- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 May 30, 2021
- 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