Tyranny Quotes
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Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs, The title is affeered! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. (Quote by - Jacques Delille)
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. (Quote by - Zell Miller)
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. (Quote by - Cornelius Nepos)
O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Since that the truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accursed And does blaspheme his breed? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins (Quote by - John Locke)
Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
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. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. (Quote by - Frank L. Stanton)
You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'. (Quote by - Gordon Strachan)
'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
Tyranny must not prevail. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal. (Quote by - Euripides)
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies. (Quote by - Henry Melville)
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. (Quote by - Voltaire)
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
Custom is the tyranny of the lower human faculties over the higher (Quote by - Suzanne Curchod Necker)
But thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Taxation without representation is tyranny. (Quote by - James Otis)
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? (Quote by - Juvenal)
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. (Quote by - Euripides)
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. (Quote by - Hardouin de Perefixe)
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
Tyranny is always weakness (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. (Quote by - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard)
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
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. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
His demand Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love, Bur from deceit, bred by necessity; For how can tyrants safely govern home Unless abroad they purchase great alliance? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, Howe'er his own commence, can never be But an usurper. (Quote by - Henry Brooke)
They should go back home and re-create their countries which we have freed from tyranny, whether it is Kosovo or now Afghanistan. I have no sympathy whatsoever with young men in their twenties who do not. (Quote by - David Blunkett)
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth (Quote by - John Ford)
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. (Quote by - Charles Peguy)
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. (Quote by - Adlai E Stevenson)
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it (Quote by - John Hay)
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
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. (Quote by - Bliss Carman)
I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years; And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth, That I should open to the list'ning air How many worthy princes' bloods were shed To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope, To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms And make pretense of wrong that I have done him; When all, for mine, if I may call offense, Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence; Which love to all, of which thyself art one, Who now reproved'st me for't-- (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well; He hath not touched you yet. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. (Quote by - unknonw)
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. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Is there no tyrant but the crowned one? (Quote by - Andre Marie de Chenier)
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. (Quote by - Aesop)
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
