Tyranny quotations

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◆ Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them

- Emily Bronte98

◆ It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens

- John Maynard Keynes98

◆ You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor

- Walter Bagehot98

◆ A tyrant is most tyrant to himself

- George Herbert98

◆ When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism wherever you see organized religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.

- Philip Pullman98

◆ The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.

- Mahatma Gandh98

◆ Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them

- George Santayana98

◆ The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins

- Soren Kierkegaard98

◆ 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

- L Estrange98

◆ 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 Niebuhr98

◆ The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation enlightened as it is if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men. -Samuel Adams

- Sam Adams98

◆ There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful

- Samuel Johnson98

◆ So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleepi

- Blaise Pascal98

◆ Tyranny is always better organized than freedom

- Charles Peguy98