tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.
We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. 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. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion. ' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
Democracy is better than tyranny.
Faith and force. . . are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.
Any kind of religious tyranny concerns me.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.