Tyranny Quotes - Page 35

• At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  War, Angel, Blow

  John Donne, John Daniel Thieme (2014). “John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme”, p.23, Vicarage Hill Press

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• War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

  C. E. M. Joad

  War, Men, Position Of Power

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• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Insecure, Land, Tyrants

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. ... The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ... I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Men

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Play, Political, Opponents

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• I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Law, Wicked, Prison

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• Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

  Phil Ochs

  Men, Jail, Gone

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• It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Men, Doctors

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• The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Democracy, Corporations

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• The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

  Plato

  Pain, Anger, Envy

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• The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Space, Trying, Six

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan

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• The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

  Thomas Beecham

  Conscious, Release, Function

  Quoted in Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

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• Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Party, Judging, Suffering

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tyrants, Ambitious, Fool

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Charlie Hebdo, Stupidity

  "Charlie Hebdo magazine attack: vigils held as French hunt suspects – as it happened". www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2015.

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• The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

  Henry George

  Slave Owners, Special, Aristocracy

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

  Richard Ebeling

  Democracy, Doe, Guarantees

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• I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.

  Chuck Norris

  Gun, Hunting, Second Amendment

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• When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

  Ron Paul

  War, Republic, Definitions

  "War power authority should be returned to Congress". Speech in Congress, March. 9, 1999.

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• Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.

  Eve Ensler

  Heart, Cutting, Men

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

  Simon Bolivar

  Law, Rebellion

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• Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.

  Robert Herrick

  Kings, Tyrants, Differences

  Robert Herrick (1891). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.

  Orson F. Whitney

  America, Sake, Fetters

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• The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Vanity, Arrogance

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.406, Courier Corporation

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• As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Jesus, Humility, Pride

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.175, Jazzybee Verlag

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