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. . see: "DAY" see: "LIGHT" see: "UNIVERSE" Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. --Helen Keller (1880—1968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Quoted in Walter Fogg _One Thousand Sayings of History_ [1929]. It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine. --P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975) English humorist; American citizen from 1955. _Blandings Castle and Elsewhere_ [1935] - A long history of sun worship is catching up with Australians. [...] While Australia's 20 million people only make up about 0.3 per cent of the world population, 6 per cent of all lethal forms of skin cancer are diagnosed here. Each year about 1,200 Australians die as a result of skin cancer. About 10,000 others are diagnosed with melanomas — the most dangerous form of skin cancer — and 270,000 others are treated for non-melanoma skin cancers with 1,200 people dying as a result of skin cancer each year. --Sun worshippers warned, ABC News [4 December 2002] - heliolatry [hee-lee-OL-uh-tree], noun: Worship of the sun.  . . see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Puttin' on the Ritz. --Irving Berlin (1888—1989) American songwriter. [1928 song from the film of the same name.] Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,—whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,—is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873) British novelist and politician. _Devereux_, bk. II, ch. I [1829] Our moral criticism of past ages can easily be mistaken. It transfers present-day desiderata to the past. It views personalities according to set principles and makes too little allowance for the urgencies of the moment. --Jacob Burckhardt (1818—1897) Swiss historian of art and culture. _Judgments on History_ [1865-85] One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light. --attributed to François-René de Chateaubriand (1768—1848) French writer and diplomat. A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. --Confucius (551—479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 490 [15th ed. 1894]. We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions. --James Fenimore Cooper (1789—1851) American novelist. _The American Democrat_ [1838] There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. --Hindustani Proverb In George Derby (comp.) _A Conspectus of American Biography_, p. 726 [1906]. The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American (for Hoover or Roosevelt) is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners [...] Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life. --Eric Hoffer (1902—1983) American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. _The True Believer_ [1951] Of all the illusions that beset mankind, none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion. --Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." "The Philistine" (mag.) [March 1903] - Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. 29 May 1750 issue of _The Rambler_ (English twice-weekly journal pub. 1750-52). So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ "15 February 1766." [1791]. - - "We and They" by Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) English writer and poet Father, Mother, and Me, Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And every one else is They. And They live over the sea, While We live over the way. But—would you believe it?— They look upon We As only a sort of They! We eat pork and beef With cow-horn-handled knives. They who gobble Their rice off a leaf, Are horrified out of Their lives; While They who live up a tree, And feast on grubs and clay, (Isn't it scandalous?) look upon We As a simply disgusting They! We shoot birds with a gun. They stick lions with spears. Their full-dress is un—. We dress up to Our ears. They like Their friends for tea. We like Our friends to stay; And, after all that, They look upon We As an utterly ignorant They! We eat kitcheny food. We have doors that latch. They drink milk or blood, Under an open thatch. We have doctors to fee. They have Wizards to pay. And (impudent heathen!) They look upon We As a quite impossible They! All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) Looking on We As only a sort of They! - A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you. --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963) British scholar and novelist. _Mere Christianity_ [1952] The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901-09]. "Duties of the Citizen", address at Sorbonne [23 April 1910]. Great men never make bad use of their superiority; they see it, and feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies. --Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778) French philosopher and novelist. Attributed in William Alexander Cocke _The Bailey Controversy in Texas_ [1908]. It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior. --John Ruskin (1819—1900) English art and social critic. _Modern Painters_, vol. I, pt. 1 [1848, 4th ed.] Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior. --Socrates (470?—399 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 49 [1882]. ----- nonpareil [non-puh-REL], adjective: 1. Having no equal; peerless. 2. Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person. patronize (verb) ['pey-trê-nIz ] 1. To serve as a benefactor (patron) or sponsor of. 2. To visit regularly as a customer. 3. To address in a condescending, superior manner. . . CURSE ELVES FANTASY GHOSTS IMAGINATION MIRACLES MYTHOLOGY SUPERSTITION (below) UNICORNS WONDER As any honest magician knows, true magic inheres in the ordinary, the commonplace, the everyday, the mystery of the obvious. Only petty minds and trivial souls yearn for supernatural events, incapable of perceiving that everything — everything! — within and around them is pure miracle. --Edward Abbey (1927—1989) American author. _Abbey's Road_ [1979] Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men. --William Allingham (1824—1899) Irish man of letters and poet. "The Fairies" [1850] - You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. --Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937) Scottish writer and dramatist. _Peter Pan_, act I [1928] Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. --Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937) Scottish writer and dramatist. _Peter Pan_, act I [1928] - The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. --Joseph Conrad [Teodor Józef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski] (1857—1924) Polish-born English novelist. _Under Western Eyes_, pt 2, ch. 4 [1911] From Ghoulies and Ghosties And Long-Leggity Beasties And things that go bump in the night Good Lord, deliver us. --anon. "The Cornish or West Country Litany", in Francis T. Nettleinghame _Polperro Proverbs and Others_ [1926]. Superstition is the poetry of life. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. "Maximen und Reflexionen" [1819] - In England, during the first eighty years of the seventeenth century [...] about forty-two thousand witches were burnt in the presence of a delighted audience numbering thousands of people. In the blindness and stubbornness of belief in witchcraft, the wisest and highest in the land were as ecstatically bigoted as the masses of the people. --Theo. B. Hyslop (1863—1933) Chief of Bethlehem Hospital, the London mental asylum. _The Great Abnormals_ [1925] - [Of the existence of ghosts:] All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791], "31 March 1778]. It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales. --Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729—1781) German dramatist. _Nathan der Weise_, III, 6 [1779] Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Macbeth_, IV, i [1606] ----- conjure (verb) ['kahn-jê(r)] 1. To swear by oath or something sacred. 2. To entreat or beg someone by some secret or sacred power. 3. To call upon some spirit. 4. To accomplish with the help of unseen spirits or powers. fey [FAY], adjective: 1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin. 2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant. 3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched. theurgy (noun) ['thee-êr-jee] White magic, the conjuring of beneficent gods or supernatural powers to do one's bidding; divine intervention. . . see: "BELIEF" see: "CURSES" see: "FEAR" see: "MIRACLES" see: "SUPERNATURAL" (above) see: "THE MIND" for other related links see: "RELIGION" for other related links The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. --Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. _Essays_ [1625], "Of Superstition" Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not. --Niels Bohr (1885—1962) Danish physicist. Explaining why he had a horseshoe on his wall; attributed. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. --Edmund Burke (1729—1797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790] Henry Hoiges of Bodmin of the county of Cornwall, gentleman [certifies] how John Harvey of the said town of Bodmin, priest ... of his malice and evil will, imagining by subtle crafts of enchantment, witchcraft and sorcery ... broke my leg ... through which I was in despair of my life ... and moreover in open place he said that by the same subtle craft of enchantment, witchcraft and sorcery he would make me break my neck. --_Calendar of Proceedings in Chancery_ [1430-39], introduction. In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 200 [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: This rare case of medieval witchcraft appears in an appeal for help to the lord chancellor. Although resort to superstitious magic was probably widespread ... few cases of actual witchcraft are reported until the 16th and 17th centuries when persecution of witches was common in England and also in New England. Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCCCXCVI [1820] They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. In Edmund Clarence Stedman _A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present_, p. 160 [1888]. In this age of enlightenment, the soothsayer and astrologer flourish. As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. --Philip Jose Farmer, "Riders of the Purple Wage" in Harlan Ellison's _Dangerous Visions_ [1968]. We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894) American physician, poet, and essayist. _The Poet at the Breakfast-Table_ [1872] The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. --Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729—1781) German dramatist. Attributed in J. K. Hoyt & Anna L. Ward (eds.) _The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 412 [1881]. Soothsayer: Beware the ides (15th) of March ... Caesar: The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Julius Caesar_, I, ii & III, ii [1599] (Based on Suetonius _Julius Caesar_ [c. 120].) Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. --R. E. Shay The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. --Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815—1902) Leading figure of the Women's Rights movement. _ Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897_, ch. XXVIII "My Eightieth Birthday" [1898] No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. [...] Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread. --Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811—1896) American writer and philanthropist. [Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher.] _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, ch. 39 [1852] - If a deformed newborn baby has a cropped and inflated right ear — crazed women will seize the land. --anon., quoted in A Leo Oppenheim (ed.) _Texts From Cuneiform Sources_ v. 4. - If on the first day of the month of nisan [April] the sun looks sprinkled with blood and the light is cool: the king will die and there will be mourning in the country. --Babylonian tablet (BM40085) in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_ [2004], citing Wilfred H. van Soldt _Omens of Enuma Anu Enlil_, p. 94 [1995]. Cohan & Major explain: The Babylonians were interested in natural phenomena, particularly eclipses. Close observations were made of the movements of the sun and moon and, of course, the stars. This is an omen based on observation of the sun at a certain time of year. . . see: "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for related links see: "POLITICS" for related links [The makers of the Constitution] conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man. --Louis Brandeis (1856—1941) American lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-39]. In "Olmstead et al. vs. United States," 277 U.S. 438, 478 [1928]. We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. --Henry B. Brown (1836—1913) American jurist; associate justice of the Supreme Court [1890-1906]. Stating the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson [1896]; in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 642 [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: The court pronounced on the constitutionality of an 1890 act by the Louisiana state legislature providing for 'equal but separate' railway carriages for whites and non-whites. The facilities in question were certainly separate but by no means equal, yet the judgement prevailed for nearly 60 years. The other day, by a vote of five to four— a kind of craps game— come seven, come 'leven— they [the U.S. Supreme Court] declared the child labor law unconstitutional— a law secured after twenty years of education and agitation on the part of all kinds of people. And yet, by a majority of one, the Supreme Court a body of corporation lawyers, with just one exception, wiped that law from the statute books, and this in our so-called democracy, so that we may continue to grind the flesh and blood and bones of puny little children into profits for the Junkers of Wall Street. And this in a country that boasts of fighting to make the world safe for democracy! The history of this country is being written in the blood of the childhood the industrial lords have murdered. --Eugene V. Debs (1855—1926) American socialist leader. Speech [1918]. - Biggest damnfool mistake I ever made. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, American President [1953-61]. Recalling his 1953 appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Note: Considering Warren's record as Governor of California Eisenhower shouldn't have been surprised. The following is from the 1951 revised edition of John Gunther's 1947 book, _Inside USA_ : As governor Warren has always been fair-minded, conscientious, tolerant, and liberal. He lifted old-age pensions from forty to fifty dollars a month; he tried to push through a compulsory health insurance bill, which the lobbies beat; he set about a program of prison reform; he worked hard for a state Fair Employment Practices Commission, and to augment unemployment insurance; he greatly improved the governmental machinery of the state [...] He played for AF of L support (which he now has); hence, he tended as a rule to support everything the AF of L asked for. - ^^ [Roosevelt] was reelected in 1936, in a landslide even greater than that of 1932. Now he was at the height of his power — idolized by the public, and with huge majorities in both houses of Congress. He decided to do something about the problem of the Supreme Court. What he came up with was the infamous court-packing plan, which he unleashed in 1937. He denounced the old justices — men whose view of the world was "blurred" by "old glasses fitted ... for the needs of another generation." He proposed adding one new justice for each justice who was six months past the age of seventy. That would have given him six new justices, and would have effectively neutralized the anti-New Deal bias of the Court. But it was not to be. His proposal "generated an intensity of response unmatched by any legislative controversy" in the century. He had, somehow, profaned the holy of holies. Of course, fervent New Dealers were in favor of the plan (or said they were); but the opposition was even more powerful. The plan was denounced and condemned as a threat to the integrity of the courts. The tide ran strongly against the plan, which died with a feeble whimper. --Lawrence M. Friedman (b. 1930) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002], ch. 6 "The Roosevelt Revolution" pp. 159-60 ^^ The arbitrary separation of citizens on the basis of race, while they are on a public highway is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the Constitution. It cannot be justified upon any legal grounds. [...] We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow-citizens, our equals before the law. The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations [...] will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done. --John M. Harlan (1833—1911) American Supreme Court associate justice. The lone dissenting opinion in "Plessy v. Ferguson" 163 US 537 [1896]. The attacks upon the [Supreme] Court are merely an expression of the unrest that seems to wonder vaguely whether law and order pay. When the ignorant are taught to doubt, they do not know what they safely may believe. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. _Law and the Court_ [1913] There are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers, and they are entitled to a little representation [on the Supreme Court], aren't they? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters, and Cardozos. --Roman L. Hruska (1904—1999) American politician. Quoted in "N.Y. Times" [17 March 1970]. How amazing it is that, in the midst of controversies on every conceivable subject, one should expect uninamity of opinion upon difficult legal questions! [...] The history of scholarship is a record of disagreements. And when we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty. --Charles Evans Hughes (1862—1948) American professor of law, politician, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [1930-41]. Speech to the American Law Institute [7 May 1936]. - Attorney addressing the Supreme Court: I would like to remind you gentlemen of a legal point. Justice O'Connor: Would you like to remind me, too? --Sandra Day O'Connor (b. 1930) American lawyer, politician, and first woman to become a United States Supreme Court justice [1981-2006]. Format adapted; quoted in "Newsweek" [1991]. - The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. --Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805) German poet, historian, and dramatist. _Mary Stuart_, II, iii [1800] - When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted ... [negroes] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings ... altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit ... The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution ... It is the opinion of the court that the Act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void. --Roger B. Taney (1777—1864) Fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Decision in the Dred Scott case [7 March 1857], in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 585 [2004]. Cohan & Major add: This momentous judgement annulled the Missouri Compromise of 1820, whereby slavery was barred north of latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes, and widened the gulf between North and South. - ^ One day John Marshall and his fellow Supreme Court justices, having heard disturbing rumors of their own excessive drinking, jointly agreed to abstain on their weekly consultation day — unless it was raining. The following consultation day, Marshall (the Chief Justice) instructed Joseph Story to go to the window and check for signs of inclement weather. Story soon reported back: "Mr. Chief Justice, I have very carefully examined this case," he declared, "and I have to give it as my opinion that there is not the slightest sign of rain." "Justice Story," Marshall replied, "I think that is the shallowest and most illogical opinion I have ever heard you deliver. You forget that our jurisdiction is as broad as the Republic, and by the laws of nature it must be raining some place in our jurisdiction. Waiter, bring on the rum!" --from http://www.anecdotage.com/ ^ end page | SACRED PLACES - SANTA CLAUS | SARCASM - SCHOOL | SCIENCE - SCULPTURE | SEA (THE) - SEEING | SELF - SELF-ESTEEM | SELF-EXAMINATION - SELLING OUT | SENATE (THE U.S.) - SERIOUSNESS | SEX | SEX SYMBOLS - SHEEP | SHIPS - SHYNESS | SICKNESS - SILENCE | SILLINESS - SINGING | SINGLE-MINDEDNESS - SKY | SLANDER - SLAVERY | SLEEP - SMILES | SMOKING - SOCIETY | SOLDIERS - SOPHISTICATION | SORROW - SOUTH SEA | SPACE - SPAM | SPEECH | SPEECHES - SPENDTHRIFTS | SPIDERS - SPY | SPORTS & SPORTSMANSHIP | STAGE (THE) - STERILIZATION | STOCK MARKET - STRANGERS | STRENGTH - SUBURBS | SUCCESS | SUFFERING - SUMMER | SUN - SUPREME COURT | SURPRISE - SYSTEM (THE) | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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