Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-11-08 Nov 8, 2017There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.~ William JamesTerrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.~ Adolf HitlerThere's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds." ~ Ernie Kovacs Nov 7, 2017Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.~ Richard SalantNews reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.~ Walter CronkiteThe news is like a ship. If you take hands off the wheel, it pulls hard to the left.~ Roger Ailes Nov 6, 2017The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.~ Edgar Watson HoweThe majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.~ Edmund B. ChaffeeIf you believe everything you read, you better not read.~ Japanese Proverb Nov 3, 2017[When] Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology, why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?~ Auguste ComteFrom that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.~ Charles TillySome informants spied on their neighbors because they actually believed the propaganda… Some denounced their enemies in order to settle personal grudges. Some were driven by their own fears to attempt to deflect attention away from themselves…Some were motivated by the sense of power turning in their neighbors gave them.~ Kort E. Patterson Nov 2, 2017When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.~ George O'NeilNeither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.~ Jefferson DavisYour silence gives consent.~ Plato Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print