Best 276 quotes in «tyranny quotes» category

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

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

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

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

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.

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.

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

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

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

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

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.

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 Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny.

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

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.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

ABYSS Our country lives Among the dead And dies among the living Sometimes.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

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

An old Russian proverb . . . "Where hangs the smoke of hate burns a fiercer fire called fear." The trick . . . was to keep that fire alive, but to know at the same time it might consume you also. Then the truck was to make the fear invisible in the smokes of hatred. Having accomplished that, you would own men's souls and your power would be absolute, so long as you never allowed men to see that their hate was but fear, and so long as you, afraid, knowing it, hence more shrewd and cautious than the rest, did not become a corpse at the hands of the hating fearful. There, in a nutshell, was the recipe for dictatorship. Over the proletariat. Over the godly believers. Over the heathen. Over all men, even those who imagined they were free and yet could be made to hate. Frighten; then furnish the whipping boys. Then seize.