Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
“Another way to put it is that the majority must not use its power to trample on minority rights. The Founders were… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow roots and will blossom.” — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
“A cowardly tyrant only remembers his own greatness in imagination.” — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image