"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."
- George Orwell
"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
- Philip Pullman
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as me..."
- John Stuart Mill
"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."
- Ayn Rand
"Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formid..."
"There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law of following good and shunning evil..."
- E.A. Bucchianeri
"Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!"
- Erich Maria Remarque
"Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosoph..."
- Mark R. Levin
"Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wi..."
- Iain Pears
"To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors."
- Steven Chuks Nwakokeke