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
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status… — Claire Wolfe Copy Share Image
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from… — George Allen Copy Share Image
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants.… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening… — Aldous Huxley 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
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little. — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance,… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
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