Tyranny Quotes
915 Tyranny quotes by 563 unique authors
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He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was…
— Unknown Author
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We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to…
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
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"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its…
— Emma Goldman
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If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
— Benjamin Tucker
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Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe…
— Milton Friedman
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and…
— Carl Levin
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Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those…
— Chris Hani
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
— Cullen Hightower
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There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right…
— Jesse Helms
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I dream that love without tyranny is possible
— Andrea Dworkin
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Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in…
— Steven Erikson
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This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.
— Joe Rogan
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If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in…
— Susan Blackmore
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Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as…
— Amartya Sen
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It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and…
— Bob Riley
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A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over…
— Peter Thiel
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When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities…
— Katha Pollitt
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I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
— Sam Houston
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Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A…
— Jack Parsons
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Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.
— Jared Diamond
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A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.
— Unknown Author
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In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
— Robert Griffin III
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