Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [221-240] of 689 Tyranny quotesTyranny QuotesTyranny Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.~ Erich Fromm The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.~ R. Buckminster Fuller Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Men ... should do their actual living and working in communities ... small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise. The larger (structurally) a democracy grows, the less becomes the rule of the people and the smaller is the say of individuals and localised groups in dealing with their own destinies. Moreover, love and affection, are essentially personal relationships. Consequently, it is only in small groups that Charity, in the Pauline sense of the word, can manifest itself. Needless to say, the smallness of the group, in no way guarantees the emergence of Charity. In a large undifferentiated group, the possibility does not even exist, for the simple reason that most of its members cannot, in the nature of things, have personal relations with one another.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.~ James A. Garfield We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.~ Daryl Gates Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite; who made ten thousand people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?~ David Lloyd George In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.~ Edward Gibbon The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is dominated by the executive.~ Edward Gibbon Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.~ Edward Gibbon If it’s a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.~ Khalil Gibran Let us consider the effect that coercion produces upon the mind of him against whom it is employed. It cannot begin with convincing; it is no argument. It begins with producing the sensation of pain, and the sentiment of distaste. It begins with violently alienating the mind from the truth with which we wish it to be impressed. It includes in it a tacit confession of imbecility. If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is important, but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. ~ William Godwin To dragoon man into the adoption of what we think right, is an intolerable tyranny.~ William Godwin The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.~ Joseph Paul Goebbels Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.~ Hermann Goering I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.~ Hermann Goering None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another… All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.~ Emma Goldman Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside of the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.~ Barry Goldwater Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print