Tyranny Quotes

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

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

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Our goal must be not peace in our time, but peace for all time.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it.

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.