Notable Quotable 194

Joel Walbert

Jan 26, 2024

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Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?

O’Brien: Of course he exists.

Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?

O’Brien: You do not exist.

- George Orwell, 1984

As the astronauts soar into the vast eternities of space, on earth the garbage piles higher; as the groves of academe extend their domain, their alumni’s arms reach lower; as the phallic cult spreads, so does impotence. In great wealth, great poverty; in health, sickness; in numbers, deception. Gorging, left hungry; sedated, left restless; telling all, hiding all; in flesh united, forever separate. So we press on through the valley of abundance that leads to the wasteland of satiety, passing through the gardens of fantasy; seeking happiness ever more ardently, and finding despair ever more surely.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

When faith in God is rejected, so is the concept of sin and the need for repentance, and people turn into hardhearted criminals, capable of any heinous crime for the sake of personal gain.

- Archbishop Averky Taushev

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.

- Orson Scott Card, Heartfire

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

- Étienne de La Boétie

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Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice.

- Neil Postman

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

- Douglas Adams

It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.

- Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber; or by millions, calling themselves a government.

- Lysander Spooner

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

- Alan Watts