Notable Quotable 303

Joel Walbert

Jun 27, 2024

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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the anarchist creed.

- Federica Montseny

It’s only after you’ve stepped out of your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

- Roy T. Bennet

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

- Mikhail Bakunin

Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations on the same monstrous theme - Collectivism.

- Ayn Rand

When authority comes from the people it is vacillating; when it comes from God it is steadfast. It is either beyond all question, or it is no authority at all. Such is the lesson of history.

- Honoré de Balzac

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Why do demons wish to excite in us gluttony, fornication, greed, anger, and other passions? So that the mind, under their weight, should be unable to pray as it ought; for when the passions of our irrational part begin to act, they prevent the mind from acting rationally.

- St Nilus

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

- G.K. Chesterton

Family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

- George Santayana

The wealth of a merchant, of an industrialist, of a financier, is aesthetically inferior to wealth in land and flocks.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila

You don’t pray to tell God what you want or what you need. You pray to find out what God wants for you.

- David A. Bednar