To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. — William Penn Copy Share Image
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just… — Josh Bernstein Copy Share Image
Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare,… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a war of humans against vampires. It was a war between justice and tyranny.” — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
“If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu 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
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
“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