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Tyranny Quotes
On control, corruption, and where power turns oppressive.
Several lines argue that everyday pressures, like an overbearing neighbor, can feel just as oppressive as anything more dramatic. Read more in our Control quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
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Death is softer by far than tyranny.
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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.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
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Peace without justice is tyranny.
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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.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
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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.
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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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.
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I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
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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.
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