Notable Quotable 69

Apr 10, 2023

From wars to corrupt governments causing hungry and poverty, these are all made by decisions that men and women make."

- Catherine Pulsifer

When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.

- Gustave Le Bon

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

- John Adams, 2nd U.S. President

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

- Aristotle

In the totalitarian state education is directed toward an ultimate subordination of all individuals to the will and guidance of the state as represented and expressed by a dictator of by a party, and the outcome of such education is measured by obedient submission to and acquiescent acceptance of whatever ideology the state may prescribe.

- Constance F. Strecher, writing in 1938

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

- Theodore C. Sorensen

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

- Albert Einstein

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

- Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon