Charley Reese Quotes

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

Awareness without action is worthless.

I fear, my Lords, it is too much the temper of this country to be insensible of the approach of danger, until it comes with accumulated terror upon us.

Unfortunately, this country requires body bags before it will act...

Contemporary Americans were so prosperous, so happily distracted by such a richness of vivid entertainments, they were reluctant to have their fun diminished by acknowledging that anything existed with fangs and fierce appetites. If now and then they recognized a wolf, they threw a bone to it and convinced themselves it was a dog.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.