Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence --
those are the three pillars of Western prosperity."

~ Aldous Huxley  

"People have become as processed as food."

~ Astrid Alauda  

"The world is so dreadfully managed,
one hardly knows to whom to complain."

~ Ronald Firbank  

"Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw,
"You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies
have been beautifully organized to keep good men down."

~ John W. Gardner  

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."

~ Mignon McLaughlin  

"Another perceived attribute of intellectuals that needs rethinking and revision: the assumption that they are deeply and unequivocally committed to personal, political and intellectual freedom and especially free expression…many Western intellectuals’ commitment to intellectual freedom is selective at best."

~ Paul Hollander  

"Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself --
at the expense of the new demands of each new generation."

~ John Haynes Holmes  

"Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor
by worsening the condition of the rich."

~ Martin H. Fischer  

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress
requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

~ Russell Baker  

~ Edward Said  

~ Brock Fiant  

"I think we risk becoming the best informed
society that has ever died of ignorance."

~ Reuben Blades  

"You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion."

~ Garrison Keillor  

"Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an inordinate degree of power in shaping the course of America in the dangerous postwar era. I could not help wondering and worrying whether we were faced with open enemies across the conference table and hidden enemies who sat with us in our most secret councils."

~ General Mark Clark  

"The Communists could succeed if we ever let ourselves be lulled into thinking that they are no longer dangerous to us externally and internally. They would be victorious if we were ever duped by their own nationals or by foolish Americans -- if we were ever duped into believing that they are not aggressive, atheist socialist imperialists. They have proved they never sleep. They have never permanently retreated, and what seems at a particular time to be a cessation of their forward movement or a change in their designs is nothing more than a tactical maneuver on another front."

~ Kenneth D. Wells