Best 276 quotes in «tyranny quotes» category

You can burn libraries, ban books, boycott scholars, and blacklist intellectuals, but you cannot blot out ideas.

You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?

You can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relieved when they get to democracy that they hang on to it.

You, up there: I hate you waking and sleeping. I will hate and curse you in the hour of my death. I will hate and curse you from my grave, and it will be your children and your children’s children who will have to bear my curse. I have no other weapon against you but this curse, I know that it withers the heart of him who utters it, I do not know if I will survive your downfall. But this I know, that a man must hate this Germany with all his heart if he really loves it. I would ten times rather die than see you triumph.

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.

You want a picture of the future? Imagine a boot trampling a human face.. forever. The moral to be drawn from this nightmarish situation is simple: Don't let it happen. It depends on you.

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

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

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

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

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

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

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.

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

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

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

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

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

Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

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

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.