Notable Quotable 133

Oct 26, 2023

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

- Julian Assange

We lied. We cheated. We stole.

- Mike Pompeo

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

- Benjamin Franklin

They deem him their worst enemy, who tells them the truth.

- Plato, The Republic (c. 380 BC)

Man is least himself when he talks with his own person. Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

- Oscar Wilde

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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

- Upton Sinclair

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.

- Vietnamese Proverb