Tyranny Quotes

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

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

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

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Society's needs come before the individuals needs

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

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

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

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

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

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

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

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

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .