Notable Quotable 348

Joel Walbert

Nov 22, 2024

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

- Frederick Douglass

Show me the man you honour, and I will know what kind of man you are.

- Thomas Carlyle

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

- Ludwig von Mises

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no-one who wanted to read one.

- Neil Postman

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

- Albert Einstein

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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is, in the eyes of others, only a green thing that stands in the way.

Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see nature at all.

But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

- William Blake

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

- Carl Jung

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later. In a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

- Charles Bukowski

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer.

You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending.

- William J. H. Boetcker

Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.

- Rudolf Steiner