Best 276 quotes in «tyranny quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

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

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

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.

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

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

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

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

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

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.

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

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

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

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

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

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

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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

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 tyrant will always find a pretext for his 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.

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

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

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

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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

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.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

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?

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

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

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