Notable Quotable 154

Nov 24, 2023

If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.

- John Pilger

No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

- Aldous Huxley

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

- Gil Courtemanche

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

- Dresden James

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

- Malala Yousafzai

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

- Leo Tolstoy

There is no such thing as a just war, there is no such thing as a good war, and no war can bring peace. All wars are evil manifestations of power and control conjured in the minds of the abhorrent psychopaths who rule over nations, and their fascist partners in government, who by proxy, fill the minds of the mindless with fear, so that constant atrocities meant to solidify domination can survive all moral objection and sanity. War is good for nothing other than grief, terror, sorrow, torture, maiming, and death; it is the single most evil curse of mankind.

- Gary D. Barnett

Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.

- Joseph Story

As to adopting the ways which the state has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man’s life will be gone.

- Henry David Thoreau