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• Democracy is better than tyranny.

  Topics in American Proverbs, Democracy

  Tags in Tyranny

• Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

  Stephane Hessel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyranny, Financial

• There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyranny, Pay

• Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyranny, Including

• The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won’t change easily overnight.

  Wilbur Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyranny, Overnight

• When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Liberty, Tyranny, Freedom

• Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you’re labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

  Jon Ronson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyranny, Disorder

• While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

  Ethan Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Priests, Tyranny

• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Clara Zetkin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Capitalism, Emancipated, Lighten, Burdened, Tyranny, Chain

• Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

  Pierre Corneille

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aimed, Treachery, Tyranny

• I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

  George Wallace

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyranny, Segregation

• Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

  Oscar Levant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prospect, Terrorists, Tyranny

• Peace without justice is tyranny.

  William Allen White

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Tyranny

• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  Hannah Arendt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyranny

• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

  William Pitt

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Corrupt, Posses, Tyranny

• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

  Edmund Burke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyranny, Multitude

• Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

  William Penn

  Topics in God

  Tags in Tyrants, Tyranny, Will, Men

• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

  Edmund Burke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyranny

• There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Pride, Tyranny, Order

• Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

  William Godwin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolution, Itself, Tyranny