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Tag Name "Tyranny" (508)

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Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.
Bruce Chatwin
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Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities.
Alexander Hamilton
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Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
Andrew Johnson
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Tyranny must not prevail.
Margaret Thatcher
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Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.
Mark Kingwell
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Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.
John Fletcher
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Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.
Jim Rohn
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Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.
Joseph Sobran
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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Helen Keller
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Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy
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Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.
Lord Byron
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
Ludwig von Mises
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Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
John le Carre
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Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
Joseph Sobran
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato
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Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
James Richardson
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Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
Howard Zinn
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
Emile M. Cioran
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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
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The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.
Ayn Rand
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No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
Calvin Coolidge
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B. R. Ambedkar
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
Cato the Younger
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