Notable Quotable 203

Feb 08, 2024

They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be 'a necessary evil,' and the moment the compromise was made, the whole misbegotten monster of our present tyranny began to grow. Instruments which are set up to safeguard rights become the very whip with which the free are stuck.

- Voltairine de Cleyre

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.

- Ludwig Von Mises

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into it's secrets; art deserves that, for it and it's knowledge can raise a man to the divine.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

- R.L. Stevenson

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Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress.

- John Muir

War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other, but don’t massacre each other.

- Paul Valery

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation.

They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent.

- Fritjof Capra

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

- Joseph Brodsky