A Quote by Virginia Woolf

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

Virginia Woolf

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Connected Other Private Public Worlds

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Virginia Woolf
British - Author
January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Theodore Roosevelt

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

Virginia Woolf

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

George Henry Lewes

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Joseph Sobran

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

Weston La Barre

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

Ronald Harwood

Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.

William Inge

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Thomas Paine

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

Thomas Paine

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

John Dryden

What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.

Noam Chomsky

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Thomas Paine

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.