Tyranny Quotes - page 3

The term "just war" contains an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny, and oppression without killing huge numbers of people. (Howard Zinn)
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. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice. View quote
Thomas Paine
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system-and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. View quote
Ayn Rand
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments. View quote
Thomas Malthus
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order... View quote
Augustus
The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others. View quote
José Rizal
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist. View quote
Ron Paul
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe. View quote
Susan Blackmore
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. (Montesquieu)
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. View quote
Al-Farabi
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. View quote
Zell Miller
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. View quote
Henry Miller
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [indicating her body], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
So long as man is protected by madness he functions and flourishes, but when he frees himself from the fruitful tyranny of fixed ideas, he is lost, ruined. View quote
Emil Cioran
Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice, made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life. View quote
George W. Bush
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. View quote
Randall Terry
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. "Obedience keeps the rules," he would say. "Love knows when to break them." (Anthony de Mello)
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book. View quote
Camille Paglia
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. View quote
Nick Hornby
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. View quote
Thomas Beecham
In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death. View quote
Bertrand Russell