Repressive Quotes
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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
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More Repressive Quotes
For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual’s interests.
john carroll— p. 55 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
robert a. heinlein— Revolt in 2100 (1953), postscript
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
herbert marcuse— p. 7 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
camille paglia— p. 35. (Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992))
"In our experience, no modern country is more repressive of human rights than the U.S.A. The vaunted First Amendment is nothing but empty words on paper...we will journey to China at our expense, and tell our story of modern American repression of human rights, upon invitation."
fred phelps— Fred Phelps, writing to the Ambassador to the United States from the People's Republic of China, February 26, 1997.About the Westboro Baptist Church. Anti-Defamation League.
Socialism , whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler , Stalin , Mao , or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation , a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism , as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism , no individuality , and ultimately, no individuation .
l. neil smith— "Back to the Trees!"
In our experience, no modern country is more repressive of human rights than the USA.
— Fred Phelps, writing to the Ambassador to the United States from the People's Republic of China, February 26, 1997.
