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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)
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“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.”
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“We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability."”
David Mamet quotes (American Playwright, b.1947)
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“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”
John C. Calhoun quotes

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“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)
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“A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty”
George Baumler quotes
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“Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror”
Herbert Spencer quotes (British social Philosopher, 1820-1903)

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“When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.”
Paul Goodman quotes (American poet, 1911-1972)

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