Tyranny Quotes

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. George Washington
Myself Spiritual You Tyranny Every Would Would-Be Religious More Horrors No-One Beg Persecution Effectual Than Establish Against Persuaded Barriers Zealous Species
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. William Ellery Channing
Great Spiritual Judge Tyranny Aid Others Minds Great Minds Superiority Over Make Intellectual Establish Break Them Themselves Used Lethargy Multitude Rouse
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. Montesquieu
Justice Law Tyranny Name Greater Shield Than Which
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. Plato
Democracy Tyranny Out Arises Naturally
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. James Madison
Home Tyranny Become Defense Danger Instruments Foreign Historically Against Means
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. Robin Morgan
Knowledge Knowledge Is Power Tyranny Power Humility Hoarding May Information Act
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke
Legal Tyranny Worst Bad Laws Sort
We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me - we're a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we're all created equal. Michelle Obama
Me Tired Tyranny Free Nation Differences Our Guided Says Give Equal Masses Built Afar Yearning Hear Revolutionaries Sovereign Refused Poor Breathe Us Created Your Who Belief Reign Founded Rebuke
Corruption is just another form of tyranny. Joe Biden
Corruption Tyranny Another Just Form
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. Thomas Paine
Faith Better Tyranny Defence He Real George Than Title Against Reason Rebel Rebels Third Defender
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. Nelson Mandela
Love People Oppression Result Political Tyranny Calm Situation Exploitation Spirit Sabotage Had Arisen Because Nor Years Deny Political Situation Did Any After Sober Plan Planned Whites Many Assessment Violence
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. Mikhail Bakunin
God Tyranny Will Long First Master Earth Supreme Revolt Heaven Against Theology Phantom Slaves
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire
Government Best Tyranny Benevolent Tempered Occasional Assassination
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. William Pitt
Law Tyranny Power Minds Unlimited Unlimited Power Those Apt Corrupt Know Lords Begins Ends Where Who
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. Adlai Stevenson I
Death Soul Communism Organization Tyranny Total Making Committed Short Conformity Universal
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. Michael Leunig
Democracy Heart Tyranny More Most Without Becoming Any Just Working Sanity Unique
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations. Robert Kennedy
Communism Old Tyranny Men State Above Individual Pyramids Aspirations Stands
Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power. Vernon Howard
Strength Personality Dangerous Dictatorship Tyranny Cruelty Power Think Additional Hesitate Characteristics Weaknesses Outcomes Folks Some Somehow Seize Individual Wrong Powerful Because False Disguised Acquired Notion
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny. Allen West
Great Freedom Tyranny Will Become States More Fertile American Prefer Ground United United States
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. Beau Willimon
Government Tyranny Way Prevent Mentality Checks Checks And Balances Balances Mob Autocratic Either
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. David Hume
Patriotism Tyranny Power Heights Beaten Road Still Popularity
There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. Buenaventura Durruti
Freedom Class Victory Tyranny Only Both Roads Know Loser Store Which Working Means Working-Class Fascists Two
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating. J. G. Ballard
Future Me World Tyranny Rightly Systems Totalitarian Huxley Only Marxism New Wrongly Leap Quantum Quantum Leap Contrast Brave Subservient Brave New World New World Might Convinced Away Orwell Suggested
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. Jeremy Bentham
Tyranny Anarchy Never Apart Far
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. Susan B. Anthony
God Obedience Women Old Tyranny Earnestly Recognition All Women Shall Practical Continue Revolutionary Maxim Urge Resistance
Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry. Anthony Hopkins
You Tyranny Weak Beware Dry Just Suck
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