Notable Quotable 297

Jun 19, 2024

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

- Eugene V Debs

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwan

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

- Andy Borowitz

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality.

- H. L. Mencken

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

- George Kennan

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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

- Baruch Spinoza

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

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

- Bill Watterson

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

- George Orwell

Once you realize that corporate power is America’s real government, it becomes clear that corporate media is state media. It’s just a tyrannical regime brainwashing its populace with propaganda, brutalizing protesters, and attacking anyone in the world who disobeys its dictates.

- Caitlin Johnstone