In a state worthy of the name there is no liberty. The people want to exercise power but what on earth would they do with it if it were given to them?
— Lenin
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death
— Patrick Henry
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters
— Lord Halifax
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Communism continued to haunt Europe as a spectre - a name men gave to their own fears and blunders. But the crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the spectre of Communism
— A. J. P. Taylor
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organisation cannot live a full-blooded life
— Mickhail Gorbachov
None ought to be lords or landlords over another, but the earth is free for every son and daughter of mankind to live free upon.
— Gerrard Winstanley
Riots are the language of the unheard
— Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions?...I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself
— King George V
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
— Aristotle
..militarism...is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail
— Helen Keller
We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership
— Neil Kinnock
The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders
— William Henry Vanderbilt
The purpose of propaganda...is to convince the masses, whose slowness of understanding needs to be given time in order that they may absorb information; and only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd