeated injustice or practising some kind of chicanery and being generally insolent. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860) German philosopher. _The Art of Controversy_ "Stratagem VIII" Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_ [1601], Act 3 scene 1 We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour; we whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame. However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892) English poet. _Maud; A Monodra_ [1856] He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob. --William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) English novelist. _The Book of Snobs_ [1848] Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us. --William Wordsworth (1770—1850) English poet. ----- acerbic [uh-SUR-bik], adjective: Sharp, biting, or acid in temper, expression, or tone. Ex.: Since I started out as a writer many years ago, I have built a reputation as an acerbic, mean-spirited observer of the human condition. --Joe Queenan, "My Goodness: A Cynic's Short-Lived Search for Sainthood" acrimony [AK-ruh-moh-nee], noun: Bitter, harsh, or biting sharpness, as of language, disposition, or manners. bilious [BIL-yuhs], adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to bile. 2. Marked by an excess secretion of bile. 3. Pertaining to, characterized by, or affected by gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver. 4. Appearing as if affected by such a disorder. 5. Resembling bile, especially in color. 6. Of a peevish disposition; ill-tempered. dastardly Nasty: mean, treacherous, or cowardly i.e.: a dastardly deed effrontery [ih-FRUN-tuh-ree], noun: Insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; insolence. impugn [im-PYOON], transitive verb: To attack by words or arguments; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to oppose or challenge as false. pejorative [pih-JOR-uh-tiv], adjective: 1. Tending to make or become worse. 2. Tending to disparage or belittle. noun: A belittling or disparaging word or expression. Ex.: 'Welfare state' is now, even for the Labour party whose grand historic achievement it was, obscurely shameful. A pejorative for our times. --John Sutherland, "How the potent language of civic life was undermined," _The Guardian_, [20 March 2001] pernicious [pur-NISH-us], adjective: Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful. snide (adjective) [snId] In speaking of what someone says or writes: condescendingly malicious, sneering, 'snooty.' termagant [TUR-muh-guhnt], noun: 1. A scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman; a shrew. 2. Overbearing; shrewish; scolding. vituperate (verb) [vI-'tu-pêr-yet or -'tyu (British)] To scold extremely harshly and with abusive language, to furiously verbally abuse. vituperation - noun vituperative - adj. end page | NAME CALLING - NASTINESS | NATIONALISM - NATIVE AMERICANS | NATURE | NAVY - NEGLECT | NEIGHBORS/NEIGHBORHOOD - NEW YORK | NEW YORK CITY | NEWS - NEWSPEAK | NICE - NONCONFORMITY | NIXON YEARS | NONSENSE - NOVEMBER | NUCLEAR WAR - NURSERY RHYMES | OBESITY - OBSTACLES | OBSTINACY - OKLAHOMA | OLD - OLD AGE | OLD-FASHIONED - OPERA | OPINION | OPPORTUNITY - ORGANIZATION | ORIGINALITY - OYSTERS | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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