Notable Quotable 106

Joel Walbert

Sep 12, 2023

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Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

- Duke Leto Atreides, Dune by Frank Herbert

Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.

- Jeff Wilson, Buddhism of the Heart: Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.

- John Ortberg

There is no honour like humility.

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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The emptiest people are full of themselves.

- Unknown

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

- Chris Hedges

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

- James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison

When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’

- Alexander Hamilton

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

- Francis B. Sayre