Notable Quotable 144

Nov 10, 2023

There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame?

- V for Vendetta

We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.

- A Face in the Crowd (1957)

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.

- Eugene Victor Debs

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

- Otto von Bismarck

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

- Ameen Rihani

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Our role is to widen the field of discussion, not to set limits in accord with the prevailing authority.

- Edward Said

'Enough' is a feast.

- Buddhist Proverb

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

- Otto von Bismarck

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

- Gary Wills

In safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it...... The vast army of clandestine personnel built up to execute these purposes were soon caught up in the web of their own sick fantasies, with disastrous consequences for them and us.

- Malcom Muggeridge