Quote by Cesare Beccaria

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a…

— William Blackstone

“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights…

— Patrick Henry

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men…

— Dostoyevsky

“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the clear examples…

— John Popielaski

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Simon Young

“As history proves time and time again, and like the fate of the Roman Empire, tyrannical rule is always brought down. Perhaps not as…

— Helen Jane Rose

“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.”

— James MacGregor Burns

“[T]he sovereignty of reason and justice is no more tyrannical than that of desire. They are principles natural to man.”

— Blaise Pascal