Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-10-01 Oct 1, 2025The three aims of the tyrant are, one, the humiliation of his subjects; he knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; two, the creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not to be overthrown until men begin to have confidence in one another -- and this is the reason why tyrants are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is endangered by them, not only because they will not be ruled despotically, but also because they are too loyal to one another and to other men, and do not inform against one another or against other men -- three, the tyrant desires that all his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is impossible and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny if they are powerless.~ AristotleTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.~ Quintus EnniusThe truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.~ R. D. Laing Sep 30, 2025But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.~ Alan WattsThere is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.~ Jean-Jacques RousseauNone who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck Sep 29, 2025The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.~ W. E. B. Du BoisOur progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy.~ Abraham Lincoln'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.~ C. S. Lewis Sep 26, 2025At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.~ Robert F. KennedySocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.~ Thomas Sowell[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.~ Tom G. Palmer Sep 25, 2025Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper.~ Everett Dean MartinLaissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui meme. (Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs by itself.)~ French SayingWhy doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?~ Jimmy Durante Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print