#tyra

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#democratic #destruction #directed #ever #frankly

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. ↗

— Simone Weil

#defined #door #every #kind #morality

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. ↗

— Robert Welch

#balances #checks #elaborate #feature #form

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#day #defiance #enter #hour #lose

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#crap #dad #out #physically #tyrant

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. ↗

— William Godwin

#indignation #itself #pregnant #revolution #tyranny

God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ↗

— William Godwin

#himself #right #tyrant

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#century #conceptual #criticism #drama #etc