Notable Quotable 137

Nov 01, 2023

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.

- Bernardine Dohrn

But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.

- Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

- George Orwell, 1984

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

- H. L. Menchen

The authorities? The authorities? I laughed. Why is it people think the authorities are some form of gods with either great justice or great, cunning evil, rather than the same plodding fools they see in their daily lives, and most of all in their mirrors?

- Richard Ben Sapir

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America’s food system is currently enslaved by bureaucratic shackles that prohibit the free exercise of food choice. While other freedoms were enshrined in the Bill of Rights, the freedom to choose food was not. The tragedy is that most folks don’t realize the ramifications of this prohibition.

- Joel Salatin, “Food Emancipation Proclamation”

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

- Jack Kemp

The reason a lot of people do not recognise opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

- Thomas Edison

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

- Kurt Vonnegut

We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us and wealth classified us.

- Pravinee Hurbungs