The Great Quotes thread

[Bill Ryan]

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

Charles Darwin (The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex: 1871)

[rgray222]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, wrote about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld state laws barring biological men from women’s sports.

"Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable ‘biological’ characteristic; it is binary; and ‘man’ and ‘woman,’ ‘boy’ and ‘girl,’ are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex."

He went on to say in the same decision:

"To use language to obscure reality to show ‘indifference regarding the truth’— is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens ‘as equal[s].’"

[Raskolnikov]

"To sell chemotherapy as a 'therapy' is the biggest deceit in the history of medicine. Whoever masterminded this 'chemo-torture' deserves a monument in hell."

Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer

[Vicus]

There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

[Bill Ryan]

If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it.

Mark Twain

[Raskolnikov]

"Everyone knows that the fire from a little spark will increase and blaze ever higher as long as it finds wood to burn; yet without being quenched by water, but merely by finding no more fuel to feed on, it consumes itself, dies down, and is no longer a flame. Similarly, the more tyrants pillage, the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies."

Étienne de La Boétie