Notable Quotable 318

Joel Walbert

Aug 23, 2024

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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history.

- Richard Stallman

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once believed they were eternal.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

- Warren Buffett

Fictions are necessary for the people. The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.

- Albert Pike

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The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair.

- James Baldwin

Every constitution then, & every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, & not of right.

- Thomas Jefferson, to James Madison

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

- Noam Chomsky

The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all — is called "life."

Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft — and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them!

Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko