“ Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. ”
- Andrew Johnson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of the body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of the day. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ”
- peter kropotkin- Copy
- 774
“ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 875
“ Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ”
- Plato- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
- 3.6K
“ No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Of all the tyrannies on human kindThe worst is that which persecutes the mind. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Anarchy is simply the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 3.1K
“ A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 263
“ It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. ”
- Strom Thurmond- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military. ”
- Bob Riley- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. ”
- Kent Nerburn- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.8K
“ All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
- 2K
“ The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says "mine, mine," more fiercely. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
- 471
“ The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its manoeuvres may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 3.6K
“ If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ”
- James Madison- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it. ”
- Herbert Marcuse- Copy
- 3.3K
“ There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim. ”
- St. Gregory the Great- Copy
- 1.8K
“ It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence … and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. ”
- Manitonquat- Copy
- 418
“ If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
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