Quotes About Tyranny

Hayek was never a popular author to the extent that everyone was reading him at the corner newsstand. But the Austrian refugee showed how the roots of Hitler's tyranny and the bases of Marxist collectivism were one and the same. His work had a profound influence on a generation of freedom loving young conservatives. Even

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.

tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

Vivimos sometidos a la tiranía de los deseos ajenos

Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

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.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!