Notable Quotable 382

Apr 28, 2025

Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions.

- Jerry Mander

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908)

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair...

- J.R.R. Tolkien

It is true of all his creatures, both spiritual and corporeal, that he does not know them because they are, but that they are because he knows them. He was not ignorant of what he was going to create. So he created because he knew, he did not know because he created.

- Augustine

A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed.

- Bram Stoker

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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Tyranny is when the population is imprisoned. Freedom when the politicians are.

- Michael Malice

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

Globalization is all about wealth. It knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Without borders the world will become–is visibly becoming–a howling desert of traffic fumes, plastic and concrete, where nowhere is home and the only language is money.

- Peter Hitchens

Instead of freedom from sin, people began to strive for freedom to sin. True freedom, freedom of spirit, Christian freedom came to be considered "despotism," "coercion," the oppression of the Church, while the dissipation of one's sinful will, which leads to enslavement of the spirit, was made life's ideal.

- Archbishop Averky Taushev