Notable Quotable 268

May 09, 2024

According to materialism, men are like little flies in hot weather. They crowd one another in a vast swarm, push one another, fly around in confusion, mate, feed and warm themselves, and then disappear in a disordered process, only to give space to tomorrow’s swarm of exactly the same kind.

- Father I. Vinogradov

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

All warfare is based on deception.

- Sun Tzu

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

The propaganda system allows the U.S. Leadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality.

- Edward S. Herman

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Ideological ugliness in the name of egalitarianism continues to do damage, with the paradoxical result that it increases inequality: for as it destroys beauty and elegance, so beauty and elegance become ever more rarefied and available to a smaller and smaller elite, and this is so even where income and consumption increase. The standard of living rises while the quality of life falls.

- Theodore Dalrymple

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

- Herbert Sebastien Agar

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

- James Baldwin

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

- Oscar Ameringer

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

- Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan