“The social contract known as 'The Constitution' has been null and void since the last person who signed it, died. Even then,… — Dane Whalen Copy Share Image
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne;… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Copy Share Image
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and… — Cheryl Clarke Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought,… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants.… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny,… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
![“The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral…” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/504/george-bernard-shaw-68_blood_the-body-was-the-slave-of-the-vortex-but_2612664.png)
![“Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of…” quote by Cheryl Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/71d/cheryl-clarke-66010_customs_heterosexuality-is-a-die-hard-custom-thr_1105346.jpg)
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