Notable Quotable 349

Joel Walbert

Nov 25, 2024

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In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life.

Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

- Jacob Burckhardt

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

- Ludwig Von Mises

Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star.

To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be.

- Manly P. Hall

Empathise with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

- Iain Banks

The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesses that do not come into existence, and the bright future that is stolen from us.

The State has looted us just as surely as a robber who enters our home at night and steals all that we love.

- Frederic Bastiat

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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

- Soren Kierkegaard

If the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the systematic attack of these ideas and the propagation and proliferation of true ones.

- Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

- Baruch Spinoza

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

- Stefan Molyneux

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

- Ayn Rand