Notable Quotable 356

Dec 11, 2024

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

- George Orwell, 1984

This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

- G.K. Chesterton

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

- H. L. Mencken

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

- Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Keep the people ignorant and afraid, then control and power becomes a detail; a self-generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

- Derek R. Audette

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Peace is a natural effect of trade.

- Montesquieu

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

- Denis Diderot

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it.

There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

- Charles Spurgeon

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.

- Søren Kierkegaard