Notable Quotable 140

Nov 06, 2023

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people’s minds.

- Samuel Adams

This is the way the system works, it’s a rotten system, and I see elections as so much of a charade. So much deceit goes on. . . . whether it’s a Republican or a Democrat president, the people who want to keep the status quo seems to have their finger in the pot and can control things.

- Dr. Ron Paul

Until people are properly educated and informed, instead of indoctrinated to be ignorant mindless consumers, democracy is nothing more than a clever tool used by the ruling class to subjugate the rest of us.

- Gertom1963

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

- George Sutherland (1862-1942)

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

- Francis B. Sayre

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Kindness is not an act. It is a lifestyle.

- Anthony Douglas Williams

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.

- Alexandra k. Trenfor.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

- Benjamin Tucker, “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”

It is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man's greatest danger to man.

- Carl Jung

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.

- Hyman G. Rickover