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Allan Bloom

“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.”

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
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The Closing of the American Mind The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
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