Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-11-19 Nov 19, 2012Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.~ Aldous HuxleyNeither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.~ Jefferson DavisNo one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.~ Leonard Schapiro Nov 16, 2012'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.~ John KeatsNothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.~ John KeatsSo every bondman in his own hand bear The power to cancel his captivity.~ William Shakespeare Nov 15, 2012Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see my country's honor fade; Oh! let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.~ John KeatsWe grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Nov 14, 2012Lying is done with words and also with silence.~ Adrienne RichThe hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.~ Ambrose BierceIt is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy: capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.~ Ayn Rand Nov 13, 2012Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself.~ Corri AliusI never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.~ Thomas JeffersonHave no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.~ Victor Hugo Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print