Tyranny Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

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 right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Peace without justice is tyranny.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.