Notable Quotable 107

Sep 14, 2023

We are all brothers and sisters under the skin and above it . . . it's super important that we stop lobbing bombs over the top of the wall and start trying to dismantle it, so that we can say 'hi' to whoever is on the other side, whether the divide is religious or nationalistic or politic or economic.

- Roger Waters

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

- Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men.

- Albert Einstein

Fools disregard their lives for the sake of desires. Even though they trouble themselves mentally and physically by their cravings, they are never satisfied, and yet they never give up.

- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely on force.

- George Orwell

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When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So, you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets.

- Cindy Sheehan

When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end to Liberty.

- George Mason

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

- Mahatma Gandhi

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

- Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children

Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor.

- John Pilger