Notable Quotable 119

Oct 06, 2023

We have destroyed our democracy to an extent the terrorists never could have. We've changed our democracy into a semi-police state.

- William Binney

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

- Adam Michnik

What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

- Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

- Otto von Bismarck

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates—which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

- Robert Lindner

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Hostile toward every institution which acts as a check upon its absolute power, the State has been engaged, ever since the decline of the medieval order, in stripping away one by one the functions and prerogatives of those ancient institutions which were the guardians of true community: aristocracy, church, guild, family, and local association. What the state seeks is a tableland upon which a multitude of individuals, solitary though herded together, labor anonymously for the State’s maintenance. Universal military conscription and the ‘mobile labor force’ and the concentration-camp are only the more recent developments of the system.

- Russell Kirk

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

- George Addair

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, then an angel in alliance with falsehood.

-Ludwig Feuerbach

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe