Notable Quotable 73

Apr 25, 2023

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

- Wendell Berry

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

- John Adams

We are no longer accepting things we cannot change. It is now time to change the things we cannot accept.

- Robert Kennedy

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

- Anais Nin

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

- Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

- Joseph Pulitzer

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

- Charles R. Swindoll

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

- Robert Peel

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and viscious, they have more need of masters.

- Author Unknown

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

- Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena