Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
Iain PearsTags: wisdom power justice philosophy tyranny virtue public-service
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Tags: deception power evil tyranny elections government falsehood deceit administration seduction false-promises
The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.
Tags: evil tyranny vanity destruction pride ruin recklessness
The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
Tom RobbinsThe present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.
Charles DickensTags: individuality tyranny independence leadership domination submission suppression
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?
Andy ZaltzmanTags: democracy tyranny revolution britain 2011 arab-spring news-international-phone-hacking
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
Christopher HitchensBloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.
Christopher HitchensTags: tyranny law 2004 cars big-government pettiness car-alarms mayoralty-of-michael-bloomberg michael-bloomberg
To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.
Michael PolanyiCongress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
Ayn RandTags: life causality liberty love reason wealth freedom society philosophy sex tyranny atheism america capitalism economics usa political-philosophy drugs crisis law government force slavery economy constitution trade jobs commerce rock-and-roll regulation pursuit-of-happiness volition individual-rights objective-law
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