Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-11-20 Nov 20, 2012In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.~ Edward GibbonBy a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died at the hands of their own governments in this century. Given that record, how bad could anarchy be?~ Joseph SobranIt may be your intent to be our masters; how can it be ours to be your slaves?~ Melians 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print