Quotes on Tyranny

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

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

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death