Only tyrannies understand the power of art.
The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies.
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
