Quotes About Tyranny

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

absolute power is corrupting

Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.

I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.

There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

For how can tyrants safely govern home,Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

The world is not a source of enjoyment; it is a place of tyranny, and every aspect of the world is a form of tyranny (Gal. 4:8).

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.-Wole Soyinka

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Men who start by burning books end by burning other men

During the Eisenhower administration, the Dulles brothers would finally be given full license to exercise their power in the global arena. In the name of defending the free world from Communist tyranny, they would impose an American reign on the world enforced by nuclear terror and cloak-and-dagger brutality.