Quotes about Tyranny

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Votes: 8

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. Votes: 6

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. Votes: 6

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Votes: 6

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. Votes: 6

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Votes: 4

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. Votes: 4

Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar. Votes: 4

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Votes: 4

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. Votes: 4

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. Votes: 4

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. Votes: 4

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Votes: 4

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. Votes: 4

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' Votes: 4

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no. Votes: 4

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Votes: 4

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. Votes: 4

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Votes: 4

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. Votes: 4

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. Votes: 4

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. Votes: 4

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for. Votes: 4

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. Votes: 4

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", and "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Votes: 4

Tyranny must not prevail. Votes: 3

Tyranny is always weakness Votes: 3

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. Votes: 3

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. Votes: 3

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber. Votes: 3

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite. Votes: 3

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. Votes: 3

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. Votes: 3

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons. Votes: 3

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. Votes: 3

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep. Votes: 3

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. Votes: 3

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines. Votes: 3

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny. Votes: 3

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law. Votes: 3

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. Votes: 3

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity. Votes: 3

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Votes: 3

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. Votes: 3

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves. Votes: 3

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. Votes: 3

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. Votes: 3

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. Votes: 3

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Votes: 3

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. Votes: 3

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. Votes: 3

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood. Votes: 3

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief. Votes: 3

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. Votes: 3

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Votes: 2

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny. Votes: 2

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Votes: 2

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. Votes: 2

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. Votes: 2

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. Votes: 2

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. Votes: 2

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. Votes: 2

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. Votes: 2

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. Votes: 2

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. Votes: 2

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Votes: 2

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence. Votes: 2

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Votes: 2

Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off. Votes: 2

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. Votes: 2

A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. Votes: 1

Secrecy begets tyranny. Votes: 0

Peace without justice is tyranny Votes: 0

Power without authority is tyranny. Votes: 0

Democracy is better than tyranny. Votes: 0

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Votes: 0

Taxation without representation is tyranny. Votes: 0

Where laws end, tyranny begins. Votes: 0

The lens is a tyranny. Votes: 0

Resisting tyranny is obeying God Votes: 0

The terrible tyranny of the majority. Votes: 0

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Votes: 0

Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny. Votes: 0

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason. Votes: 0

Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. Votes: 0

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny Votes: 0

Where the law ends tyranny begins. Votes: 0

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. Votes: 0

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny. Votes: 0

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. Votes: 0

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy. Votes: 0

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny. Votes: 0

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. Votes: 0

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny. Votes: 0

Resistance to tyranny is service to God. Votes: 0

Socialism is just another form of tyranny. Votes: 0

Any kind of religious tyranny concerns me. Votes: 0

Death is softer by far than tyranny. Votes: 0

Give up the tyranny of female charm. Votes: 0

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God Votes: 0

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. Votes: 0

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n. Votes: 0

I dream that love without tyranny is possible Votes: 0

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right. Votes: 0

I know all about the tyranny of women. Votes: 0

The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny. Votes: 0

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. Votes: 0

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood. Votes: 0

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism. Votes: 0

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. Votes: 0

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice. Votes: 0

The offspring of riches Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Votes: 0

Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them. Votes: 0

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Votes: 0

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny. Votes: 0

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. Votes: 0

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny . Votes: 0

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. Votes: 0

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity. Votes: 0

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first. Votes: 0

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. Votes: 0

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things. Votes: 0

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon? Votes: 0

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. Votes: 0

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. Votes: 0

Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless, Votes: 0

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny Votes: 0

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. Votes: 0

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos. Votes: 0

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny. Votes: 0

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy. Votes: 0

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny. Votes: 0

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. Votes: 0

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about. Votes: 0

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. Votes: 0

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny. Votes: 0

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws. Votes: 0

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness. Votes: 0

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful Votes: 0

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. Votes: 0

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. Votes: 0

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. Votes: 0

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry. Votes: 0

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. Votes: 0

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. Votes: 0

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. Votes: 0

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. Votes: 0

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member. Votes: 0

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time Votes: 0

The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. Votes: 0

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . . Votes: 0

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others. Votes: 0

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time. Votes: 0

What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart? Votes: 0

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. Votes: 0

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. Votes: 0

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. Votes: 0

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Votes: 0

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Votes: 0

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Votes: 0

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation. Votes: 0

Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement. Votes: 0

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny. Votes: 0

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste. Votes: 0

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. Votes: 0

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. Votes: 0

The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs. Votes: 0

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength. Votes: 0

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again. Votes: 0

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. Votes: 0

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Votes: 0

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living. Votes: 0

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. Votes: 0

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. Votes: 0

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it. Votes: 0

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. Votes: 0

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. Votes: 0

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. Votes: 0

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. Votes: 0

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. Votes: 0

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. Votes: 0

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another. Votes: 0

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. Votes: 0

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor. Votes: 0

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. Votes: 0

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. Votes: 0

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny" Votes: 0

When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words. Votes: 0

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles. Votes: 0

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women. Votes: 0

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. Votes: 0

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity. Votes: 0

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. Votes: 0

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares? Votes: 0

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. Votes: 0

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. Votes: 0

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain. Votes: 0

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. Votes: 0

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. Votes: 0

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. Votes: 0

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose. Votes: 0

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. Votes: 0

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny. Votes: 0

If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist. Votes: 0

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness. Votes: 0

Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority. Votes: 0

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. Votes: 0

The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. Votes: 0

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. Votes: 0

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. Votes: 0

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. Votes: 0

The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources. Votes: 0

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. Votes: 0

I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. Votes: 0

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. Votes: 0

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins. Votes: 0

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. Votes: 0

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. Votes: 0

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. Votes: 0

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home Votes: 0

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. Votes: 0

I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world. Votes: 0

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' Votes: 0

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Votes: 0

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ... Votes: 0

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny. Votes: 0

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. Votes: 0

flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. Votes: 0

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. Votes: 0

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. Votes: 0

A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it. Votes: 0

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. Votes: 0

Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!" Votes: 0

In your absolute defiance against tyranny, lies and all odds; lies therein, your true moral strength. Rise! Votes: 0

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion. Votes: 0

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous... Votes: 0

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. Votes: 0

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. Votes: 0

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. Votes: 0

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny. Votes: 0

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. Votes: 0

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language. Votes: 0

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. Votes: 0

What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart. Votes: 0

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. Votes: 0

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. Votes: 0

Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination. Votes: 0

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. Votes: 0

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. Votes: 0

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery. Votes: 0

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. Votes: 0

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth Votes: 0

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter. Votes: 0

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. Votes: 0

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. Votes: 0

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. Votes: 0

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny. Votes: 0

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. Votes: 0

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent. Votes: 0

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. Votes: 0

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. Votes: 0

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. Votes: 0

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny. Votes: 0

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things. Votes: 0

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. Votes: 0

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. Votes: 0

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. Votes: 0

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks. Votes: 0

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. Votes: 0

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. Votes: 0

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere. Votes: 0

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny. Votes: 0

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression! Votes: 0

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart. Votes: 0

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. Votes: 0

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go. Votes: 0

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance. Votes: 0

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. Votes: 0

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe. Votes: 0

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny. Votes: 0

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote. Votes: 0

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. Votes: 0

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. Votes: 0

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. Votes: 0

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem. Votes: 0

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. Votes: 0

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State. Votes: 0

I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." Votes: 0

The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny. Votes: 0

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. Votes: 0

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. Votes: 0

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny. Votes: 0

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny. Votes: 0

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another. Votes: 0

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason. Votes: 0

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. Votes: 0

Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny. Votes: 0

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia. Votes: 0

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live. Votes: 0

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment. Votes: 0

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. Votes: 0

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion Votes: 0

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. Votes: 0

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. Votes: 0

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. Votes: 0

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. Votes: 0

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them Votes: 0

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. Votes: 0

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. Votes: 0

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. Votes: 0

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. Votes: 0

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. Votes: 0

Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny. Votes: 0

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history. Votes: 0

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest. Votes: 0

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. Votes: 0

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. Votes: 0

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. Votes: 0

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. Votes: 0

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed. Votes: 0

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' Votes: 0

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny. Votes: 0

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. Votes: 0

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul. Votes: 0

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less. Votes: 0

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse. Votes: 0

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends. Votes: 0

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride. Votes: 0

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. Votes: 0

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do. Votes: 0

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue. Votes: 0

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

The brutal regime of the dictator fell ... the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny. Votes: 0

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? Votes: 0

Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice. Votes: 0

The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love. Votes: 0

The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit. Votes: 0

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny. Votes: 0

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it. Votes: 0

The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny. Votes: 0

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint. Votes: 0

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. Votes: 0

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty. Votes: 0

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. Votes: 0

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny! Votes: 0

Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them. Votes: 0

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man. Votes: 0

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny. Votes: 0

Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall! Votes: 0

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny. Votes: 0

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. Votes: 0

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny. Votes: 0

Show Republicans a shiny pro-life or pro-marriage issue and they'd much rather address that controversial topic than keep pressing on the tyranny that Obamacare represents. Votes: 0

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny. Votes: 0

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. Votes: 0

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. Votes: 0

To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny. Votes: 0

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Votes: 0

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny. Votes: 0

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency. Votes: 0

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity. Votes: 0

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian. Votes: 0

As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread. Votes: 0

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. Votes: 0

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations. Votes: 0

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society Votes: 0

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. Votes: 0

It's time to override this fraud being committed on the American voter of the two-party tyranny of this private corporation of the Commission on Presidential Debates. Votes: 0

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts. Votes: 0

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency. Votes: 0

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery. Votes: 0

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government. Votes: 0

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with. Votes: 0

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. Votes: 0

Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old. Votes: 0

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. Votes: 0

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. Votes: 0

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny. Votes: 0

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny. Votes: 0

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny. Votes: 0

I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of tyranny and intolerance! Votes: 0

Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion. Votes: 0

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny. Votes: 0

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny. Votes: 0

I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul. Votes: 0

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people. Votes: 0

We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is oppressing us. Votes: 0

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny. Votes: 0

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience. Votes: 0

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. Votes: 0

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces. Votes: 0

How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt. Votes: 0

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. Votes: 0

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. Votes: 0

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. Votes: 0

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor. Votes: 0

If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression. Votes: 0

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias. Votes: 0

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. Votes: 0

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents. Votes: 0

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny. Votes: 0

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear. Votes: 0

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did. Votes: 0

Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me. Votes: 0

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. Votes: 0

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government. Votes: 0

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude. Votes: 0

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny. Votes: 0

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny. Votes: 0

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out. Votes: 0

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. Votes: 0

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time. Votes: 0

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul. Votes: 0

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. Votes: 0

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny. Votes: 0

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny. Votes: 0

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings. Votes: 0

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. Votes: 0

I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny. Votes: 0

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it. Votes: 0

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. Votes: 0

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition. Votes: 0

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist Votes: 0

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart. Votes: 0

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface . Votes: 0

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master! Votes: 0

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military. Votes: 0

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. Votes: 0

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. Votes: 0

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. Votes: 0

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time. Votes: 0

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts. Votes: 0

For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender. Votes: 0

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny. Votes: 0

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. Votes: 0

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. Votes: 0

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S. Votes: 0

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere. Votes: 0

I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep ... Votes: 0

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power. Votes: 0

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts. Votes: 0

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . . Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. Votes: 0

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. Votes: 0

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. Votes: 0

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. Votes: 0

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable. Votes: 0

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. Votes: 0

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Votes: 0

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy. Votes: 0

William: I'm sure we can all pull together, sir.Vetinari: Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. Votes: 0

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.' Votes: 0

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. Votes: 0

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government. Votes: 0

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different. Votes: 0

The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them. Votes: 0

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful. Votes: 0

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. Votes: 0

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that. Votes: 0

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Votes: 0

This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny. Votes: 0

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote. Votes: 0

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. Votes: 0

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. Votes: 0

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable. Votes: 0

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me. Votes: 0

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened. Votes: 0