Animal Quote by Claire Wolfe

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

— Mohsin Hamid

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything,

— Grover Norquist

“Our Ideal Citizen—I picture him first and foremost as being busier than a bird-dog, not wasting a lot of good time in day-dreaming or…

— Sinclair Lewis

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.

— Grover Norquist

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft,…

— Plato

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

— Baruch Spinoza

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

— James Russell Lowell

“In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is…

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not…

— John C. Calhoun

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."…

— William F. Buckley Jr

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

— Mustafa Akyol

“Politics doesn't align with emotions. An emotional politician is most likely to be a tyrannical leader.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

— Blaise Pascal

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the…

— Edmund White