Tyranny Quotes - Page 33

• As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Punishment, Community, Political

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• 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

  Confusion, Unity, Multitudes

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

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• Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

  Blaise Pascal

  Unity, Multitudes

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• A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Civilization, Issues, Important

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• There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, People, Bars

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• Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

  Jesse Helms

  Believe, Bologna, Causes

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• I dream that love without tyranny is possible

  Andrea Dworkin

  Dream

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• This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

  Joe Rogan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2013

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• If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

  Susan Blackmore

  Religious, Way, Would Be

  "Life Lessons". www.theguardian.com. April 07, 2005.

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• Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Development, Systematic

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.3, Anchor

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• The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest - stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Thinking, Doors

  Lysander Spooner (2013). “No Treason”, p.50, Read Books Ltd

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• It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Prejudice, Speak, Tradition

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.282, A&C Black

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• It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Taken, Responsibility, Men

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• 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

  Leadership, Military, Sacrifice

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• A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

  Peter Thiel

  Agency, Over You, Important

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.64, Crown Business

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• When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

  Katha Pollitt

  God, Country, Children

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• I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

  Sam Houston

  Brother, Men, Track

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• Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

  Jared Diamond

  Trying, Population, Warfare

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• A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.

  Al-Farabi

  Hate, Cities, Giving

  "The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV". 1991.

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• Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Missing, Path

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.241, The Overlook Press

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• It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Ideas, Essentials

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• Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people.

  Daniel Tammet

  Views, Circles, Ideas

  "Thinking in Numbers". Book by Daniel Tammet, 2012.

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• The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Blow, Liberty, Revolution

  Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Mean, Two, Class

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Path, Far Away, Destruction

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