Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“We the People have the power that becomes the power but the power abuses its power becoming tyrannical to its source of… — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
