Notable Quotable 96

Jul 27, 2023

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

- Isaac Asimov

Tolerance has come to mean that no one is right and no one is wrong and, indeed, the very act of stating that someone else’s views are immoral or incorrect is now taken to be intolerant (of course, from this same point of view, it is all right to be intolerant of those who hold to objectively true moral or religious positions). Once the existence of knowable truth in religion and ethics is denied, authority (the right to be believed and obeyed) gives way to power (the ability to force compliance), reason gives way to rhetoric, the speech writer is replaced by the makeup man, and spirited but civil debate in the culture wars is replaced by politically correct special-interest groups who have nothing left but political coercion to enforce their views on others.

-J.P. Moreland

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

- John Muir

Be radical, have principles, be absolute, be that which the bourgeoisie calls an extremist: don't accept what they call ‘the reality of life' and act in such a way that you won't be accepted by that kind of ‘life'. Never abandon the principle of struggle.

- Julius Evola

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

- J.R.R Tolkien

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

- Aldous Huxley

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power.

Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

- James Burnham

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

- Robert A. Heinlein

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

- José Saramago