Hugh Howey Quotes

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

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

Disorder is the child of authority and compulsion. Liberty is the mother of order.

The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom

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

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

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.

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

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Freedom is won by violence, but needs mutual tolerance to survive.

When it becomes possible to speak of freedom, the state, as such, will cease to exist.

... too Orwellian to contemplate, they've gone way too far.

While the state exists there is no freedom; when there is freedom, there will be no state.

With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor ... Each of the things is, by the respective party, called by two different and incompatible names—liberty and tyranny.

The human mind is ever oscillating between the extremes of authority and individualism; and if the former – the Catholic idea – finds lodgment in the minds of this people, we ring the death-knell of American liberties.

A global government would almost by definition abusive. As someone who escaped from Communist government, how would I escape from global government.