Notable Quotable 308

Joel Walbert

Jul 11, 2024

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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

- Yasutani Roshi

You have to speak to be heard, but sometimes you have to be silent to be appreciated.

- Unknown

Political language...

is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

- George Orwell

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

- Morihei Ueshiba (founder of aikido)

Government” itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in “government” – the notion that some people actually have the moral right to rule over others – has caused immeasurable pain and suffering, injustice and oppression, enslavement and death.

- Larken Rose

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No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

- H. L. Mencken

When someone asks for a government program, he is saying in effect: Tell the police to use their guns to get me what I want.

- Harry Browne

When the family shall no longer have a head, and the great foundation for the subordination of children in the mother's example is gone; when the mother shall have found another sphere than her home for her energies; when she shall have exchanged the sweet charities of domestic love and sympathy for the fierce passions of the hustings; when families shall be disrupted at the caprice of either party, and the children scattered as foundlings from their hearthstone, — it requires no wisdom to see that a race of sons will be reared nearer akin to devils than to men. In the hands of such a bastard progeny, without discipline, without homes, without a God, the last remains of social order will speedily perish, and society will be overwhelmed in savage anarchy.

- R.L. Dabney

He who forgets the good things he had yesterday becomes an old man today.

- Epicurus

I will not cease from Mental Fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

- William Blake