Notable Quotable 156

Dec 04, 2023

It’s very simple. Liars initiate, haters carry forward, fools spread, idiots believe and mindful void.

- Aditya Ajmera

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Unjust laws exist: [most all of them] shall we be content to obey them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

- Henry David Thoreau

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

- Albert Einstein

Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder.

- Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier of World War I, 2007

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Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

- Spencer Johnson

What sets our species apart is not just what men will do to other men, but how tirelessly they justify it.

- William Dietrich, Napoleon's Pyramids

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

- Stephen King

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

- Charles De Montesquieu

The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream “Allahu Akbar” before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000-dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

- Peter Joseph