Tyranny Quotes

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

— Plato

“A wounded animal yet bears teeth”

— Billie-Jo Williams

“All art is in revolution of tyranny.”

— Atticus

Secrecy begets tyranny.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

— James Madison

Absolutism tempered by assassination

— Count Munster

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

— Ronald Harwood

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

— Hans Morgenthau

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

— Dorothy Day

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

— Maria Edgeworth

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

— Thomas Jefferson

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“within every technological advancement lie the seeds of tyranny and slavery.”

— Michael Bunker

Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.

— William Inge

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

— Daryl Gates

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

— Joseph Sobran

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

— George Orwell

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

— John Quincy Adams

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness…

— Walt Whitman

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

— Zell Miller

“May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us.”

— Sol Luckman

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more…

— Abraham Lincoln

The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free…

— Karl Kraus

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that…

— Donald J. Boudreaux

Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we…

— Jeffrey Burton Russell

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In…

— Steven Pressfield

There are already people en route to join this peaceful, prayerful, nonviolent exercise of our human, treaty, constitutional and civil rights, which…

— Chase Iron Eyes

The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little;…

— Halldór Laxness

Even if leftists were able to get control of every institution they want to destroy, what they want is not possible. The…

— Rush Limbaugh

By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against…

— Thomas Jefferson

We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world,…

— Thomas Paine

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries…

— Laurie Garrett

Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible.…

— Ronald Reagan

Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against…

— Frank J. Fleming

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but…

— Aristotle

I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great…

— John Stark

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit…

— Bill Maher

And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on…

— Voltairine de Cleyre