Quotes About Tyranny

achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body

Gentlemen, bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Les parece de lo más normal apoyar a tiranos y golpes de estado, como si los gobernantes de otras naciones fueran meras piezas de sus jueguitos geopolíticos. El comportamiento de sus policías es más propio de un estado dictatorial que de un país que cacarea la libertad como su valor más preciado. Sus políticas llevan a la proliferación del caos, del odio, de la intolerancia.

He. Nobody spoke his name. Vidal. It sounded like a stone thrown through a window

The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.

The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.

The dogmas whose birth we are witnessing will soon have the force of the old dogmas; that is to say, the tyrannical and sovereign force of being above discussion. The divine right of the masses is about to replace the divine right of kings.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Enigmas hastiados de su tiranía: tiranos, dispuestos a ser destronados

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both [29]our hearts : secrets weary of their tyranny : tyrants willing to be dethroned.

Artists. If the Emperor has his way, you'll be the first ones targeted for eradication.

licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

Bullies are bullies, and they're always uninteresting.

Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.