Today's Quotes

If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed.
-- Michael Parenti (1933- )
Source: "Inventing Reality" (1986)

Force always attracts men of low morality.
-- Albert Einstein

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority
and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
-- Justice William O. Douglas
(1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice