Notable Quotable 180

Jan 08, 2024

The threatening clouds of God’s wrath were over us. The Lord has come—the peacemaker, and has dispersed that cloud. We were covered with wounds of sins and passions; the healer of souls and bodies has come and healed us. We were bound by the fetters of slavery; the liberator has come and released our fetters. The work that the Lord Who is born has wrought touches every one of us. Those who enter into communion with Him receive from Him freedom, healing, and peace; they possess all of this and taste of its sweetness.

- Saint Theophan the Recluse

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

- Ayn Rand

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

- H. L. Mencken

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

- James Burnham

We are not the admirers of the “ideal man” of “social rights, but the proclaimers of the “actual individual”, enemy of social abstractions. We fight for the liberation of the individual. For the conquest of life. For the triumph of our idea. For the realization of our dreams. And if our ideas are dangerous, it is because we are those who love to live dangerously. And if our dreams are mad, it is because we are mad. But our madness is supreme wisdom.

- Novatore

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When a nation rises up, ardent to fight for it's freedom and honour, it is always a minority that really fires the multitude.

- Oswald Spengler

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us.

When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

- Thomas Sowell

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: was it good or was it evil? Have I done well or ill?

- John Steinbeck

The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man, you have to do nothing but change his environment.

That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.

- D. Martyn Lloyd Jones

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

- Robert Anton Wilson