David Icke Quotes

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

… 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.

There are always choices in politics.

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.

Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrill you, or the things that worry you. You have the choice in every moment.

My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE.

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.