Notable Quotable 196

Joel Walbert

Jan 30, 2024

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

- Soren Kierkegaard

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

- Voltairine de Cleyre

Everything can be taken from a man but… the last of the human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

- Victor Frankl

The more enlightened man will become, the less he will employ compulsion and coercion. The really civilized man will divest himself of all fear and authority. He will rise from the dust and stand erect: he will bow to no tsar either in heaven or on earth. He will become fully human when he will scorn to rule and refuse to be ruled. He will be truly free only when there shall be no more masters.... anarchy therefore does not mean disorder and chaos, as you thought before. On the contrary, it is the very reverse of it; it means no government, which is freedom and liberty. Disorder is the child of authority and compulsion. Liberty is the mother of order.

- Alexander Berkman

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

- Paulo Coelho

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Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know.

- Lao Tzu

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

- George Orwell

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

- Miles Davis

The Socialist saw plainly the rights of the Society; the Anarchist saw the rights of the Individual. How therefore were these to be reconciled? The Church stepped in at that crucial point and answered, By the Family—whether domestic or Religious. For in the Family you have both claims recognized: there is authority and yet there is liberty. For the union of the Family lies in Love; and Love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

- Robert Hugh Benson

Government is a disease masquerading as it's own cure.

- Robert Lefevre