Notable Quotable 172

Joel Walbert

Dec 27, 2023

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Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.

- Paulo Coelho

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

- Edmund Burke

When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

- Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

There is an animal in all of us, the sooner we recognize it, the sooner we can turn human.

- Abhijit Naska

They declare that it is unpatriotic and disruptive to question the workings of authority--but patriotic to institute harsh and regressive policies that benefit the wealthy, undermine social programs that serve the needs of the great majority, and subordinate a frightened population to increased state control.

- Noam Chomsky

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If a given idea has been held in the human mind for many generations, as almost all our common ideas have, it takes sincere and continued effort to remove it.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

One believed what one was told to believe.

- Iain M. Banks

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.-

John F. Kennedy

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

- George Kennan

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi