2 Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops…

— Frederick Douglass

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it…

— Frederick Douglass

“Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts…

— Euripides

“I am becoming a tyrant, threatening in place of convincing. Unstable instead of steadying. I am suited to the shadows, to the art of…

— Holly Black

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies…

— Abhijit Naskar

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“When we are tempted to give in to despair, to give up to self-indulgence or apathy, we have a place of refuge that will…

— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill

“In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt”

— Trotsky

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which…

— Anne McClintock