Notable Quotable 99

Aug 10, 2023

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended.

- James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison

War is the most profitable business on earth.

- Kenneth Eade, Beyond All Recognition

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

- Tony Benn

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.

- Ron Paul

All I see today is a submissive herd lead by true, bona fide, psychopaths (in a clinical sense of the word).

- The Saker

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The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

- John Pilger

The cornerstone of the fascist doctrine is a conception of the state as absolute and of individuals and groups conceivable only inasmuch as they exist in the state....Education is important as a means of social control.... In the totalitarian state education is directed toward an ultimate subordination of all individuals to the will and guidance of the state as represented and expressed by a dictator of by a party, and the outcome of such education is measured by obedient submission to and acquiescent acceptance of whatever ideology the state may prescribe.

- Constance F. Strecher, writing in 1938

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

-John Boyd Orr

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

- Author Unknown