Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Security is when everything is settled.
When nothing can happen to you.
Security is the denial of life."

~ Germaine Greer  

"The shepherd always tries
to persuade the sheep
that their interests
and his own
are the same."

~ Stendhal  

"It is the theory of all modern civilized governments
that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen;
it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise,
and sometimes very narrowly."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Nothing appears more surprising to those who
consider human affairs with a philosophical eye,
than the ease with which the many are governed by the few."

~ David Hume  

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society."

~ Edward L. Bernays

"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is
assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question.
It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other,
but it is "not done"... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy
finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely
unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in
the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals."

~ George Orwell  

"For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be
no more urgent task than to come to understand the
mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.
These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies,
much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom'
to which we are subjected and which all too often
we serve as willing or unwitting instruments."

~ Noam Chomsky  

"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."

~ Alan Bullock  

"The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it."

~ Dr. Joseph Mengele  

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

~ Ivan Illich  

"Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful."

~ Neal Boortz  

"Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...
they are mainly institutions of control,
where basic habits must be inculcated in the young.
Education is quite different and has little place in school."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"Our 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 Spooner  

"The 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 Parenti  

"There is no subjugation so perfect as that
which keeps the appearance of freedom
for in that way one captures volition itself."

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau