All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of…

“Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you…

— Ashish Patel

But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

— Anonymous

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

— Thomas Paine

“Democracies accept certain risks that tyrannies do not”

— Bruce Fein

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

— George Orwell

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The…

— Thomas Paine

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we…

— Thomas Paine

We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.

— Noam Chomsky

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug…

— Freda Adler

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late”

— G.K. Chesterton

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we…

— Thomas Paine

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

— William Inge