Notable Quotable 170

Dec 22, 2023

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

- Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon

When the flood of truth becomes a drought, the lush throats of liars shall shrilly fill the vacuum with their false fruit. None shall taste its maggoty putrescence and devour it whole.

- Stewart Stafford

We have reached a point in history where intellectual incapacitation feels like wholeness, and where forgetting trumps remembering.

- Antonella Gambotto

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

- Socrates

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

- Frederick William Robertson

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

Faith is believing and hoping when there is little evidence for or against something. Delusion is believing when there is an abundance of evidence against something.

- Jeremy Runnells, Letter To A CES Director

Poor, wretched, and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot claim a single thing as our own; and it would seem that you consider yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your very lives.

- Étienne de La Boétie

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates—which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

- Robert Lindner