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Tyranny Quotes - Page 5

International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.

International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.

George W. Bush
Law, Tyrants, Tyranny
George W. Bush Discusses Year-End Accomplishments in Cabinet Meeting, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 11, 2003.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

George Ayittey
Hate, Government, Tyranny
"Africa's cheetahs versus hippos". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2007.

The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.

Frank Lebby Stanton
Doors, Lips, Tyranny

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Edgar Degas
Invention, Tyranny, Recollection

The lens is a tyranny.

David Hockney
Lenses, Tyranny

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Christopher Hitchens
People, Boredom, Tyranny

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Antonin Artaud
Bombs, Language, Tyranny
Le Monde, September 11, 1970.

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Albert Einstein
Tyranny, All Time, Assured

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

Aeschylus
Doe, Sickness, Tyranny
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus”

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

A. L. Rowse
History, Tyranny, Knows
A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.24, Routledge

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

Thomas Paine
Tyranny, Greater

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

Thomas Jefferson
Corruption, Tyranny
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

Stefan Molyneux
Tyranny, Dictatorship, Exhausting

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Seth Godin
Mind Your Own Business, Tyranny, Poke
Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.21, Penguin

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

Ronald Harwood
Art, Tyranny
Ronald Harwood (1997). “Taking Sides”, p.62, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Robert A. Heinlein
Political, Secrecy, Tyranny
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.32, Penguin

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.

Pope Benedict XVI
Civilization, Tyranny, Relativism

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?

Karen Marie Moning
Tyranny, Greater Good, Chameleon
Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.579, Dell

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

James F. Cooper
Tyrants, Newspapers, Tyranny

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

Francine du Plessix Gray
Way, Tyranny, Cease

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Cyril Connolly
Happiness, Tyranny, Egotism

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.

Bruce Chatwin
Echoes, Tyranny, Chamber
1988 Utz.

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
Perfect, World, Tyranny

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

Ayn Rand
Force, Periods, Tyranny
Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.174, Penguin

I dream that love without tyranny is possible

Andrea Dworkin
Dream, Tyranny

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