Notable Quotable 205

Feb 12, 2024

If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled about it, afraid, or ashamed. This is the time to boldly say, “Yes, I believe in the displacement of this system of injustice by a just one; I believe in the end of starvation, exposure, and the crimes caused by them; I believe in the human soul regnant over all laws which man has made or will make; I believe there is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another; I believe in the total disintegration an dissolution of the principle and practice of authority; I am an Anarchist, and if for this you condemn me, I stand ready to receive your condemnation.

- Voltairine de Cleyre

The gates of Hell are open night and day;

Smooth the descent and easy is the way.

- Virgil

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

- John Holt

The only thing power respects is power.

- Malcolm X

There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

- Miles Franklin

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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

- Albert Einstein

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

- James Madison

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

- Karl Kraus

Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.

- Arnold Toynbee