Notable Quotables from Information Clearing House Jan. 15, 2016
"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.": Georges Bernanos
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose": Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world": Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." --Henry Kissinger
"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't." : Abraham Lincoln.
"The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds but in their quiet refusals. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not." - Philip K. Dick - How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
