Quotes About Tyranny

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.

Their successors, instead of ruling for the good of their subjects, tyrannize for their own; and they met with the fate of tyrants. No person not reckless of the past could wish to imitate them. The earlier and the later experiences of Athens prove, in fact, two things: that Attica produces good men, and that empire spoils them.

Dictatorship is power based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws.

Millions of Russians found themselves gripped by a tyranny incomparably worse than that of the Czar.

They killed to free themselves from a tyranny of love and care.

It is a pitiable cowardice to try to overcome fear by ignoring the facts. We do not become masters of our fate by saying that we are. And such blatancy of pride, futile as it is, is not even noble in its futility. It would be noble to rebel against a capricious tyrant, but it is not noble to rebel against the moral law of God.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

The exception has become the rule, and that is the worst of all possible tyrannies.

In 1984, Orwell could only imagine a tyrannical central government having the power to systematically undermine objective truth. Today we see that process happening organically through millions of social media "shares.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curs'd,Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

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

People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.

While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

He was tired of the tyranny of the greater good.

We see it when bullies are in charge.

And thought about tyranny, and murder. And whether it was ever right to kill one for the sake of the many.