Quotes About Tyranny

The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

If you have total government it makes little difference whether you call it Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Caesarism or Pharaohism. It's all pretty much the same from the standpoint of the people who must live and suffer under it.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

That's what tyrants can do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

An easily manipulated population that cares mostly for its own amusement may be more ready for tyranny (which can keep the masses happy with bread and circuses) than for the arduous responsibilities of self-government.

A country's finances, natural resources, and production capacities are often arbitrarily plundered by dictators and used to support the dictators' will.

With him I hated the Autarchy, though I had no notion of what might replace it. With him I despised the exultants who failed to rise against the Autarch and bound the fairest of their daughters to him in ceremonial concubinage. With him I detested the people for their lack of discipline and a common purpose.

Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it is, the more it is loved. The difficulty lies in judging the degree of tyranny under which you live.

When fatigue finally forced him to pause, he ordered the men who were left to have their hearts torn out and their carcasses burned

Die Unterdrücker der Menschheit bestrafen, ist Gnade; ihnen verzeihen, ist Barbarei.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted to another shoulder.

Giants have an immemorial right to stupidity and insolent abuse.

But there is no tyranny more complete than that which a self-centred negative nature exercises over a morbidly sensitive nature perpetually craving sympathy and support.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

There is something about being able to look at this family on the film where a woman drops out of the sky, magically makes their father happy, makes the children happy, gives them all a purpose. And with great courage, they overcome a tyrannical dictator and go on to a happy, wonderful life.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.