Quotes About Tyranny

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.