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I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
— Karl Popper
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
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel
Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.
— David Limbaugh
It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men.
— Claire North
Tyranny is the desire to have the last word.
— Marty Rubin
Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance
— Albert Maysles
The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor's throne.
— Timothy Zahn
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
— Federico Fellini
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.
— Gerry Spence
Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.
— Bill Willingham
Sometimes ... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
— Robert Genn
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
— Edmund Burke
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
That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does.
— Karen Traviss
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
— Pat Robertson
It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.
— Randy Alcorn
Mystery and terror are the bulwarks of tyranny.
— Barry Hughart
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
— George Bernard Shaw
I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.
— Roseanne Barr
See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.
— Shawn Stewart Ruff
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.
— Mike Pence
Trapped and tormented by your own wishes. I knew intimately how that felt; I was often strangled by the tyranny of my desires.
— S. Jae-Jones
I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny ... again.
— Cassandra Giovanni
Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
— James Richardson
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.
— Ray Bradbury
Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.
— Timothy Snyder
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
— Khalil Gibran
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.
— Bruce Dickinson
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
— William O. Douglas
Resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.
— Emma Goldman
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
— Michael Novak
Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
— Victoria Woodhull
He's spent all his life in good-natured rebellion against the tyranny of the unimportant.
— Robin Hardy
The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.
— Gustave Le Bon
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
— Alexander Hamilton
What is the greater good but tyranny's chameleon?
— Karen Marie Moning
Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.
— Orrin Woodward
A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one's mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods.
— Mason Currey
So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.
— Emma Goldman
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
— Juvenal
Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture.
— Richard K. Morgan
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
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
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
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
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
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
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