#tyra

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. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#anyone #average #average person #content #deliberately

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#heaven #liberty #little #men #tyrant

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#justice #powerless #tyrannical #without

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ↗

— Aeschylus

#end #every #friend #heart #in the end

Death is softer by far than tyranny. ↗

— Aeschylus

#far #softer #than #tyranny

Mild speech is the best form of showing the Calmness of ones soul, Rough talk forms all types of unease for all man - you won't be able to talk to God Roughly though - so keep silent. ↗

— A Gentlemen

#science #tyranny #religion

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. ↗

— Aristotle

#both #deprive #mistrust #people #their

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. ↗

— Henry Brooke

#faith #his #however #invades #never

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#empire #give #happy #make #pain