Tyranny Quotes - page 2

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. (James Madison)
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny . View quote
Simone Weil
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. View quote
Walter Bagehot
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. View quote
Robin Morgan
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. (Sophocles)
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. View quote
Pierre Corneille
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. View quote
John Locke
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. View quote
Edward Abbey
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. View quote
Edward Abbey
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them, it's cut them off. View quote
Eve Ensler
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
Compromise, hell! That's what happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? View quote
Jesse Helms
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. View quote
Charlton Heston
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. (José Martí)
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. View quote
Bill Clinton
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. View quote
James Madison