Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."

~ Alfred Adler  

"If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing."

~ Anatole France  

"Advances are made by answering questions.
Discoveries are made by questioning answers."

~ Bernhard Haisch  

"What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy."

~ Dr. G. Brock Chisolm  

"During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics.
This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation
through brainwashing and fake mental health."

~ Kenneth Goff  

"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation."

~ Soren Kierkegaard  

"A university’s essential character is that
of being a center of free inquiry and criticism --
a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."

~ Richard Hofstadter  

"Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same
category within the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.' "

~ Robert A. Heinlein  

"For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known,
for knowledge is the image of existence,
and things mean and splendid exist alike."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether
the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

~ Carl Gustav Jung  

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened."

~ Charles Darwin  

"Totalitarianism spells simplification:
an enormous reduction in the variety
of aims, motives, interests, human types,
and, above all, in the categories and units of power."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"It has been discovered that the best way
to insure implicit obedience is to
commence tyranny in the nursery."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"A principal source of errors and injustice are false ideas of utility. For example: that legislator has false ideas of utility who considers particular more than general conveniencies, who had rather command the sentiments of mankind than excite them, who dares say to reason, 'Be thou a slave;' who would sacrifice a thousand real advantages to the fear of an imaginary or trifling inconvenience; who would deprive men of the use of fire for fear of their being burnt, and of water for fear of their being drowned; and who knows of no means of preventing evil but by destroying it."

~ Cesare Beccaria  

"For who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists
to say whether our teeth were aching,
only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and
only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"

~ C. S. Lewis