Ann Aguirre Quotes

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

The difference between being out of step with a dictator and being out of step with the democratic majority is practically negligible. The important thing is to be in step.

The era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them. Life will descend to a level of general uniformity, a new kind of primitivism, and the world will be better for it.....

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.