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Letter "T" » tyranny
«Tyranny is always better organized than freedom»
Author: Charles Peguy
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
organized, tyranny
«Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think»
«The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
admitted, anarchy, commence, commenced, commences, force of law, Law and Justice, property, protect, public property, sacred, The Anarchy, tyranny
«To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conceived, defined, morality, notion, public, public morality, set up, standard, tyranny
«The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
advantage, alibi, conscience, further, furthered, furthering, furthers, giving, in particular, particular, Particulars, provides, servants, The People, tyrannies, tyranny, tyrants, welfare
«The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.»
«We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
church, information, introduction, introductions, Introduction to, keeping, Mass, respecting, suppressed, suppresses, suppressing, suspect, The Bible, The State of the World, tyranny, united
«The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
arms, last resort, protect, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, retain, retaining, Right to bear arms, strongest, The Last Resort, tyranny
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