Top Tyranny Quotes

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Tyranny Definition

(n.) The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.

(n.) Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.

(n.) Severity; rigor; inclemency.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

The only way we can eliminate despots in this world, is not to be peaceful about it, for that has been the case for many people that has caused the upheaval of such tyranny, nor we should turn the oth...

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after th...

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

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

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Those who don't know history are destined to be tyrannized by it

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as th...

Where did this absurd rule come from, and why did we so meekly obey it? Under a tyrannical regime--and the Ireland of those days was a spiritual tyranny--the populace becomes so cowed that it does the...

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose...

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and the people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that th...

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own h...

But he saw now that he must remain alone, a Liberal, scorned by all the noisier prophets for refusing to be a willing cat for the busy monkeys of either side. But at worst, the Liberals, the Tolerant,...