Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“He's spent all his life in good-natured rebellion against the tyranny of the unimportant.” — Robin Hardy Copy Share Image
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There are people who thirst for blood like tigers. Any man who has once tasted this unlimited power over the blood, over… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“During the next hundred years, the question for those who love liberty is whether we can survive the most insidious and duplicitous… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
...should We consent to an order of Cincinnati consisting of all the Officers of the Army & Citizens of Consiquence in the… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man… — James May Copy Share Image
“But as I make the laws here, I can also break them. With impunity. . . Which I'm afraid you CAN'T do.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and… — Claude Gueant Copy Share Image
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A decision by the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or a decree may not be scrutinized by a judge.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
![“The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.” quote by John Dryden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/274/john-dryden-491_ancestor_the-longest-tyranny-that-ever-sway-d-was_2677048.jpg)
![“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.” quote by Dan Brown](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a30/dan-brown-203_bullying_t-he-other-lesson-history-has-taught-us_1883344.png)
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