I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines… — R. R. Reno Copy Share Image
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. — Milovan ?ilas Copy Share Image
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“John Stuart Mill declared that tyranny makes men cynical. He did not know that a Republic makes them silent.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
This is true to party tyranny and it locks people in, especially outrageous at this time that people feel like they are… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
“I am not in all cases and under all circumstances against a violent revolution. I believe with some medieval and Renaissance Christian… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“ Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The concept of fourth-generation wars simply refers to the use of disinformation, funding subversive N.G.O.s, and spreading rumours as a method for… — Maged Mandour Copy Share Image