Notable Quotable 256

Joel Walbert

Apr 23, 2024

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

- Ayn Rand

A civilisation is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You cannot become highly educated if you only read what you like.

- Joseph Joubert

Politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of States. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.

- Egon Bahr

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Civilisation, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

- H.L. Mencken

We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!

- Jerry Brown

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

- Fulton J. Sheen

You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out.

If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.

- Andrew Jackson

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle.

- Terence McKenna