So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant. — Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe Robert Walker Copy Share Image
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances,… — Hal Riney Copy Share Image
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me. — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
