No Greater Tyranny Quotes

#1. There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

#2. Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Malcolm X

#3. I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

Stone Gossard

#5. Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?

Emilia Lanier

#6. I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

Harold Ramis

#7. If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.

Kathleen Kent

#8. I'll never forget the things you said to me. Not because they mattered, but because they made me feel like I did.

Monica Murphy

#9. I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.

Adam McKay

#10. Ah! There is a plane crash in Lost and now we are going to die in a plane crash while watching Lost! And I'm too scared to tell anyone my cool observation!

Mindy Kaling

#11. It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. What is the greater good but tyranny's chameleon?

Karen Marie Moning

#13. I am the Neelkanth!

Amish Tripathi

#14. To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep
how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.

Osamu Dazai

#15. All the f
experts in America, everybody who thinks they know about soccer, they can all look at the score tonight and let's see what they have to say now. Nobody has any respect for what we do, for what goes on on the inside, so let them all talk now.

Michael Bradley

#16. The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#17. There must be absolute religious liberty, for tyranny and intolerance are as abhorrent in matters intellectual and spiritual as in matters political and material; and more and more we must all realize that conduct is of infinitely greater importance than dogma.

Theodore Roosevelt

#18. Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

Madison Smartt Bell

#19. She'd always had a heavy hand in his life, it was true, striving not to control it but to improve it somehow. She had always considered this her responsibility to him. She had not known how to be a sister any other way.

Anonymous

#20. Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

Kenneth Patchen

#21. What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

Deepak Chopra

#22. Although characterized as uncultured and unread, Hitler comes off in his demands to create a monumental signature for a Greater Germany as historically and artistically gifted."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 32

Russel H.S. Stolfi

#23. Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Garrison Keillor