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Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.


Orrin Hatch


#bring #decent #east #fighting #heroes

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.


Robin Morgan


#hoarding #humility #information #knowledge #knowledge is power

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.


Philip Pullman


#tyranny #writing #inspirational

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.


William Pitt


#begins #corrupt #ends #i #know

By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime will never be up to the job, any more than the Soviet system of central planning was, because ti can't think. The comedy of law's sterile logic--large POISON signs warning against common sand, spending twenty-two years on pesticide review and deciding next to nothing, allowing fifty-year-old white men to sue for discrimination--is all too reminiscent of the old jokes we used to hear about life in the Eastern bloc. Judgement is to law as water is to crops. It should not be surprising that law has become brittle, and society along with it.


Philip K. Howard


#bureaucrats #human-judgment #law #regulation #responsibility

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another.


Samuel Johnson


#boswell #corrupt #corruption #freedom #johnson

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.


Christopher Hitchens


#law #tyranny #love

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.


Lysander Spooner


#media #propaganda #tyranny #media

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.


Edward Abbey


#oppression #subversion #totalitarianism #tyranny #wit

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.


Aeschylus


#friends #never #somehow #trust #tyranny






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