I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." — Maria Canals Barrera Copy Share Image
“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not… — Euripides Copy Share Image
We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their… — Desiderius Erasmus 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
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
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
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
“For this was the other thing that Elric knew: that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
“Does the history of tyranny apply to the United States? Certainly the early Americans who spoke of “eternal vigilance” would have thought… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel… — James Otis Copy Share Image
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford Copy Share Image
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
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