Notable Quotable 335

Joel Walbert

Oct 23, 2024

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They want you poor, so they can be rich.

They want you weak, so they can be powerful.

They want you dumb, so they can be smart.

They want you guilty, so they can be innocent.

You cannot realize it, but you’re nothing more than a slave.

- Maria Karvouni

When Thomas Jefferson said 'Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty', that's what I mean when I say voters are cowards.

- Michael Storm

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

- H. L. Mencken

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

- George Washington

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

- Milton Friedman

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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines

of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will.

- Thomas Carlyle

He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity’s sun rise.

- William Blake

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.

- Descartes

If you attempt to teach children how the sign has led to the neglect of the thing signified, how money is the source of all the false ideas of society, how countries rich in silver must be poor in everything else, you will be treating these children as philosophers, and not only as philosophers but as wise men, for you are professing to teach them what very few philosophers have grasped.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

- Beethoven