Notable Quotable 340

Nov 04, 2024

…above all, remember that he who solicits your vote is by that very fact revealed as a scoundrel, since in exchange for your advantage and fortune he promises a cornucopia of marvels he’ll never deliver because he hasn’t the power to deliver them. The man you ‘elect’ represents neither your misery nor your aspirations – nor anything else of yours – but rather his own interests, which are all opposed to yours … do not imagine that the sorry spectacle at which you assist today is peculiar to one epoch or one regime, and that it will pass away. All epochs and all regimes are worth the same – that is, they are worthless. So go home, my good chap, and go on strike against universal suffrage. I tell you, you’ve nothing to lose … and at least it should keep you amused for a while. I tell you, good chap! Go home! Go on strike!

- Octave Mirbeau

As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.

- Rosa Parks

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage."

- Robert Adams

Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to “society,” to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force – and statism has always been the political corollary of collectivism.

- Ayn Rand

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Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in it's true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

- Robert Edward Lee

Society is not an assemblage of naturally free individuals; it is a hierarchy of groups, beginning with the family.

- Robert Nisbet

Act like the person you are, not the way they make you act…. Noble people shouldn’t have even an atom of baseness. Nobility scorns villainy. You should be able to boast that if gallantry, generosity, and faith were lost in the world, they could be found again in your own breast.

- Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

The fragments of the past that survive embarrass the modern landscape in which they stand out.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila

We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?

- J.G. Farrell