Notable Quotable 190

Jan 22, 2024

Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

- Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

- Karl Marx

Ignorance can be cured but stupid is forever.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Power lends itself to corruption, and governing bodies can only exist by wielding power.

- Merry Knightly

You're only born with two fears: falling and loud noises. The rest of your fears are learned. Unlearn the ones that don't serve you.

- Nick Cownie

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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

– Wes Fesler

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

- Abraham Lincoln

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

- E.E. Cummings