Tyranny famous quotes
05-25-2025
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
-- A. L. Rowse -
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
-- Aldous Huxley -
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
-- Allen West -
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
-- Andrew Johnson -
Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
-- Antonin Artaud -
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
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.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
-- Blaise Pascal -
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
-- Charles Peguy -
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
-- Dee Hock -
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.
-- Edgar Degas -
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
-- Edmund Burke -
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.
-- Francine du Plessix Gray -
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.
-- Frank Lebby Stanton -
Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.
-- George Ayittey -
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
-- George Orwell -
The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
-- George Orwell -
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
-- Gijs de Vries -
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,
-- Iain Pears -
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.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.
-- James Madison -
Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.
-- Jeffrey Burton Russell -
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
-- John F. Kennedy -
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.
-- John Fletcher -
I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
-- John Hancock -
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
-- John Hay -
A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
-- John Marshall -
The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
-- Jose Rizal -
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
-- Jules Michelet -
What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
-- June Jordan -
A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.
-- Karl Marx -
The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
-- Lysander Spooner -
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.
-- Martha Gellhorn -
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.
-- Michael Novak -
[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.
-- Milovan ?ilas -
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.
-- Orson F. Whitney -
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
-- P.D. Ouspensky -
The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
-- Robert Genn -
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
-- Robert Griffin III -
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
-- Simon Bolivar -
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .
-- Simone Weil -
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
-- Stefan Molyneux -
When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.
-- Taitetsu Unno -
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.
-- Thomas Paine -
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
-- Thomas Paine -
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
-- Trent Lott -
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
-- Twyla Tharp -
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
-- Weston La Barre -
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
-- William Allen White -
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.
-- William Blackstone -
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
-- William Godwin -
Where laws end, tyranny begins.
-- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham -
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.
-- James Carroll -
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.
-- Joan Fontcuberta -
To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.
-- Thomas Holcroft -
The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.
-- Donald James -
Only tyrannies understand the power of art.
-- Ronald Harwood -
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
-- James H. Douglas
