It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart… — Henry Clarke Wright Copy Share Image
Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and… — Umar Copy Share Image
Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics,… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
What's more to do, Which would be planted newly with the time, As calling home our exiled friends abroad That fled the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Electorally, the number of women who want to wear a burka is insignificant, yet it is important to defend such a minority… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence is often the path of wisdom, but not always. Love and passive resistance are wonderfully effective weapons against some kinds of… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is the right of a free individual to be unhindered in their liberty! Especially to fail in their endeavors! Only in… — Keith Parfitt Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
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