Kate Beckinsale Quotes

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Intellectual slavery ... will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

It is yours [the state’s right] to shackle the body, and restrain our external actions; that is a restraint we understand. Announce your penalties, and we will make our election of submission or suffering. But do not seek to enslave our minds.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.

The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Hamas is a political-religious movement systematically throwing shackles on the mind.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands of others the submissiveness of sheep.

The difference between being out of step with a dictator and being out of step with the democratic majority is practically negligible. The important thing is to be in step.

Many of the former Slaves are only nominally free, for the servile spirit is still within them.

When the people are sheep, the government is always a wolf.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who do fear him.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

The human race is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.