Philosophy Quote by Robert Musil

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

— Robert Musil

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to…

— Plato

“Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or…

— Jaime Buckley

“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.”

— Junius

“Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it.”

— Anonymous

“You’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.”

— Daniel Quinn

“Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be…

— James Madison

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny;…

— Thomas Jefferson

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

— Walter Savage Landor