Quotes About Tyranny

what recently nurtured the tyranny was nothing other than our inaction … Weakened by the pleasure of peace we learned to live like slaves

Rome had been under the rule of a mad sadist somewhere between a clinical psychopath and a Stalin.

Cicerón hizo ejecutar a los hombres sumariamente, sin ni siquiera un juicio de farsa. Con triunfalismo, anunció sus muertes a la entusiasmada multitud con un famoso eufemismo de una sola palabra: vixere, «han vivido»; es decir, «están muertos».

All too often, even the most glamorous rebels are just as unappealing, under the surface, as the imperialist tyrants themselves.

Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

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.

Once we fear to take a stand, tyranny will have won.

Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper wrote after his testimony. "He is opposed to all forces that seek to curb or destroy individual liberty. 'Our highest aim,' said he, 'should be the cultivation of freedom of the individual, for therein lies the highest dignity of man. Tyranny is tyranny, and whether it comes from right, left, or center, it's evil.'"24

drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Through the whole course of history, two distinct willpowers have been noticed that would seem to be the opposed, elemental manifestations of the spirit of our globe, the one seeking only evil, injustice, tyranny and suffering, while the other strives for liberty, the right, radiance and joy.

The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the blood price for destroying the tyranny of Hitler. Only simpletons of the political Right and Left dare to suggest that in Vietnam either side possessed a monopoly of virtue.

After more than five years of strife in the name of freedom, tens of millions of people were merely to exchange one tyranny for another. Some

it is only through the 'flesh' that I can break the tyranny of mind; for it is only when a man hears his flesh along with the rest of him that he hears himself wholly

Language or "the word" tyrannizes hardest over us, because it brings up against us a whole army of fixed ideas.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

Like all true tyrants, he has divided them, and makes them spend their heart's hatred on one another." "But

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

No good end exists for any dictator!

When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!

if people are resistant to education and cling to their varying whims, they are likely to swarm around a charismatic figure and thereby risk letting democracy mutate into tyranny.