Notable Quotable 216

Feb 27, 2024

Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity.

- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can’t act on knowledge, then we can’t survive without ignorance.

- Ruth Ozeki

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

- Norman Finkelstein

Remember, most people in a famine don't die from hunger. As WHO puts it, “between starvation and death, there is nearly always disease”. This is how the genocide is being carried out.

- @gathara

Gaza is going hungry, people are surviving on less than one meal a day. That's if they are lucky.

- Zain Asher

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

- Aristotle

The biggest danger to the security of a nation’s citizens in the modern age is NOT a military invasion by an army of foreign soldiers. It’s an infiltration of their government by an army of foreign and domestic billionaires sending handpicked soulless bureaucrats to get control of key offices in their nation’s capital. And when they’re done infiltrating and getting control of a country’s government, they move to take over the military and the major news media outlets as well.

- Brian Cates

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

If we cared about the thousands of children suffering today in Gaza, as much you care about the birth of one middle eastern child two thousand years ago, perhaps then, you could've understood the true meaning of Christmas.

- Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

- Aristotle