“tyranny and oppression can never kill the spirit of freedom in human beings.” — Anna Viroubova Copy Share Image
For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“The claim that order is freedom or that freedom is order ends in tyranny.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. — Emma Goldman 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
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
“How many people die because of Palpatine's rule every year? Is it deadlier to fight against that kind of tyranny or to… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which… — Augustus 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
Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness.… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny,… — Jon Ronson 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
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On… — Claire Wolfe Copy Share Image
Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image
These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great… — John Stark Copy Share Image
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. — Frank Lebby Stanton Copy Share Image
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
