Ayn Rand Quote on Freedom and Decisions – Inspiring Life Wisdom
“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand on the Ultimate Inversion: When Government and Freedom Collide!
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”
Ayn Rand
Alexis De Tocqueville Quote on Democracy, Socialism & the Truth About Equality
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common except a single word: equality. The difference is considerable: while democracy seeks equality in freedom, socialism seeks equality in restriction and subjugation.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
Friedrich Schiller Quotes: Why Power Ends Without Consent
“The great cease to rule when the small cease to crawl”
Friedrich Schiller
Sam Harris on the True Essence of Science – Why Intellectual Honesty Matters
“The core of science is not controlled experiment or mathetical modeling; it is intellectual honesty. It is time we acknowledge a basic feature of human discourse: when considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn’t.”
Sam Harris
Aldous Huxley Quote: The Dark Future of Loving Servitude Revealed
“There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.”
Aldous Huxley
Brock Chisholm Quote on World Government, Individualism & Religion – The Controversial Truth
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.”
Brock Chisholm
André Heller Quote: The True Danger of Exclusion at the Start of Nazi Rule
“Let us not forget that the beginning of Nazi rule was not marked by Auschwitz, but by the exclusion of people who were considered disruptive or harmful.”
André Heller
Étienne de La Boétie on the Power of Habit: Why Submission Becomes Natural
“Although people initially submit under coercion and force, those who come after them obey without regret and willingly do what their predecessors did because they had to. That is why men who are born under the yoke and then raised and brought up in slavery are content to live in their original circumstances without further effort, unaware of any other state or right, and considering the state into which they were born to be entirely natural. … the powerful influence of custom is in no way more compelling than in this, namely, the habituation to submission.”
Étienne de La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie Quotes: Profound Insights on Tyranny and Power
“There are three kinds of tyrants: some obtain their proud position through elections by the people, others through armed force, and others through inheritance.”
Étienne de La Boétie