Tyranny Quotations | Page 2

Power without authority is tyranny.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

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

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

Democracy is better than tyranny.

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

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

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Hardness ever of hardness is mother.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins...

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

The enemy is a very good teacher.

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Tyranny must not prevail.

You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

Tyranny is always weakness

The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

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

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.