Notable Quotable 369

Jan 13, 2025

Now... at the height of modern progress, we behold unprecedented outbreaks of hatred and violence; we have seen whole nations desolated by war and turned into penal camps by their conquerors; we find half of mankind looking upon the other half as criminal. Everywhere occur symptoms of mass psychosis. Most portentous of all, there appear diverging bases of value, so that our single planetary globe is mocked by worlds of different understanding. These signs of disintegration arouse fear, and fear leads to desperate unilateral efforts toward survival, which only forward the process...

- Richard M. Weaver

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

The strongest people are the ones who are still kind even after the world tore them apart.

- Raven Emotion

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

- Epictetus

We should be inspired by people who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

- Rachell Corrie

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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

- Frank Herbert

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking and to annihilate the truth.

- Gary Kasparov

The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right of self-defense is not something the government bestows upon its citizens. It is an inalienable right, older than the Constitution itself. It existed prior to government and prior to the social contract of our Constitution.

- Larry Craig

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

- Johannes Kepler

You can either grow or degenerate. Either of these is happening all around you, all the time. There is nothing called a ‘safe comfort zone'.

- Manoj Arora