Quotes About Tyranny

In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.

to nic nie znaczy, do diab?a, w ko?cówce naszego wspania?ego XX wieku, wieku tyranii i rozpasanej demokracji, g?upkowatej ?wi?to?ci i genialnego ?ajdactwa, skapcania?ej sztuki i rozwydrzonej grafomanii.

Was stworzy? ten re?ym. Jeste?cie wydzielin? tego systemu, ?ebrem z cia?a tej tyranii. Wy jeste?cie z Biesów Dostojewskiego, a nie z opowiada? ?eromskiego czy Struga.

Political correctness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

De una cosa podemos estar seguros, muchacho, este alivio temporal de los impuestos acabará en impuestos mayores y en un colapso final. Se trata puramente de un asunto de contabilidad. ¿Pero es que a la gente le importa el presupuesto y la dura realidad de que uno no puede gastar lo que no tiene sin ir a parar a la bancarrota? ¡No! Gritarán "¡viva!" al tirano Cinna, pensando en la ganancia inmediata a expensas de la nación.*

Es para imponer el despotismo, todas las guerras se han hecho para eso.

Aumentando los impuestos es como un gobierno cruel y monstruoso puede monopolizar todo el poder; porque entonces puede establecer un sistema de premios y castigos: premios para los que permiten la tiranía y castigos para lo que se le opongan.

when priests abdicate to civil authority and to tyrants they have abandoned God and man.

As Yazid, the tyrant of Karbala, never suffered even from a headache, people believed that he was blessed by Allah. But that was a misinterpretation. In reality, Allah had abandoned him completely. He wanted nothing to do with him.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to.

John [Ivan] the Terrible