Tyranny Quotes

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

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

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt 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.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.