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Faith and force... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny (Yr Quotes)
The history of women is the history of 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 (Yr Quotes)
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force (Yr Quotes)
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself (Yr Quotes)
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live (Yr Quotes)
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him (Yr Quotes)
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr’s death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr’s death (Yr Quotes)
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism (Yr Quotes)
The government has a defect: it’s potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they’re pure tyrannies (Yr Quotes)
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life (Yr Quotes)
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant (Yr Quotes)
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it (Yr Quotes)
The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that’s how I hear it (Yr Quotes)
What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can’t understand what is being said or heard? (Yr Quotes)
As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion (Yr Quotes)
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul (Yr Quotes)
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts (Yr Quotes)
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals? (Yr Quotes)
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life (Yr Quotes)
The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made (Yr Quotes)
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages (Yr Quotes)
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive (Yr Quotes)
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line (Yr Quotes)
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus (Yr Quotes)
I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them (Yr Quotes)
This song ain’t black or white and as far as I know it don’t infringe on anyone’s copyright (Yr Quotes)
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy (Yr Quotes)
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner (Yr Quotes)
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity (Yr Quotes)
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? (Yr Quotes)