To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Simone Weil
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
Henry Brooke
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Jeremy Bentham
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka
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
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
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
William Godwin
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle