“We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.” MenFormAsksIndividualPeaceFreedomGroupsSubjectsMen And WomenCriminalsEnslavementOld And New Author:Pope Francis
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).” EarthPoliticalReligionIndividualFreedomLibertyDemocracyRightsSubjectsProtectVoteFunctionMajorityOppressionMinoritiesIndividualismSmallestCollectivismRight To VoteIndividual RightsObjectivismPolitical OppressionMajority And MinorityMinority Government Book:The Virtue of Selfishness Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” KnowsMenMindMayLittlesHas BeensEndsMatterGovernmentReligionForceCan DoChurchFreedomResultsSubjectsFashionAmountNeededHolyAtheistTyrannyOppressionConquerMotiveBombsCensorshipSecrecyFree ManAtomic BombRacksEnd ResultsKeystones Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his freedom to use or not use his reason about any given subject. In short, the natural fact of his "free will." He also discovers the natural fact of his mind's command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self.” MenMindSelfReasonFactsUseBodyActionIndividualGivenNaturalFreedomConsciousnessSubjectsCommandFree WillOwnershipFreedom To Choose Book:The Ethics of Liberty Source: The Ethics of Liberty
“They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.” PeopleHas BeensWarSelfFreedomLibertyClassToo MuchSubjectsMastersBattleJokesInstitutionsDemocraticRepublicAntiwarConquestGoverningPlunder Author:Eugene V. Debs
“No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.” MenHumansMayLyingNaturalFreedomSituationLibertySunVirtueSubjectsMankindBearsPeriodsCircumstancesConnectionsSeasonsVariousExtremesTemptationSufficientPretendingRidiculeVariationConfinedCivil SocietyLatitude Book:The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus