Notable Quotable 383

May 05, 2025

There is only one form of freedom which they tolerate; and that is the sort of sexual freedom which is covered by the legal fiction of divorce... They are trying to break the vow of the knight as they broke the vow of the monk. They recognise the vow as the vital antithesis to servile status, the alternative and therefore the antagonist. Marriage makes a small state within the state, which resists all such regimentation. That bond breaks all other bonds; that law is found stronger than all later and lesser laws. They desire the democracy to be sexually fluid, because the making of small nuclei is like the making of small nations. Like small nations, they are a nuisance to the mind of imperial scope. In short, what they fear, in the most literal sense, is home rule.

- G.K. Chesterton

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

- Alan Moore

Life is a journey. How we travel is really up to us. We can just flow with the tide or follow our own dreams.

- Paulo Coelho

Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense (which is far from being the case), even then it couldn't be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

- Leo Tolstoy

Contemporary libertarians often assume, mistakenly, that individuals are bound to each other only by the nexus of market exchange. They forget that everyone is necessarily born into a family, a language, and a culture.

- Murray Rothbard

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The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.

- Jerry Mander

They don't lie to you because the truth might hurt your feelings. They lie to you because the truth might provoke you to make the choices that won't serve their interests.

- Author unknown

We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power.

- Joseph Sobran

Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

- Jim Stynes

Hostile toward every institution which acts as a check upon its absolute power, the State has been engaged, ever since the decline of the medieval order, in stripping away one by one the functions and prerogatives of those ancient institutions which were the guardians of true community: aristocracy, church, guild, family, and local association. What the state seeks is a tableland upon which a multitude of individuals, solitary though herded together, labor anonymously for the State’s maintenance. Universal military conscription and the ‘mobile labor force’ and the concentration-camp are only the more recent developments of the system.

- Russell Kirk