Quotes About Tyranny

Tú estabas dotado para mí de eso tan enigmático que poseen los tiranos, cuyo derecho está basado en la propia persona, no en el pensamiento.

For me you took on the enigmatic quality that all tyrants have whose rights are based on their person and not on reason. At least so it seemed to me.

The truth has power to end every tyranny.....They stood up for truth and justice not out of an expectation of achievable victory in their lifetimes, but because it was the right thing to do. You don't have to be a grizzled Cod Warrior to see that a notion of progress that depends on labor camps, police informers, and making everybody equally poor to achieve justice and equality is phony.

The truth has power to end every tyranny.

Now, in liberty and relative prosperity, the children of the last communist generation have fallen to a more subtle, sophisticated tyranny: one that tells them that anything they find difficult is a form of oppression. For these millennials, unhappiness is slavery and freedom is liberation from the burden of unchosen obligations.

The standard Greek terms for these would soon become established as, respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.

Caligula, probably did not, in reality, appoint his horse as consul but would still be murdered by his own guards

The American Revolution was to succeed because it was undertaken by skeptical men who knew that the same passions that toppled tyrannies could be applied to destructive ends.

It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind's history has been spent living under the rule of tyrants and authoritarians. The ideas of Liberty are very new when you consider the big picture. By contrast, various forms of socialism and fascism have been adopted over and over again. Be wary of those who try to present these old and tired ideas as something new and exciting. Liberty and free markets are the way forward if we truly desire peace and prosperity.

only liberty can truly ward off tyranny, the great and eternal foe of mankind.

The system that existed in Germany at that time tragically prevented the people from protecting themselves from tyrannical government. This is a system many people vehemently want to impose in America.

La burguesía es una podredumbre perfecta. Nunca, desde los tiempos bíblicos, nos ha sobrevivido una plaga más insidiosa, más obscena y más degradante que la viscosa sujeción burguesa. ¡Una clase astutamente tiránica, codiciosa, rapaz, y tartufesca hasta la médula!

La tyrannie sans risque, sans peine... Ce sont les ratés les plus rances qui décrètent le goût du jour !... Qui ne sait rien foutre, loupe toutes ses entreprises possède encore un merveilleux recours : Critique !... Trouvaille inouïe des temps modernes, plus aucun compte jamais à rendre. Critique ne relève que de son propre culot, de ses sales petites gardiens des plus fienteux égouts... Tout en ombres, baves, toxines, immondices, curées...

There's no tyrant like a brain. Below

Gelukkig is het land dat door het paar van Caligula geregeerd wordt.

Ma la causa vera di tutti i nostri mali, di questa tristezza nostra, sai qual è? La democrazia, mio caro, la democrazia, cioè il governo della maggioranza. Perché, quando il potere è in mano d'uno solo, quest'uno sa d'esser uno e di dover contentare molti; ma quando i molti governano, pensano soltanto a contentar se stessi, e si ha allora la tirannia più balorda e più odiosa: la tirannia mascherata da libertà.

The evil create for those under their dominion a miniature sick society.

It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.

Justice without mercy is tyranny

I am happy today. I am a tyrant.

pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women's bodies and souls; rape, battery, incest, and prostitution animate it; dehumanization and sadism characterize it; it is war on women, serial assaults on dignity, identity, and human worth; it is tyranny. Each woman who has survived knows from the experience of her own life that pornography is captivity—the woman trapped in the picture used on the woman trapped wherever he's got her.

Tyranny begins when one power, one church, one party introduces itself into the private life of its citizens.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.