Top 30 Tyrants And Tyranny Quotes
#1. Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice.
Louis Farrakhan
#2. Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, "democracy." But now "democracy" can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own.
C.S. Lewis
#3. What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
Juvenal
#4. International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.
George W. Bush
#5. I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
Cato The Younger
#6. Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.
Lord Byron
#7. The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
Twyla Tharp
#9. Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.
Aristotle.
#11. Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
Thomas Paine
#12. Tyranny seldom announces itself ... In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
Joseph Sobran
#13. Peace is found when people stand for morality and reject
culture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peace
will rule the world instead of tyrants.
Jeremy Locke
#14. Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.
David Mitchell
#15. Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their useful idiots ... The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government and the Congress of the United States.
Walter E. Williams
#16. Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
Walter Savage Landor
#18. A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.
Karl Marx
#19. Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
Jean De La Bruyere
#20. The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.
Donald James
#21. Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
James Joyce
#22. Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.
Evan Meekins
#25. If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
James F. Cooper
#26. The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
Isaac Asimov
#27. Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana
#28. Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny possible. It is made by the people and not otherwise.
Jack Parsons
#29. The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
Stendhal
#30. Despots are elected and deposed.
Laws are passed and repealed.
Nations rise and fall.
Individual liberty is eternal.
A.E. Samaan
