Best Tyranny Wisdom
915 Tyranny quotes by 563 unique authors
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The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to…
— Liu Xia
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Is the Reformed faith opposed to human rights? Yes, very much so. It is not human rights but Divine law which is the foundation of…
— James B. Jordan
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In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.
— Russell Crowe
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
— Christopher Hitchens
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The miracle of compounding returnsĀ is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
— John C. Bogle
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The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control…
— S. T. Joshi
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So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture,…
— George W. Bush
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Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand…
— George W. Bush
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All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for…
— George W. Bush
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
— Edward Abbey
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Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an…
— Samuel Adams
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Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of…
— Terry Pratchett
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It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the…
— James Madison
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Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle…
— Allan Bloom
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that…
— Allan Bloom
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We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.
— Julius Nyerere
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It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what…
— J M Coetzee
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If…
— William Blake
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We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.
— David Ogilvy
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
— Plato
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Democracy is better than tyranny.
— Periander
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
— Socrates
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
— Plato
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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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