Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-09-24 Sep 24, 2004He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.~ Samuel Butler[A]nd obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.~ Percy Bysshe ShelleyYet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.~ Thomas Jefferson Sep 23, 2004Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.~ Alexis de TocquevilleAppearances often are deceiving.~ AesopThere are two kinds of restrictions on human liberty -- the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.~ Carrie Chapman Catt Sep 22, 2004The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate -- shall I say third-rate? -- mind, Karl Marx.~ H. G. WellsBut to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you – the social reformers – see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.~ Isaiah BerlinIn our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Sep 21, 2004The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.~ Murray N. RothbardThe notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.~ Alan BarthWhile the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Sep 20, 2004The most may err as grossly as the few.~ John DrydenCommunism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.~ James A. C. BrownA race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.~ Max Stirner Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print