Notable Quotable 272

May 15, 2024

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

- Edmund Burke

Question the media and you're a conspiracy kook. Criticize the government and you're a Russian agent. Oppose war and you're anti-American. Defend Palestinians and you're an anti-Semite. Good is bad. Up is down. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

- Caitlin Johnstone

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds... Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

- Arundhati Roy

It's not who you are on the inside but what you do that defines you!

- Darius Shah

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

- Spencer Johnson

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It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms.

- John Stockwell, (former CIA official)

Truth: the deadliest weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.

- John Gilmore

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

- Spencer Johnson

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

- Navajo proverb