Quotes about Tyranny

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you may do by inveighing against the laws and lawgivers, and yet at the same time observing these laws with the weak, lest they be offended, until they shall themselves recognize the tyranny, and understand their own liberty.

If there is only mercy and the prince lets everyone milk him and kick him in the teeth and does not punish or become angry, then not only the court but the land, too, will be filled with wicked rascals; all discipline and honor will come to an end. On the other hand, if there is only anger and punishment or too much of it, then tyranny will result, and the pious will be breathless in their daily fear and anxiety.

On the other hand, in the presence of tyrants and obstinate opposers, use your liberty in their despite, and with the utmost pertinacity, that they too may understand that they are tyrants, and their laws useless for justification, nay that they had no right to establish such laws.

But if you command me to believe or to get rid of certain books, I will not obey; for there you are a tyrant and overreach yourself...