The Great Quotes thread

[Bill Ryan]

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair, 1935

[Ewan]

Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui est oublié.

(There is nothing new except what has been forgotten)

-Marie Antoinette

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I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

-Richard Feynman

[Bill Ryan]

The real problem of humanity is the following. We have Paleolithic emotions, Medieval institutions, and Godlike technology.

Edward O. Wilson (1929—2021), in 2009

[Raskolnikov]

[Raskolnikov]

"Language is a virus from outer space."

William S. Burroughs

[Tintin]

There is a point of diseased mellowness and effeminacy in the history of society, at which society itself takes the part of him who injures it, the part of the criminal, and does so, in fact, seriously and honestly. To punish, appear's to it to be somehow unfair—it is certain that the idea of "punishment" and "the obligation to punish" are then painful and alarming to people. "Is it not sufficient if the criminal be rendered harmless? Why should we still punish? Punishment itself is terrible!"—with these questions gre-garious morality, the morality of fear, draws its ultimate conclusion. If one could at all do away with danger, the cause of fear, one would have done away with this morality at the same time, it would no longer be necessary, it would not consider itself any longer necessary! —Whoever examines the conscience of the present-day European, will always elicit the same imperative from its thousand moral folds and hidden recesses, the imperative of the timidity of the herd: "we wish that some time or other there may be nothing moreto fear!"

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter 5, page 114 "Beyond Good and Evil" (now in the Avalon Library)

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The quote, a damning reflection of the hyper-feminization of society and its tendency to excess compassion, and what has in more recent times been described as suicidal empathy of which one example can be tied to the misplaced acceptance of many peoples forcibly migrated into populations from incompatible cultures: a big problem in the UK and Europe at the moment (see also Enoch Powell.) We were warned.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Tintin (here)
We were warned.

We were warned, about everything imaginable, by many hundreds of humanity's very greatest and wisest thinkers and visionaries throughout the centuries. The problem has been that so very few others have ever listened.

[JackMcThorn]

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again" is attributed to French author André Gide.

[Tintin]

“There is a growing volume of evidence that the highest centres of political and economic power have been forcing the entire human race toward a global, socialist, dictatorial–oriented society. And what has been most baffling about it has been the fact that this drift toward dictatorship with its inevitable obliteration of a thousand years of struggle toward human freedom, is being plotted, promoted and implemented by the leaders of free nations and the super-rich of those nations whose positions of affluence would seem to make them the foremost beneficiaries of the free-enterprise, property-oriented, open society in which so much progress has been made. Certainly they, above all men, should know that in order for this system to survive, freedom of action and the integrity of property rights must be preserved. Then why are the super-capitalists trying to destroy them?” “In nutshell, Dr. Quigley has undertaken to expose what every insider like himself has known all along – that the world hierarchy of the dynastic super-rich is out to take over the entire planet, doing it with Socialistic legislation where possible, but having no reluctance to use Communist revolution where necessary.“

- W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Capitalist, P.24-25 (1993)

Not so much a quote as a searingly insightful observation, neatly articulated.

[Bill Ryan]

If we're willing to face our shadow.

Carl Jung, when asked: "Will humanity make it?"

[grapevine]

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
- Sun Tzu -

[Paul D.]

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Pablo Picasso

[Raskolnikov]

"The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny."

Milton Friedman

[Kryztian]

When Trump said, recently, and I am quoting him, he plans to ban, "killers, leaches and entitlement junkies" from coming into the United States, did he have Netanyahu in mind?

- Andrew Napoltano, at 14:25 in the video below.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p4Be73cEXsU

[mojorissin]

“To be is to do’ — Socrates , ‘To do is to be’ — Jean-Paul Sartre , ‘Do be do be do’ — Frank Sinatra.”
Always tickled me no end … wished I had said it first lol !

[Frankie Pancakes]

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[Frankie Pancakes]

“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response. To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.” ― Larken Rose

“A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them slaves is the fact that they now are, and are always hereafter to be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible.”
― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

[mojorissin]

“A fine power is always heralded by great pain.” - Castaneda