Notable Quotable 331

Oct 09, 2024

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

- H. L. Mencken

We must draw our standards from the natural world. We must honor with the humility of the wise the bounds of that natural world and the mystery which lies beyond them, admitting that there is something in the order of being which evidently exceeds all our competence.

- Václav Havel

Every moment is a new beginning.

- Author Unknown

Do not feel alone in the universe, feel alone AS the universe.

- Rumi

What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.

- Hannah Arendt

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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

- William Shakespeare

In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.

- Marcus Aurelius

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

- Søren Kierkegaard

Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.

- Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

The way of Love has a name: It is Sacrifice.

- St. Josemaria Escriva