Tyranny Quotes

915 Tyranny quotes by 563 unique authors

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. — Charlton Heston
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition… — Alexander Hamilton
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. — Charles Peguy
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work… — William Hazlitt
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a… — John Boehner
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own… — Hannah Arendt
You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with… — Winston Churchill
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe… — Thomas Jefferson
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just… — Ronald Reagan
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood… — Winston Churchill
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into… — Albert Einstein
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty,… — Michel de Montaigne
Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live… — Thomas Paine
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. — Daniel Defoe
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Tyranny is for the worst of treasons. — Lord Byron
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit… — Benjamin Disraeli
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human… — Libba Bray
If we dwell in spirit, or Soul, we are living in happiness, for Soul is a happy entity. It is seldom anything else. When the… — Paul Twitchell

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