Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree. — Sr?a Trifkovic Copy Share Image
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“Does the history of tyranny apply to the United States? Certainly the early Americans who spoke of “eternal vigilance” would have thought… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“History is a raw onion sandwich, it just repeats, it burps. We've seen it again and again this year. Same old story,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you:… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained.… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out.… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder… But… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
“The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is “systematic.” The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“And I hold with Spinoza (I hope he won’t mind) that to demand what is impossible for any human being, to exercise… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources. — George Brandis Copy Share Image
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason,… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Dictatorships are ramifications of the ignorant and misguided few , which are then imposed upon and suffered, by the many!.” — Daryavesh Rothmensch Copy Share Image
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Philosophers are despots who have no armies to command, so they subject the world to their tyranny by locking it up in… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
“hailed the Florentine as the first modern thinker to have exposed the nature of political tyranny.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
