Notable Quotable 214

Feb 23, 2024

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

- Mark Twain

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

- Anthony Marra

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance.

- Robert E. Howard

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended. Men merely finding themselves free found themselves free to dispute the value of freedom.

- G.K. Chesterton

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

- Edward Abbey

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The next time any of you walk or ‘crawl’ into a secret voting booth, behind dark curtains, alone and without being driven by force, consider that you are just voluntarily choosing a master selected for you, and in that process, you have become a slave to the state.

- Gary Barnett

You all have the same god, and its name is ‘government.’ You’re all members of the most evil, insane, destructive cult in history. If there ever was a devil, the state is it. And you worship it with all your heart and soul.

- Larken Rose, ‘The Iron Web’

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurptions.

- James Madison

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

- Khalil Gibran, ‘The Prophet’

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

- Aristotle