Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-12-31 Dec 31, 2012For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.~ Noam ChomskyThe civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.~ Bergan EvansThe majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.~ Edmund B. Chaffee Dec 28, 2012To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.~ e. e. cummingsWhat is possible for me is possible for you.~ Frederick DouglassEither you think – or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Dec 27, 2012An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.~ Mark Van DorenSome who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.~ Khalil GibranI know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery Dec 26, 2012Laissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui meme. (Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs by itself.)~ French SayingFreedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.~ John BarbourThe market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process.~ Ludwig von Mises Dec 25, 2012A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.~ Vladimir Ilyich LeninAny unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.~ Huey P. NewtonThe most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.~ Adolf Hitler Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print