Notable Quotable 160

Dec 08, 2023

We place no race or people above any other, acknowledge no superiority in any culture, honor no special privilege in any nation, and have no respect for any creed that limits the absolute freedom of the human mind.

- ClassWarFilms

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

- Eugene Victor Debs

Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

- Ambrose Bierce

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

- Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

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Not only do rulers keep many millions of men whose only trade is war, but these must be supported in worse than useless idleness by the labor of the poor. Still other millions are trained to war and are ever ready to answer to their master's call, to desert their homes and trades and offer up their lives to satisfy the vain ambitions of the ruler of the state.

- Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage.

- Alexander Berkman

Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.

- Guinean proverb

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.

- Haida Proverb

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi