Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism,… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm not smart enough to think I have a resolution, I'll never be a man with mediocre constitution. My father told me… — Jedi Mind Tricks Copy Share Image
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better,… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“We not only do not believe that man is punished for his 'sins,' but emphatically state that there is no such thing… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Sonnet: Political Greatness Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame, Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or arts, Shepherd those herds… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes with boys that the tyranny of patriarchy has had a much more devastating blow on boys than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money,… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid… — Jacqueline Ripstein Copy Share Image
“The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things,… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I read once, and I wished I could remember where, that Brave was a place. You could just go there if you… — Katherine Locke Copy Share Image
I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian… — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That,… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image