Notable Quotable 260

Apr 29, 2024

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

-Sam Ewing

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

- Frederick Douglass

Just as we seldom realise that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realise that society is changing until the change has already come.

- James Burnham

The principal role of conservatism in modern politics is to be humiliated. That is what a perpetual loyal opposition, or court jester, is for.

- Nick Land

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.

- Arabic Proverb

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

- P.J. Rourke

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

- Lord Byron

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila