Notable Quotable 111

Joel Walbert

Sep 25, 2023

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

- Epictetus

The emptiest people are full of themselves.

- Unknown

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 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

Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.

- Sam Owen

It's humbling to think how little we contribute to our own ideas.

- Unknown

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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

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

- Aldous Huxley

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

- Gore Vidal

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

- Howard Zinn

It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.

- M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior