“ 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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“ 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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“ Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. ”
- Tatyana Tolstaya- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military. ”
- Bob Riley- Copy
- 2K
“ It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. ”
- Lenny Bruce- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ”
- Ben Nelson- Copy
- 960
“ No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 28
“ A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 401
“ Of all the tyrannies on human kindThe worst is that which persecutes the mind. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
- 2K
“ The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 3.4K
“ If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ”
- James Madison- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Everyone knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold down the adjoining. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
- 3K
“ The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 267
“ Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Scientology explains to me the answers to life, the mind, people, insanity, man, in a way that, to me, is applicable. It doesn't use fear, or suppression or the devil - it's not repressive. Mainly, it's a way for me to figure out who I am. It's a lot of self-discovery; it's not someone you follow or praise. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
- 156
“ Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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