Quotes About Tyranny

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

La autonomía es lo menos gratuito de este mundo, y si no se conquista cotidianamente lleva en seguida a situaciones de agravio y servidumbre. Sólo hubo y hay tiranos porque otros prefirierons y prefieren rendirse al miedo antes que correr el riesgo de luchar.

Stalin, whose bullying nature contained a strong streak of cowardice

An irony is that whichever political party gets the power of the nation to control the money of the population acts like tyranny towards the ordinary people and even more funny is the fact that the opposition behaves like dummy.

An irony is that whichever political party gets the power of the nation to control the money of the population acts likes tyranny towards the ordinary people and even more funny is the fact that the opposition behaves like dummy.

The affairs of gold-laden Gyges do not interest me zealousy of the gods has never seized me nor anger at their deeds. But I have no love for great tyranny for its deeds are very far from my eyes.

It is not to avoid cold or hunger that tyrants cover themselves with blood; and states decree the most illustrious rewards, not to him who catches a thief, but to him who kills an usurper.

My response to those who still try to justify Castro's tyranny with the excuse that he has built schools and hospitals is this: Stalin, Hitler and Pinochet also built schools and hospitals, and like Castro, they also tortured and assassinated opponents. They built concentration and extermination camps and eradicated all liberties, committing the worst crimes against humanity.

On January 12, on a firing range located in a small valley called San Juan, at the end of the island in the province of Oriente, hundreds of soldiers from the defeated army of Batista had been lined up in a trench knee-deep and more than fifty yards long. Their hands were tied behind their backs, and they were machine-gunned there where they stood. Then with bulldozers the trenches were turned into mass graves. There had been no trial of any kind for those men.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason.

Slavery blunts the edge of all our rebukes of tyranny abroad - the criticisms that we make upon other nations, only call forth ridicule, contempt, and scorn. In a word, we are made a reproach and a by-word to a mocking earth, and we must continue to be so made, so long as slavery continues to pollute our soil.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

In short, we even support and sustain corruption and tyranny to maintain a status-quo wherever we find existing regimes anti-communistic

Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.

T]he mob is the most ruthless of tyrants;

Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.

You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality: your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue. Aggrieved conceit, repressed envy—perhaps the conceit and envy of your fathers—erupt from you as a flame and as the frenzy of revenge.

Mult prea mult timp într-o femeie erau ascunÅŸi un sclav ÅŸi un tiran. Iat? de ce femeia nu-i în stare s? fie prieten?: ea nu cunoaÅŸte decât dragostea. In dragostea femeii se ascunde nedreptate ÅŸi orbire-mpotriva a tot ce nu iubeÅŸte ea. Åži chiar ÅŸi-n dragostea cea ÅŸtiutoare a femeii se afl?-ntotdeauna, al?turi de lumin?, surpriz?, fulger ÅŸi-ntuneric.

with its aid one can play the tyrant; one compromises by conquering. The dialectician leaves it to his opponent to demonstrate he is not an idiot: he enrages, he at the same time makes helpless. The dialectician devitalizes his opponent's intellect.

He who destroys the illusions in himself and others is punished by nature, the cruelest tyrant.

The whole morality of the Sermon on the Mount belongs here; man takes a truly voluptuous pleasure in violating himself by exaggerated demands and then deifying this something in his soul that is so tyrannically taxing. In each ascetic morality, man prays to one part of himself as god and also finds its necessary to diabolify the rest.

today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to creation of the world, the will to the causa prima.