When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words. — Taitetsu Unno Copy Share Image
“Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid… — Jacqueline Ripstein Copy Share Image
Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin 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
Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression! — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
“Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Is the Reformed faith opposed to human rights? Yes, very much so. It is not human rights but Divine law which is… — James B. Jordan Copy Share Image
“flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive,… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse… — Socrates Copy Share Image
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism,… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
