Notable Quotable 367

Joel Walbert

Jan 08, 2025

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Can lead em to water

Can't make em drink

Can compose it in ink

Can't make em think

Can show em the blueprints

Can't make em build

Can give em directions

Can't make em yield

Can put em on the field

Can't make em stars

Can put em up on game

Can't pry the bars

- Damon

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

- Epictetus

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

- Cornel West

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

- H. L. Mencken

To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

- Theodore Dalrymple

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The only antagonistic conflict of interest in society is the one between tax-payers, i.e. the exploited, and tax-consumers, i.e. the exploiters.

- Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.

- Terry Brooks

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

- Murray N. Rothbard

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.

- J. Edgar Hoover

A really efficient totalitarian State would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

- Aldous Huxley