Quotes with tyranny

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

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  • Bertrand Russell 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
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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.
    Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Hannah Arendt 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.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar 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
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Norman Mailer 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.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Lionel Trilling A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Daniel Defoe And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Ben Nicholson 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.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Blaise Pascal Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bob Beauprez As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Edmund Burke Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Socrates Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • A.L. Rowse 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.
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  • Aeschylus Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Aldous Huxley Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Plato Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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