Quote

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

Gerry Spence

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gerry Spence
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 8
Lawyer
Laramie
Wyoming
Gerald Leonard Spence
States
Security
Required
Take
Courses
Criminals
Feel
Course
Tyranny
Feels
Rights
Terror
Totalitarian
State
Prison
Desperation
Fear
Begin
Fascism
Sense
Promise
Tyrants
Away
Crime
Promises

More quotes by Gerry Spence

Image
It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
Gerry Spence
Image
When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.
Gerry Spence
Image
The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?
Gerry Spence
Image
In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.
Gerry Spence
Image
Without argument the species would parish.
Gerry Spence
Image
We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.
Gerry Spence
Image
Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.
Gerry Spence
Image
Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.
Gerry Spence
Image
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
Gerry Spence
Image
The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.
Gerry Spence
Image
Credibility is what it is ALL about.
Gerry Spence
Image
We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.
Gerry Spence
Image
The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
Gerry Spence
Image
Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
Gerry Spence
Image
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
Gerry Spence
Image
How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
Gerry Spence
Image
Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
Gerry Spence
Image
Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.
Gerry Spence
Image
Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.
Gerry Spence
Image
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
Gerry Spence