“ Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ”
- Mortimer J. Adler- Copy
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“ When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. ”
- James Hillman- Copy
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“ All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. ”
- Stephen Spender- Copy
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“ Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ”
- Mortimer Adler- Copy
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“ Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
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“ Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
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“ We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. ”
- Judd Gregg- Copy
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“ If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. ”
- John C. Calhoun- Copy
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“ Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath — tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over. ”
- Dick Cheney- Copy
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“ If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another — cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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