Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-07-23 Jul 22, 2016It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.~ Benjamin DisraeliTeachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.~ Bernhard RustPurveyors of political correctness will, in the final analysis, not even allow others their judgments... They celebrate “difference,” but they will not allow people truly to be different -- to think differently, and to say what they think.~ Mark Berley Jul 21, 2016The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.~ Albert EinsteinCensorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.~ John OsborneNo nation, ancient or modern, ever lost the liberty of speaking freely, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.~ John Peter Zenger Jul 20, 2016Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.~ Manuel Garcia O'Kelly DavisWhere once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.~ Richard MitchellHow strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!~ Samuel Adams Jul 19, 2016Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.~ Thomas SowellPopular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.~ George F. KennanWhat luck for the rulers that men do not think.~ Adolf Hitler Jul 18, 2016A principal source of errors and injustice are false ideas of utility. For example: that legislator has false ideas of utility who considers particular more than general conveniencies, who had rather command the sentiments of mankind than excite them, who dares say to reason, 'Be thou a slave;' who would sacrifice a thousand real advantages to the fear of an imaginary or trifling inconvenience; who would deprive men of the use of fire for fear of their being burnt, and of water for fear of their being drowned; and who knows of no means of preventing evil but by destroying it.~ Cesare BeccariaThe laws of this nature are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator? and does it not subject the innocent to all the disagreeable circumstances that should only fall on the guilty? It certainly makes the situation of the assaulted worse, and of the assailants better, and rather encourages than prevents murder, as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons.~ Cesare Beccaria Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print