“The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resist it.” - John Hay” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tyranny turns us into liars, she thought, hating herself even as she applauded.” — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Bill of Rights: (n.) official tally of how much our rights cost to keep.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it. — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose. — Jill Vialet Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must… — William J Federer Copy Share Image
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and… — Cheryl Clarke Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought,… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants.… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
Snowden is not the disease. We don't have traitors or whistleblowers blooming all over because they are some sort of malady. The… — Lawrence Wilkerson Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.” — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. — John Dryden Copy Share Image