"There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living."

-- Thomas Paine

#Tyranny Quotes

“You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work.”
“The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and we should engage in social and political activity. This is further supported by the Stoic idea of cosmopolitanism, and by the famous "circles of concern" identified by Hierocles, who counseled that we should refer to other people as brothers and sisters, to constantly remind ourselves that we are members of the same human family.”

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“Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.”
“Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason weâ€™re here on Earth at this time.”
“A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.”
“If you then cast a somebody, playing a nobody is always an additional effort. But that was not the reason we cast him. It was because Ben Whishaw delivered exactly what I was hoping for.”
“I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.”
“I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.”

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