Notable Quotable 213

Joel Walbert

Feb 22, 2024

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It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.

- Author Unknown

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

- Plato

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

- Ernest Hemingway

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

- John Steinbeck

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The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

- Morpheus, ‘The Matrix’

What the herd hates the most is the one who thinks differently. It is not so much the opinion itself, as the audacity of wanting to think for themselves. Something they do not know how to do.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

To be an enemy to America can be dangerous, but to bea friend can be lethal.

- Henry Kissinger

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons

- Theodore C. Sorensen

We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

- Audre Lorde