Christopher McCulloch Quotes

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Why do you all push us around?

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The cruelties committed against the Hottentots exceed everything that is said about it in Cape Town or what can be imagined.

Things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

When the white man turns tyrant [colonialism], it is his own freedom he destroys.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

The art of power often involves brutality — and other offenses too.

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.