Notable Quotable 102

Joel Walbert

Aug 29, 2023

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Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

- Aristotle

Sometimes the worst monsters are just the people around us, pretending to care while baring their teeth.

- Kaida Nevemore

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

- Tony Benn

Why do you tolerate these rulers gradually robbing you, in public and in private, of one right after another, until one day nothing, absolutely nothing, remains but the machinery of the state, under the command of criminals and drunkards?

- Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

I urge you to find a way to remain alone with yourself, listen to your silences, not always in a writer’s room. Try to find not what the crowd wants so that you can be successful, but try instead to find the true inner meaning of your life here on earth, and never give up on your heart in your struggle for peace, decency, and telling the truth.

- Oliver Stone

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Making mistakes is how you learn. I would be ashamed if I ever said anything I didn’t believe in, to get on personally.

- Tony Benn

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

- Alan Greenspan

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

- George Carlin

In life, you can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing.We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwan