Notable Quotable 77

May 03, 2023

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

- Georg Hegel

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

- Edward R. Murrow

When you ask the government for freedom, the stupidity of your petition is instant proof to the latter that you have no grasp of your rights.

- Anselme Bellegarrigue

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

- Joseph Campbell

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

- Eliza Farnham

If you can cut people off from their past, they can be easily persuaded.

- Karl Marx

Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or Socialists, as central to the eugenic creed is the desire to engineer and centrally plan human reproduction and heredity.

These were not people that believed in individual liberty. They were statists. They were totalitarians at heart.

- A.E. Samaan

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

- Marcus Aurelius