Tyranny Quotations

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.

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

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The powerful emotional connection between Roosevelt and Churchill and how they confronted tyranny and terror is an incredibly contemporary story that yields important lessons for leaders today on a personal, political, and diplomatic level.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

The lens is a tyranny.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

May none these marks efface! / For they appeal from tyranny to God.

Nelson Mandela is a hero to all people who value freedom and dignity and justice. President Mandela's principled opposition to tyranny and injustice inspires us today and will inspire our sons and daughters for generations to come.

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable

Political correctness is tyranny with a happy face.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

If we allow that to happen, then in essence we'll be doing the same thing we accused Saddam Hussein of doing. We'll just be substituting one tyranny for another.

There is a fundamental reason why this separation should be maintained: if it is not, there can arise a tyranny of one sect, one code of belief. And in such a tyranny, religious minorities will suffer institutionalized degradation of their integrity.

What we have in East Texas today in regards to gay rights is the tyranny of the majority. It is up to us to stand up to that tyranny.

God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan,' ... 'And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq' . . . And I did.'

History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressures of the air we breathe

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

is committed to helping you as you take control of your country and make the transition from tyranny to freedom and self-government.

We live under the tyranny of various professional groups, and all the 'influence' we could bring to bear on the running of schools, trains or power stations isn't sufficient to move a feather.

We realize that at the end of the day the majority can railroad this and use brute force, use the tyranny of numbers,

The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.

To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

I dream that love without tyranny is possible

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.

What reasonable man would not chouse to be freed from such tyranny and impositions.

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Cooperation with tyranny should not be embraced for the sake of profits.

EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. --G.J.

I spend a lot of time travelling - both by plane and car - and my travel time is never 'down time'. Having the potential to use the phone anywhere sounds attractive. But phones can be a tyranny to the users and fellow passengers. So I'd suggest caution here.

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Your blessed gathering here is a challenge to the forces of evil and tyranny that want to destroy this country.

This is really democracy at work in Iraq, ... And given where they were just a few years ago, having lived in tyranny for all those decades, this is an extraordinary achievement.

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

They understood that the sacrifices of allied forces would mean nothing unless we used our victory to help the Japanese people transform their nation from tyranny to freedom, ... There were many doubters. American and Japanese experts claimed that the Japanese weren't ready for democracy.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal

I often wish . . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

I preferred measuring deer tracks, to tape-that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.

It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.

Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.

International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

Our goal must not be peace in our time but peace for all time.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

This is all about breaking the tyranny of distance.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.