Notable Quotable 273

May 16, 2024

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

- Edmund Burke

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

- John Ruskin

You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

- Solon (c.638 BC-558 BC)

One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to steadily convince them with propaganda that they're still free.

- N.A. Scott

In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.

- TanerAkçam

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It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

- Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.

- Ralph Chaplin

If you hate a person, then you’re defeated by them.

- Confucius

We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

- John Swinton, editor of the New York Tribune, in the 1880s