Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous... — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a war of humans against vampires. It was a war between justice and tyranny.” — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow… — Umar Copy Share Image
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare,… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just… — Josh Bernstein Copy Share Image
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. What he disliked most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from… — Jaime Buckley Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Government wants to provide the little but the sufficient so that you keep cool and quiet while you are being a slave… — Carlos A Copy Share Image
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“ Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils… — Wolfe Tone Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny'… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
“Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor’s throne.” — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me,… — Nick Hornby 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
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People get good gigs because they stand up…You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within… — George Baumler Copy Share Image
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself? — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“No nation, whatever its power, can be called great when it imposes tyranny upon its citizens—worse, upon people it claims as its… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
