Notable Quotable 288

Jun 06, 2024

What the herd hates the most is the one who thinks differently. It is not so much the opinion itself, as the audacity of wanting to think for themselves. Something they do not know how to do.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

If science cannot be questioned, and debate is denied. If facts are withheld, it isn’t science anymore – it is propaganda.

- Author Unknown

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and viscious, they have more need of masters.

- Author Unknown

You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.

- Harry Truman

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

- Sir Leslie Stephen

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

- Marian Wright Edleman

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

- Ward Churchill