Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression! — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited. — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.… — Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce… The result will be an enforced inability of the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military system. This ensured that wars would grow… — Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men's marriages. It is cold anarchy to say… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has… — John Le Carre Copy Share Image
“Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto… — Yehuda L. Bialer Copy Share Image
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny. — Allen West Copy Share Image
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image