“Authoritarians are those who don’t resent the powerful even behind their backs.”—inge.

“The powerful very often respond to a demand for respect by ignoring the content and saying ‘Shh, lower your voice!”—Kit Whitfield

“Despite its sexually charged politics, fascism is an anti-eros, the core of all fascist propaganda is a battle against everything that constitutes enjoyment and pleasure.”—Rabinbach and Benjamin,

“People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.”—Bill Clinton

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable”—JFK.

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…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…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.—Frederick Douglass

“All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression. They were invented for this one good purpose, that what was not just should not be convenient.”—Edmund Burke