Notable Quotable 228

Mar 14, 2024

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

- Anais Nin

Those angry will be happy again and those wrathful will be cheerful again, but a destroyed nation cannot exist again, the dead cannot be brought back to life.

- Sun Tzu

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

- Socrates

Those who claim that they are ‘serving’ the public; they are the ones who should be ignored, shunned, ridiculed, and if necessary, tarred and feathered, and run out of town. They deserve nothing less.

- Gary D. Barnett

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot unlearn the lies they have been taught to believe.

- Alvin Toffler

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We never stand taller than when we stoop down to help someone who had fallen.

- Buddha

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

- James Reeves

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth’.

- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.

- Mary Horlock