Notable Quotable 68

Joel Walbert

Apr 07, 2023

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

- Pythagoras

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

- Victor Hugo

It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer for it.

- Jeff Cooper

The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order.

- Henry Kissinger

Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.”

~ Erich Fromm, On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power

More often than not, a statist’s argument against Anarchism boils down to an unwillingness to take control and responsibility for their own lives, actions, and communities. The sad truth is that the human animal has been domesticated to the point where it actually fears Liberty.

- Dane Whalen

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

- Eric Hoffer

This is the nature of war: it turns us into enemies. People who have never met kill each other out of fear.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

- Martin Luther King Jr.