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- Nov 07, 2020
Tyranny Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace without justice is tyranny.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
- Harold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
- Citing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants. Pro-Bitcoin advocates want protection against tyrants, too. The difference is how these two groups define tyranny.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.
- Mass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
- Different Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
- Protect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.
- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
- Exert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
- Framers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim.
- Banished
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
- Heed
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny.
- Good Deal
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.
- Chains
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- Nov 07, 2020
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority points of view. They hated the idea of unilateral power. And wanted to force advocates and policy makers, through structure and process, to compromise.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020