Notable Quotable #15

Sep 08, 2022

"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

“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”

- Morpheus, The Matrix

“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”

- Rousseau

"Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."

- John Adams

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

- Henry Adams

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

- Saul Bellow

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

- Daniel Kahneman

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