Tyranny Quotes

Death is softer by far than tyranny. (Aeschylus)
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law. View quote
Montesquieu
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. View quote
Edmund Burke
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. View quote
Thomas Paine
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. View quote
William O. Douglas
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. View quote
Norman Mailer
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny they have only shifted it to another shoulder. (George Bernard Shaw)
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny. View quote
Władysław Sikorski
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. View quote
Georg Büchner
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. View quote
Adam Weishaupt
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. View quote
Edmund Burke
Tyranny is always better organised than freedom. View quote
Charles Péguy
Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny. View quote
Emiliano Zapata
Taxation without representation is tyranny. (James Otis)
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. View quote
John Adams
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. View quote
Thomas Jefferson