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Everything is mended by the soil.

—Andrew Crofts

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and...

—Frederick Douglass

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Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper – not the bang that extremists long for.

—Eskinder Nega

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For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers...

—Clara Zetkin

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The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I’m afraid. Critical...

—Rachel Caine

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To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

—Andy Zaltzman

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The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

—Hillary Rodham

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The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all...

—James Madison

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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

—Thomas Paine

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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

—Thomas Jefferson

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And I’ll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people,...

—Christopher Hitchens

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Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny” Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard

—Hank Quense

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… you can’t start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to...

—John Steinbeck

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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

—Walter Bagehot

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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

—Ayn Rand

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Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

—George Ayittey

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Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What’s more, there are whole races who believe it!

—Erich Maria

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As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I’ve never questioned the justification for resorting...

—José Ramos-Horta

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And that’s the terrible myth of organized society. That everything that’s done through the established system is legal. And that word has a powerful psychological impact. It makes people believe that there is an order...

—William M.

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Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.” And after the Hare said this, he ran for his...

—Aesop

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It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this...

—J.M. Coetzee

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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even – perhaps even especially – those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals,...

—Jim Butcher

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The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

—Stefan Molyneux

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Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Thomas Jefferson

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The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

—Christopher Hitchens

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These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of...

—Hannah Arendt

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people...

—John Stuart Mill

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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,...

—Samuel Johnson

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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment …...

—Ayn Rand

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Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid colors and little joy. Hell is a heavy vibration that drags us spiraling...

—Jacqueline Ripstein

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Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and...

—Frank Herbert

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Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military system. This ensured that wars would grow bigger in scale, longer in duration, and worse in effects. While conscription appeared...

—Liddell Hart

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We heard of this woman who was out of control. We heard that she was led by her feelings. That her emotions were violent. That she was impetuous. That she violated tradition and overrode convention....

—Susan Griffin

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The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the...

—Charles Dickens

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In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech,...

—Eugene V.

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They’ll never build a fence high enough or a wall thick enough to keep freedom out.

—Marty Rubin

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No mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that...

—Stefan Molyneux

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I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Let us rejoice.

—Albert Camus

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Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

—Bruce Coville

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They [feminists] share the instinct for tyranny and destruction – and they are filled with self-loathing. In the end, leftist feminists yearn to submit to, and submerge themselves within, a despotic monolith. Because they despise...

—Jamie Glazov

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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny...

—John Stuart Mill

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Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR’s thinking, “he is our bloody tyrant.” In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled...

—Samuel P.

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant,...

—Aldous Huxley

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Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is...

—Iain Pears

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In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These...

—Frank Herbert

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Free society’s organize around the “invisible hand” while Force society’s organize around the State’s “visible fist.

—Orrin Woodward

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Let them shoot us in the head,My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.

—Visar Zhiti

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Penindasan terjadi karena kelompok yang ditindas pasrah, rela … mereka tidak bersuara. Mereka tidak berupaya untuk memperbaiki nasib mereka. Penguasa melakukan tirani karena rakyat bungkam, minder, lemah.

—Anand Krishna

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