#tyranny

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. ↗

— David Hume

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Death is softer by far than tyranny. ↗

— Aeschylus

#far #softer #than #tyranny

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. ↗

— Henry Brooke

#faith #his #however #invades #never

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. ↗

— David Cameron

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

— James F. Cooper

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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#apart #complete #enemy #fall #grandeur

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#battle #because #begun #center #consider

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#better #defence #defender #faith #george

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#mankind #religion #tyrannies #tyranny #worst