Notable Quotable 173

Dec 28, 2023

Man evolved in cooperating groups united by common cultural and genetic ties, and it is only in such a setting that the individual can feel truly free, and truly protected. Men cannot live happily alone and without values or any sense of identity: such a situation leads to nihilism, drug abuse, criminality and worse. With the spread of purely egotistic goals at the expense of the altruistic regard for family and nation, the individual begins to talk of his rights rather than his duties, for he no longer feels any sense of destiny, of belonging to and being a part of a greater and more enduring entity. He no longer rejoices in the secure belief that he shares in a heritage which it is part of his common duty to protect—he no longer feels that he has anything in common with those around him. In short, he feels lonely and oppressed. Since all values have become strictly personal, everything is now equal to everything; e.g. nothing equals nothing.

- Alain de Benoist

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

- Carl Jung

Claiming to be an anarchist while simultaneously advocating that people vote in the very system that you condemn is like claiming to be a vegan right as you bite into a bloody steak.

- Jake Simpkins

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.

- Heinrich Heine

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchy will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

- Peter Marshall

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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.We know more about war than we know about peace,more about killing than we know about living.We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

- Omar N. Bradley

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men.

- Albert Einstein

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

- Federico García Lorca

Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief.

- Christopher Hitchens

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit.

- Edward Said