“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.... — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
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