Top 25 Tyranny Quotes of 144 - Page 3

Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.

Jeffrey Burton Russell

Believe, Form, Tyranny

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

George Orwell

Animal, Half, Tyranny

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.22, Hamilton Books

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

Edward Gibbon

Judging, Firsts, Tyranny

Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.742

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Daniel Defoe

Doubt, Atheism, Tyranny

'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 2, l. 299

Democracy is better than tyranny.

Periander

Military, Democracy, Tyranny

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

Lord Byron

Military, Tyranny, Worst

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

Tyrants, House, Tyranny

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

George Orwell

Party, Care, Tyranny

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

Twyla Tharp

Tyrants, Vision, Tyranny

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Ezra Pound

Speak, Oppression, Tyranny

Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.433, Delphi Classics

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal

Confusion, Unity, Tyranny

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

William Blackstone

Degrees, Assembly, Tyranny

Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England : in Four Books, with an Analysis of the Work”, p.126

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

Walter E. Williams

Socialism, Form, Tyranny

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

Virginia Woolf

World, Tyranny, Connected

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2851, Delphi Classics