#tyranny

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#foothold #gain #good #needs #people

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#break #establish #great #great minds #intellectual

Peace without justice is tyranny. ↗

— William Allen White

#peace #tyranny #without

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#noble #treachery #tyranny

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#curtain #hard #iron #iron curtain #reminders

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#democratic #destruction #directed #ever #frankly

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. ↗

— Robert Welch

#balances #checks #elaborate #feature #form

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. ↗

— William Godwin

#indignation #itself #pregnant #revolution #tyranny

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#been #death #fear #greatest #past

Mild speech is the best form of showing the Calmness of ones soul, Rough talk forms all types of unease for all man - you won't be able to talk to God Roughly though - so keep silent. ↗

— A Gentlemen

#science #tyranny #religion