Notable Quotable 355

Joel Walbert

Dec 09, 2024

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Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

- Dan Millman

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

- Nathaniel Branden

A nation is created by families, a religion, a tradition: it is made up out of the hearts of mothers, the wisdom of fathers, the joy and the exuberance of children.

- Kaiser Wilhelm II

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

- Robert Anton Wilson

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

- Frank Herbert

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If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

- Robert Higgs

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

- David Graeber

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

- Joseph de Maistre

The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words — ‘free-love’ — as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word. Modern sages offer to the lover, with an ill-flavoured grin, the largest liberties and the fullest irresponsibility; but they do not respect him as the old Church respected him; they do not write his oath upon the heavens, as the record of his highest moment. They give him every liberty except the liberty to sell his liberty, which is the only one that he wants.

- G.K. Chesterton

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

- Venerable Fulton J. Sheen