Notable Quotable 271

May 14, 2024

All culture arises out of religion. When religious faith decays, culture must decline, though often seeming to flourish for a space after the religion which has nourished it has sunk into disbelief. But neither can religion subsist if severed from a healthy culture; no cultured person should remain indifferent to erosion of apprehension of the transcendent.

- Russell Kirk

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom... it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

- Aldous Huxley

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

- Rob Siltanen

Live truth instead of professing it.

- Elbert Hubbard

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

- Bess Myerson

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If the general public accepts the pretext of ‘civilization' in all good faith, there are some for whom it amounts to no more than mere economic hypocrisy, a cloak for their designs of conquest and economic civilization; but what strange times indeed, when so many men allow themselves to be persuaded that they are making a people happy by reducing them to subjection, by robbing them of what is most precious in their eyes, namely their own civilization, by compelling them to adopt customs and institutions which were intended for another race, and by coercing them into assuming the most distasteful occupations in order that they may perforce come to acquire things for which they have not the slightest use! That however is the position today: the modern West cannot tolerate the idea that men should prefer to work less and be content to live on little; as quantity alone counts, and as everything that eludes the grasp of the senses is held moreover to be non-existent.

- René Guénon

It comes out of not loving your children. People who love their children don’t drill holes in your children’s life raft.

- Eric Weinstein

When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

- Ernesto Che Guevara

Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves (Para todostodo, para nosotros nada).

- A Zapatista slogan