The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You can become so manipulated and controlled by what you think other people expect you to do that you literally live under… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Competition has never been more threatening than it is now. Innovative thinkers challenge the status quo in their organizations. They are often… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — 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 roughness… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere. — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image