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#tyranny

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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.


Pat Robertson


#democracy #erosion #home #jefferson #know

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.


Pat Robertson


#bring #communism #did #down #evil

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.


Pat Robertson


#concerned #i #oligarchy #tyranny

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.


Maximilien Robespierre


#freedom #ignorant #keeping #lies #people

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.


Ma Jian


#i #i believe #i believe that #literature #power

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.


Phillip E. Johnson


#interests #life #majority #minority #necessarily

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.


Bertrand Russell


#avoid #beyond #goes #insofar #keep

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.


George Santayana


#enslave #free #instruments #seldom #their

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.


Beverly Sills


#autonomy #beyond #culture #environmental #function

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.


Bruce Coville


#control #dictatorship #information #tyranny #information






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