Notable Quotable 161

Dec 11, 2023

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

- Mikhail Bakunin

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

- Rousseau

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

- Charlayne Hunter-Gault

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

- Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

- Charles R. Swindoll

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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

-James Baldwin

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

- Lily Tomlin

Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

- Audre Lorde

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

- Arthur Hoppe