No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Tags: power tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics opinion freedom happiness tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —Charles Austin Beard More about this quote Tags: history freedom perspective independence tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: truth love history time inevitability tyranny murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and this will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: justice power wrong tyranny resistance demands submission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. —Crystal Eastman More about this quote Tags: tyranny protection deceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: justice war humanity politics life silence rejection church crime protest faith lies racism tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. —Aeschylus More about this quote Tags: death fate tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is a tyrant sparing none. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: love tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. —Plato More about this quote Tags: war fear enemies tyranny treaties Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email