Quotes About Tyranny

THE WINDOWS Within these dark chambers, where I live through oppressive days, I pace up and down, trying to find the windows.-When a window opens, it will be a consolation. But the windows are not to be found, or I am unable to find them. And perhaps it's better that I don't. Perhaps the light will be a new tyranny. Who knows what novel things it will reveal.

Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].

With pencil, with chalk, with a brush I shall seek its form -- with my hands I shall model what tyranny deforms.

Los rebeldes que llegan al poder mediante la rebelión son intolerantes con los demás rebeldes y sus rebeliones. Cuando Absalón se enfrente con la rebelión, se convertirá en un tirano. Su perversidad será diez veces la que ahora le atribuye a tu rey. El aplastará la rebelión y gobernará con mano de hierro... y mediante el terror. Eliminará toda oposición. Esta es siempre la última etapa de las rebeliones altisonantes.

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

that crazy Hitler guy in Germany who doesn't want Jewish people to compete in the Olympics.

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

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

The varieties of skullduggery which make up the repertoire of the totalitarian government are just about as unlimited as human ingenuity itself, and just about as unpleasant. For, as you know, no holds are barred. There are no rules of the game. They can do anything that they think is in their interests.

In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth Great art is able to display and discuss the central area of our reality, our actual consciousness, in a more exact way than science or even philosophy can.

Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another—sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself—while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.

Lo so. Lo sappiamo tutti. Forse la lezione del passato potrà insegnarci cosa evitare. E poi, la tirannia che c'è adesso è reale. Quella che potrebbe esistere in futuro è solamente potenziale. Non possiamo sottrarci sempre ai cambiamenti pensando che la situazione potrebbe cambiare in peggio, altrimenti addio speranza di riuscire un giorno a sconfiggere l'ingiustizia.

even if you have right on your side, even if justice thunders condemnation, it is usually the tyranny in existence that has the balance of force on its side.

From his reading he knew that the masters of this world were all evil, knew nothing of justice, and always sided with the strong and the false.

If one Hitler is dead, there are a million ready to take his place.

pero cualquiera con fanatismo, poder e impunidad puede transformarse en una bestia

Jamie aveva orrore di qualsiasi forma di estremismo e sosteneva che i guerriglieri si giustificano solo durante la tirannia, quando non c'è altra scelta che battersi con le armi, ma che sono un'aberrazione in un paese dove i cambiamenti si possono ottenere con votazioni popolari.

Autumn of the Patriarch

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.