Top 25 Tyranny Quotes of 144 - Page 4

The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.

The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.

Ludwig von Mises

Law, Tyranny, Worst

Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

Juvenal

Tyrants, Ears, Tyranny

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 825, Satires, IV, line 86, 1922.

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

John Milton

Sole, Tyranny, Paradise Lost Book 1

John Milton (1850). “Paradise Lost”, p.21

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

John Locke

Exercise, Government, Tyranny

John Locke (2015). “The Second Treatise of Civil Government”, p.141, Broadview Press

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

John Fletcher

Lust, Tyranny, Governing

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Tyrants, Tyranny, Multitudes

George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.11

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

Desmond Tutu

Order, Substitutes, Tyranny

1998 In The Irish Times,'This Week They Said', 31 Oct.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Way, Tyranny, Subservience

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Samuel Johnson

Mind, Tyranny, Thrive

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.54

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

Robert Genn

Drawing, Spontaneity, Tyranny

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

Milovan ?ilas

Men, Thinking, Tyranny

Milovan Đilas (1975). “Parts of a Lifetime”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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.

Michael Novak

Default, Tyranny, Humans

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

Mary Astell

Tyrants, Coward, Tyranny

Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.247, Broadview Press

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Tyrants, Immediacy, Tyranny

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

Martha Gellhorn

Remember, Tyranny, Vigilance

Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.332, Granta Books

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

Maria Edgeworth

Injustice, Produce, Tyranny

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.8

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom, Liberty, Tyranny

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

Jules Michelet

Men, Indifference, Tyranny

Tyranny is always weakness

James Russell Lowell

Weakness, Tyranny

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

James Madison

Stronger, Tyranny Of The Majority, May

James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.110, Arcturus Publishing

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

James Madison

Hands, Danger, Tyranny

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.267, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.