Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle 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
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford Copy Share Image
“Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! … The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned… — David Frum 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
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image