Notable Quotable 95

Jul 24, 2023

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

- Arundhati Roy

The effects of this staleness is the same everywhere; it is seen in all drug-taking and dram-drinking and every form of the tendency to increase the dose. Men seek stranger things or more startling obscenities as stimulants to their jaded sense. They seek after mad oriental religions for the same reason. They try to stab their nerves to life... They are walking in their sleep and try to wake themselves up with nightmares.

- G.K. Chesterton

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

- Jacob Bronowski, Science & Human Values

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

- Meister Eckhart

Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

- Jim Dodge

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The order-follower always bears more moral culpability than the order-giver, because the order-follower is the one who actually performed the action, and in taking such action, actually brought the resultant harm into physical manifestation.

- Mark Passio

The most absurd apology for the State is that they serve to diminish crime.

Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime.

It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimise the horrible scourge of its own creation.

- Emma Goldman

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

- Terence McKenna

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilisation goes, and, then, the population.

- Pat Buchanan

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

- Ludwig von Mises