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Letter "T" » tyrannies
«Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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«Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst»
«One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Politics
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«In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Tyranny
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«How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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«All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.»
«The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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