Notable Quotable 423

Joel Walbert

Mar 06, 2026

A police state is a country run by criminals.

- Robert Harris

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

- George Orwell

It’s no use looking for logical solutions when you are dealing with illogical people.

- Steven Redhead, Life’s Events In Focus

Fear,” the doctor said, “is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

In the history of American democracy, we have had undisciplined presidents. We have had inexperienced presidents. We have had amoral presidents. Rarely if ever before have we had them all at once.

- Anonymous, A Warning

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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

- David Attenborough

The right field for the intuitive or indefinable type of truth is in the arts. It will best teach its own type of truth, not by introducing unreason into the operations of reason, or turning the multiplication table upside down, or denying that truth is the opposite of falsehood- but by minding its own business and producing its own masterpieces out of its own workshop. Truth that really cannot be expressed in logic can be expressed in line and color and rhythm and imagery and melody. And those intangible truths express themselves there without mucking up philosophy or morality or the sane process of thinking.

- G.K. Chesterton

Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the mind. You take your being from your mothers. You live fully; you were endowed with the strength of love, the ability to feel. Whereas we creatures of reason, we don’t live fully; we live in an arid land, even though we often seem to guide and rule you. Yours is the plentitude of life, the sap of the fruit, the garden of passion, the beautiful landscape of art. Your home is the earth; ours is the world of ideas. You are in danger of drowning in the world of the senses; ours is the danger of suffocating in an airless void. You are an artist; I am a thinker. You sleep at your mother’s breast; I wake in the desert. For me the sun shines; for you the moon and the stars.

- Hermann Hesse

True freedom is the active ability of a man who is not enslaved to sin.

- St. Philaret

The irreligious spirit made the philosophy of materialism dominant. The human soul is immortal, while money can only make your short time here a bit more comfortable. The devil taught us that happiness and success is measured by how wealthy a country or person is. He only exalts the splendors of this world and leaves no place for spirituality. He teaches us to become as selfish and ambitious as possible, and to trample one another. He teaches us to solely focus on the goods of this world which are limited and scarce, and yet can never satisfy us. Instead of trying to cultivate love within us which is infinite, he convinces us to only care about ourselves and our short miserable time on earth. He has convinced us that there’s no such thing as soul and afterlife, that our suffering here is meaningless and good deeds have little value. He tries to divide us through hatred and strife, instead of trying to unite us through peace and harmony. He desperately tries to make us forget God, or deny his love and power.

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