“Laws that are not aggressively and consistently enforced are the tools of tyranny.” — S.P. Dornbos Copy Share Image
“Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.” — Robert Dodson Copy Share Image
I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose. — Jill Vialet Copy Share Image
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.” — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of a set purpose by logical means is the way of tyranny... The pursuit of an unobtainable purpose by absurd… — Tom King Copy Share Image
It's time to override this fraud being committed on the American voter of the two-party tyranny of this private corporation of the… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the… — Thomas Paine 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
It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image