Notable Quotable 127

Joel Walbert

Oct 18, 2023

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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

- Alice Walker

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

- George Washington

Western governments invaded Iraq, dismantled Libya, interfered without success in Yemen and Syria. Yet North Korea causes all the trouble?

- Fuad Alakbarov, Exodus

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

- Tacitus

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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

- Woodrow Wilson

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

- Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor, Philosopher

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

- Marcus Garvey

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

- Omar Khayyám

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt