Quotes About Tyrannical Governments

#1. First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

Edmund White

#2. In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

William Blackstone

#3. While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.

Bill Shuster

#4. The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

Noah Webster

#5. In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.

Ismail Kadare

#6. Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

Emiliano Zapata

#7. The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

Peter D. Kramer

#8. Charity is a nice gesture, but it only offers temporary relief. But if he can change the law, the benefits for the poor will last longer.

Aya Ling

#9. I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

Gwen Stefani

#10. You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.

John Cusack

#12. You don't have to comment on every boring thing you do." I said. "This isn't Olympic curling. You're just unpacking a suitcase.

Maria Semple

#13. Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Christian Morgenstern

#14. Even if you never, ever ride the bike it will still age. So you might as well ride it while it's pretty and enjoy the process of making it ugly.

BikeSnobNYC

#15. Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states
which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.

Dahlia Lithwick

#16. All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

Lysander Spooner

#17. I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

Jenny Downham

#18. He was still a douchecanoe. The douchecanoe who was going to paddle me to safety.

Karina Halle

#19. You could kill a bloke with rules, Tom knew that. And yet sometimes they were what stood between man and savagery, between man and monsters.

M.L. Stedman

#20. Startups often have to do dubious things.

Paul Graham

#21. You know," Rolf said, "you read stories when you're little, and you think it would be so amazing to have adventures happen to you. Then you actually go on one, and find out that it's awful. Nothing but bad food, sleeping cold on the hard ground, and treachery.

Jessica Day George

#22. The incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers ... Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

Frederick Buechner

#23. The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

Baruch Spinoza