Notable Quotable 136

Oct 31, 2023

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and destroying them. This is the paradox of our times.

- Frank Herbert

The horror of communism is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

- Slavoj Žižek

The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

- William S. Burroughs

If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore, what he must be taught to fear is his victim.

- Lt Col. Jeff Cooper

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

- Herbert Spencer

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Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.

- Immanuel Kant

Anarchism means a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.

- Voltairine de Cleyre

Totalitarian regimes seem to have an intuitive awareness that it becomes hard for people to change after a certain age, which is why so much effort is made to indoctrinate the young from an early age.

- Norman Doidge

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

- Noël Coward

False Flag operations by governments are the easiest and quickest way to persuade the population to sacrifice their own in order to achieve goals of the elite.

- James Thomas Kesterson Jr