Notable Quotable 224

Joel Walbert

Mar 08, 2024

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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

- Edmund Burke

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

- Francis of Assisi

Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control; it means out of their control.

- Jim Dodge

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I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

- Iris Murdoch

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

- George Bernard Shaw

We know that the most essential thing, the indisputably useful thing is not to kill the king as a person, but to kill all the kings—those of the courts, the parliaments, and the workshops—that govern people’s hearts and minds; to eradicate faith in the principle of authority that so many people worship.

We know that the less ripe the revolution is, the bloodier and more uncertain. We know that, since violence is the source of authority, since indeed it is basically identical with the principle of authority, the more violent the revolution is the greater the risk will be that it will give rise to new forms of authority. And so we strive to obtain, before using the last reasons of the oppressed, the moral and material force we need to minimize the amount of violence necessary to overthrow the regime of violence under which humanity is suffering today.

- Gaetano Bresci

Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

- Charlie Chaplin