We have been assembled and fabricated into well-behaved students, predictable consumers, and obedient citizens. Most of what is feral has been domesticated. We suffocate in an amorphous glob of sameness. We have learned it is better to conform than to be.

— Gerry Spence

Gerry Spence Quotes

Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.

— Gerry Spence

To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

— Gerry Spence

I love my life and I am so blessed.

— Gerry Spence

Blessing Self-Love Fulfillment Satisfaction Contentment

Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

— Gerry Spence

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

— Gerry Spence

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

— Gerry Spence

The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.

— Gerry Spence

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

— Gerry Spence

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

— Gerry Spence

We are defined by how we use our power.

— Gerry Spence

As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.

— Gerry Spence

Is there anyone I wouldn’t take as a client? Well, I’d never represent a banker.

— Gerry Spence

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud...

— Gerry Spence

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

— Gerry Spence

Fear is like a pack of dogs – it chases us, and if we try to run or hide from it the dogs will continue our chase until finally, exhausted, we fall and are devoured.

— Gerry Spence

We have been assembled and fabricated into well-behaved students, predictable consumers, and obedient citizens. Most of what is feral has been domesticated. We suffocate in an amorphous glob of sameness. We have learned it is better to conform than to be.

— Gerry Spence

The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you’re explaining and defending, you’re losing.

— Gerry Spence

To excel in the art of domestic argument, one must master the art of losing.

— Gerry Spence

But they argued out of strength, not weakness, out of conviction, not insecurity. They argued toward the fulfillment of a purpose and in service to mankind.

— Gerry Spence

Maturity and death are cousins. 193.

— Gerry Spence

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