Quotes by Tyranny Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go. Pericles wrong your dangerous tyranny In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. Peter Fenn minority alone more tyranny The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim. David Ignatius king passion tyranny government Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for. Orlando Jones out oppression tyranny religion To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian tyranny imaginable. Augustus Sol Invictus thought tyranny freedom paper A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it. Sam Brownback diversity democracy tyranny We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny. Dana Loesch tyranny humble action work Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. George Wallace answer rise tyranny blood We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. George William Russell worst universe tyranny imagination If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations. Cesare Beccaria measure tyranny liberty humanity A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated. Bassem Youssef think tyranny truth people 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 stage failure tyranny long The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land. Sabine Baring-Gould king crush tyranny power The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination. Walter Gropius will examination tyranny fear «123456789
