Tyranny Quotes

915 Tyranny quotes by 563 unique authors

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us… — Samuel Johnson
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the… — Jacques Maritain
Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went… — Colin Fletcher
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens. — John Maynard Keynes
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! — Thomas Paine
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny. — Milton Friedman
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world.… — Unknown Author
I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by… — Samuel Johnson
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… — George Orwell
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere. — Stephane Hessel
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective… — Unknown Author
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his… — Gordon Brown
The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be… — Thomas Jefferson
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. — William Shakespeare
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical. — Joseph Sobran
American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door.… — Charley Reese
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and… — Charles Dickens
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. — Thomas Paine
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master — Demosthenes

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