Notable Quotable 152

Joel Walbert

Nov 22, 2023

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Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

- Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Retired)

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

- Thomas Jefferson

When good does evil in its struggle against evil, it becomes indistinguishable from its enemy.

- T.S. Elliot

Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular- but one must take it simply because it is right.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

- Plato

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Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

- Peter Hitchens

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

- Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inﬂicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

- Ludwig von Mises

Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on Earth.

- Eugene V. Debs, Speech, June 16, 1918

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.

- Frederick The Great