Notable Quotable 74

Apr 27, 2023

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, 2nd U.S. President

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

- John Adam, 2nd U.S. President

Race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we should know better where we are, for we should then take for certain the opposite of what the liar tells us. But the reverse of truth has a thousand shapes and a boundless field.

- Montaigne

I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological.

I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.

- B.H. Liddell Hart

The collective and the group members do not experience the world objectively, but mythologically, in archetypal images and symbols; and their reaction to it is archetypal, instinctive, and unconscious, not individual and conscious.

- Erich Neumann