Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-07-30 Jul 30, 2018It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.~ George Bernard ShawTotalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: “Things must change—no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.” Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it. They were told before, thou shalt not kill; and they didn’t kill. Now they are told, thou shalt kill; and although they think it’s very difficult to kill, they do it because it’s now part of the code of behavior. They learn whom to kill and how to kill and how to do it together. This is the much talked about Gleichschaltung—the coordination process. You are coordinated not with the powers that be, but with your neighbor—coordinated with the majority. But instead of communicating with the other you are now glued to him. And you feel of course marvelous. Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another.~ Hannah ArendtIf you cannot convince them, confuse them.~ Harry S. Truman Jul 27, 2018Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.~ John LockeMorality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.~ Léon BlumWhen you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.~ Max Lerner Jul 26, 2018Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every one know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.~ James A. GarfieldPerfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.~ R. G. CollingwoodThen liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.~ William Cowper Jul 25, 2018One byproduct of individualism is benevolence -- a general attitude of good will towards one's neighbors and fellow human beings. Benevolence is impossible in a society where people violate each others' rights.~ Glenn WoiceshynCount it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.~ JuvenalIf moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.~ Samuel P. Ginder Jul 24, 2018The loyalists in the beginning of the late war objected to associating, arming and fighting, in defense of our liberties, because these measures were not constitutional. A free people should always be left... with every possible power to promote their own happiness.~ Pennsylvania GazetteWe find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another.~ Simmons v. U.S.I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print