Notable Quotable 353

Dec 04, 2024

If it proves impossible legally to compel the ruling power to change the ways it governs us, and if for various reasons those who reject this power cannot or do not wish to overthrow it by force, then the creation of an independent or alternative or parallel society is the only dignified solution.

- Ivan Jirous

The real question is whether the ‘brighter future’ is always so distant. What if it has been here for a long time already – and only our own blindness and weakness have prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it.

- Vaclav Havel

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

- Karl Popper

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

- Jose Saramago

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

- Stefan Molyneux

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

- Thomas Carlyle

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

- Virgil

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

- Alexander Berkman

Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

- Michael Bassey

The belief in a requirement for an external authority underlies our entire way of living.

- Larken Rose