Notable Quotable 226

Mar 12, 2024

That revolution brings out instincts of primordial barbarism, the sinister forces of envy, greed, and hatred—this even its contemporaries could see all too well. They paid a terrible enough price for the mass psychosis of the day, when merely moderate behavior, or even the perception of such, already appeared to be a crime. But the twentieth century has done especially much to tarnish the romantic luster of revolution which still prevailed in the eighteenth century. As half-centuries and centuries have passed, people have learned from their own misfortunes that revolutions demolish the organic structures of society, disrupt the natural flow of life, destroy the best elements of the population and give free rein to the worst; that a revolution never brings prosperity to a nation, but benefits only a few shameless opportunists, while to the country as a whole it heralds countless deaths, widespread impoverishment, and, in the gravest cases, a long-lasting degeneration of the people.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.

- Martin Garrix

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

- Wendell Berry

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

- Charles R. Swindoll

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

- John Adams

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The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

- Max Stirner

The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government- caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security.

- Hans Herman Hoppe

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

- Charlayne Hunter-Gault

There's a man who is my brother, I just don't know his name.

But I know his home and family because I know we feel the same.

And it hurts me when he's hungry and when his children cry.

I too am a father, and that little one is mine.

- John Denver

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and viscious, they have more need of masters.

- Author Unknown