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Truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends. — Aeschylus

Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice ... it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous ... — J. Michael Straczynski

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge. — Benjamin Constant

Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates. — Idries Shah

It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men. — Claire North

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Tyranny is the desire to have the last word. — Marty Rubin

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. — Thomas Jefferson

Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance — Albert Maysles

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. — Federico Fellini

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

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God — Susan B. Anthony

A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains. — Karl Marx

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things. — Roger Enrico

Sometimes ... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares? — Robert Genn

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength. — Russell Crowe

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102) — Cornel West

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws. — Edmund Burke

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ... — Charlotte Charke

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason. — William Allen White

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. — Edmund Burke

Time, she felt, made quite enough claims on us, without our conniving in its relentless tyranny. — Alexander McCall Smith

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' — Salvador Dali

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny. — Donald James

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things. — Randy Alcorn

Mystery and terror are the bulwarks of tyranny. — Barry Hughart

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons. — Lord Byron

Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush. — Laurence Overmire

Must we submit eternally to male tyranny? — Mark Beauregard

I learned the tyranny of figures before I knew the value of a pound. — Beryl Markham

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber. — Bruce Chatwin

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It — William Shakespeare

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time — Pope Francis

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. — Emma Goldman

Power without authority is tyranny. — Jacques Maritain

Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative. — Felix Frankfurter

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

If we timidly submit to tyranny, we will never have the chance to test our wings. — Terry Goodkind

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered. — William Shakespeare

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

When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. — Thomas Jefferson

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. — James F. Cooper

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

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. — Hardouin De Perefixe De Beaumont

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor. — Louis D. Brandeis

I know all about the tyranny of women. — Tennessee Williams

Poverty is bad,
but so is decadence.
Tyranny is bad,
but so is chaos.
Injustice is bad,
but so is godlessness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny. — Ilona Andrews

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez

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

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. — Thomas Jefferson

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire

Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy. — Timothy Snyder

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers. — Sam Houston

Only tyrannies understand the power of art. — Ronald Harwood

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. — Howard Zinn

This forced league doth force a further strife. — William Shakespeare

In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. James Morris — George F. Will

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

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep. — Stefan Molyneux

Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement. — C.J. Redwine

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. — Jacob K. Javits

His kindly rule replaced sin's tyranny. — Anonymous

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less. — Ronald Reagan

Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness. — David Hume

Corruption is just another form of tyranny. — Joe Biden

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact. — Twyla Tharp

Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. — Herman Melville

And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. — Daniel Defoe

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? — Andy Zaltzman

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation. — Giacomo Matteotti

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body. — Marcus Aurelius

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. — William Pitt

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache? — David Eddings

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

When the people with authority don't have to answer to citizens of the galaxy, the result is tyranny. — Claudia Gray

the tyranny of the human face — Thomas De Quincey

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. — Andrew Johnson

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

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant. — Benito Mussolini

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

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. — Dan Quayle

The tyranny of the blood test. — Larry Kramer

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. — Thomas Jefferson

A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. — Al-Farabi

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. — Richard Dawkins

Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. — Henri Frederic Amiel

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. — Milovan Djilas

Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn't be treated as one. — Ross Turner

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude! — Georgette Heyer

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. — Ludwig Von Mises

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. — Robert Peel