Tag: Politics

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

起初他们追杀共产党，我没有说话——因为我不是共产党；

后来他们追杀社民党，我没有说话——因为我不是社民党；

接著他们追杀工会成员，我没有说话——因为我不是工会成员；

此后他们追杀犹太人，我没有说话——因为我不是犹太人；

最后他们奔我而来，却再也没有人站起来为我说话了。

中国的好多体制就像一堵墙，上面挖了许多狗洞，然后让我们钻狗洞。

中国作协成功地将一批批野狗驯化成家狗不算，还成了走狗。

现在有人对你们说：＂牺牲你们个人的自由，去求国家的自由！＂我要对你们说：＂争取个人的自由，就是争取国家的自由；争取个人的人格，就是争取国家的国格。自由平等的国家不是一群奴才建造得起来的！＂

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity.