Notable Quotable 61

Mar 03, 2023

In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses.

It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

- Edward Bernays

You didn't come into this world, you came out of it - like a wave from the ocean.

- Alan Watts

Walk tall, kick ass... And never forget that you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

- Hunter S. Thompson

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

- Immanuel Kant

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to partake in the lie, not to support false actions! Let THAT enter the world, let it even reign in the world – but not through me... One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiat currency isn’t money—it’s a weapon. Every duck farmer knows this, and you can only pretend The Fake is The Real for so long before mass starvation takes place.

- Jarod Kintz

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

- Robert A. Heinlein

We are asleep. Our life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just long enough to know that we are dreaming.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

- George Orwell

God is not a matter of explaining, but a deep emotional experience which neither needs, nor can be put into, words.

- Carl Jung