“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
“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
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
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon? For eons it has changed skins to sate the current ruler’s hunger for political… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions--even when that… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments,… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks,… — David Duke Copy Share Image
The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies… — John Powell Copy Share Image
“By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart. — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato Copy Share Image
I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
Our constitutional scheme - the design of our government - is erected to prevent tyranny. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them — John Milton Copy Share Image
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. — John Milton Copy Share Image