Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 689 Tyranny quotesTyranny QuotesTyranny Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.~ Sir Thomas Browne No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.~ Tammy Bruce If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave.~ John "Birdman" Bryant All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund Burke All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund Burke The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.~ Edmund Burke The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.~ Edmund Burke The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.~ Edmund Burke After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.~ William S. Burroughs Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.~ William S. Burroughs Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.~ George W. Bush I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want -- I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.~ George W. Bush There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.~ George W. Bush Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.~ George W. Bush I don’t give a goddamn. I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!~ George W. Bush Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.~ Samuel Butler A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house.... The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.~ Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr. Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword. It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect. And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights. The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage. Why do I know that? I know it, because this is, what I did. And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar.~ Gaius Julius Caesar Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print