Notable Quotable 138

Joel Walbert

Nov 02, 2023

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Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

- Dennis E. Adonis

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

- George Bernard Shaw

The greatest enemy of an open mind and a capacity for empathy is self-righteousness.

- Anatol Lieven

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

- Noam Chomsky

This is my country, that is your country, these are the conceptions of narrow souls, to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

- Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

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Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare.

- Kurt Vonnegut

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.")

- Booker T. Washington

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

- Nagarjuna

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of Man, and make gentle the life of this world.

- Robert Kennedy

In order for tyrants to claim and retain total power, the people must become ignorant of their own history and roots, and must through propaganda and fear be so terrified as to abandon all logic and responsibility in order to seek a false safety.

- Gary D. Barnett