Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old tyranny quotes, tyranny sayings, and tyranny proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.Ludwig Von Mises
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When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.Larken Rose
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.George Orwell
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The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time.Pope Francis
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tyranny is to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.Milovan ?ilas
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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.Elbert Hubbard
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Tyranny, it must be remembered, does not arrive all at once it arrives in instalments, and it must be fought off in instalments.Rex van Schalkwyk
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. Edmund Burke
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Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.Mark Kingwell
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.Christopher Hitchens
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Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.Alex Storozynski
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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.Aristotle
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.Edmund Burke
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.James Madison
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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.Eskinder Nega
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.Charles de Montesquieu
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Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.Noah Webster
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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.George Santayana
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.B. R. Ambedkar
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.Franz Kafka
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Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.Lord Moulton
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.Voltaire
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A tyrant can make anything seem to be ‘the will of the people.Claudia Gray
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A tyrant is but like a king upon a stage, a man in a vizor, and acting the part of a king in a play: he is not really a king.John Milton
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.Thomas Jefferson
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Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.John Le Carre
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A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.Crystal Eastman
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There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.Charles de Secondat
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Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.Henry Brooke