Notable Quotable 139

Nov 03, 2023

The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

- Albert Einstein

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

- Bertrand Russell

The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support.

- Étienne De La Boétie

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

- Ayn Rand

A ‘Neocon’ is neither new or conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.-

Edward Abbey

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Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.

- Suzy Kassem

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

- Thomas Jefferson

A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.

- Rick Warren

To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.

- Chinese Proverb

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

- Shakti Gawain