Notable Quotable 206

Feb 13, 2024

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

- William Edgar Borah

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

- Voltaire

All that we are is the result of all that we have thought.

It is founded on thought, it is based on thought.

- Buddha

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

- Primo Levi

Forgetting extermination is part of extermination.

- Jean Baudrillard, ‘Simulacra and Simulation’

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Reality denied comes back to haunt.

- Philip K. Dick, ’Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said’

No darkness lasts forever.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘The Farthest Shore’

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

- William Blake

He that fears God fears nothing else.

- Edmund Burke

Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.

- Wendy McElroy