Notable Quotable 121

Oct 10, 2023

If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

- Frank Sinatra

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

Peace can become a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out.

- Wayne W. Dyer

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

- Søren Kierkegaard

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

- Rosa Luxemburg

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The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support.

- Étienne De La Boétie, The Politics Of Obedience

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

- Oscar Wilde

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

- Gustave Le Bon

This is slavery, not to speak one’s thoughts.

- Euripides, The Phoenician Women

The politics of the lesser evil has always had a nasty tendency to hold to the great old evil and thus to prepare the way for even greater new evils.

- Hannah Arendt