Quotations

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years ago

    When government fears the people, there is liberty… (Spurious Quotation) | Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
    https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/when-government-fears-people-there-liberty-spurious-quotation

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years ago

    “If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
    ― Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 1 month ago

    “Religion is not the opiate of the masses; religion is the placebo of the masses.”
    — Dr. Gregory House

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 1 month ago

    “Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.”
    – Potter Stewart

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 1 month ago

    “But let the Spirit of all lies with works of dazzling magic blind you. Then absolutely mine, I’ll have and bind you.”
    — Mephistopheles

    Faust – A play by Goethe (1749-1832)

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 2 months ago

    “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
    — Adam Smith

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 3 months ago

    “Look! You fools! You’re in danger! Can’t you see? They’re after you! They’re after all of us! Our wives…our children…they’re here already! You’re next!”
    — Dr. Miles Bennell, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 4 months ago

    “They who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them for their blindness.”
    — John Milton

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 4 months ago

    “We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 4 months ago

    “Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.”
    — Gen. George S. Patton Jr.

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 4 months ago

    “The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
    — Gustave LeBon, The Crowd

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 4 months ago

    You cannot wake someone up who is pretending to be asleep.

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 5 months ago

    “What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s — it was like — we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”
    — Mike Pompeo, Texas A&M University – 15 April 2019

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 5 months ago

    “By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does…[Read more]

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 5 months ago

    “We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received…[Read more]

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 5 months ago

    “Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it, even if we were sure that they existed. It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended. When bad intentions are boldly avowed, the people will promptly take…[Read more]

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 6 months ago

    “The past is a lighthouse, not a port.”
    — Russian proverb

    “прошлое — это маяк, а не порт.”

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 7 months ago

    “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
    — Alexander the Great

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 7 months ago

    “We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
    — Edward Bernays

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 3 years, 7 months ago

    “History is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren’t there.”
    — attributed to George Santayana

    (probably misattributed, but still a good quote; try again some time to source)

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