“the tyranny of the human face”

“Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.”

“Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.”

“Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent — the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.”

“The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny.”

“Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.”