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I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. — Aristotle.

It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does. — Eric Robert Morse

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist ... I don't do that any more. — Banksy

Hopelessness is reasonable. But nothing of worth in my life came of reason. Not my love, not my art, not my heaven. So I am hopeful — Clive Barker

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere. — Stephane Hessel

Genius is individual, scenius is communal. — Brian Eno

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102) — Cornel West

The Tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy
is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. — Montesquieu

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy. — Philip Pullman

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it — Richard Wright

I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what she's got inside. — Linda Cardellini

Don't kill the Genius in you by doubting your abilities to create impact in the world. — Jeekeshen Chinnappen

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players. — Masahiro Tanaka

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. — Plato

They were taught about democracy in London, not about tyranny in Cairo. — Ken Follett

Secrecy begets tyranny. — Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy is better than tyranny. — Periander

Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, "democracy." But now "democracy" can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own. — C.S. Lewis

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! — Thomas Paine

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny. — Gijs De Vries

I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on. — Anton Corbijn

Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing. — Rhianna Pratchett

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with. — Steven Pinker

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen. — Ray Bradbury

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest. — Hugo Chavez

So if you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don't like doing something, make a habit of doing something different. — Epictetus

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032 — L. Douglas Hogan

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? — Andy Zaltzman

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — John Kennedy Toole

When you feel in love with an ex, it isn't that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong. — Robin Lopez

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. — Michael Leunig

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. — Mike Pence

Hunger is the best pickle. — Benjamin Franklin

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. — Walter E. Williams

Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all? — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. — Walter Raleigh

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant. — Benito Mussolini

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. — Robert Peel

Love is a decision - not an emotion! — Lao-Tzu