Notable Quotable 377

Feb 05, 2025

The decline of moral habit produces, in its first stage, a rigid and exalted moralism; and in its second, an immoralism raised to the level of doctrine; sooner or later, it invariably gives birth to the lowest level of immorality.

- Gustave Thibon

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

- Paulo Coelho

Direct your eyesight inward and you will find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered.

- Henry David Thoreau

I wish to say that we anarchists have never changed our position. We are anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

- Federica Montseny

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.

- Voltairine de Cleyre

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What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

- Morpheus

A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and real; the latter is necessarily amorphous and more easily guided by those who can manipulate human actions and beliefs.

- Robert A. Nisbet

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a Heaven in a wild flower.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

- William Blake

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

- Groucho Marx

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Born free but...

Born free we are but shackled in chain