Suppression of Rights Quotes

Moslem fundamentalists use 7th century customs to keep 21st century women in line.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

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

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Neo-Islam's attempt at destroying individual freedoms is as much a threat to Islam as the Inquisition was to Christianity.

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.

The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property of individuals that it is supposed to be defending.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Authoritarianism is the principle determinant of intollerance.

Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.