Tyranny Quotes - Page 21

• Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the United States. The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities. And the world is in danger with our tyranny.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, Brother, Attitude

  "Oliver Stone Tells European Audience on Fourth of July 'The World is in Danger With Our Tyranny'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. July 4, 2013.

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• Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Voiceless, Safe

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1973). “The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement”

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• The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.

  George Washington

  Eye, Blessing, Saving

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1833). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.449

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• I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent."

  Maria Canals Barrera

  Important, Remember, Should

  "Maria Canals-Barrera: The consequence of avoiding our issues and being a fume head". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 23, 2015.

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• Power without authority is tyranny.

  Jacques Maritain

  Authority

  Jacques Maritain (1951). “Man and the State”, p.126, CUA Press

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• The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

  Aristotle

  Government, Democracy, Aristocracy

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.91, Aristotle

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• Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Names, Government

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality of men and women and their relationship in marriage is totally different than redefining marriage. Here is the overreach of the judiciary. This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what Jefferson warned us about. That's judicial tyranny.

  Mike Huckabee

  Men, Different, Enabling

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2015.

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• To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny.

  Mike Huckabee

  Essence, Surrender, Supremacy

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2015.

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• The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.

  James Madison

  Government, Law, People

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• The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Stupid, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

  John Waters

  Running, Fun, Long

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Healing

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• Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Night, Care

  Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.224, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

  Dean Acheson

  Stupid, Selfish, Thinking

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• An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Years, Choices, Political

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• If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Land, India, Welcome

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.40, Penguin Books India

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• If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Father, Believe, House

  Source: collider.com

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• Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Class, Long

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• The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Government, Hands, Law

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• The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Civilization, Waiting

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• There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

  Chris Crutcher

  Jesus, Kings, Perspective

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• We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.

  Alan Keyes

  Children, Mean, Government

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• Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

  Charles Dickens

  Dumb, Words Of Wisdom, Injustice And Oppression

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.

  Umar

  Humble, People, Dignity

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