"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." ― Edmund Burke Topic(s): Good Tags: needs, tyranny More From Edmund Burke "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." "Education is the cheap defense of nations." "People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous." More In Good "Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you’re probably going to invest in somebody who’s going to deceive you. I’ve been conned a couple of times, but now I’m a little more savvy."― Maggie Gyllenhaal "Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."― George Orwell "Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts."― David Herbert Lawrence