Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 332 Hypocrisy quotesHypocrisy QuotesHypocrisy Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion... In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.~ Henry Steele Commager Thus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt...~ Benjamin Constant We consistently have adhered to the principle that the will of the people is the paramount consideration. Our goal today…[is] to reach the result that reflects the will of the voters…. The laws are intended to facilitate and safeguard the right of each voter to express his or her will in the context of our representative democracy. Technical statutory requirements must not be exalted over the substance of this right.~ Florida Supreme Court What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother’s morals – only of his rights.~ Judith Crist Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. ~ Theodore Dalrymple The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.~ Clarence S. Darrow ...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.~ Voltairine de Cleyre Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.~ Charles De Gaulle Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.~ Michel de Montaigne There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.~ Charles de Montesquieu The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles-Louis De Secondat There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.~ Charles-Louis De Secondat I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.~ Daniel Defoe People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.~ Democritus If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.~ Alan Dershowitz The GOP has as much commitment to small government as the Democratic Party has to a strong national defense.~ John Dobbins I was at last beginning to see how ignorant I had become, how long since I had read anything except Party literature. I thought of our bookshelves stripped of books questioned by the Party, how when a writer was expelled from the Party his books went, too. I thought of the systematic rewriting of Soviet history, the revaluation, and in some cases the blotting out of any mention of such persons as Trotsky. I thought of the successive purges. Suddenly I too wanted the answers to the questions Senator Hickenlooper was asking and I wanted the truth. I found myself hitting at the duplicity of the Communist Party.~ Dr. Bella Dodd Welfare rights are pseudo-rights: They rely on the force of law to take private property for the use of others without compensation and without consent. Public charity is forced charity; it is not a virtue but a vice.~ James A. Dorn Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print