Freedom Quote by Nilantha Ilangamuwa

“I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can't be less…

— John le Carré

“War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity.”

— John Connolly

“Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.”

— Charles Dudley Warner

“I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

“But it must be realized that, when dealing with an utterly ruthless enemy who has clearly expressed his intention of wiping this nation out…

— W.E. Fairbairn

“Of course, at some point you had to ask yourself how much legitimacy any government had that feared dissension within more than invasion from…

— Yoon Ha Lee

“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy…

— Seneca

“those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all…

— Jasper Fforde

“But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore them all.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo