Tyranny Quotes
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Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
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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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Socialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.
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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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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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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
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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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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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While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
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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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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.
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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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The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
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There's only one thing that's strong enough to defeat the tyranny of the moment. Habit.
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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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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.
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And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.
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In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.
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Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.
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Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... In the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down.
