Tyranny Quotes

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.