Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-97] of 97 Collectivist quotesCollectivist QuotesCollectivist Previous 20 quotes Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The “poets of society,” the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.~ Richard Sennett [A]nd obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes.~ Thomas Sowell The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that -- however bloody -- can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.~ Lysander Spooner The first great struggle for liberty was in the realm of thought. The libertarians reasoned that freedom of thought would be good for mankind; it would promote knowledge, and increased knowledge would advance civilization. But the authoritarians protested that freedom of thought would be dangerous, that people would think wrong, that a few were divinely appointed to think for the people.~ Charles T. Sprading A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.~ Max Stirner I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.~ Harriet Beecher Stowe Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be.~ Supreme Court of the United States Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.~ William Howard Taft The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.~ Daniel Webster The denial or revocation of a parenting license would be expected to be a painful experience, particularly for mothers. The overall importance of protecting innocent children from incompetent parenting justifies the inconvenience to a few parents and the inevitable imperfections of a licensing system.~ Jack C. Westman Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.~ E. B. White Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff -- watch out!~ Walter E. Williams Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.~ Woodrow Wilson An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.~ Sun Yat-sen Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print