Assault Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred…

— Anonymous

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole of the…

— Paulo Freire

All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The evil genius of darkness presided at its birth, it came forth under the veil of mystery, its true features being carefully concealed, and…

— Samuel Bryan

Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it…

— Jonathan Mayhew

“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal…

— Anton Chekhov

“We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith…

— Alfred de Vigny

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Is it surprising that the people could see their fate and that of the world only as an endless succession of evils? Bad governance,…

— Johan Huizinga

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

— Mao Zedong

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing…

— Victor Hugo