“These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they most certainly will not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.”
Theodore J. Kaczynski
“If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist.”
Dave Smith
“I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I’ve been wrong many times but I’m beginning to think I’m right about this: the mainstream media is not your friend, the culture is not your friend, the government is not your friend, big business is not your friend. They are operating collegiately in unison to create a set of systems that are beneficial to them and disadvantage you.”
Russel Brand
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
Fjodor Dostojewski
“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.”
Tom Clancy
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”
John Edgar Hoover
“Every four years it elects the Bundestag. The lists or persons submitted to it by the parties are already elected beforehand by the parties. The process of this hidden preliminary election, which is the actual election, is convoluted; the names for the constituency lists and the state lists are not drawn up in the same way. But it is always the party committees, never the people, who would be involved in this decisive beginning. One must be a party member in order to participate somewhere in this election and to be able to be set up. Even those who are party members, as such, have little effect in the nominations. The decisive factor is the party hierarchy and bureaucracy.[…] Even the elections are not really elections, but acclamations to the party oligarchy. [….] The parties, which should by no means be the state, make themselves, withdrawn from the life of the people, the state [….] The governance of the state is in the hands of the party oligarchy [….] Their position, not limited by any tension to other power, seduces [….] the parties to want to occupy the seats by their own people. This is the reward for party work, the spoils of victory after the electoral battle [….]”
Karl Jaspers
“Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world where every government is just a bunch of businessmen working for a bunch of bigger businessmen and none of them give a shit about the people. The sad fact is no one knows how to change it, because no one knows how to take on the corporations. So I guess we’re stuck with this system until the oil runs out.”
Woody Harrelson
“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.”
George Orwell