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"Many now believe that with the rise of the totalitarian State the world has entered upon a new era of barbarism. It has not. The totalitarian State is only the State; the kind of thing it does is only what the State has always done with unfailing regularity, if it had the power to do it, wherever and whenever its own aggrandizement made that kind of thing expedient. Give any State like power hereafter, and put it in like circumstances, and it will do precisely the same kind of thing. The State will unfailingly aggrandize itself, if only it has the power, first at the expense of its own citizens, and then at the expense of anyone else in sight. It has always done so, and always will."
-Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945)
"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people
still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep."
-Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983) American author/philosopher
"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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-Stewart L. Udall (1920- ) US Congressman
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom,
those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,
and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise,
to put shackles upon sleeping men.quot;
-Voltaire
[François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
"We must repudiate one of the two, either Christianity with its love of God and one's neighbor, or the state and its armies and wars."
-Leo Tolstoy, Address to the Swedish Peace Conference, 1909
"Of course, thought cannot go far in this direction before we come upon a word which is very much forbidden today. Yet there is something to be said for it. I will state it right out: "Anarchy!" Regarding the inhabitants of earth, a certain freedom, a veritable rulelessness, would almost be better than this nailed-up business which as much as turns individual peoples into herds of animals closed to every great thought."
-Christoph Blumhardt, Thy Kingdom Come
"The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient."
-Edward Abbey
"A state without a Volk is nothing, a lifeless frivolous phantom like the vagabond gypsies and Jews."
-Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
"Every nation has the government it deserves."
-Joseph de Maistre, 1811
"The enemy is the New World Order--either we forget the children's games and the posturing, unite and build a totally new kind of community or they'll smash the lot of us and our grandchildren will all end up as 'citizens of the world'."
-un-important self serving fool
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets."
-Edward Abbey
"So it happened that all the armed prophets were victorious, and all the unarmed perished."
-Nicolo Machiavelli
"Not a Republic as in the United States, where the power of the purse has established a new tyranny under the forms of freedom."
-James Connolly
"One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented."
-Robert Massie
"Americans like to talk or be told about Democracy. But, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.
-Frank Zappa
"The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance -- a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms -- A Nation of Finger Pointers."
-Lance Morrow
"[The prison guards are] capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while."
-Jean Harris, author
"You no longer have a Constitution in this land. The most vile criminal people to ever walk the face of this earth now reside in Washington D.C. And they are your masters! And Jesus Christ is going to bless this land? Don't you even consider it!"
-Louis Beam, ("Leaderless Resistance" advocate)
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem."
-Howard Zinn, FAILURE TO QUIT, p. 45
"We have two million people in jail. Our country doesn't build hospitals, doesn't build schools and doesn't build day-care centers. It builds prisons. This is not the hallmark of a free society, but of a police state."
-Steven Hager, High Times Editor-in-Chief
"Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug enforcement/drug treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depends on finding more and more people to arrest and "treat"? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?"
-Dr. Fred Oerther
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-C.S. Lewis
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
-Thomas Babington
"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation."
-Billy Holiday
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
-Senator Barry Goldwater
"I believe the State exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of the state."
-Julian Huxley
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Our country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies. The reason: excessive concentration of power and wealth in a few hands. Instead of government of, by, and for the people, we have a government of the Exxons, by the General Motors, and for the DuPonts. Such concentration serves the interests of the few over the many. History has taught us the perils of this degree of concentrated power and wealth. This concentrated power in the service of greed, together with short-term thinking, prevents our country from foreseeing and forestalling looming problems on the horizon."
-Ralph Nader
"Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?"
-Lord Chancellor Thurlow
"The real menace of our republic is the invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our city, state and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses, generally referred to as 'international bankers.'"
-John F. Hylan, 1911, (then mayor of New York)
"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden.
I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is ``needed'' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents ``interests,'' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
-Senator Barry Goldwater
"And HE said, 'To what is the Government of GOD like, and to what may I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard, which taking, a man threw into his garden; and it grew, and became into a tree, and the birds of the heavens perched in its branches.' And again HE said, 'To what may I compare the Government of GOD? It is like leaven, which taking, a woman hid in her three measures of meal, until all was leavened." Luke 13:18-21 (AST)
-Words of Jesus Annointed
"But trully I say to you, There are some of those standing here who will in no way taste of death until they see the Government of GOD." Luke 9:27 (AST)
-Words of Jesus Annointed
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
-Shirley Chisolm
"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies
that could someday facilitate a police state."
-Bruce Schneier
"Lottery tickets are the only consumer products actively promoted and sold by the state. The state does not sell toothpaste, or even promote brushing your teeth. But it tells people they should gamble. The main marketing concern is how to attract new players, who otherwise wouldn't gamble."
-I. Nelson Rose
"He has the nerve to call us violent when last year there were 80,000 cases of police brutality filed against departments all over the country this sheriff pig is poppin' off, poppin' off about how we're violent. Well, shit, he belongs to the most violent gang in U.S. history."
-Tom Morello, Rage Against The Machine
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
-John Hay
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
-Benjamin Franklin
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