The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring… — Plato Copy Share Image
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The mass crushes out the insight and reflection that are still possible with the individual, and this necessarily leads to doctrinaire and… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny.… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
If you're wondering how you'll find time, it means you don't really want to read. Because nobody's ever got time. Children certainly… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just… — Josh Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor’s throne.” — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“No nation, whatever its power, can be called great when it imposes tyranny upon its citizens—worse, upon people it claims as its… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
People get good gigs because they stand up…You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within… — George Baumler Copy Share Image
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself? — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
