Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ...

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Nothing should be banned. I think it is just not good.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

Control is not humble; control is arrogant.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

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

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.