name the quote source

[Darren Dirt]

Here's a famous quote, I want you smarty pantses to name the source. (After most have responded, I'll provide the answers, and then someone else can continue ITT with something similar if they want... Or you guys can ignore this little lunchtime distraction, w/e.)


1. "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you."


2. "The death of one man: this is a catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands of deaths: that is a statistic!"


NO USING THE WEB SEARCH THINGIES.

[Darren Dirt]

Maybe this thread got over-looked, maybe I'm the only one who cares. w/e....

Spoiler

Most people would think they heard somewhere that the source for #1 is Gandhi, and #2 is Stalin.

Spoiler

Most people would be wrong.

Spoiler

Those famous powerful dudes never ever said those famous words. Talk about "using for your own political purposes", way to go lazy-quote-using-internetizens!


1. Gandhi Nicholas Klein, trade unionist (in a 1914 address in Baltimore to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America)

2. Stalin Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, satirist, and pacifist (in a 1932 essay on French humor)

[Citation needed] http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0603/Political-misquotes-The-10-most-famous-things-never-actually-said

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[Thorin]

I didn't overlook it, I just was worried that maybe



You know, "I won't tell you what I think but I'll ask you to post your opinions, then I'll show you how much smarter I am than you".

Interesting that such quotes are so completely mis-attributed; Gandhi I would've guessed to be the owner of "Be the change you want to see" or something similar, whereas Stalin I'd've attributed something along the lines of "I want our boys to stop @%&#ting their pants!".  Both of these are probably wrong.

[Mr. Analog]

This is what I miss if I don't log in for a few hours LOL

[Darren Dirt]

This is what I miss if I don't log in for a few hours LOL

Yup, Darren's pointless wandering mind finding something trivial but still  triggering Thorin's preemptive cynical paranoia #theUsual 


ps: btw T-Bone, just in case it ain't clear yet after all this time: I'm overall a simple, boring guy, and I rarely have a strong opinion about the stuff I share with my forum community. No agenda, no egotistical or narcissistic motivation, no secret pleasure in making others out to be less aware than me of some trivial nugget of... trivia. Honest. Like Prosser I just find a lot of things* "neat".  I'm (mostly) harmless.






*but not so much digital watches, though. I'm kinda cynical too I guess. #bigShock

[Thorin]

If you'd posted, "Hey, here's an interesting article about how people frequently and heinously mis-attribute quotes", we would most likely have had an interesting discussion about that.  Hell, I even tried to continue the quote mis-attribution conversation once you made your second post (which showed what you really wanted to talk about).  Look at the structure of the first post with a critical eye, though, and you might just see how that could be construed as the set-up to a trolling session.

[Mr. Analog]

I'm not sure why everyone seems to be in a pissy mood today (weather maybe? I dunno) but yeesh

I like forum games, "Name that song from the lyrics" is a good one, if this is a game thread tag it.

I like trivia too!

Where things get confusing and hard to follow is right here, in this thread. Like coming in late to the party to this thread I'm more confused than had I not.

The root post looks like an unwinnable game (I actually have a dictionary of literary quotes, so I may have been able get this without the internet but certainly NOT by guessing).

Then later there's a miffed sounding post about the thread being ignored (what is that even) and then there is the rather interesting answer buried in a bunch of annoying quote tags

Then there were a couple of guys who were up to no good Started making trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight and my mom got scared She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air' (please tell me the music started playing in your head by about the fifth or sixth word).

At the end of the day there's only one thing we all can agree on

Bender is Great

[Darren Dirt]

At the end of the day there's only one thing we all can agree on

Bender is Great

Deal with it!

[Mr. Analog]

At the end of the day there's only one thing we all can agree on

Bender is Great

Deal with it!

LOL

[Darren Dirt]

Oh, and by "great", I presume you were meaning tall? 

[Mr. Analog]

Oh, and by "great", I presume you were meaning tall? 

If only there were some giant statue form to appreciate...