Notable Quotable 227

Mar 13, 2024

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

- Paulo Freire

God scoffs at (smiles at) those he sees denouncing the evils of which they are the cause.

- Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.

- Philip K. Dick

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse their office.

- Louise Slaughter

The power of government rests on ignorance of the people, and it knows this, and therefore will always resist enlightenment.

- Leo Tolstoy

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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right?

- Martin Luther King

When they put bombs in cars and kill people, they're uncivilized killers. When we put bombs on missiles and kill people, we're upholding civilized values. When they kill, they're terrorists. When we kill, we're striking against terror.

- Norman Solomon

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men.

- Albert Einstein

We are here to add what we can to, not what we can get from life.

- Sir William Ossler

Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.

- Lil Wayne