Notable Quotable 300

Jun 24, 2024

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

- Southey

Modem society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

- Alasdair MacIntyre

Everywhere in the modern world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

- Jacques Maritain

As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.

- Peter Kropotkin

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

- Robert Anton Wilson

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

- Will Self

The greatest discovery of my age is that man can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of their mind.

- William James

While preaching against every kind of government ,and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

- Errico Malatesta

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

- Socrates