Notable Quotable 192

Joel Walbert

Jan 24, 2024

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You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

- Tim Walz

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

- James Lovelock

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.

- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

- Charles-Louis de Secondat

Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

- Pierce Brown, Red Rising

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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert F. Kennedy

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

- Voltaire

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

- Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

Compassion is the basis of morality.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

- Albert Einstein