Notable Quotable 125

Oct 16, 2023

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret.

- Chris Hedges

American people are very much like the children of a Mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living, and don't want to know, but then wonder why someone just threw a firebomb through the living room window.

- William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report

Pity the poor, wretched, timid soul, too faint hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the songs of the damned, 'I cannot resist, I have too much to lose, they might take my property or confiscate my earnings, what would my family do, how would they survive?

- W. Vaughn Ellsworth

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

- Stephen King

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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

- Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

- J. Krishnamurti

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

- Noam Chomsky

In Lak'ech Ala K'in" "I am you and you are me. What I do to you I do to myself.

- Mayan Saying

If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd.

- Michael Parenti