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I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
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Jordan Peterson
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Psychologist
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,
1962
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund Burke
Good
Needs
People
Tyranny
Silent
Remain
Gain
Conscience
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
C. S. Lewis
Obedience
Tyranny
Value
Rule
Objective
Idea
Dogmatic
Very
Which
Belief
Necessary
Slavery
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Time
Best
Experience
Tyranny
Slow
Power
Those
Hath
Entrusted
Operations
Forms
Even
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
Oppression
Enemy
Tyranny
Will
Fighting
Guise
Come
Foreign
Land
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre
Freedom
People
Tyranny
Secret
Lies
Educating
Whereas
The Secret Of
Them
Ignorant
Keeping
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
God
Man
Mind
Tyranny
Every
Hostility
Over
Altar
Form
Against
Eternal
Sworn
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Frederick William Robertson
World
Tyranny
Three
Hypocrisy
Mercy
Fraud
Deserve
Things
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Democracy
Liberty
Dictatorship
Tyranny
Extreme
Out
Arises
Most
Form
Aggravated
Naturally
Slavery
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein
Government
You
Oppression
Result
Matter
Tyranny
Church
Say
Must
See
Know
Forbidden
Read
How
Motives
Subjects
End
End Result
Any
May
Holy
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
Good
Tyranny
Sincerely
Most
Oppressive
May
Victims
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