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Tyranny Quotes

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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
Simon Bolivar

Oppression is legitimized, defiance is justified.
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2.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
George Orwell

All tyrannies govern by deceit and coercion, but once the deception is revealed they must solely depend on force.
3.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
Aldous Huxley

Rulers can always reinforce their despotism by an invocation of loyalty.
4.
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
John Locke

When Law ceases, Oppression begins.
5.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams

6.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

7.
The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.
James Madison

8.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Thomas Paine

9.
The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
Jose Rizal

10.
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
P.D. Ouspensky

11.
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
Lysander Spooner

12.
I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
John Hancock

13.
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
Baron de Montesquieu

14.
Society's needs come before the individuals needs
Adolf Hitler

15.
Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.
Stefan Zweig

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

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

18.
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
Dee Hock

19.
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Aesop

20.
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .
Simone Weil

21.
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny
Robert A. Heinlein

22.
The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.
Jacob Burckhardt

23.
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
William Allen White

24.
We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.
J. R. R. Tolkien

25.
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
Allen West

26.
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
James Otis

27.
It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.
Benjamin Franklin

28.
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
Robert Griffin III

29.
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.
John Paul Stevens

30.
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
Caitlin Thomas

32.
Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.
Anthony Hopkins

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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
Ingrid Newkirk

34.
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.
Orson F. Whitney

35.
The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.
Jean Racine

36.
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Helen Keller

37.
Our goal must be not peace in our time, but peace for all time.
Harry S. Truman

38.
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
Blaise Pascal

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A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.
Karl Marx

40.
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.
Immanuel Kant

41.
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
George Bernard Shaw

42.
Where laws end, tyranny begins.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

43.
Tyranny must not prevail.
Margaret Thatcher

44.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Jeremy Bentham

45.
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"
Mignon McLaughlin

46.
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.
Alexis de Tocqueville

47.
Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.
Jeffrey Burton Russell

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To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
Saadi

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Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.
Jim Rohn

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Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille