Tyranny Quotes - Page 36

• The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

  Mark Twain

  Class, Tyrants, Mind

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 25 (1889)

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• The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hate, Tyrants, People

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• They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ghetto, Home, Boys

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Tyrants, Maintenance

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• An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Men, Tyrants

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• Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Tyrants, Events

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

  Mark Twain

  Home, Tyrants, Apathy

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• When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

  Ray McGovern

  Country, War, Tyrants

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• A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

  Karl Marx

  Tyrants, Chains, Nations

  "The Karl Marx Library: On the First International".

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• The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Men, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.133, Ivan R. Dee

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• All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

  Ray Lewis

  Tyrants, Realizing, Cop

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• Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Cat, Fog, Feet

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• [History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

  William Carlos Williams

  History, Imagination, Soul

  William Carlos Williams (1978). “A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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• When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Race, Care

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.97, Book Tree

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• The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.

  Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

  Yield, Government, Felicity

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• I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Men, Fellow Man, Human Nature

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• ...should We consent to an order of Cincinnati consisting of all the Officers of the Army & Citizens of Consiquence in the united States; how easy the Transition from a Republican to any other Form of Government, however despotic! & how rediculous to exchange a british Administration, for one that would be equally tyrannical, perhaps much more so? this project may answer the End of Courts that aim at making Us subservient to their political purposes, but can never be consistent with the Dignity or Happiness of the united States.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Army, Government, Order

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• Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

  Jim Rohn

  Appetite, Restraint, Knows

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 07, 2014

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• Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Saving, Paradise

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• This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Home, Dwelling

  Michael Jackson (2004). “In Sierra Leone”, p.125, Duke University Press

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• It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Dictatorship, Exhausting

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• Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

  Jill Vialet

  Play, Giving, Purpose

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• Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

  John Fletcher

  Lust, Governing

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• To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, America, Abiding

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• We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Years, Europe

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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