Notable Quotable 97

Joel Walbert

Aug 03, 2023

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

- Carl Jung

The measure of the State's success is that the word 'anarchy' frightens people, while the word 'State' does not.

- Joseph Sobran

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

- Manly P. Hall

Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound hand and foot the passers-by sneer at him, hitting him and abusing him, no longer afraid of his cruelty and rage, because of the king who has conquered him. So has death been conquered and branded for what it is by the Savior on the cross. It is bound hand and foot, all who are in Christ trample it as they pass and as witnesses to Him deride it, scoffing and saying, "O Death, where is thy victory? O Grave, where is thy sting?

- Saint Athanasius

And those of us who have seen all the normal rules and relations of humanity uprooted by random speculators, as if they were, abnormal abuses and almost accidents, will understand why men have sought for something divine if they wished to preserve anything human. They will know why common sense, cast out from some academy of fads and fashions conducted on the lines of a luxurious madhouse, has age after age sought refuge in the high sanity of a sacrament.

- G.K. Chesterton

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We are witnessing, not the natural end of a great human civilization, but the birth of a inhuman civilization that could never have come into being without a vast, an immense, a universal sterilisation of life's highest values.

- George Bernanos

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

- John Steinbeck

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers.

Government never makes ends meet - and that is the first requisite of business.

- Thomas Edison

Crimes for a greater good are still crimes.

- Thomm Quackenbush

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder — is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?

- Frédéric Bastiat