138 Tyranny Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Good Needs People Tyranny Silent Remain Gain Conscience

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

Oppression Enemy Tyranny Will Fighting Guise Come Foreign Land

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Frederick William Robertson

World Tyranny Three Hypocrisy Mercy Fraud Deserve Things

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. Robert A. Heinlein

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis

Good Tyranny Sincerely Most Oppressive May Victims

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates

Tyranny Beauty Short-Lived

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

Justice Law Tyranny Name Shield Than Which

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. Tony Blair

Freedom Democracy People Law Police Dictatorship Tyranny Secret Rule Rule Of Law Given Same Anytime Ordinary Anywhere Ordinary People Choice Choose Chance

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. Malcolm X

Freedom Oppression Tyranny Power Conviction Action Defense Our Uncompromising Greater Because Real Than Behalf Real Power Which Produces

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. Bertrand Russell

Capitalism Liberty Tyranny Apt Must Embodied Restrained Sacred Over Principles Exercise Advocate Very Maxim Unfortunate Which Fortunate Appeal

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. Abraham Lincoln

Life Nature People Oppression Tyranny Power Down Add Bitter Would See Shackles Borne Rather More Tend Weight Crush Make Greater Than Yoke Burdens Anything Them Raise

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. Montesquieu

Democracy Dangerous Welfare Tyranny Citizen Prince Public Apathy Public Welfare Oligarchy

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain. Robert Kennedy

Life Freedom History Justice Struggle Humanity Tyranny Important Nothing Pain Has-Been Worthwhile Easy Temptation Without Continuing Been Very Achieved The History Of Against Little Serious Ever

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

War Tyranny State Only Excuse Domestic Serve

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. Clara Barton

Faith Me Better Tyranny Past Complete Possibility Defy Something Almost New Always How Go Been Precedent Improve Done Anything Irritates Might Things Disregard

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. Reinhold Niebuhr

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. Bertrand Russell

Respect Tyranny Prison Submission Starvation Unnecessary Out Insofar Voluntary Beyond Opinion Goes Anything Public Should Avoid Public Opinion Keep Necessary

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Thomas Paine

Religion Tyranny Worst Affect Mankind

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