“ Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of the body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of the day. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism — despotism during the campaign — is indispensable. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
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“ It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. ”
- William Pitt- Copy
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“ Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ”
- peter kropotkin- Copy
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“ Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
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“ The term "just war" contains an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny, and oppression without killing huge numbers of people. ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late… ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs. ”
- Algernon Sidney- Copy
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“ Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government - that is despotism. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad. ”
- Billie Jean King- Copy
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“ Of all the tyrannies on human kindThe worst is that which persecutes the mind. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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