Quotes About Tyranny

The fact that resistance to modern liberalism is weakening suggests that we are on the road to cultural disaster because, in their final stages, radical egalitarianism becomes tyranny and radical individualism descends into hedonism.

A police state is a country run by criminals

The failure of language—the tyranny of moral generalization over social inspection—fed the ruling class's belief that it was endangered from below.

Other studies suggest that some people are grumpy, insulting, or overbearing primarily because they are insecure about their abilities and prestige. This is a hallmark of petty tyrants, which

The High Chair Tyrant who attacks his human host is the perfectionist; he expects the impossible of himself and berates himself (just as his mother did) when he can't meet the demands of the infant within. The Tyrant pressures a man for more and better performance and is never satisfied with what he produces. The unfortunate man becomes the slave (as the mother was) of the grandiose two-year-old inside of him.

Because leadership is a lot less about having a formal title, a large office and money in the bank. And a lot more about committing to mastery over all you do—and in who you are. It's about resisting the tyranny of the ordinary, refusing to allow negativity to hijack your sense of awe and preventing any form of slavery to mediocrity from infesting your life.

If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of "human rights" to become an instrument of the most appalling tyranny. It suffices to do as the Jacobins did—to abolish the judiciary, and replace it by "people's courts." Then anything can be done to anyone, in the name of the Rights of Man.

the government must degenerate either into an absolute and despotic monarchy or a tyrannical aristocracy.

By the end of four years at West Point, he had capitulated to the tyranny of the clerical error and adopted Ulysses S. Grant as his new moniker for life.

To affirm that contemporary tyranny cannot be adequately understood outside the classical frame of reference is to affirm that the classics were justified in their rejection of unlimited technical progress and universal enlightenment.

Johann Clement watched the blows fall. First there had been wild talk and then printed accusations and insinuations. Then came a boycott of Jewish business and professional people, then the public humiliations: beatings and beard pullings. Then came the night terror of the Brown Shirts. Then came the concentration camps. Gestapo, SS, SD, KRIPO, RSHA. Soon every family in Germany was under Nazi scrutiny, and the grip of tyranny tightened until the last croak of defiance strangled and died.

Adiós a ti del ruso sucia patria nación de encomenderos y de esclavos. Adiós a esas guerreras azuladas. Adiós al pueblo por ellas maniatado. Quizá yo, tras el Cáucaso erguido, esconderme podré de los tiranos, de su ojo que todo lo registra, de su oído que nada escucha en vano.

However, these criteria, admirable as they are, are insufficient for a liberatory, postmodern science: they liberate human beings from the tyranny of absolute truth and objective reality, but not necessarily from the tyranny of other human beings. In Andrew Ross's words, we need a science that will he publicly answerable and of some service to progressive interests 0991, 29).

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

La primacía de los tontos es insuperable y está garantizada para todas las épocas. El terror de esta tiranía se mitiga por su ineficiencia y sus consecuencias.

Um tirano vence por seu gênio, mas seu sucessor será sempre um rematado canalha. Por esta razão, luto sem tréguas e apaixonadamente contra os sistemas dessa natureza, contra a Itália fascista de hoje e contra a Rússia soviética de hoje. A atual democracia na Europa naufraga e culpamos por esse naufrágio o desaparecimento da ideologia republicana.

am quite aware that it is necessary for the achievement of the objective of an organization that one man should do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.