Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato Copy Share Image
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom.… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Does the history of tyranny apply to the United States? Certainly the early Americans who spoke of “eternal vigilance” would have thought… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against… — Plato Copy Share Image
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval… — Andrea Dworkin 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 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
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
