Notable Quotable 412

Dec 12, 2025

There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.

- Chris Colfer

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

- T.S. Eliot

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

- Aldous Huxley

They must find it hard to take truth for authority who have so long mistaken authority for truth.

- Gerald Massey

As enunciated today, “progress” is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. We meet every ideal of religion, patriotism, beauty, or brute pleasure with the alternative ideal of progress—that is to say, we meet every proposal of getting something that we know about, with an alternative proposal of getting a great deal more of nobody knows what. Progress, properly understood, has, indeed, a most dignified and legitimate meaning. But as used in opposition to precise moral ideals, it is ludicrous. So far from it being the truth that the ideal of progress is to be set against that of ethical or religious finality, the reverse is the truth.

- G.K. Chesterton

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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.

- William Faulkner

Government - the rule of some men over others by initiated force - is a form of slavery. To advocate government is to advocate slavery.

- Morris Tannehill

Governments are based principally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixties. Those who didn’t find out in the sixties will find out in the near future because we’re going to have a rerun.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Governments always need enemies, even when they’re not at war. If you don’t have a real enemy, you make one up and spread the word. It scares the population, and when the people are scared, they tend not to step out of line.

- Paul Auster

If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

- Rainer Maria Rilke