Best 276 quotes in «tyranny quotes» category

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.

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

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

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

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.

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.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

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

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

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.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

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.

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.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

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

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

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?

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

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

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

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

Luther's personality as well as his teachings shows ambivalence toward authority. On the one hand he is overawed by authority—that of a worldly authority and that of a tyrannical God—and on the other hand he rebels against authority—that of the Church. He shows the same ambivalence in his attitude toward the masses. As far as they rebel within the limits he has set he is with them. But when they attack the authorities he approves of, an intense hatred and contempt for the masses comes to the fore. […] we shall show that this simultaneous love for authority and the hatred against those who are powerless are typical traits of the "authoritarian character.

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

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