Notable Quotable 223

Mar 07, 2024

Every container gets narrower according to what is placed in it except knowledge, which expands instead.

- Ali ibn abi Talib

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

- Henry David Thoreau

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

- George Orwell

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

- John Adams

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorising human beings from within.

- Hannah Arendt

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it.

When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

- Thomas Sowell

No matter what the world thinks about a religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind. He has pistis and peace.

Where is the criterion by which you could say that such an experience is not valid?

- Carl Jung

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

- Banksy