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#tyranny

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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

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.


John Hay


#him #rarely #resists #seen #tyranny

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

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

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command


Niccolò Machiavelli


#leadership #politics #tyranny #leadership

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


Lysander Spooner


#media #propaganda #tyranny #media

Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make speedy decisions when necessary. They fit an ancient human demand for a parental (tribal/feudal) hierarchy where every person knows his place. It is valuable to know your place, even if that place is temporary. It is galling to be held in place against your will. This is why I teach about tyranny in the best possible way—by example.


Frank Herbert


#tyranny #nature

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.


Susan B. Anthony


#earnestly #god #i #maxim #obedience

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.


Hannah Arendt


#beginning #cause #determined #existence #fact

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.


Hannah Arendt


#conditions #easier #far #than #think






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