Notable Quotable 142

Nov 08, 2023

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

- Theodore C. Sorensen

We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

- Audre Lorde

Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

- JFK [Yale University, 1962]

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

- Garry Kasparov

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

- George Santayana (1863-1952)

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Fascism may be defined as a subordination of individual rights to the advancement of national claims. It suppresses freedom of speech, discourages thinking and disfavors political, scientific and even economic advancement by interference with the exchange of ideas....

- Constance F. Strecher, writing in 1938

The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.

- Arundhati Roy

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that.

- Tove Jansson, Fair Play

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.

- Vietnamese Proverb