Elon Musk -

 If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny.

Friedrich Hayek -

 If democracies abandon the idea of freedom and happiness of the individual, they admit their civilization is not worth preserving.

Benito Mussolini -

People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin….Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…..Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.

Aristotle -

 It is a habit of tyrants never to like anyone who has a spirit of dignity and independence. The tyrant claims a monopoly of such qualities for himself; he feels that anybody who asserts a rival dignity, or acts with independence, is threatening his own superiority and the despotic power of his tyranny. He hates him accordingly as a subverter of his own authority.

It is also a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.

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 Sheep spend their entire lives afraid of the wolf only to be eaten by their shepherd.

Aldous Huxley -

 The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Edward Conze (1934) -

 Fascism is the organised attempt to introduce socialist planning with the consent of big business.

Richard Feynman -

 I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

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 Liberty means not having to ask for permission.

Mark Twain -

 It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

 In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Wikipedia -

 In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them.

Wikipedia -

 A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease.

Richard Hanania -

Democracy does not reflect the will of the citizenry, it reflects the will of an activist class, which is not representative of the general population.

Glenn Reynolds -

 When you remember that “woke” is a synonym for “crazy, stupid, and vicious” it all makes sense.

Marcus Aurelius -

 The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in ranks of the insane.

Herbert Marcuse -

 Movements from the left must be extended tolerance, even when they are violent, while movements from the right must not be tolerated, including suppressing them by violence.

Mark Steyn -

 Yesterday's mental illness is today's social policy.

 Diversity is where societies go to die.

 

Aristotle -

 Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Kevin Baker -

 If Right-wing extremists were as dangerous as they think, there wouldn't BE any Left-wing extremists.

Thomas Sowell -

 Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.