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Tyranny Quotes (page 6)

Lysander Spooner quote: "Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to..."
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it. Lysander Spooner
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. James Joyce
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience. Jane Austen
Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny. Charles Dudley Warner
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty..."
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. p. 22 Thomas Merton
England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank. Mary Wollstonecraft
Daniel Defoe quote: "And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed,..."
And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. Daniel Defoe
Susan B. Anthony quote: "Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God"
Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God Susan B. Anthony
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large... Thomas Jefferson
Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding. She sinks to tyranny, not satisfied with mere faith, but demanding works. Thus she becomes the mistress of life itself. She does so with pleasure or with pain, according to the nonsense presented. She makes people contented or discontented with themselves. By dangling before some nothing but the specter of their eternal suffering, she becomes... Baltasar Gracian
Ezra Pound quote: "Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the..."
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. Ezra Pound
The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked. David Ogilvy
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective? (1923) John Gresham Machen

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