Notable Quotable 158

Joel Walbert

Dec 06, 2023

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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

- John Hay

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

- Carl Jung

Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist teacher

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

- John Adams

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

- John F. Kennedy

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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

- David Nicholls

Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.

- Julian Assange

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

- Oscar Wilde

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

- James Madison

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert F. Kennedy