Notable Quotable #29

Oct 22, 2022

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“The basis of a democratic state is liberty.”

- Aristotle

"What about us? Can we not get up from our armchairs and do what we can to insist that those liberties be protected? How have we reached such a pass? Have we grown so inured to the repetition from our leaders, including both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, that keeping us 'safe' is their first priority, that we have forgotten that the Founders risked everything for liberty, not for 'safety'?"

- Ray McGovern

"Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories..."

- Amilcar Cabral

"Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security."

- Michael Lerner

“For those who have had a loved one torn from their lives, through greed, terrorism, war, hatred or ignorance. We wish we could relieve you of your pain. All we can do is promise that we will never allow those who cause such devastation to profit from your suffering. Nor will we support those who instigate such horrors in any way. We are born of one family and our hope is that your loss may be replaced by "Peace and Joy."

- Tom Feeley

An interpretation of the universe remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter.
The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

- Blaise Pascal

“There have always been some forms of religion in the world and wicked men who opposed them... Never before has there been a sacrilegious conspiracy of every human talent against its Creator... Men of this age have prostituted genius to irreligion and, according to the admirable phrase of Saint Louis on his deathbed, 'They have waged war against God with His own gifts.'"

- Joseph De Maistre

"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will."

- Gustave Le Bon