Best 276 quotes in «tyranny quotes» category

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

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

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'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.

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

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 a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

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

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

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.

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

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

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

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

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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.

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.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

truth ... is the first casualty of 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 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.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

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

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

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