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Tyranny Quotes by George Orwell
- The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in…
- [What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny…
- All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
- The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
- It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing…
- The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling…
- This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
- When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the…
More Tyranny Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that… — Roseanne Barr
- I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be… — Clara Barton
- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
- As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez
- Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. — Jeremy Bentham
- The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos
- The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of… — Benazir Bhutto
- The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it… — Hugo Black