Notable Quotable 252
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all.
It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
- H.L. Mencken
The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive'. The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves.Those with no sides or causes. Those who don't like to make waves, or enemies.
- Sophie Scholl
Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.
- Jeff Cooper
How do you change your behaviour? Change what you worship.
- Timothy Keller
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure for duty approaches sublimity.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up.
We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
- Walter Lippmann
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions.
The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
- John Stuart Mill
People hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love more than truth.
They love truth when it shines warmly on them, and hate it when it rebukes them.
- St. Augustine of Hippo
In a healthy society, it shouldn't require heroic virtue just to live a healthy, normal life.
- Nick B. Steves
The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.
- Ludwig Von Mises
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