Fighting Tyranny Quotes

#1. We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny ... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

E.B. White

#2. If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#3. A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it.

Carl Icahn

#4. I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

Laura Dekker

#5. So here I was. I would live with Joe and Mom. I had no place else to go. Joe would carve the roast on Sundays. He would put up the Christmas tree.

Judy Blundell

#6. The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated ... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

Benazir Bhutto

#7. Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

W. Edwards Deming

#8. The key is to figure out how God can effectively use you where you're planted now, regardless of how you got there.

Stacy Hawkins Adams

#9. She looked,' said Alec Guthrie dryly, 'like a clever woman who was not unaware that five ill-dressed passers-by were displaying an unhealthy interest in her personal life.

Dorothy Dunnett

#10. When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.

Doris Day

#11. Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#12. The white man say we're fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I

Marlon James

#13. Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late.

Tess Gerritsen

#14. I used to think that only death could take someone away from me, but I have learned so many lesser things could steal someone away. Just as completely; just as forever.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#15. If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

James Madison

#16. One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.

Kay Ryan

#17. Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

Wendell Phillips

#18. Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

Orrin Hatch

#19. A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Llewelyn Powys

#20. We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

James H. Douglas Jr.

#21. All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

David Bowie

#22. Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"
Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd ... prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

Jim Butcher

#23. I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan .' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq ,' and I did.

George W. Bush

#24. And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

Winston S. Churchill

#25. Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

Mencius

#26. Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

Rex Hunt

#27. 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