- 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
- Hate
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Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Parents
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
- Exert
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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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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Gain
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Power
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
- Framers
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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