The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That,… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Yet in his own estimate, one theme in particular dominated all others: the growing tyranny of the majority, the ever-increasing and most… — Richard D. Heffner Copy Share Image
Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and… — Umar Copy Share Image
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is… — Fatima Jinnah Copy Share Image
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Our constitutional scheme - the design of our government - is erected to prevent tyranny. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
