Quotes About Tyranny

Free yourself from the self-imposed tyranny of slavish dependence, and stand alone, not as an isolated unit, but as a sympathetic portion of the whole. Find the Joy that results from well -earned freedom, the peace that flows from wise selfpossession, the blessedness that inheres in native strength.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

Claire De Haven and the company cared for the plight of the world. Claire De Haven and the company extolled tyrants and lived for adversarial cliché.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Silence is golden...but in times of tyranny it is blood red

What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It's poverty. It's denying human rights.

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.