“To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.” — Steven Chuks Nwakokeke Copy Share Image
Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.” — Simon Young Copy Share Image
After the Fall of Saigon, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people fled tyranny to pursue freedom and democracy. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“tyranny cannot stand forever. It is an ugly beast that must feed. Eventually, the Empire will devour everything it has, and will… — Christie Golden Copy Share Image
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws… — William Pitt The Younger Copy Share Image
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“If a man is convinced that he is safe only as long as he uses his power to give others a sense… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a… — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat… — Gary North Copy Share Image
“He makes me change, he makes me want to dance round him, bewilder him, dazzle him, dumbfound him. He' so slow, so… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The prolonged use of violence may lead in the end to the loss of freedom, since it is liable to bring about… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
“I emphasise it now; I had little-to-nothing in common with other people. Their values I did not comprehend, their ideals were to… — Mark Samuels Copy Share Image
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection.… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history. — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny. — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
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