Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry Spence

. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.

Harold Evans

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

C. S. Lewis

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

Bill Vaughan

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

Bill Vaughan

A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!

Bertrand Russell

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

George C. Wallace

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

Herbert Spencer

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Herman Melville

Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

Jeremy Bentham

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Howard Zinn

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Jacques Delille

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

J. K. Rowling

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

Karl Marx

A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.

Pat Robertson

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

Muriel Spark

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Marquis de Sade

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Mikhail Bakunin

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Joseph Sobran

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

Joseph Sobran

There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves.

Margaret Thatcher

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

Miguel Syjuco

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

Jose Rizal

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Jose Rizal

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

Henry A. Wallace

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

George Galloway

The big tyrants never face justice

James F. Cooper

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

Emile Zola

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

Emile M. Cioran

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Emily Bronte

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Elliott Abrams

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.