Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-10-02 Oct 2, 2017It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.~ Eric HofferHistory has taught us time and again that political power always raises its angry fist when timeless principles are lost. We know that without the scale of "self-evident truths" grounded in the "laws of nature and nature's God," every culture eventually finds itself subject to the rule of the gang or the tyranny of the individual. Recognizing this, scholars of all ages have confidently given their hearts and minds to the words, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.~ Everett PiperThe Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative.~ Henry Grady Weaver Sep 29, 2017All lawful authority comes from God to the people.~ Constitution of the Irish Free StateDistrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.~ Friedrich NietzscheMy faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.~ Justice William O. Douglas Sep 28, 2017Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.~ EpictetusFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.~ George OrwellTo freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Sep 27, 2017Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.~ Peter DruckerOne of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests…. The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, “Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.”~ Sidney HookForce (is) the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.~ Thomas Jefferson Sep 26, 2017[T]he State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation -- that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class -- that is, for a criminal purpose. No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.~ Albert Jay Nock Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print