Notable Quotable 141

Joel Walbert

Nov 07, 2023

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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

- Desmond Tutu

The world is changed by your example – not by your opinion.

- Jill Love, ‘Revolution’

Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we deplore their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and villages, where they and their fathers dwelt, into our estate.

- Gen. Moshe Dayan

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

- Thomas Paine

You want to be free? Remove the blindfold that blinds you to the Deep State’s con game, stop doping yourself with government propaganda, and break free of the political chokehold that has got you marching in lockstep with tyrants and dictators.

- John W. Whitehead

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If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say ‘no’ to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

- Edmund Burke

Take war. They'll bankrupt their economies, sacrifice the best of their young, unleash a bloodbath that impresses even me, at the expense of providing shelter, food, and medicine for their own people.

- Mario Acevedo

Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted.

- Thomas Gilovich

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow