Notable Quotable 289

Jun 07, 2024

Lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion?

- Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

- Aristotle

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot unlearn the lies they have been taught to believe.

- Alvin Toffler

Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware.

- John W. Whitehead

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You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains.

- Imre Kertész

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

- Aristotle

We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values...when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

- Bertrand Russell

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

- Seneca