Notable Quotable #21

Sep 30, 2022

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

- Aldous Huxley

Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.

- Jacques Vallee

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realises that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

- Max Planck

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this–that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

- Lysander Spooner

Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all of these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed before their mouths.

- Étienne de La Boétie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude