Anti war Quote by Hannah Arendt

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody…

— John Locke

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

— Howard Zinn

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

— James Madison

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too…

— Morris Sheppard

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

— Plato

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

— Paul Kagame

No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

— Barack Obama

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

— Gene Sharp

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

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

— Frank Herbert