Notable Quotable 296

Joel Walbert

Jun 18, 2024

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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

- Eugene V. Debs

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.

- Simone Weil, French philosopher

Politicians of both parties want to use the power of government to silence their foes. Some in the university community seek to drive it from their campuses. And an entire generation of Americans is being taught that free speech should be curtailed as soon as it makes someone else feel uncomfortable.

- William Ruger, “Free Speech Is Central to Our Dignity as Humans”

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force; but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

- George Orwell

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

- Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favors to people in the private sector in payment of political favors.

- Alan Greenspan

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse their office.

- Louise Slaughter

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground. We are reclaiming our rights to world history.

- Julian Assange

In life, you can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson