Notable Quotable #28

Oct 21, 2022

Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

- Joseph Campbell

You can best serve civilisation by being against what usually passes for it.

- Wendell Berry

"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."

- Thomas Paine

“Those who have power in their hands will not give it up while they can retain it. On the contrary, we know they will always, when they can, rather increase it.”

- Geroge Mason

Until you realise how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

- Evita Ochel

“I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as “kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in.” But of course, it doesn’t put it like that. It talks of “low intensity conflict…” What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.”

– Harold Pinter (1990)

“It is more than a century since Edward Bernays, the father of spin, invented “public relations” as a cover for war propaganda. What is new is the virtual elimination of dissent in the mainstream.”

– John Pilger (February 2022)