Tyranny Quotes

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

Among the Kimbrii the greatest shame a person can bring to himself or his clan is to start a war, but the second greatest is to submit to tyranny or injustice without a fight.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.

Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.

History wasn't just a collection of dates I memorized from textbooks

Our ancestors wholeheartedly sacrificed their lives to fight against tyranny, and we are allowing that very same tyranny to exist! Let us open our eyes!

I believe that love and peace are the right way to confront tyranny.

Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn’t be treated as one.

For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.

A wounded animal yet bears teeth

There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world.

Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others

The Unexpected GiftTorn asunder from her slumberin the hour of half past threeThe child knew the tyrannical regimeand followed instinctively.-(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)

Those who don't know history are destined to be tyrannized by it

Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.

Everything is mended by the soil.

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.

Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

Yes, from drinking too much beer and generally being a tyrannical egomaniac.

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

Peace is found when people stand for morality and rejectculture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peacewill rule the world instead of tyrants.

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny" Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.