Notable Quotable 72
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
- Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
- Gandhi
There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.
- Lawrence Lessig, Harvard law professor
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs.
The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.
- Graham Hancock
The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Honour is simply the morality of superior men.
- H. L. Mencken
Interventionism inevitably leads to socialism, central banking inevitably leads to hyperinflation, total cashlessness inevitably leads to total surveillance, and "guaranteed income" inevitably leads to guaranteed enslavement.
A deadly poison remains a deadly poison even when ingested in a gradual manner.
- Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.
- Sir Josiah Stamp
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it.
- Frédéric Bastiat
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
