 Quote > If liberty means anything at all...If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Continued at top
Owned by Unordained - Created on 09/04/2003 - Never edited 12/25/06 :: Folder :: Government & Politics11/01/05 :: Folder :: Freedom & Responsibility01/16/04 :: Article :: On Godwin's Law :: Did you say Nazi?01/12/04 :: Article :: Standard Deviants :: We may be all over the map, but we're neighbors.12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Ban the Bible, A Persuasive Speech10/22/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Indymedia: Between Passion and Pragmatism10/21/03 :: Article :: Anonymity :: Is the author's name the most important part of an article? 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Napoleon BonaparteTen people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Søren KierkegaardPeople demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.  09/04/03 :: Quote :: Sam BrownNever offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified] Any good college textbook on "oppression and how to make the masses scream for it" will tell you that the following pattern must be followed:
1. Introduce oppression as a theoretical idea. Gauge the response.
2. Make oppression optional. Depending on the opposition to the idea (you did remember to gauge the response to the theoretical idea, didn't you?), offer some worthless token that the mass [...]  11/16/05 :: Quote :: Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court JusticeThe greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Adolf Hitler (disputed)What luck for the rulers that men do not think! 09/04/03 :: Quote :: SupertrampNow watch what you say
They'll be calling you a radical, liberal,
Fanatical, criminal.
Won't you sign up your name?
We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable,
Presentable, a vegetable. 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills. 07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Issues2000.org05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick Henry [disputed]Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! 05/12/06 :: Quote :: AristotleA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. 02/25/07 :: Quote :: Bertrand RussellMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.  09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Winston ChurchillThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 08/26/07 :: Article :: Support the troops! :: Opposing a war is more difficult than it sounds07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Victor HugoWhen dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Woodrow WilsonLiberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Privacy and Deviance03/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S.-Sponsored Regime Change in Haiti10/31/07 :: Article :: On education :: Teaching, testing, certifying09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Compass09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeThere's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Winston ChurchillA fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. 06/09/05 :: Quote :: Frederick DouglassIf there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggl [...] 02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations) |
