Notable Quotable #30

Oct 23, 2022

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

- Ludwig von Mises

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

- Oscar Wilde

"We have destroyed our democracy to an extent the terrorists never could have. We've changed our democracy into a semi-police state.

- William Binney

"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"Don't talk to me about Moscow and Putin. We are the oligarchy clan in the world today. We are the personification of what Plato and Aristotle talked about when they said, oh, let's let the rich people run everything. They are doing that in this country, whether it's Sheldon Adelson funding West Bank settlements, Paul Singer doing the same thing, or George Soros pretending like he's a philanthropist. Don't talk to me about China and state owned enterprises. We are a state owned country by these oligarchs and we're killing ourselves."

- Col. Larry Wilkerson

“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.”

- Robert LeFevre

Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information.

- Tomas Schuman

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

People who have been taught to respect "authority," and have been taught that obedience is a virtue and that cooperating with "authority" is what makes us civilized, do not like to hear the truth, which is that truly evil people, with all their malice and hatred, pose far less of a threat to mankind than the basically good people who believe in "authority”.

- Larken Rose

"The regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to foresee the crisis that awaits her when she recognizes how meaningless are those male occupations for which she has fought, when the illusions and the euphoria of her conquests vanish, and when she realizes that, given the climate of dissolution, family and children can no longer give her a sense of satisfaction in life."

- Julius Evola