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The cult of passivity and so-called relaxation is one of most dangerous developments of our times. Essentially, it represents a camouflage pattern, the double wish not to see the dangers and challenges of life and not to be seen… Silent, lonely relaxation with alcohol, sweets, or the television screen… may soothe the mind into a passivity that may gradually make it vulnerable to the seductive ideology of some feared enemy. Denying the danger of totalitarianism through passivity, may gradually surrender to its blandishments those who were initially afraid of it. – Joost A. Merloo Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation… we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity. – John Dryden Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Never trust governments absolutely and always do what you can to prevent them from doing too much harm. – John Arthur Passmore Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you’re told you deserve whatever you get. – Iain Banks Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Blind submission to the Administration of the government is not devotion to the country or the Constitution. The administration is not the government. – Edward G. Ryan Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm. – Demosthenes Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. – George Orwell Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals with fearless heart to heaven, and thence brings down his everlasting rights, which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man confronts his fellow man; and if all other means shall fail his need, one last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children! – Friedrich Schiller Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Can anybody point me to that one time in history where the side that was demanding censorship, segregation, propaganda, radical education, papers to move freely in society, plus government forces going door to door to demand compliance were the good guys? – Candace Owens Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
The only difference between street fighting and boxing is that there is a ref there stopping me from killing you. – Marvin Hagler Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting, but I try not to look like it. – Marvin Hagler Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas. – Marvin Hagler Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them. – Montaigne Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Everything in this book may be wrong. – Richard Bach Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian. – Heywood Hale Broun Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
We should never define libertarian positions in terms coined by liberals and conservatives, nor as some variant of their positions. We are not fiscally conservative and socially liberal. We are libertarians, who believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times. – Harry Browne Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Every insubordinate person, when he rises up against oppression, reaffirms thereby the solidarity of all men. – Albert Camus Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
I rebel - therefore we exist. – Albert Camus Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime… whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber… or by millions, calling themselves a government. – Lysander Spooner Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
With such (collectivist) systems, the individual has always been a victim, twisted against him or herself and commanded to be “unselfish” in sacrificial service to some allegedly higher value called God or pharaoh or emperor or king or society or the state or the race or the proletariat - or the cosmos. It is a strange paradox of our history that this doctrine - which tells us to regard ourselves, in effect, as sacrificial animals - has been generally accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for humankind. From the first individual… who was sacrificed on an altar for the good of the tribe, to the heretics and dissenters burned at the stake for the good of the populace or the glory of God, to the millions exterminated in… slave-labor camps for the good of the race or of the proletariat, it is this (collectivist) morality that has served as justification for every dictatorship and every atrocity, past or present. – Nathaniel Branden Famous Quote	added 3 years ago

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