Quotes with tyranny

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  • Beau Willimon The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Mikhail Bakunin 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
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    A Woman of No Importance Act 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Blaise Pascal The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Camille Paglia The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bill Clinton The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
    Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Carl Levin 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
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Edmund Burke The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Oscar Wilde The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Hewitt Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.
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  • Samuel Johnson There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • William Hazlitt There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Walt Whitman There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Sir Richard Steele To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Jeremy Bentham Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • E. M. Cioran Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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