Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-08-17 Aug 17, 2010Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.~ Alan BarthIf by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.~ Benjamin FranklinPrejudice is the child of ignorance.~ William Hazlitt Aug 16, 2010The censor believes that he can hold back the mighty traffic of life with a tin whistle and a raised right hand. For after all, it is life with which he quarrels.~ Heywood BrounTo freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]~ Marcus Tullius CiceroPolitical tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.~ Robert A. Heinlein Aug 13, 2010Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.~ Georg Christoph LichtenbergI own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.~ Thomas JeffersonA functioning police state needs no police.~ William S. Borroughs Aug 12, 2010The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.~ Lester Frank WardDepressed? Of course we're all depressed. We've been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant. The further society "progresses," the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we'll soon find government mandating Prozac in our water to prevent mental caries.~ M. Robin D'AntanProgress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.~ Norbert Wiener Aug 11, 2010There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.~ Booker T. WashingtonThey make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonAs the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.~ Tammy Bruce Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print