Joshua Cohen Quotes

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..