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• When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.

  Taitetsu Unno

  Mistake, Reality, Subjects

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• The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

  Edmund Burke

  Stupid, Law, Essence

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• A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Defense, Wells, Informed Citizenry

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• The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of the ideals of equality, fraternity and social and economic justice struggling against the forces of domination, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny.

  Fatima Jinnah

  Inspiration, Struggle, Justice

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• Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

  David Duke

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Medicine

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• Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.

  Michael Novak

  Mistake, Iraq, Long

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• Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.

  William Inge

  Country, Suffering, Majority

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• The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Strong, Party

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “Memoral Addresses and Tributes”

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• Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Rights, Political Opinions

  Winston Churchill's speech to the Scottish Unionist Association in Edinburgh, Scotland (September 25, 1924), later published in "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" edited by Robert Rhodes James (Volume 4, p. 3472), 1974.

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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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Powerful, Sacrifice, Men

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• It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

  Aristotle

  Long, Office, Easy

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.180, Aristotle

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• Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Writing, Play, Tyrants

  "Les misérables".

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• There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

  Oscar Wilde

  Government, Soul And Body, People

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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• Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Government, Unjust, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1049, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Eye, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.303, University of Chicago Press

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• Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Believe, Men

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

  Saadi

  Pardon, Deals, Oppressed

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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

  Men, Self, White Man

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ignorance, Tyrants, Slave

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32

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• Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

  Herman Melville

  Hands, Iron, People

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.90, Penguin

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• The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

  George Washington

  Cities, Violence, Sometimes

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.15, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

  Thomas Paine

  Vanity, Age, Generations

  Thomas Paine (1996). “Rights of Man”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Tyrants, Foundation, Earth

  Walter Savage Landor (1901). “Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern”

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• The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.

  Simon Bolivar

  Government, Long, People

  "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.

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• Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

  Blaise Pascal

  Confusion, Unity, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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