Action Quote by Winston Churchill

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

— Milovan ?ilas

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny

— Thomas Jefferson

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

“But if, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to…

— Baruch Spinoza

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds;…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men…

— Dostoyevsky

“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

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

— Voltaire

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave…

— Donald James

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people…

— Noah Webster

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself…

— Emile M. Cioran