“ Talk about corporate greed and everything is really crucially beside the point, in my view, and really should be recognized as a very big regression from what working people, and a lot of others, unde… Noam Chomsky
“ Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men f… Alexis de Tocqueville
“ Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they cannot destroy either one or the other of these contrary propensities,… Alexis de Tocqueville
“ These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of the… Hannah Arendt
“ Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness. Joseph C. Morecraft III
“ In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form of totalitarianism." It begins to happen at a practical level w… George Cardinal Pell
“ There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return. James Bamford
“ This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for a new culture. Man’s unbroken testimony as to his suffering and his nobility cannot be suspended; t… Albert Camus
“ Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism,” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future gen… Barack Obama
“ Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professe… John Stuart Mill
“ The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout… James Madison
“ Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue. Bertrand Russell
“ The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in or… Frederic Bastiat
“ If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge. Benjamin Constant
“ To be sure, I am not speaking about Christian equality, whose real name is equity; but about this democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of jealo… Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
“ In her mind, her actions were treason to the false federation, but loyalty to the real United States of America, the one created by a document she had memorized. The real document was set on fire by w… Jennifer Arnett
“ That we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny. Okey Ndibe
“ For your sake, jewel,I am glad at soul I have no other child;For thy escape would teach me tyranny,To hang clogs on them. William Shakespeare
“ The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises. Michael R. French
