Notable Quotable 204

Feb 09, 2024

We're still in the Dark Ages. The scared and the superstitious savage still lurks behind the mask of civilisation, and he will remain there for untold generations to come.

- Michael Talbot

Democracy entails people who run their businesses well being forced to run their businesses poorly by people who can’t run businesses at all.

- Michael Malice

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

- Niels Bohr

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

- Henry David Thoreau

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards of people step on him.

- Immanuel Kant

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

I see anarchy as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

- Robert Anton Wilson

The breakdown of traditional values to some extent implies the breakdown of the bonds that hold together traditional smallscale social groups. The disintegration of small-scale social groups is also promoted by the fact that modern conditions often require or tempt individuals to move to new locations, separating themselves from their communities. Beyond that, a technological society HAS TO weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently. In modern society an individual's loyalty must be first to the system and only secondarily to a smallscale community, because if the internal loyalties of small-scale communities were stronger than loyalty to the system, such communities would pursue their own advantage at the expense of the system.

- Theodore Kaczynski

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice.

Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, as sure as death.

- Thomas Carlyle

Man is a microcosm of the entire world; save yourself and you save the world. One man damned the world, one man saved it.

- E. H. Looney