Notable Quotable 315

Aug 12, 2024

The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.

- H. L. Mencken

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

- P.G. Wodehouse

We are not the admirers of the “ideal man” of “social rights, but the proclaimers of the “actual individual”, enemy of social abstractions. We fight for the liberation of the individual. For the conquest of life. For the triumph of our idea. For the realization of our dreams. And if our ideas are dangerous, it is because we are those who love to live dangerously. And if our dreams are mad, it is because we are mad. But our madness is supreme wisdom.

- Novatore

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

Being “Awake” means recognizing the critical importance of free will and personal responsibility.

- Mark Passio

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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

- Aristotle

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

- Thomas Szasz

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking.They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

- George Carlin

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

- Albert Bandura

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

- Larken Rose