Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-02-06 Feb 6, 2023Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.~ Lysander SpoonerThe worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.~ Michael ParentiThere is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feb 3, 2023When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.~ Thomas SowellWhen all think alike, no one is thinking very much.~ Walter LippmannA truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.~ William Blake Feb 2, 2023A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.~ Edgar J. MohnIf falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.~ Michel De MontaigneTruth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.~ Sir Winston Churchill Feb 1, 2023There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.~ Daniel DennettA good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister… For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.~ Justice Clarence ThomasIf there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Jan 31, 2023The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.~ Aldous HuxleySociety attacks early when the individual is helpless.~ B. F. SkinnerThe pen is mightier than the sword.~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print