Quotes on Tyranny

Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.