Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 689 Tyranny quotesTyranny QuotesTyranny Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in men’s struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.~ Justice William O. Douglas I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.~ Frederick Douglass Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.~ Frederick Douglass The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.~ Frederick Douglass The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.~ Frederick Douglass Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.~ Frederick Douglass Ill habits gather by unseen degrees -- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.~ John Dryden Of all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.~ John Dryden The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.~ W. E. B. Du Bois It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.~ W. E. B. Du Bois Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.~ Alexandre Dumas The history of Christianity has been largely written in blood, the blood of those whom it has sought to proselytize as well as that of those Christians who did not share the theology or ambitions of the male clerical oligarchy that has always wielded power in Christendom. This ignoble distinction is not nor has it ever been the exclusive prerogative of any particular denomination or sect; it is a living legacy of horror that is tragically common to the Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox bodies of Christian churches.~ John J. Dunphy If the previous paragraphs [of 'A Religion For A New Age'] prove anything, it is that the Bible is not merely another book, an outmoded and archaic book, or even an extremely influential book; it has been and remains an incredibly dangerous book. It and the various Christian churches which are parasitic upon it have been directly responsible for most of the wars, persecutions and outrages which humankind has perpetrated upon itself over the past two thousand years.~ John J. Dunphy Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.~ Clint Eastwood Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.~ Richard M. Ebeling People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.~ Thomas A. Edison Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.~ Albert Einstein The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.~ Albert Einstein You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.~ Rahm Emanuel Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print