Notable Quotable 282

May 29, 2024

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible.

- Thomas Merton

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

- Liu Xiaobo

Everything around is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.

- Unknown source

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

- Viktor E. Frankl

As enunciated today, “progress” is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. We meet every ideal of religion, patriotism, beauty, or brute pleasure with the alternative ideal of progress—that is to say, we meet every proposal of getting something that we know about, with an alternative proposal of getting a great deal more of nobody knows what. Progress, properly understood, has, indeed, a most dignified and legitimate meaning. But as used in opposition to precise moral ideals, it is ludicrous. So far from it being the truth that the ideal of progress is to be set against that of ethical or religious finality, the reverse is the truth.

- G.K. Chesterton

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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

- Russell Means

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and microphone of his own age.

- C.S. Lewis

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways, the highest adventure on earth.

- Norman Cousins

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

- Frederick Douglass