Tyranny Quotes
If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.
I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.
The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
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
The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.
Citizenship has been out of fashion for some decades in our country, but now it is back in fashion. Weekends are for fighting tyranny. And that's why it's going to be really fun to see Democracy Now!
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.
This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny.
