Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has… — John Le Carre Copy Share Image
“Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto… — Yehuda L. Bialer Copy Share Image
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
This is true to party tyranny and it locks people in, especially outrageous at this time that people feel like they are… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to… — John Eidsmoe Copy Share Image
Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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