Tyranny Quotes · Page 26

As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

— Nicholas Eberstadt

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

— Jose Marti

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were…

— Jalal Talabani

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Martha Gellhorn

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

— Andrea Dworkin

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his…

— Walter Raleigh

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…

— William Hazlitt

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of…

— Allan Bloom

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of…

— Felix Frankfurter

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be…

— Benjamin Franklin

If there is no struggle, there is no progress…This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one;…

— Frederick Douglass

I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan .' And I…

— George W. Bush

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks…

— Patrick Henry

If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found…

— Hannah Arendt

“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They…

— Frank Herbert

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for…

— James A. Baldwin

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and…

— Donald James

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,…

— Anton Chekhov

Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of…

— John Kaplan

“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He…

— John Adams

I couldn't stand for a flag that represented tyranny and oppression. Not just from a domestic perspective but from a global one.…

— Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

— C. S. Lewis

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

— Philip Pullman

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse…

— Socrates

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

“If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.”

— Andrew Cohen

As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.

— Wayne LaPierre

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

— Anonymous

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a…

— Anonymous

“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must…

— William J Federer

“The most devious and sinister acts of historical violence are always committed by tyrants with armies—not citizens with arms.”

— Seth Daniel Parker

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

— Edmund Burke

“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.”

— Simon Young

After the Fall of Saigon, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people fled tyranny to pursue freedom and democracy.

— Michelle Steel