Notable Quotable 248

Joel Walbert

Apr 11, 2024

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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

- Henry David Thoreau

Those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them.

- Michael Malice

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

- Arthur C. Clark

People who have been taught to respect "authority," and have been taught that obedience is a virtue and that cooperating with "authority" is what makes us civilized, do not like to hear the truth, which is that truly evil people, with all their malice and hatred, pose far less of a threat to mankind than the basically good people who believe in authority.

- Larken Rose

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

- Dewitt Jones

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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.

- Albert Einstein

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

- H. L. Mencken

In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.

- Rudolf Steiner

Throughout the last century communist leaders alternated in pretending to be nationalists, agrarian reformers, and/or democrats. The same is true today, only the communists have grown in sophistication even as their dupes have declined into stupefaction.

There is nothing to be gained by talking with liars and tricksters who plot the West’s downfall. Yet we talk and talk as we lose and lose again.

- J.R. Nyquist

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

- John Muir