Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-01-16 Jan 15, 2021Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroThe liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.~ Alexander Ivanovich HerzenFor the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.~ Andrew Bernstein Jan 14, 2021The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological “atmosphere” or “climate” favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.~ Arthur BalfourPolitics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.~ Auberon HerbertIt’s never more important to move slowly and carefully before granting the state new powers than in the wake of tragedies.~ Brian Doherty Jan 13, 2021Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.~ Barry GoldwaterIt is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.~ W. E. B. Du Bois...above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood...~ Alexis de Tocqueville Jan 12, 2021An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.~ Justice Hugo L. BlackNo matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.~ Tammy BruceSince when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? ~ Justice William O. Douglas Jan 11, 2021All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.~ Isaiah BerlinThe ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.~ Friedrich August von HayekPolitical tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.~ Robert A. Heinlein Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print