It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin 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
Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If we dwell in spirit, or Soul, we are living in happiness, for Soul is a happy entity. It is seldom anything… — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image
The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“And that’s the terrible myth of organized society. That everything that’s done through the established system is legal. And that word has… — William M. Kunstler Copy Share Image
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence;… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
“The tyranny of the quantifiable is partly the failure of language and discourse to describe more complex, subtle, and fluid phenomena, as… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices… Government has to make those choices for people.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thinking citizens are no good to democracy, either you obey blind or be branded a terrorist. Either you hold your mouth, mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.” — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is… — Francis Spellman Copy Share Image
Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists. — Christopher X. Brodeur Copy Share Image
We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That… — Gordon Klingenschmitt Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“There is nothing beneficial in pride, simply because too much of it will lead to arrogance and tyranny.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image