Nostradamus Quotes

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.

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances.

There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

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.

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

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

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

Empire and liberty.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.