Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"In the country of the blind
the one-eyed man is king."

~ Desiderius Erasmus  

"To achieve world government,
it is necessary to remove from the minds of men,
their individualism, loyalty to family traditions,
national patriotism and religious dogmas."

~ Dr. G. Brock Chisolm  

"The pretence is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely."

~ J. A. Stormer  

"The most absolute authority is that which
penetrates into a man’s innermost being
and concerns itself no less with his will
than with his actions."

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau  

"Fame is proof that the people are gullible."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"History is fables agreed upon."

~ Voltaire  

"School is the advertising agency
which makes you believe that
you need the society as it is."

~ Ivan Illich  

"I begin by taking.
I shall find scholars later
to demonstrate my perfect right."

~ Frederick the Great  

"To die for an idea: it is unquestionably noble.
But how much nobler it would be
if men died for ideas that were true."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.
It is the landmark of an authoritarian regime..."

~ Justice Potter Stewart  

"Chief among the spoils of victory
is the privilege of writing the history."

~ Mark Alexander  

"The enormous gap between what U.S. leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology."

~ Michael Parenti  

"Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more."

~ Francisco Ferrer  

"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it... Rise for the flag salute."

~ Frank Zappa  

"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche