Tyranny Quotes

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

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that...

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my ...

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyran...

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of t...

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

What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of ...

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled...

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly an...

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed a...

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

SEPTEMBER 1, 1939I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever ho...

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind...

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that ...

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

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

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for...

On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Wh...

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perfo...

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

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

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that ...

Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they...

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing th...

In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not ari...

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

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citi...

Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility...

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical a...

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, ...

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison...

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in s...

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. Tha...

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to...

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ...

And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as ...

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rath...

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassi...

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished...

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

No one rules if no one obeys

Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, tha...

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably a...

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the...

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

In 1778, Jefferson presented to the Virginia legislature "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of K...

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as t...

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are relat...

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew c...

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate...

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, ...

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

At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world govern...

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ev...

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst ...

Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, s...

These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the...

It seemed that out of every tear of a martyr new confessors were born, and that every groan on the a...

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in ...

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk up...

A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights an...

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at h...

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Amo...

From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto null...

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by...

... you can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy fi...

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or ...

Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and wha...

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between t...

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usuall...

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the takingit away from those who have a different comp...

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations ...