The switch to the market in Eastern Europe, of course, has not exactly been one of the greatest advertisements for the market.… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny.… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian… — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time. — Albert Einstein 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
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save,… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
“Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image