Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize."

~ Sinclair Lewis  

"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority
indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be
accepted as such by a majority of the people."

~ David Edwards  

"It is our nature to conform;
it is a force which not many people can successfully resist.
What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval."

~ Mark Twain  

"The issues can be stated very briefly:
Who will be controlled?
Who will exercise control?
What type of control will be exercised?
Most important of all, toward what end or purpose,
or in the pursuit of what value, will control be exercised?"

~ Carl Rogers  

"The use of force alone is but temporary.  It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."

~ Edmund Burke  

"Justice in the hands of the powerful is
merely a governing system like any other.
Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,
but of a sly effective order, based entirely on
cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak,
their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery."

~ Georges Bernanos  

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."

~ Abbie Hoffman  

"A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the
masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"You demonize...we call it the wrap-up smear, you smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it and then you write it and say, "See, it's reported in the press that this, this, and this..." so they have that validation that the press reported the smear and then it's called a wrap-up-smear and the merchandise is the press' report on the smear we made. It's a tactic, and it's self-evident."

~ Nancy Pelosi