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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.


Eric Hoffer


#oligarchy #tyranny #experience

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city


Sophocles


#tyranny #freedom

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.


Bill Willingham


#bigby-wolf #freedom #storyville #tyranny #werewolf-governments

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.


Orrin Woodward


#liberty #tyranny #freedom

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


Thomas Jefferson


#inspiration #liberty #political-philosophy #strength #tyranny

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.


Michael Polanyi


#tyranny #life

What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why had they been so anxious to believe that the government could solve problems for them which had been pridefully solved, many times over, by their fathers? Had their characters become so weak and debased, so craven and emasculated, that offers of government dole had become more important than their liberty and their humanity? Had they not know that power delegated to the government becomes the club of tyrants? They must have known. They had their own history to remember, and the history of five thousand years. Yet, they had willingly and knowingly, with all this knowledge, declared themselves unfit to manage their own affairs and had placed their lives, which belonged to God only, in the hands of sinister men who had long plotted to enslave them, by wars, by "directives," by "emergencies." In the name of the American people, the American people had been made captive.


Taylor Caldwell


#freedom #politics #tyranny #freedom

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.


Robert A. Heinlein


#pay #taxes #tyranny #moon

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.


Clara Barton


#always #anything #been #better #complete

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.


Bob Beauprez


#end #enormous #forget #freedom-loving #globe






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