Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-08-24 Aug 24, 2009Whatever the individual motives of the censors may be, censorship is a form of social control. It is a means of holding a society together, of arresting the flux which censors fear. And since the fear cannot be appeased, the demands for censorship mount in volume and intensity. And one form of censorship can easily lead to other forms.~ Carey McWilliamsAs Hitler showed us, a press suppressed does not make a recovery. As Lenin indicated, a press controlled does not revert to a critic’s role. As history reminds us, free speech surrendered is rarely recovered.~ William J. SmallContrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.~ Lewis Carroll Aug 21, 2009Believe me, National Socialism would not be worth anything if it were to be confined to Germany and did not secure the rule of the superior race over the whole world for at least one or two thousand years.~ Adolf HitlerWe will offer the Christian world unheard of peace overtures, and these nations, stupid and decadent, will leap at the chance to be our friends; they will willingly cooperate in their own destruction. Then, when their guard is down, and they have gone to sleep, we will smash them with our clenched fist.~ Dmitri ManuilskyNothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere.~ Richard Thompson Aug 20, 2009What is right and what is practicable are two different things.~ James BuchananI don't want my children fed or clothed by the state, but if I had to choose, I would prefer that to their being educated by the state.~ Max Victor Belz Aug 19, 2009Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTogether we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.~ Ivan IllichThe conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.~ John Kenneth Galbraith Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print