Tyranny Quotes

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Power without authority is tyranny.

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

Tyranny is always weakness

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

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

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.