Category: Thought

He said that wise men gained more advantage from fools, than fools from wise men; for the wise men avoid the errors of fools, but fools cannot imitate the example of wise men.

Plutarch on Marcus Cato, Parallel Lives.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch, Parallel Lives: Sertorius, sec. 16.

Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped Indians.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Zanoni (1842).

Collectivism means the end of truth. To make a totalitarian system function efficiently, it is not enough that everybody should be forced to work for the ends selected by those in control; it is essential that the people should come to regard these ends as their own. This is brought about by propaganda and by complete control of all sources of information.

Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Road to Serfdom: A Condensation from the Book,” Reader’s Digest (April 1945), p. 11.

There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4.

Albert Camus, The Plague (1947).

Because of how the federal government operates, they really can do whatever they want to whoever they want and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Nick Fuentes, speaking in “The Total End of a Free Society” (February 23, 2022).

One does not decide the truth of a thought according to whether it is right-wing or left-wing.

Albert Camus to Jean-Paul Sartre, in a letter (June 30, 1952).

When a war breaks out, people say: “It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.” But though the war may well be “too stupid,” that doesn’t prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Albert Camus, The Plague (1947).

Man is a social rather than a political animal; he can exist without a government.

George Santayana, Obiter Scripta (1936).