Tyranny Quotes
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan




Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
Steve Buyer




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




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




And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act under the disguise of fighting terrorism.




The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
Rowan D. Williams




Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.




Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.




The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny




Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.




Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.




If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.




The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.




Where law ends, there tyranny begins.
William Pitt




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




I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.




Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.




If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own
Andy Jados




America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality




Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.
Mary Elizabeth Hewitt




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




There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.




The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.




The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.




Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.







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