To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“For this was the other thing that Elric knew: that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The theory I have in mind is one which does not proceed, as it were, from a doctrine of the intrinsic goodness… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50%… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words. — Taitetsu Unno Copy Share Image
The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master. — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
“All the arbitrary things we need to remember add up to unwitting tyranny” — Don Norman Copy Share Image
![“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you - who must, indeed, subject you - to total surveillance…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/christopher-hitchens-117_dead-man_religious-belief-is-a-totalitarian-belie_2768846.jpg)
