It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.
This is true to party tyranny and it locks people in, especially outrageous at this time that people feel like they are being thrown under the bus by these two political parties and are demanding, you know, other options in large numbers.
Faith and force. . . are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny.
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.
The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.
Socialism is just another form of tyranny.
If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <. . . > Time to read is always time stolen. <. . . > Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living. ”- p. 125
Resisting tyranny is obeying God
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.
Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.