Quotes About Tyranny

Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror.

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Enlightened types tended to place their faith in progress, freedom, and the improvability of mankind. As the intellectual historian Caroline Winterer put it, "To be enlightened was to be filled with hope."54 The opposite of enlightenment, states her predecessor Carl Becker, was "superstition, intolerance, tyranny."55

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

The only greater evil than separation... is living under a government of discretion

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.