Tyranny Quotes (page 4)

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• knowledge
• character
• wellness

Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of rights, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice. John Adams

• god
• resisted
• obedience

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. John Knox

• government
• government tyranny
• democracy

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny! Thomas Jefferson

• political
• manners
• politically

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston

• men
• mindfulness
• enemy

The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy... Tom Robbins

• rejection
• pick
• picking

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. Seth Godin

• wedding
• humanity
• law

1. Society needs laws. While anarchy can often turn a humdrum weekend into something unforgettable, eventually the mob must be kept from stealing the conch and killing Piggy. And while it would be nice if that "something" was simple human decency, anybody who has witnessed the "50% Off Wedding Dress Sale" at Filene's Basement knows we need a backup plan—preferably in writing. On the other hand, too many laws can result in outright tyranny, particularly if one of those laws is "Kneel before... Jon Stewart

• learning
• government
• confounding

grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave. John Clare

• humanity
• human
• humane

the tyranny of the human face Thomas de Quincey

• god
• mind
• mindfulness

Upon the altar of God I pledge eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man Thomas Jefferson

• simple
• passion
• heart

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. Pat Conroy

• doctor
• men
• children

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens, as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• manly
• happy
• mother child

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Oscar Wilde

• great
• greatness
• sinned

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue. Bertrand Russell

• soul
• you are loved
• greed

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another. Thomas Merton