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Thoughts
for Today
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * June 30.
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is
wrong, no matter who does it or says it." June 29.
"I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and
humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never
the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." June 28.
"There will be in the next generation or so a
pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing
dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless
concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their
liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be
distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or
brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final
revolution." June 27.
“I suppose sometimes people look at my demeanor and
say, 'He's the Darth Vader of the administration.'” June 26.
"In the general course of human nature, a power over man's substance amounts to
a power over his will." June 25.
"Anyone who tells you that 'It Can't Happen Here' is whistling past the
graveyard of history. There is no 'house rule' that bars tyranny coming to
America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and
descended into imperial butchery and chaos." June 24.
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your
teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after
due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the
benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and
take it as your guide." June 23.
"...There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. ...
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the
inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their
carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I
fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and
fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the
dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing." June 22.
"The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which
it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the
character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal." June 21.
"In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a
comfortable life, and they lost it all -- security, comfort, and freedom. When
... the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens
ceased to be free." June 20.
"The tyranny of a principal in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public
welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy." June 19.
"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want
crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and
lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This
struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both
moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a
demand. It never did and it never will." June 18.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the
active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of
his crime and the punishment of his guilt." June 17.
"The greatest of fault, I should say, is to be conscious of none." June 16.
"If the people were to ever find out what we have
done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." June 15.
"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest
causes." June 14.
'I would never die for my beliefs because I might be
wrong.'
"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is
capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to
think, and this they consider freedom." June 12.
"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny" June 11.
"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than
the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have
an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs
who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is
evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth
again reverts to a new minority." June 10.
"Tis the times plague when madmen lead the blind" June 09.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are
free." June 08.
"To
educate a man is to unfit
him to be a slave." June 07.
"Freedom
of the press, freedom of
association, the
inviolability of domicile,
and all the rest of the
rights of man are respected
so long as no one tries to
use them against the
privileged class. On the day
they are launched against
the privileged they are
overthrown." June 06.
June 05.
"When you see that
trading is done, not by consent, but
by compulsion - when you see that in
order to produce, you need to obtain
permission from men who produce
nothing - when you see that money is
flowing to those who deal, not in
goods, but in favors - when you see
that men get richer by graft and by
pull than by work, and your laws
don't protect you against them, but
protect them against you - when you
see corruption being rewarded and
honesty becoming a self-sacrifice -
you may know that your society is
doomed" June 04.
"Every evil, harm and
suffering in this life comes from the love
of riches." June 03.
"COWARDICE, n. A charge
often leveled by all-American types against
those who stand up for their beliefs by
refusing to fight in wars they find
unconscionable, and who willingly go to
prison or into exile in order to avoid
violating their own consciences. These
'cowards' are to be contrasted with
red-blooded, 'patriotic' youths who
literally bend over, grab their ankles,
submit to the government, fight in wars they
do not understand (or disapprove of), and
blindly obey orders to maim and to kill
simply because they are ordered to do so—all
to the howling approval of the all-American
mob. This type of behavior is commonly
termed 'courageous.'" June 02.
“If it's natural to kill, how come
men have to go into training to learn how?” June 01.
"He who allows oppression, shares
the crime."
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