Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Alex StorozynskiAs long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.
Tom RobbinsTags: war religion tyranny heaven government military
No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices that they would call 'hard but necessary steps' for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.
Jim ButcherTags: tyranny heroism harry-dresden
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
Lysander SpoonerTags: tyranny lying media propaganda
Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
John Stuart MillTags: liberty society philosophy tyranny
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.
G.K. ChestertonTags: tyranny
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
Bruce CovilleTags: tyranny censorship dictatorship control information
All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
Thomas PynchonTags: freedom tyranny destiny elite behavior
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.
Mark R. LevinTags: experience philosophy tyranny conservatism enduring magnificent antidote broad timeless
Let them shoot us in the head,
My blood will grow roots
and will blossom.
Tags: poetry tyranny creativity oppression
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