Tyranny Quotes
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The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.
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Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
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Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
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All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
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Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
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Whenever kingship approaches tyranny it is near its end, for by this it becomes ripe for division, change of dynasty, or total destruction, especially in a temperate climate … where men are habitually, morally and naturally free.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
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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.
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In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.
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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
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Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny.
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This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."
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The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
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The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
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Socialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
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It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
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The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles—that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.
