Notable Quotable 220

Mar 04, 2024

We should be inspired by people who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

- Rachell Corrie

The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that-however bloody-can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.

- Lysander Spooner

All forms of governments destroy themselves by carrying their basic principles to excess. Democracies become too free in politics, in economics, in morals - even in literature and art, until at last even the dogs in our homes rise up on their hind legs and demand their rights. Disorder grows to such a point that society will then abandon all its liberty to anyone who can restore order.

- Will Durant

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

- Henry David Thoreau

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

- Max Stirner

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:

1) It's completely impossible.

2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing.

3) I said it was a good idea all along.

- Arthur C. Clark

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

- Rosa Parks

Tradition, which is always old, is at the same time ever new because it is always reviving - born again in each new generation, to be lived and applied in a new and particular way. Convention is simply the ossification of social customs. The activities of conventional people are merely excuses for NOT acting in a more integrally human way. Tradition nourishes the life of the spirit; convention merely disguises its interior decay.

- Thomas Merton

The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

- William Ellery Channing