Notable Quotable 130

Oct 23, 2023

Ours is a problem in which deception has become organised and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

- Walter Lippmann

If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.

- John Pilger

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

- Baruch Spinoza

Anything that is right is possible. That which is necessary will inevitably take place.

If something is right it is your duty to do it, though the whole world thinks it to be wrong.

- William Walker Atkinson

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made, have been born of earnest struggle. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand.

- Frederick Douglass

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

- Ernest Hemmingway

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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

- A. P. J. Kalam

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

- Albert Einstein

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

It ends in the atomisation of society, and in the rupture of every private tie linking man and man, whose only bond is now their common bondage to the State.

- Bertrand de Jouvenel

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it. They must seek out its old virtues and bring them back into the light.

- Russell Kirk