November 17, 2023 - False. Enlightenment-era writer Voltaire did not say this. The quote, which was paraphrased, comes from a 1993 radio broadcast by Kevin Alfred Strom, who has been identified as a neo-Nazi by organizations that monitor hate groups.

May 27, 2023 - Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, in a tweet that supposedly contained a quote from the 18th century French writer Voltaire. The quote shared by Massie — "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" — is not a quote from ...

If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.

February 3, 2022 - A 2017 essay written by Kevin Alfred ... on something he said in a 1993 broadcast, “To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?”...

April 17, 2024 - “Another dictum that has recently gained wide currency on the web is this: ‘To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize,’” wrote Nicholas Cronk, a French literature professor and director of the foundation at England’s University of Oxford.

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

January 31, 2022 - The Kentucky Republican congressman ... related to child abuse images. “To learn who rules over you,” the quote says, “simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.”...

December 1, 2015 - Australian Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi deletes all of his tweets after mistakenly attributing a quote by a neo-Nazi to Voltaire.

September 25, 2020 - “To know who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” When Australian politician Cory Bernardi tweeted this back in 2015 he thought he was quoting the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire.

Answer (1 of 10): Tyrants hate criticism. They work hard to silence it. In my country we have two main political parties. Recently a demagogue took the commander in chief position. Every criticism of him he calls fake news. When his own party tries to explain why he's wrong, he bites back at them...

3 weeks ago - Strom's 1993 quote "To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?" has been paraphrased and erroneously attributed to the philosopher Voltaire, including by Australian politician Cory Bernardi, U.S. ...

Answer (1 of 8): There is an amendment in the US constitution that says “Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to ...

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., attempted to take a swipe at Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, with

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Answer (1 of 2): Is there any validity to the saying, "to find out who rules over you find out whom you can't criticize?" If yes, then who is that group today? Ah, I think we need to put a why to that “can’t.” If it were “To find out who rules over you find out whom you can’t criticize ...

Answer (1 of 3): The real issue here is not who said it,that just distracts the issue. Instead,this ‘quote’ is a time-honored’ truth, especially in nations featuring an element of tyranny. In America,our media tries to build up the idea that if someone labeled as ‘bad’ speaks,we should ...

October 26, 2016 - Liberal senator attributes quote believed to be from Kevin Strom, a neo-Nazi convicted of possessing child abuse material, to French philosopher

Answer (1 of 5): In what world are you not allowed to criticize the ADL? It’s a Jewish organization, and like most Jewish organizations it gets a metric shitton of hate. The only people who don’t think so are anti-semites who ironically criticize the ADL with impunity.