I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
I think Sepp Blatter is in danger...or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
