Notable Quotable 169

Dec 21, 2023

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

- Nicolas Walter

We ask God to free us from ‘God’ in so far as we conceive of God.

- Meister Eckhart

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

- William Shakespeare

When I say "Anarchy" you hear "Chaos, Violence, Mayhem". When I say "Anarchy" I mean “Cooperation, Voluntary Association, mutual Aid".

- Simon Springer

America was born from an act of treason.

- Edward Snowden

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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

- C.S. Lewis

Wherever God is – there is peace. And the opposite is self-evident: wherever there is envy, enmity, impatience, self love – there is the devil. Wherever the devil is – there, everything is ruinous, proud, and hostile.

- Saint Anatoly of Optina

I have remarked that the materialist, like the madman, is in prison; in the prison of one thought. These people seemed to think it singularly inspiring to keep on saying that the prison was very large. The size of this scientific universe gave one no novelty, no relief. The cosmos went on for ever, but not in its wildest constellation could there be anything really interesting; anything, for instance, such as forgiveness or free will. The grandeur or infinity of the secret of its cosmos added nothing to it. It was like telling a prisoner in Reading gaol that he would be glad to hear that the gaol now covered half the county. The warder would have nothing to show the man except more and more long corridors of stone lit by ghastly lights and empty of all that is human. So these expanders of the universe had nothing to show us except more and more infinite corridors of space lit by ghastly suns and empty of all that is divine.

- G.K. Chesterton

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hand which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

- Samuel Adams

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.-

Paulo Coelho