#tyra

Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the fact that tyrants and political forces of every age have been threatened by art again and again, condemned it as degenerate or poisonous, and have silenced, brutalized, or murdered artists because of their work only serves to illustrate how significant art is, that it is our one greatest power. I would even go so far as to say that the tyrant ‘understands’ art more than the devotee, for the latter is generally too ‘pious’ and adoring, almost like a simple-minded believer overwrought by faith who simply loves and finds everything ‘great,’ whereas the former suffers the transformative threat of art more, is even endangered by it, hence their terror. ↗

— Rainer J. Hanshe

#tyranny #age

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#pay #taxes #tyranny #moon

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. ↗

— Euripides

#deceit #deception #elections #evil #false-promises

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#justice #law #name #perpetrated #shield

If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

#patriot-act #tyranny #war #acting

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ↗

— Clara Barton

#always #anything #been #better #complete

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#end #enormous #forget #freedom-loving #globe

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#apart #far #never #tyranny

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalism #chains #class #crush #emancipate

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#beneath #crush #down #grinds #him