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To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian tyranny imaginable.
Augustus Sol Invictus
Freedom
Tyranny
Thought
Despicable
Type
Our
Paper
Totalitarian
Delicate
Most
Because
Sensibilities
Suburban
Imaginable
A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
Bassem Youssef
Truth
Satire
People
Tyranny
Think
Tend
Put
Comedians
Glorify
Overrated
Lot
Up
Role
Role Models
Models
Against
Them
Fighters
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
Benazir Bhutto
Book
Tyranny
Face
Long
Collapsed
Muslims
Spirit
Calls
Always
However
Dictatorships
Holy
Holy Book
Therefore
Pakistan
Resist
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
Bob Beauprez
Hope
Suffering
People
Tyranny
Will
Enormous
Never
Never Forget
Freedom-Loving
Globe
End
Forget
Holocaust
Across
Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
Bob Riley
Leadership
Democracy
Oppression
World
Tyranny
Half
Military
Our
Once
Sacrifices
Part
Budding
Due
America
Nations
Large
Large Part
Lived
Now
Away
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
Carl Levin
Freedom
Enemies
Tyranny
September
Our
Attacks
Remind
Armed
Armed Forces
Courageous
Forces
Terrorist
Still
Exist
Iraq
Friends
Afghanistan
Us
September 11th
Actions
If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.
Cesare Beccaria
Humanity
Liberty
Tyranny
Degree
Crimes
Punishments
Scale
Reliable
Would
Exact
Shared
Instrument
Fairly
Were
Malice
Nations
Different
Measure
Basic
Universal
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
Charles Edison
Hate
Tyranny
King
Field
No Desire
Charles
Part
Go
Any
Human
Human Activity
Activity
Play
Desire
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy
Freedom
Better
Tyranny
Always
Than
Organized
The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.
David Lloyd
Happy
Culture
People
Tyranny
Mask
Become
Way
Seems
Guy
Protest
Brand
Quite
Common
Convenient
Being
Against
Icon
Use
Used
Being Used
Popular
Unique
Using
Popular Culture
Now
I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.
Doc Hastings
War
Prevail
Freedom
Democracy
People
World
Win
Tyranny
Will
Secure
More
Over
Around
Terror
Am
End
Iraqis
American
Confident
In The End
British
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund Burke
Tyranny
Multitude
My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described by Condoleezza Rice as 'the last outpost of tyranny in Europe.'
Evgeny Morozov
Internet
Tyranny
Country
Revolution
Alexander
President
Unlikely
Once
Since
Condoleezza
Condoleezza Rice
Authoritarian
Controlled
Place
Rice
Europe
Homeland
Last
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Frances Wright
Liberty
Tyranny
Threshold
Own
Others
Our
Liberties
Uncertain
Step
Thus
Sure
Without
Exert
Doing
Expense
Them
Justly
Platform
Injury
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka
Tyranny
Parents
Born
Educational
Methods
Selfishness
Slavery
Two
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw
Tyranny
Beauty
Short-Lived
Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.
George Wallace
Tyranny
Our
Rise
Freedom-Loving
Call
Answer
South
Blood
Send
Us
Chains
Let Us
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
George William Russell
Tyranny
Imagination
Universe
Virtue
Our
Worst
Varied
Roam
Infinitely
Uniformity
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
Gijs de Vries
Freedom
Democracy
Fear
Tyranny
Stronger
Ultimately
Than
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
Ginny Brown-Waite
Rights
World
Tyranny
Out
Emerge
Shadows
Had
Freedoms
Cry
Vulnerable
Heard
Oppressed
Bloodshed
Centuries
Lived
Chance
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
Henry James Sumner Maine
Trust
Sometimes
Tyranny
Doubt
Ought
Our
Lodged
No Doubt
Mere
Abuse
Leave
Authorities
Regarded
Us
Engine
Certainly
Usurpation
Oligarchy
The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence.
Hisham Matar
Age
Tyranny
Spring
Arab
Arab Spring
Response
Only
Imperial
Powerful
Also
Influence
Chains
Compelling
Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow out of a tradition of the state providing social benefits for workers that stretches back to Bismarck and Germany in the 1880s.
Jacob Weisberg
Government
Rebellion
Benefits
Tyranny
Country
State
Back
Our
Out
Systems
Intrusion
Colonial
Tradition
Providing
Germany
Suspicious
Against
Social
Workers
Interference
Naturally
European
Grow
Comparison
Founded
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James Fenimore Cooper
Democracy
Law
Tyranny
Men
Masses
Opinion
Exhibit
Substitute
Form
Vice
Which
Public
Public Opinion
Usual
I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man in general - is the tyranny of fashion.
James May
Fashion
Morning
Man
Problems
Tyranny
One Morning
One Of The Problems
General
Woke
Up
Being
Being A Man
Middle-Aged
Middle-Aged Man
Realised
The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.
Jason Calacanis
Good
People
Frustration
World
Psychic
Tyranny
Pain
Out
Bad
Physical
Web
Physical World
Through
Bad Stuff
Stuff
Abundance
Major
Sorting
Causing
Choice
Good And Bad
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