I couldn't stand for a flag that represented tyranny and oppression. Not just from a domestic perspective but from a global one.… — Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Copy Share Image
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia. — Jean-Claude Duvalier Copy Share Image
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
An atheist is merely someone who doesn't believe in god/s. Atheism matters to me because I see what religion does to people,… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things,… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
“Bill of Rights: (n.) official tally of how much our rights cost to keep.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and… — Claude Gueant Copy Share Image
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
