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#tyranny

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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.


Ayn Rand


#education #power #tyranny #education

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.


Malcolm X


#defense #freedom #greater #oppression #power

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.


Nelson Mandela


#any #arisen #assessment #because #calm

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.


Zell Miller


#america #believed #democrats #duty #fight

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.


Reinhold Niebuhr


#aggression #civilization #consequences #defend #even

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.


James F. Cooper


#democracies #exhibit #form #law #masses

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.


Michael Novak


#condition #default #free #history #human

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.


Plato


#democracy #naturally #out #tyranny

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.


James H. Douglas


#fighting #must #peace #terror #times

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.


Jean Claude Duvalier


#amnesia #gives #impression #laugh #makes






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