Tyranny Quotes - Page 30

• 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.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Mean, Men, Law

  "United States v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 258". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 6, 1947.

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• A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, People, Forgiving

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.144, Penguin

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• We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Pain, Loss, Frustration

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• This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

  Thomas Paine

  Mother, Religious, Home

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.25, Penguin

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• Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the Pacific, across the Atlantic, they came from every point on the compass-many passing beneath the Statue of Liberty-with fear and vision, with sorrow and adventure, fleeing tyranny or terror, seeking haven, and all seeking hope...Immigration is not just a link to America's past; it's also a bridge to America's future.

  George H. W. Bush

  Ocean, Adventure, Past

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• Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tyrants, Noses, Ethics

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Political, Abuse

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.84

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• The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Human Nature, Fit

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Heart, Pride

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• They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

  John Boehner

  Real, Commitment, Differences

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• A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

  Jose Marti

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  "On Oscar Wilde". Essay by Jose Marti, 1882.

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• How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Freedom, Men

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• You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Change, Giving Up, War

  Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502

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• A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

  Eric Hoffer

  Patriotic, Europe, Raw Materials

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1955.

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• The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Lying, Greatness

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Religious, Government

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Religious, Lying

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.516, Da Capo Press

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• In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, People, Healthy

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• Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

  Nicholas Eberstadt

  Math, Men, Numbers

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• The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Race

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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• It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Democracies Have, Government

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton; compris. his corresp. and his polit. and official writings, excl. of the federalist, civil and military. Ed. by John C. Hamilton”, p.440

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• All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Home, Heart, Government

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.191

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• Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

  Jacques Maritain

  Mean, Power, Government

  Jacques Maritain (1951). “Man and the State”, p.126, CUA Press

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• Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.

  Colin Fletcher

  Clothes, Haste, Pressure

  Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage

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