“ In your absolute defiance against tyranny, lies and all odds; lies therein, your true moral strength. Rise! Mamur Mustapha
“ Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence. Karl Marx
“ Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after th… Frank Herbert
“ The only way we can eliminate despots in this world, is not to be peaceful about it, for that has been the case for many people that has caused the upheaval of such tyranny, nor we should turn the oth… ELW-Reta Barnes
“ All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Edmund Burke
“ So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe. Emma Goldman
“ Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. Michael Johns
“ It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. Thomas Jefferson
“ I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as th… Samuel Johnson
“ 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
“ Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings. Jon Stewart
“ Where did this absurd rule come from, and why did we so meekly obey it? Under a tyrannical regime--and the Ireland of those days was a spiritual tyranny--the populace becomes so cowed that it does the… John Banville
“ 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… Thomas Pynchon
“ Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and the people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that th… Edward Gibbon
“ Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. Bruce Coville
