Notable Quotable 159

Dec 07, 2023

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

- George Orwell, 1984

Men's hearts are failing them for fear, not knowing any longer where to rest. We look this way and that way, and catch at one another like drowning men. Go where you will, you find the same phenomena. Science grows, and observers are adding daily to our knowledge of the nature and structure of the material universe, but they tell us nothing, and can tell us nothing, of what we most want to know. They cannot tell us what our own nature is. They cannot tell us what God is, or what duty is. We had a belief once, in which, as in a boat, we floated safely on the unknown ocean; but the philosophers and critics have been boring holes in the timbers to examine the texture of the wood, and now it leaks at every one of them. We have to help ourselves in the best way that we can.

- James Anthony Froude

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

- James Madison

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

- Sir Leslie Stephen

You can almost predict (US) policy by that simple principle: Does it help rich people or does it help the general population? And from that you can virtually deduce what's going to happen.

- Noam Chomsky

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

- Ayn Rand

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

- Dalai Lama

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

- Stanley Hauerwas

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

- Confucius

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

- Nelson Mandela