Al Goldstein Quotes

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

I've always hated oppression.

Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way.

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

We know what totalitarian looks like, we know what oppression looks like, we know what the dumb culture of totalitarianism smells like. This is it! It's happening now, and the future of the world is being decided. So, get out there, make your own sites, take action!

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

History’s most important lesson is that it has not been possible to make coercion compatible with the truth.