- Identity
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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
- 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