I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it. — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist. — Emiliano Zapata Copy Share Image
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Politics doesn't align with emotions. An emotional politician is most likely to be a tyrannical leader.” — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is about protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government. — Derrick Grayson Copy Share Image
All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
We declared jihad against the U.S. government because the U.S. government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance… — Buddha Copy Share Image
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“What is arbitrary is by definition tyrannical. It is based upon pure will, unguided by reason. Those who wish to base their… — Robert R. Reilly Copy Share Image
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“It was the tyrannical, slightly stupid thing you say after you've made love.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status… — Claire Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!" "What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons. "A tautology," said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“ Every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity, says the great Montesquieu, is tyrannical. A proposition which may be made more… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“As history proves time and time again, and like the fate of the Roman Empire, tyrannical rule is always brought down. Perhaps… — Helen Jane Rose Copy Share Image
![“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom." -William F Buckley” quote by William F. Buckley Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd1/william-f-buckley-jr-2-34056_democracy_d-emocracy-can-itself-be-as-tyrannical-a_410323.jpg)
![“It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.” quote by Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/349/germaine-greer-1521_childbearing_it-childbearing-was-never-intended-to-be_2588852.jpg)
![“What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive.” quote by Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/99c/judith-butler-1374_alternatives_what-we-need-is-a-political-and-joyous-a_1821992.jpg)
