#tyranny

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will? ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#destiny #elite #freedom #tyranny #freedom

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#despotism #government #liberty #revolutionary #tyranny

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#laws #sort #tyranny #worst

BLOODY LIPS The bloody wound Of the gladiator Gurgles out life's end. The cries of acclimations from the stands Fill the sky with raging tigers. Waving their arms about to incite the masses The aging notables add an air of dignity to the arena. Making their separate entries they K N E E L over the still-warm corpses Of the young. Their withered lips they pose Upon the fresh flowing wounds And, to prolong their lives – so they believe, Suck, ravenously suck out the blood, blood, blood. Fresh blood from the sun Flowing into filthy veins As into sewage pipes, And thus the Heart of the Nation is abandoned. ↗

— Visar Zhiti

#bloodsport #gladiators #oppression #tyranny #vampire

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#class #combatants #fascists #freedom #know

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#brave #break #british #chains #could

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

— John Hay

#him #rarely #resists #seen #tyranny

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fears #government #liberty #people #tyranny

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

— Philip Pullman

#tyranny #writing #inspirational